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[ SECRET POST #5111 ]
⌈ Secret Post #5111 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2021-01-03 02:52 am (UTC)(link)Although I AM highly appreciative of Seventeen (they're amazing, great songs and I still own a bunch of CDs, I just feel VERY uncomfortable about their ages...) my fandom is another boygroup. (Actually, two, but one is pretty much inactive so.)
See, I'm an old-ish lady, I was an anime fan when BoA was cool for anime songs and around when Pump It Up dance machines, Korean MMOs, Yiruma songs on Youtube and Rainism were still super cool. I knew kpop well enough, I watched the MV for Gee (and enjoyed it!) before it hit 1m. At some point, however (particularly after SNSD switched to sexy concepts, TVXQ lost JYJ and 4minute/2NE1/etc. became all the rage) I thought all kpop had started sucking and that was around the same time obsessive western fans started becoming common. So I've "always" been THAT "kpop hater". Kept going on and on about how it was all bad music, brainwashing and booty shaking and all that. That is, until 2015 when I discovered one group I loved at first sight, and the rest is history. It was unexpected - a girl way younger than me that I had met in fandom recommended a few MVs because she didn't believe I'd be able to talk shit about them all. And I did talk shit about most of them but that one.
And I know exactly what you mean. It sucked me in like a black hole. My life had been VERY difficult for years then and all I wanted was anything that would satisfy me ... and I did, and still feel, that it gave me another shot at life as I met amazing people, including my boys ♥ , put some of my rusty skills to good use and had people appreciate what I did like I never had in any fandom before, felt motivated enough to face life challenges like going back to school and am genuinely having the time of my life and being almost exclusively in kpop fandom since 2015 is the reason. I don't think words can express it enough, I know it's sappy and cliched but it saved me :)
But, indeed, it's about knowing how to engage. Meaning I only engage in it from my locked Twitter account and occasionally share fanworks in other accounts. I can't possibly handle an insurge of 18 year olds in my inbox because I said something that could be interpreted as something else. I literally have to work, no time for that crap. In my "priv" (as the kids say nowadays...) I talk about it all day and enjoy making threads for specific things that I like. (They help me make fan edits later. Like the one I was supposed to be making ;) It's quiet, I only let in adults who don't have issues with what I enjoy (like, say, feminism or RPF ...) and it does get lonely sometimes but it's better than engaging with an open acc anyway. It's just... too full of people doing all sorts of shit.
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(Anonymous) 2021-01-03 04:03 am (UTC)(link)I'm always glad to see when fandom/a piece of media really inspires/moves a person -- so much so it has tangible effects on their lives.
AYRT
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(Anonymous) 2021-01-03 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)This is going to sound like a crazy recommendation, because these are three and two hour long vlives but I promise they're fun, and it gave me so many recommendations for my playlist. Seungkwan's "We Remember Kpop" https://www.vlive.tv/video/211988 and https://www.vlive.tv/video/220255 if you're a fan of first and second gen, so was Seungkwan, it's such a fun watch. It got millions of streams and the songs he recommended all started charting lol.
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(Anonymous) 2021-01-04 02:09 am (UTC)(link)No, it's okay LOL!! My "gateway" was Block B and I know Seventeen likes them too, so I guess it's okay as I haven't been active in fandom in a while anyway. The other I'm active so I don't feel very comfortable but ; ; ; anyway, I'm checking this on the background! Crazy those millions of streams ; ; ;
It's exactly how I feel though! Who thought I'd be owning a huge amount of (K-)makeup and using handcream (because touching their soft hands made me want to try it) at this point in my life lol? Not teenage non-groupie me for sure. I enrolled in kpop dance classes (as I had to exercise for reasons!) but there was me and a lot of dancer-aspiring 15 year olds so I quit, I still miss it like crazy. And yeah the fact that it's "just" them (and I do believe there is a lot of acting and pretending involved but, still, it's very basic in a way!) is an added bonus because a) there's so much content everytime, basically them breathing is a content somehow?! and b) It's really inspiring, they keep going on and on about their experiences and "let's grow up together" and it does feel like a family or a group of friends huh. It makes me wanna cheer them up, and support them, so I feel like I finally know what it's like to cheer for a Football or Basketball or Baseball team now that I have kpop LOL. And yeah indeed, it's just so soft to see them playing with pets and messing around. It's so cute it does make you see life through rose-tinted glasses somehow. :)
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(Anonymous) 2021-01-04 02:25 am (UTC)(link)