Not Today

 The two biggest Kpop fandoms, or well, used to be the two biggest, i just witnessed some examples of their stupidity. First of all, EXO lmao. Their fandom is clearly literally made up of nothing but solo fans who hate every other member. I went to some old accts i used to follow, who were PCY fans, but they were also Sehun fans bc they liked SC and all of that, well guess what?  Now they hate everyone except PCY. So basically, if any fan of any other member says even the slightest negative thing about PCY they go all ballistic and attack whoever that member is. I mean, i'm sorry HOW DERANGED IS THIS. It's completely and absurdly deranged. Meanwhile, you got Sehun fans running around calling PCY a cheater at every opportunity and look at my last post, who cares? Who cares if he really cheated? How is that your business?  WEIRDOS.

Then, in the other corner competing for the mental illness champion of the year, we have BTS fans trending a hashtag about how BTS is bigger than the rest of Kpop, which on the surface is nbd, but if you look at all the quotes, what they're celebrating is that only BTS has the rights to the golden gate of Western acceptance and not the rest of lowly Kpop as fucking IF Western pop is better than Kpop lmao don't make me laugh. I've noticed that in that fandom though. They are very Western centric and they pride themselves on always saying that BTS has transcended the lowly level of other Asian pop and made it into the vaunted and celebrated superior Western sphere, the implication naturally being that anything Western is superior than anything Asian. 

It's actually really gross and one of many reasons i hate that fandom.   OH and here, this is rich, they're also tryna say that the hashtag isn't xenophobic bc Koreans also used it and said BTS is above Kpop. Yeah lol i've seen Knetz comments a lot of them have a sugoi amount of internalized racism where they TOO believe Western music is superior and BTS gaining Western attention is a sign that they're BETTER than other Korean music. This is not a good defense, sorry. 

In other news, Deng Lun was convicted of tax evasion so idk what will happen to the new Ni Ni drama. Ffffffffff. I was lowkey looking forward to that.  Maybe they can refilm his parts and replace him with someone I actually like, like Bai Jingting lmao. 

Also saw some Pann post where Knetz were complaining about the age gap in some drama. I looked it i up and it's fucking FOUR YEARS. FOUR!!  That's literally a freshman and senior in university kinda thing. Y'all age gap pearl clutchers are getting WAY out of hand. 

 Lol so part of me thinks i should care about this BTS in America thing, but I really don't???  And the main reason is that I dislike this narrative that American validation is necessary for a musical artist or honestly any piece of entertainment to be recognized as "good" or "worth something".  Regardless of what these stans say too, that IS playing a part in their excitement.  Like, they can't wait to be all, LOOK AT MY KPOP GROUP BEING RECOGNIZED BY AMERICA.  And all that does to me is further the narrative that American entertainment and approval is all that counts for anything and I reject that completely.

So yeah, I don't care.  The one good thing I suppose is just having an Asian artist get exposure since the American music industry period is STRANGELY devoid of Asians.  But I'm cynical and I'm quite sure there will be some kind of racist backlash on that.  

And so I'm just sitting here listening to EXO after watching Suho's teaser and ignoring the people freaking out on Twitter.  And it's also not that BTS is not my fave or whatever.  Jackson was there too and I still wasn't watching for him, though I'm sure he was cool af bc Jackson is just cool af no matter where he goes.

The main thing is that I just really don't give a crap about American entertainment and American music awards, so it doesn't excite me at all.  Why would I want my fave to be "validated" by an industry that I hate?  Doesn't make sense,

Haven't really watched anything new lately and I need to continue with Master Key though the latest ep with Jackson and Jinyoung, plus the one with Chanyeol.  Idk since I haven't made myself watch anything other than music lately, it's hard to commit to shows lmao.  

Oh so a full front view of Baek during Ko Ko Bop came out and uh, that was interesting. 8D  No, but srsly, I've seen a lot of stuff and that has got to be the most suggestive thing the two of them have done together.  Playboy doesn't really compare lmao.