‼️⚠️ WARNING ⚠️‼️ This DOES NOT mean all K-pop fans! I’m 100% sure the majority of you guys are cool ppl and almost every K-pop fan I’ve personally met are great people! Anyways here we go: About a year ago, I began listening to K-pop. And for that year I’ve been listening with no problem. However, recently I decided to look into the more dark side of K-pop.of course, I’ve always known about this but I never really got into it. I’m sure most of you are very aware of this. Now I’m not talking about the problem with beauty standards in the industry. Of course, that’s a whole other problem and whole other can of worms. Here though, I would like to talk about the para-social and disgusting actions behind certain fans. I have 2 examples from my research that for the most part exemplifies my point: Aespa’s Karina During the time she was in her relationship, fans were absolutely outraged. The parasocial thoughts people had behind this was genuinely just sad. For those who don’t know. After, Karina started dating Lee Jae Wook. Rumors started to spread about their relationship. After an official statement was made sales dropped by around 4%. And signs outside SM appeared. They said many things but for the most part they felt betrayed bc their relationship with them felt ruined. A big part of a K-pop stars is to look single and pretty to fans which is a huge part of the parasocial aspect a small amount of fans gain. The entire situation was just disgusting ending in the break-up between them just because of the actions of the fans. Kyla Kyla was originally from the US and moved to South Korea. She had a dream from a quite young age to be a star. At 15 she joined Pristin and was among many big names. (Btw this next part does go into the beauty standards thing but less of the companies) However at 15 she was above the weight of most of the members. Fans began to give her major hate and she eventually left the group and made a channel talking about her experiences. This behavior is genuinely disgusting. As a fandom with common sense I feel like we should realize this is a 15 YEAR OLD GIRL. What the actual hell. This type of stuff can ruin someone’s self esteem especially from that young of an age. It just a horrible thing that happened to an aspiring person. I’m aware there are so many cases of these I js chose these at random. Anyways, these actions were plainly pathetic and js sad to see from even that small of a portion of the fandom. Now I have 2 questions to ask after all my research. This question is for the normal fans: do you have any better examples? Also, what do you have to say about this behavior? Now, this is for the people who do this. I just got one question. What do you have to say about yourself and your actions? AGAIN THIS IS NOT ALL FANS IM SURE THE MAJORITY OF YOU ARE GREAT NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS! This entire part of the fandom is disgusting. So yeah I js had to talk about this bc it’s been on my mind. So yeah um please don’t get mad at me guys. I know someone who talked about these and got some not so savory private messages. 🫡😭🙏🕊️ submitted by /u/Strange-Equal-7127 [link] [comments]
