i was a fan since 2020, and man it used to be really fun back then. blackpink was active, and the biggest groups aside from them were twice, red velvet, itzy, everglow, and loona had just debuted, and it was so fun.
everything just feels like it went to shit. blackpink practically disbanded by this point, twice hasn’t interested me since the scientist era and ive never gotten over the chaeyoung incident, red velvet promo is so bad that it just feels like a miserable crawl to the end, itzy’s discography and promo took a complete nosedive, everglow and loona both got severely mismanaged to the point of falling apart. and now with karina disappointing me so badly, i don’t think i have any interest anymore. lately ive really realized how horrendous the industry is, and how screwed up of a country korea is and how it completely infects kpop as well. most new groups feel like carbon copies of each other with no real artistic direction anymore. im sick of minors debuting, im sick of the complete lack of focus on vocals, im sick of the crazy fans, im sick of the constant racism scandals with no accountability taken, im sick of how kpop has become both completely toxic and completely bland. i was a big fan of kiss of life and i can’t ever support them again.
aside from illit, hearts2hearts, and gidle, i honestly think im completely done with kpop. i don’t want to stan anymore new groups, and i just hope those three don’t let me down or get mistreated or disband. i wish kpop still felt fun like it used to. all of my favorite groups which were actually really unique and artistic like pixy stay in nugudom and disband because unique-ness dies in kpop. lately ive discovered vkei and im really happy to feel excited about something again.
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