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 i'm back. But I'm done with Kpop so anyone happening upon this journal, just forget everything that comes before this post bc i don't care anymore. I'm still a fan of some random solo artists and sorta girl groups, but I really don't care about boygroups any longer. EXO is ruined for me thanks to the traitors who joined another group and all the stupid fans who supported them so bye bye lah. I briefly considered going back to BTS since I love Suga still, but nah, that group is ruined for me too bc they no longer make the music that made me listen to them. Now, rapline gets hardly any lines, esp Sope, and their vocalists are still trash af. I liked BE for the most part and I guess it's good that they're not pots and pans like most boygroups out there but nah, I only like Suga and Hobi. 

Anyway.

Decided more or less to go back to an older fandom: Cpop and Chinese entertainment in general. Of course, the ifandom for it is as dumb as ever but just in a different way. The landscape has massively shifted from being focused on Taiwan and Hong Kong to the mainland, but that's not all that surprising when you consider the political situation. The CCP has way more power than it did 10-12 years ago, which is when I first got into it. HK is basically irrelevant now on their own. And Taiwan is not much better. Stars in both places have to work in the Mainland in order to have work at all.

I'm not a fan of how this went down necessarily, but at the same time, I won't lie that dramas and movies being higher quality and more available means that I get to watch more of them. Bc I'm not just done with Kpop, I'm done with Korean dramas as well. I watched a buttload in 2016 and 2017 and just got sick of how a lot of them were the same stupid romcoms.  Japanese dramas I will still watch occasionally if I find an interesting one that's been subbed. Bc Japan has the problem of wanting to keep all their shit out of gaijin hands. 

Reopening this so i can rant about things that are too annoying to rant about on TWitter. And Cpop Twitter is really stupid and annoying bc they're all newbs who got into it through either Yixing or other Chinese EXO members, or survival shows, OR that stupid Untamed drama. Don't get me started on the faux BL in Cdramas that fujoshis are ridiculously obsessed with lmao. They're such misogynists bc the only thing they want is no women. The dramas themselves could EASILY be construed as simple friendship only. Censors won't allow anything else so that's literally all they are. There's more "romance" in American buddy cop movies. But yeah, it gives MALE actors an easy way to get coin and popularity as they then move onto bigger and better things lmao. They even have a slang for it: going out to sea. That's all it is to them.

Dumb girlies.

My other rant is how much i fucking hate Yixing stans. I don't dislike him personally. But his STANS seem to think he's God's gift to Cpop and his music is showstopping never been done before when it is literally NOT. There are several Cpop artists who have been doing what he's doing for longer. Like Gong for example. They think mixing hiphop and electro beats with Chinese traditional music is new. They also think he can rap. I can't stand they asses. I have to refrain from dragging Yixing bc he doesn't really deserve it but ye gods his fans are insufferable. 

 One day ONE DAY into 2018 and Kpop toxic fan culture rears its ass.  So an EXO fan with depression tells Baekhyun about it at a fansign, he says some stuff to her, including that he doesn't understand depression, but a bunch of other stuff too.  She records it and posts it, intending for it to be positive, that he cheered her up.  And this is on both ifans and Korean fans here, bc Knetz attacked him too and a BTS ifan translated it out of context, which doesn't wholly matter, but it was clearly done with ill intent bc it was blowing up in Korea.  So then Baekhyun ends up apologizing on Insta and tbh, as bad as that is, I think it's even worse for that fan bc her nice experience was used to trash her fave.  I can't even imagine how bad she feels and no one seems to care about that as they pile on.  I mean, ffs, she said she had depression and you self-righteous idiots take her experience and attack her fave.  Yeah I'm sure she feel awesome about that.  Good job.

I've said it a million times, but I can't begin to cover how much I hate this attitude in Kpop fandom.  For the most part, I've only seen supportive comments from real EXO fans, bc I'm sorry, you're not a fan if you can't wait to crucify your "fave" for any errant step.  No one needs those kind of fans, or no one needs enemies when they have those kind of fans.

It's really rich too how they're using Jonghyun's death as ammo in their attacks. They literally have no shame.