Disclaimer: This post is about casual or dedicated fans that consume certain K-pop groups respectfully without diving completely into the industry as it is normal for a fan to do that. This is about fans consuming certain K-pop groups while insulting other groups that are apart of the same industry as them.
I have been a Blink for at least six years and have been listening to at least one Blackpink song each day including their solo releases outside of the group. I had stumbled upon a post from five years ago, which had discussed the casual appeal that Blackpink was able to generate though their music and image. In this post the user had talked about that in their country, casual fans that like Blackpink and their music tends to still insult K-pop by calling it cringe and would insult K-pop groups while praising Blackpink. This was my first time ever hearing about hearing about people still insulting K-pop while still stanning a K-pop group as it is quite normal for casual fans to listen to a group or an artist without diving into the industry that they are from. However, insulting and mocking groups that are a part of the same industry as them is quite wild.
I had noticed this with BTS too as I tend to watch a lot of research videos analyzing music groups on YouTube and their tends to be comments from fans of BTS who make it clear that they are fans of the group and not K-pop fans. There was even a time where a lot of fans of BTS had stated that they were not K-pop and that saying that they were was an insult to BTS. I know that this example would be completely different, but I think that it somewhat relates to this discussion as during the K-pop Demon Hunters phenomenon, songs from the film were dominating the charts to a point where fans who had liked these songs had claimed that K-pop and its groups should learn something from K-pop Demon Hunters. This of course had annoyed some K-pop fans as some songs from the movie soundtrack had sounded quite similar to songs that were released by K-pop groups already. As I look at these examples, I want to know do you get annoyed whenever people still insult K-pop while stanning K-pop groups inside of the industry?
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