I'm not in the Kpop fandom anymore but I was when the likes of Big Bang and 5 member DBSK were huge. It was a joke among the circles I frequented about how Kpop operated. All these years later it's horrifying (but sadly not surprising) to know how true our "jokes" were.
I even had a dislike of Seungri. He always came off as a buttkisser and I always thought he contributed the least to Big Bang yet YG kept him around.