Hav3_U_H3ard
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And also the way the kpop industry profits off of creating and maintaining parasocial relationships is beyond sick and toxic. I feel like kpop brainwashes a lot of people honestly. And it fosters unhealthy mindsets, especially for those who go all into it. As much as I really don’t care for Kpop and how it’s affected a lot of people, I still have no ill will toward the artists. I just wish they wouldn’t work that job, lol.It definitely is, but it's like teaching it's a job. Some teachers can create a lovely manipulative environment and create nice behaving little humans others can make the kids competitive and fight over scraps of attention. To me the purpose of kpop was to make the fandom desperate for validation, love and appreciation they will never get. That's why they do more than any other fandom out there but get the least. The fans are happy that if they ever see their favorite celeb they politely smile and turn the other way. I've never seen someone brag to not be allowed to walk up to someone they admire. They are not only okay with the superiority idols have to the average person they have internalized it. I think this is why depression and body dysmorphia and gender issues are rampant in kpop fandoms. Rather than getting their emotions for an artist out in a healthy way they flip it around and hyper focus on shipping and imagining themselves as males to fit the idea of what they believe their idol likes. Both girl group fans and boy group fans reject femininity in some way because of how unrealistic either the idea is compared to how they can relate to it or become it. It's almost pragmatic and seems highly destructive in nature both to Korean and American culture. It's taking the idolatry to another level. Their images are so far removed from reality if fans find out one thing that isn't perfect about the person they begin to have mental breakdowns. If 20th to 21st century entertainment was a class in the future I think that K-pop would mark the beginning of the end of the modern entertainment industry. It turned an artistic industry into a conveyor belt factory; which broke the very foundations of what everything was built off of. It's supposed to be real people taken and molded into something fake and then people loose interest over time and seek out the next young authentic thing. Now that everything is semi based off of the Kpop model nothing is authentic, it was rare before but now you have children who never had real lives and were kept inside perfect boxes. Plus the country's society makes it so most live that life anyway. This is why when you see kpop idols from america's old facebook you're confronted with the fact that even though most would see them as straight laced cookie cutter kids; in Korea if they took a picture with a foreign friend or a male hugged a girl, or they went to prom they are 'ruined' to the average Korean as an idol. This isn't a preference with American ent over Korean ent it's a question of is humanity loosing itself.