Asia Artist Awards ACON 2025 in Kaohsiung - 1st Lineup: NEXZ, xikers, CRAVITY, KiiiKiii, KickFlip, SB19

Just saw a viral tweet on X that said: "no shade but what is it w the world being completely OBSESSED w everything that stemmed from kpop (katseye, kpop demon hunters) but they won’t give actual kpop a try ????😭" And honestly I'd love to hear your opinions on this statement. For me personally: I think most kpop stans themselves (especially a certain fandom respectfully) made people think being a fan of a kpop group is "cringe" or "weird". Their actions painted a bad image for the reputation of kpop. Language barrier is a huge issue. The US is the biggest music market in the world. Anything that blows up in the US means it's bound to get popular everywhere else. Kpop is NOT a big genre here whether kpop stans want to admit it or not. The average American who doesn't follow kpop cannot name any kpop groups except maybe BTS and/or BLACKPINK. Oversaturation of kpop groups. Yes, this can be an issue. There's so many kpop groups and more and more keep debuting every year. This is overwhelming for most people. These are my opinions on why the genre isn't that big locally and why most people won't give it a try. I'd love to hear what others think. submitted by /u/floraa5 [link] [comments]

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Felix (Stray Kids), Chaeyoung (TWICE), Fatou (BLACKSWAN), Yunah (ILLIT) submitted by /u/SageSageofSages [link] [comments]

My old ass fossil dog followed his younger brother to heaven a bit over a month ago and I've moved past the grieving point where I get upset at seeing other people's beasts to the part where I want to see my dogs' weirdo factor in other people's animals. Tell me about idols' beasts Pictured are SVT S.coups' Kkuma and Gunbam. We don't know much abt Gunbam since she's very new, but she sleeps silly. Kkuma is the kind of fluffy my younger dog was (both in hair and weight😅) and apparently isn't very obedient since she won't give paw and also tries to climb up his chest when she's hungry submitted by /u/SomeRaceHorseName [link] [comments]

[2025 TMA] Nine, Kluyua, Kiki, Hatuha, Legend Homage → Collaboration 'Special Stage' - AHOF - BTS, H2H - RedVelvet, CYE - Seventeen, and KiiiKiii - BlackPink AHOF x CYE collab on Sept. 20, 2025 at TMA! submitted by /u/Inevitable-Ad-4548 [link] [comments]

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27M here. Just writing about my feelings for female kpop idols. I've never had a gf or relationship or anything. Been out of college for several years now. I think for me kpop has replaced school crushes. I used to have crushes on classmates. Obviously I usually didn't talk to them but when I did it never ended well. Now in the workforce I don't interact with young women anymore. My coworkers are usually older and/or married. The only place I can see women around my age is kpop. Now I just crush on kpop idols. I used to do anime but 2D just doesn't do it for me anymore. A kpop idol is a real human being and I can fantasize about what it's like to know them or talk to them irl. i can watch their videos and vlogs of their lives. Read their life story and admire them. People think I'm just really horny but that's true. I admire them on an emotional level. Anyone else in the same boat? submitted by /u/sleepyhead7000 [link] [comments]

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was wondering what people think when fanart draws idol's bodies when they have no reference point? Example that prompted this being someone drawing a male idol shirtless with a bit of a tummy when 1. this idol has never shown their body before and 2. I'm aware this idol had expressed something akin to body dysmorphia about being on the bigger side. the artist clearly just found "fluffier" bodies hot and thus wanted to draw him as appreciation/encouragement(he'd mentioned dieting recently), though in practice it seemed uncomfortably invasive to me since he's outright skinshy. I'm wondering if this was me being weird abt weight on my part, but also he just, like, doesn't look like that. He isn't all abs and he has some muscular squish, but in no way does he have a dad figure. Then I thought, well, why draw people you've never seen halfdressed halfdressed. Is this a consent issue? Fantasizing what this person looks like under there in a bit of an invasive way? THEN I wondered if it was strange for fanart of real people to exist at all and immediately realized I was lowkey pitching "is it problematic to portray other people because noticing details like moles from photos makes you a freak" which is a nothingburger. I'm aware this is all stupid. I do draw, but I do fictional characters. I take inspiration from real bodies for my character art, but I've never specifically tried to portray real people that wasn't fully referenced, so I feel like I'm overthinking it in general. Caricature art is a touchstone of portraiture, and obviously many historical depictions of humans are stylized in ways where we point and laugh at what medieval painters did when painting babies, so I'm sure I'm just being overly touchy with art. There's a lot of fanart I find beautiful and "respectful", so I'm not sure what the thing specifically that makes me uncomfortable. I guess my original feelings fall into the general ongoing question in "objectifying" idols + what does it mean to do that actually. I think it's easy to identify when people write out strange fantasies abt real people in posts, but I feel like I'm not as adept at recognizing intent in visual mediums, nor where the line is drawn(lol). I guess this also presumes that artists have a responsibility with their art to portray the people they draw "well" or "accurately"(for some loaded terms) vs freedom of expression, which I feel is dangerous to assert and I don't want to do that, but well, that doesn't stop me from feeling weird about what some artists' expression. Sorry for the ramble train of thought, if you can pick out a coherent idea to address be my guest (Also in a similar vein, when people do genderbend art of idols, what does it imply about their conception of gender+why are they even doing that+how come with male idols, from the same artist, some of their girl versions are flat and some got lumps the size of mountains. What are they basing this off of😭) submitted by /u/SomeRaceHorseName [link] [comments]

I swear, being a K-pop fan is like a full-time job sometimes. I missed Stray Kids’ last comeback announcement because I wasn’t glued to my phone that day, and don’t even get me started on how I found out about ENHYPEN’s tour after tickets were gone. It’s so frustrating trying to keep up with schedules when every group is dropping teasers or tour dates out of nowhere. I’ve been burned too many times, and I’m over it. A friend told me about KpopSync, and I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now. It’s pretty handy for pulling together comeback schedules and concert info for groups like ATEEZ, BTS, and others without me having to check ten different platforms. It’s not flawless - sometimes the updates lag a bit - but it’s cut down on my stress a ton. I actually got a heads-up about a fan event for Lisa’s solo project before my group chat did, which felt like a win. But I’m curious if you guys have better ways to stay in the loop. Like, are you living on Reddit and Twitter, or is there some secret app I’m missing? submitted by /u/Helpful_Ad_9447 [link] [comments]

As ‘What You Want’ by CORTIS topped the global viral 50 chart. I started look what countries it was topping in specifically in addition to the global chart and I spotted it so far in Taiwan, Japan and Thailand so it made me curious where else had the song gone viral and why. If anyone has insights to this from where it has gone viral please say? submitted by /u/ARG_obesessed [link] [comments]

Hey, everyone🧚🏼‍♀️ after seeing daredareda-'s post like this, I thought l'd try it out too! I know many people have done this already but these games are super fun, so I wanna start doing them more often✨ Just a few simple rules: • stage name only • one idol at a time • please be respectful to everyone in the comments💕 I'm still figuring out how to do the results since l've seen different ways (like counting comments vs. going with the most upvotes), but I'll be posting these every day around 12-1 PM CST⏰💕 submitted by /u/rikistale [link] [comments]

basically what the title says I just need recommendations for a playlist I’m making some examples for me are • supersonic fromise_9 • party o’clock NMIXX • Moonlight sunrise twice anyways I wanna know you’re heaviest hitters submitted by /u/Jolly_Ask_1870 [link] [comments]