Hyooga 10,307 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Back then if you go to tumblr, Livejournal. forums (Youtube still wasnt very big so people usually download videos so we dont really have a count of views but if comments are to be relied upon there were a lot) people were all about Japanese boy groups (Johnnies) and Jpop queens (especially the Avex ones like Ayumi, Koda, BoA and crooners like Utada) Stans proving to other stans why their faves are more relevant because oricon sales = everything back then it's all about how many millions of CDs can your faves sell imho tho jpop 2006 had more translators and a lot of stans were self-sufficient when it came to info because a lot of fans learned Japanese while current kpop stans rely a bit too much with translators in their fandom which is why only groups with a sizeable following have a huge trove of info kpop was also rising at this point but was far from huge yet (it will be in a two years or so) and jpop fans were so defensive that kpop 'will never be a thing' boy they were wrong this actually reminds me of current kpop fans shooting down the possibility of the next big pop phenomenon possibly coming from china or SEA so it's always good to have foresight some jpop fans already had the feeling kpop can be a thing seeing how less restrictive it was with content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiftswitchsurf 12,276 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 tumblr 2006 que? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ihavepopcorn 12,815 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Tumblr existed back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiftswitchsurf 12,276 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Ignoring that point. I don't see anybody shooting down china or the SEA. I don't even see people around here talking about them. Save the odd moment of understanding that China's the biggest player economically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Hamster Named Loneliness 3,680 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Tumblr didn't exist until 2007, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♚ KING MYUNGSOO ♚ 115 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 tumblr 2006 que? I think tumblr started in 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiftswitchsurf 12,276 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Tumblr existed back then? No, Tumblr wasn't around until an entire year later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feat. you 1,103 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 So, you're just basing this all on the fact that in 2006 jpop i-fans would compare sales? because if so i guess you're right, but like, thats always been a thing, especially for pop music in general. but if you're trying to say the jpop i-fan community of 2006 is like the kpop i-fan community of today, then oh boy i've got a serious issue with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyooga 10,307 Posted May 20, 2016 Author Share Posted May 20, 2016 tumblr 2006 que? Tumblr didn't exist until 2007, lol. Sorry, I meant multiply! I tend to mix them up since it's been so long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocumentaLy 6,033 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Tumblr wasn't around back then... I can see some similarities between JPop fans in 2006 and KPop fans now, but not a whole lot. KPop fans are a lot more... messy and childish. And I did think that KPop could be a thing back then. I would post KPop in the JPop section of the forum I was on back then, and I would get so much hate for it, because KPop was seen as cheap and trashy, which it was in a lot of cases. The JPop fans I talked to back then started coming around in like 2009 / 2010 once the idol boom took off in Japan and pretty much killed off all their faves from the previous decade. I think we're still in that stage now, simply because more contemporary pop music, like that of last decade, hasn't become a thing again in Japan. Indie, adult contemporary, and idols are what's big now, and this isn't for everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeeYaWithYou 4,415 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 because KPop was seen as cheap and trashy, which it was in a lot of cases. I fucking hated that shit. J-pop fans would always shit on Kpop for stuff like this: When Kuu was literally releasing and people were losing their shit and calling her a queen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocumentaLy 6,033 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 I fucking hated that shit. J-pop fans would always shit on Kpop for stuff like this: When Kuu was literally releasing and people were losing their shit and calling her a queen Very true. I liked all the songs you posted, but there was a certain... budgetness about the Korean ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flop Diva 11 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I fucking hated that shit. J-pop fans would always shit on Kpop for stuff like this: When Kuu was literally releasing and people were losing their shit and calling her a queen Obviously, because she's a Queen and these two songs, especially "TABOO", are much better than previous one (no hate, they're nice). Kuu just did it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niito 48 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 YouTube was huge for jpop fans. There were tons of translated music videos and variety shows before it was taken down. But yes the popularity of kpop is similar to the popularity of jpop with the international crowd but it has lasted way longer. Also I think the Chinese entertainment scene has already hit its peak popularity during the 00s. I remember there being a lot more interest in Chinese entertainment around the same time as jpop popularity. Meteor garden, Jay chou, join tsai,f4, s.h.e., etc. Also jpop fans called kpop cheap cuz it was in the 00s. They were literally ripping off other country's popular songs and trying to get away with it. It happened with mandopop too. oh and kpop companies would churn out like a doppelganger of whatever popular artist was doing at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyooga 10,307 Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 I remember there being a lot more interest in Chinese entertainment around the same time as jpop popularity. Meteor garden, Jay chou, join tsai,f4, s.h.e., etc. Also jpop fans called kpop cheap cuz it was in the 00s. They were literally ripping off other country's popular songs and trying to get away with it. It happened with mandopop too. oh and kpop companies would churn out like a doppelganger of whatever popular artist was doing at the time. Most of the ones you've mentioned are Taiwan popstars and dramas which indeed were popular especially to international fans pre-Kpop wave ALSO TRUE AT KPOP RIPPING OFF JPOP IN THE 00s lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niito 48 Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Most of the ones you've mentioned are Taiwan popstars and dramas which indeed were popular especially to international fans pre-Kpop wave ALSO TRUE AT KPOP RIPPING OFF JPOP IN THE 00s lol you're right, it was Taiwan. I should say Mandopop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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