I’m getting tired of people acting like mocking idols and their fans is some kind of bold, necessary “truth-telling” in the community. It’s just cruelty dressed up as taste. And it’s gotten especially loud lately.
The hate toward BABYMONSTER during their Forever comeback has been a perfect example. You didn’t like the vocals? Cool. Thought the performance was underwhelming? Fine. But the second you start calling fans “YGE cultists” or saying they “have no standards” just because they liked a song… you’ve crossed a line. That’s just bitterness.
There’s this growing behavior where people don’t just dislike things, they need other people to hate them too. And when they don’t get that validation, they turn on the fans. Suddenly, enjoying a song becomes “coping,” and defending your favorite idol makes you “delusional.” It’s embarrassing. Not for the fans, but for the people saying it.
You don’t look smart. You don’t sound cultured. You’re not holding the industry to higher standards. You’re just loud. Loud and weirdly obsessed with people who didn’t ask for your opinion in the first place.
If your contribution to the fandom is built entirely on humiliation, mockery, and this imaginary sense of moral superiority because you “see through the hype,” you’re not the voice of reason.
You’re just a bully with a Wi-Fi connection.
And if the only thing you bring to this community is condescension disguised as critique, maybe you don’t love K-pop as much as you think. Maybe you just love looking down on people who do.
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