I talked about this with someone else before, and I find it very weird that an industry as unserious as K-pop has so many fans spending their time harassing other fans and artists.
I know this isn’t exclusive to K-pop. Swifties, Barbz, Arianators, Beyhives, Livies, they can all be horrible people. But, for some reason, K-pop stans manage to be worse than those fandoms combined.
I mean, to this day I’ve never heard of multiple Western pop fans in a Twitter space wishing that another pop singer would be sexually assaulted, but I’ve seen this happening to Wonhee.
Which makes me wonder: how does so much hatred is born in the first place?
K-pop idols don’t throw shade, they don’t make diss tracks, there aren’t public feuds like Cardi B and Nicki Minaj’s. They barely write their own songs, and everything they say sounds like press releases most of the time. It’s a polished, restrained industry, without many provocative and polarizing projects, mostly focused on light and fun music, and yet it manages to gather the largest number of mentally unstable people I’ve ever seen in my life.
Hate trains that last for years, entire communities dedicated to attacking an artist, even here on Reddit, people in the West AND IN KOREA joining forces to assassinate reputations. What onomatopoeia used in your fave’s song triggered so much hate?
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