Your baby k-pop fan misconception? (1 Viewer)

[ani07]

there is a kpop term I dont agree with and thats 'trash'. idk why ppl would call themselves trash. dont get me wrong, I know the meaning, but its senseless to me.

 

[Moguri]

That all the companies were super amazing yeah. That's when I was a tiny baby fan that only watched the MVs and never saw any news


I had also thought OnlyOneOf and ONF were the same group for a while

until you learn anything about them, the companies look nice, training all the idols and creating the colorful kpop world

 

[Moguri]

Fun thing to note is that in Korea multistanning doesn't really exist as stanning is a much bigger investment with you needing to support the idols in whatever they do as well as sign up to their fandom and you can only be signed up to 1 fandom at a time.

I've never heard of this, so not sure how true it is, but even if they can't join the fandom offically, still no noe can stop from interacting with other groups or streaming their songs / buying albums

 

[Moguri]

i thought gwsn was sister group of wjsn

I also still have a hard tim telling them apart but I think GWSN does not exist anymore.. so it got easier

 

[Moguri]

there is a kpop term I dont agree with and thats 'trash'. idk why ppl would call themselves trash. dont get me wrong, I know the meaning, but its senseless to me.

couldn't we say the same about the word stan too, yet everyone uses it

 

[kimsguardian]

couldn't we say the same about the word stan too, yet everyone uses it

stan lee??

 

[Abeamus]

I've never heard of this, so not sure how true it is, but even if they can't join the fandom offically, still no noe can stop from interacting with other groups or streaming their songs / buying albums

Well International fans tend to write Korea off because of a built in mindset about Asia that does affect International Kpop fans downplaying how important Korea is and thinking artists should just start ignoring Korea for the west.

It mainly comes down to defining what it means to stan a group because we don't have the same access to concerts or merchandise that Koreans have it isn't as considered as a big deal for us however where the mindset of you need to do that to be a true stan comes from is Korea.

Koreans can get any merchandise that comes out, can plan to go to concerts and can watch stuff instantly much easier without having to wait for things to be subbed or shipping costs so this results in you expected to support your fave a lot more and this just isn't sustainable across multiple groups for most people.

 

[shadow]

I actually thought that all idols were nice people off cameras and that being a kpop idol was easy but turns out I was wrong with both of them

 

[ani07]

couldn't we say the same about the word stan too, yet everyone uses it

no, its a mix between 2 words (fan+stalker). I dont really use it in my language - especially because it partly comes from the word 'stalker'.

 

[Moguri]

Well International fans tend to write Korea off because of a built in mindset about Asia that does affect International Kpop fans downplaying how important Korea is and thinking artists should just start ignoring Korea for the west.

It mainly comes down to defining what it means to stan a group because we don't have the same access to concerts or merchandise that Koreans have it isn't as considered as a big deal for us however where the mindset of you need to do that to be a true stan comes from is Korea.

Koreans can get any merchandise that comes out, can plan to go to concerts and can watch stuff instantly much easier without having to wait for things to be subbed or shipping costs so this results in you expected to support your fave a lot more and this just isn't sustainable across multiple groups for most people.

I see what you mean.

I hope things get better in the future and the korean and internatoinal fans can interact more peacefully with each other!

For the definition of staning, I think its best for everyone to decide themselfs how far they should take it.. but I would still hope people feel less preassured to do certain things. I would never be accepted in any fandom by those standards

 

[Moguri]

no, its a mix between 2 words (fan+stalker). I dont really use it in my language - especially because it partly comes from the word 'stalker'.

but thats what I meant, just like trash its also a negative word. I thought thats why you don't like it

 

[Abeamus]

I see what you mean.

I hope things get better in the future and the korean and internatoinal fans can interact more peacefully with each other!

For the definition of staning, I think its best for everyone to decide themselfs how far they should take it.. but I would still hope people feel less preassured to do certain things. I would never be accepted in any fandom by those standards

Problem with leaving it for people to decide what something means is that just creates mess like Generations are a mess because people created their own meaning as to what it meant and now it's so derived from the actual point of them that no one knows the original intention.

If I were to define stan it'd be easy to just say someone who keeps up with the group as being as casual fan means you don't look too deep into things generally but a more hardcore fan or stan in Kpops case would be someone who could tell you more like I can order my faves by age which no casual will care about that.

 

[ani07]

but thats what I meant, just like trash its also a negative word. I thought thats why you don't like it

ah, yes.

 

[Moguri]

Problem with leaving it for people to decide what something means is that just creates mess like Generations are a mess because people created their own meaning as to what it meant and now it's so derived from the actual point of them that no one knows the original intention.

If I were to define stan it'd be easy to just say someone who keeps up with the group as being as casual fan means you don't look too deep into things generally but a more hardcore fan or stan in Kpops case would be someone who could tell you more like I can order my faves by age which no casual will care about that.

ohh I fully agree with you, I'd personally love it if there were clear definitions for stan and generations! But I see them both as equally messy, maybe its better in korea with the stans, but here in the west is used however the person feels like it.

 

[Magician]

The term 'comeback' confused me, bc I always thought only artists who were on a long hiatus had 'comebacks' lol

 

[Abeamus]

ohh I fully agree with you, I'd personally love it if there were clear definitions for stan and generations! But I see them both as equally messy, maybe its better in korea with the stans, but here in the west is used however the person feels like it.

oh they do as it's one of those things where the ball got rolling and it's now pretty impossible to stop it so even if you got a massively viral post explaining generations you'd still have just as many people who don't see it.

 

[Moguri]

The term 'comeback' confused me, bc I always thought only artists who were on a long hiatus had 'comebacks' lol

haha good one! I had that too!

 

[StirFriedPanda]

I remembered another one. I used to think that idols actually sang in MV's.

 

[motorp77]

I though WJSN and GWSN were the same groups. I though Seventeen were 17. I somehow though GDragon was another nickname for Big Bang (wtf)