Your "bad fan" traits (1 Viewer)

[taemkitten]

OH

I also used to edit the fantaken pics and rolled my eyes when fansites would tell us not to. Then one day I realized it wasn't exactly nice of me to disobey their asks so I just sorta stopped.

 

[QueenB]

I don't do the vote spam things for awards on music shows or end of the year awards - you'd be lucky to find me voting even once, if I'm being honest (I'm realy bad about this even though I think they always deserve their awards)

Ooof this is me too. Some years I forget to vote altogether

 

[Day]

1. I rarely listen to full albums and focus mainly on the title tracks.
2. I'm a solo to 3 member stan of most groups I follow. I just can't like all of them.
3. I don't care about voting.
4. I don't care about streaming.
5. I don't care about western exposure - in fact, I really dislike it.
6. I never know what is going on with my faves EVER.
7. I don't watch vlives.
8. I criticize my faves when they don't meet my standards/release a bad song.

 

[Jimimis]

From what I've heard people don't like it because they are real people.

I can kind of understand that but at the same time I still think fanfics just use idols appearences (if even that) and the rest is made up.

Like those people have never done it themselves man it’s annoying

 

[blueberries]

I mostly just stream and don't buy digital releases.
I buy physicals sometimes though, but not always when my favs have comeback, just when i really like the album both songs and design.
Listening/looking at leaks.
I'm picky and don't automatically like sth cause i'm fan.

 

[QueenB]

Like those people have never done it themselves man it’s annoying

Lmao true. Like you could use their argument for characters in live action movies and shows. The character may be fake but they base their looks and stuff off a real person

 

[planetarium]

- I don't stream - tried it once, realized I have way more to do with my time (but for those that enjoy it, more power to you).
- I don't always leap on any new teasers or releases from my faves or those I enjoy (most of the time with SHINee group or members, and ASTRO, I do - but only on comeback things, not on variety show or radio appearances etc....if I even watch or listen to them, it's like...a while later)
- I'm bad at following solo activities (save for Taemin's.... :c )
- I don't do the vote spam things for awards on music shows or end of the year awards - you'd be lucky to find me voting even once, if I'm being honest (I'm realy bad about this even though I think they always deserve their awards)
- I tell it like it is; if someone does something that's bad, well, I'll say something. If someone needs more training or isn't quite up to par with other members, I won't act like they are God's gift to the world. I'm realistic with my faves, but I don't drag them
- I don't do the whole "oppa didn't mean it" or "unnie was just being a strong independent woman!" when any of my faves screw something up
- I only purchase merch that are albums and photobooks (I wish I could afford photobooks more...I love photography esp of pretty people in book form); I don't purchase shirts, and stickers, and keychains, and fans, and folders, and postcards etc etc (though I would love to one day get the official light stick for both SHINee and ASTRO)

This is literally me.

It always kinda baffles me how people have the money and energy to buy and do all this. I personally feel like I use a surprisingly huge chunk of my free time watching variety shows, listening to their music and such, and I'd consider myself a super casual fan. I just couldn't imagine myself streaming for hours a day or counting seconds for a teaser release. But yeah as said, if you enjoy it, more power to you. I guess I'm just envious that these people have the energy and resolution haha.

 

[Jimimis]

Lmao true. Like you could use their argument for characters in live action movies and shows. The character may be fake but they base their looks and stuff off a real person

Smut forever!!!!

 

[Evergreen]

I don’t care most of the time about merch. I just buy albums.

I hate streaming for the sake of streaming but I can stream my faves song again and again right after a comeback if I love it.

Sometimes I just forget to vote

 

[QueenB]

I don’t care most of the time about merch. I just buy albums.

I hate streaming for the sake of streaming but I can stream my faves song again and again right after a comeback if I love it.

Sometimes I just forget to vote

Merch, streaming, and voting are becoming popular sins lol

 

[QueenB]

to bump and add to my thread:

sometimes I show off my biases to the point it looks like i'm a solo stan

 

[Wingfrost]

• I don't stream, okay well actually a few times I have but maybe for less than 30 minutes and I got EXTREMELY bored and stopped. I just feel like I'm wasting time, if others want to do it then great but it's just not something I've been very big about and I personally never understood the importance of views.
• I'm horrible at keeping up to date with things like shows that my faves are in and sometimes even music releases..... I still haven't listened to Xiumin's song and I'm way behind on BTS Run episodes *sigh* I stan too many groups to keep up with everything.
• I don't like the majority of solo releases from my faves..... Dunno if this is necessarily a bad thing because everyone has their own preferences when it comes to music but I always feel like people think I'm not a true fan if I don't like one of my faves solo releases lol.

 

[QueenB]

I'm horrible at keeping up to date with things like shows that my faves are in and sometimes even music releases..... I still haven't listened to Xiumin's song and I'm way behind on BTS Run episodes *sigh* I stan too many groups to keep up with everything.

Me lol

Its hard to keep up with everything and sometimes with shows I don't have time to watch them so I put off found so

 

[Wicked]

• I love my bias groups dearly, especially BTS, but yeah I fall behind so quickly with watching their episodes and so on. At a certain point sometimes I don't even bother until way, way later.
• I sometimes read fanfiction and write it, though I just see it as a creating writing type thing. A way to express stories and words that people will read without having to go through the trouble of publishing a book lmao.
• I used to be a roleplayer, I guess. But I also just saw it as a way to create random stories with another person lmao. I don't do roleplaying anymore. It's been a while. But it happened.
• I can't be assed to vote or stream shit most of the time, I'm lazy or too busy.

 

[Midnight]

I don't think I have any.

 

[Soleski]

I only buy songs
and do nothing besides that

 

[QueenB]

I only buy songs
and do nothing besides that

A money spender

 

[Soleski]

A money spender

I need the songs

 

[Faerie]

In my moms car or in mine blasting Kpop Through the speakers . My Singing doesn’t help either

 

[mirella]

• I sometimes listen to a music release a couple days later, not immediately.
• I never keep up with teasers.
• I rarely watch varieties (aside from groups that are genuinely funny).
• In that same vein, I probably have little knowledge of their personalities.
• I sometimes fail to recognize idols I stan (I don't think I have face blindness, but I have trouble recognizing people idk).
• I don't know (or care about) birth dates or blood-types or other useless info.
• I don't stream.
• I critique, when it comes to music or behavior I don't tolerate.

- I don't stream - tried it once, realized I have way more to do with my time (but for those that enjoy it, more power to you).
- I don't always leap on any new teasers or releases from my faves or those I enjoy (most of the time with SHINee group or members, and ASTRO, I do - but only on comeback things, not on variety show or radio appearances etc....if I even watch or listen to them, it's like...a while later)
- I'm bad at following solo activities (save for Taemin's.... :c )
- I don't do the vote spam things for awards on music shows or end of the year awards - you'd be lucky to find me voting even once, if I'm being honest (I'm realy bad about this even though I think they always deserve their awards)
- I tell it like it is; if someone does something that's bad, well, I'll say something. If someone needs more training or isn't quite up to par with other members, I won't act like they are God's gift to the world. I'm realistic with my faves, but I don't drag them
- I don't do the whole "oppa didn't mean it" or "unnie was just being a strong independent woman!" when any of my faves screw something up
- I only purchase merch that are albums and photobooks (I wish I could afford photobooks more...I love photography esp of pretty people in book form); I don't purchase shirts, and stickers, and keychains, and fans, and folders, and postcards etc etc (though I would love to one day get the official light stick for both SHINee and ASTRO)

You really captured all of it perfectly. If many people are like this, perhaps we are not bad fans after all...