I'd like to preface this by saying that I myself have only been in (women-dominated) girl group fandom spaces until I recently delved into MOA spaces, but I don't stan based off of gender. I noticed a LOT even when I was only in girl group fandoms, that an extremely high amount of stan lists would consist of like 5 girl groups "and txt". The phrase "ggs and txt" had become a meme in my head. To an extent, I understood it, TXT (although they've branched off since) have always had a more cutesy, bright, and generally magical reputation. The members are relatively unproblematic and often break stereotypes of toxic masculinity, and are generally just softer people in general. But after being a MOA for a while, I've started to think that it isn't to a crazily different extent than other boy groups. They're still very much men, men who talk about working out, who talk about being masculine, who do indulge in a little fanservice, are messy at home, just generally do "man things", and from what I've seen of other boy groups, they don't saturate their "cute factor" or even enjoy aegyo to a different extent. But (girl) girl group stans, who are known to have pretty strong beliefs in only stanning girl groups, will always make the exception for TXT. But the same thing, as far as I've seen, does not consistently apply to other "bright" boy groups, such as ZB1, BND, some NCT subunits, recent BTS, even Seventeen back in the days. Again, I'm not referring to girls who in general love boy groups and will make pretty content of them. It's specifically girls who stan no other boy group and are adamantly against stanning other boy groups but are very pro-TXT, even often just claiming TXT are a girl group themselves. There's a possibility I'm wrong about this and have only seen this trend in specific spaces, but I'd like to hear thoughts on even more reasonable explanations that may even span further into TXT's debut. And also, if it is simply their concept, why haven't there been other popular boy groups that have adopted this style (considering their closest peer groups are Ateez, Stray Kids, Enhypen)? Also, I'm not considering this a bad thing. It's mostly something I've found funny but have never gotten proper clarification on why. Thanks for kind thoughts in advance. TLDR: gg stans who often refuse to stan bgs make the exception for txt, who aren't too different than other bgs. why? submitted by /u/Embarrassed_Shape_32 [link] [comments]
