Not a new opinion I don’t think, but there’s something to be said about how this industry runs on idolizing other humans as gods and treating any “flaw” with the same amount of heartbreak and vitriol as a religious person feeling “betrayed” by god. There’s no room for mistakes and thus, no room for growth. In the minds of some of these psycho fans: you train to be perfect, debut as perfect, and are expected to remain perfect. It’s insanity.
Like, imagine being in an industry for over a decade. You end up meeting someone you like, and somewhere along the line you find out you’re expecting a baby. So you marry this person, fully expecting the support of everyone that’s been through this journey with you. Instead, you’re met with calls en mass asking for your removal. Again, and I cannot stress this enough: for living your life.
In any other industry, ludicrous would be putting it lightly. Now imagine getting removed for having done something everyone else has done before — dating then breaking up. And if not that, smoking, something most Koreans (adult or not) do.
SM just set an impossible standard, and if these companies keep capitulating to these insane hypocrites, they’ll be writing their own obituaries.
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