I did it for my emo boys back in the day too so... 🥴 https://twitter.com/ciumni/status/1338589251131346950
I get what they’re trying to say and I think it is a great wake up call for some, but how fandom works for kpop and western artists is very different. although there are many issues that can and should be addressed, just because it is different doesn’t make it necessarily “wrong”
another thing that kinda makes me ehhhh about this tweet is that if somebody wants to call their fave a baby they wanna snuggle in a blanket and boop their precious nose then what about it. it doesn’t necessarily equal an extreme. sometimes it isn’t that deep.
I also feel like if someone is really gonna try to discuss this then someone who doesn’t have a western lens should be at the forefront or at least participating... because that lens has a tendency to see anything that’s different than itself as potentially or actually negative.
like it just really doesn’t surprise me that people that have never participated or consumed this kinda fandom content find it odd at first. it also definitely doesn’t surprise me that some of those people might try to find something wrong with it.
anyways I do think this tweet raises an important potential discussion but with the way this bird app works and how people don’t actually think, I don’t believe anything very productive will come out of it other than labeling people with extremes and “gotcha!” twts for rts
something else I just thought about is what about the Korean fans that do the same thing? do you have another think piece for how they participate in fandom of their idols? or does this exclusively only mean international (or maybe just western) kpop fans?
okay... think I’m done. bc really. are you going to say something about how k-fans participate in k-fandoms? and as I said, just bc something is different doesn’t equal problematic/negative/bad/wrong. okay yeah I’m done lemme call my mama bout this to rant about y’all mfs lmfao
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