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So a user made a game where we basically write our K-Pop autobiographies and I thought "ooh la la this is my kind of writing assignment"

 

So yeah, I'm writing one now. Writing isn't really a strength point of mine, but I do like storytelling and creative writing.

 

Lemme start (spoilers because it's about to get long here)

 

 

The Beginnings:

The very first exposure I've had to K-Pop was in 4th grade? I had just gotten into the J-Pop (Vocaloid specifically, if that counts) and anime fandoms actually, and I fell in deep. Like, all I would watch was anime, all I would listen to was vocaloid, and I blatantly refused to consume any content that wasn't Asian, especially Japanese. I even thought that in my past life I was a Japanese cat for some time. It's actually quite funny that I turned out that way when I had just left a serious Disney Channel phase and was the most hardcore Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers fan.

 

Yeah, embarrassing I know. Can we move on?

 

Anyways, this was a little after SNSD's Gee got super duper popular, but I had discovered this through the recommended videos section on Youtube after watching a Hatsune Miku video

 

 

It was.... interesting. But I was getting hooked on the song, so I searched up the actual video, and wow I really liked it. I discovered Super Junior's Mr. Simple after and got hooked on that too. So pretty much, my music was 95% vocaloid, 4% anime openings and endings, and 1% a very very select few of SNSD and Super Junior songs.

 

While I did get a little into K-Pop, J-Pop was still my main fandom and eventually those songs did get deleted from my playlist because I was stubborn as hell and refused anything not in Japanese.

 

 

The Buffer Zone? (Don't really know what to name this)

Fast forward to 2012, and I was still fist deep in weaboo land.

 

It wasn't awful, I don't regret getting into anime at all, but my personality was cringey.

 

Gangnam Style was getting hella popular and shortly after I saw that video, SNSD came back like

 

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And I somehow got on the Hoot video but y'know what? It was great because then I discovered Genie in the process and it kinda broke me out of my "Japan Only" shell a little.

 

But of course, vocaloid still took over most of my heart, so once again I tried dropping SNSD out of my life.

 

 

2014: The Time where everything changed

So in late 2013, I discovered SNSD's I Got a Boy through a FineBros react video and loved that shit to death so much I bopped to it all the way to 2014. This was 7th grade and with age, I was starting to mature a little more, but of course I was still a weeb.

 

BUUUUT in January 2014, I saw EXO's Growl in my recommended videos while still listening to IGAB. I saw the name a lot, and it was really hard to avoid, so I couldn't help but click on it because why not. I ahd low expectations, especially since I preferred the girl groups to the boy ones.

 

 

 

And from then my life was practically ruined. rlytearpls.png 

 

​I was sucked in immediately. It was amazing. The dancing was great, and the pink haired dude (who I eventually learned was Luhan) caught my eye and did things to me rlytearpls.png

 

 I managed to never get into anything but anime for three years but somehow one of the K-Pop groups I tried to avoid was so mesmerizing. It got to the point where I couldn't help myself, and then I started to watch EXO Showtime. 

 

And oh how I fell in the rabbit hole.

 

​From then on, I was watching EXO varieties, watching all the music videos, listening to the whole XOXO album, crying over Kris' lawsuit when it came by (physically), learning all the members' names, reading the fanfics and fam, this was in a span of three months.

 

If I were to be honest, I thought that this would be like my other phases; it would just blow over super easily. But after a whole year passed since becoming an EXO-L, I was still as passionate. Shocker. (not really because they are truly amazing boys)

 

I didn't stan another group relatively as much as EXO until 2016 actually.

 

 

Side Story: BTS is Ruining My Life and They Need To Stop

Back in 2014 when I was just getting into K-Pop, after discovering the godliness of EXO I kinda figured "Why not go see other groups?" And I saw BTS' name a lot. That first video I saw of them was We Are Bulletproof Pt. 2 and god I hated it.

 

Their concept was way too tryhard hip-hop for me back then, and when you were someone used to cutesy shit and avoiding Western media for sometime, that video was the worst.

 

I avoided BTS since.

 

A year passed, and all of the sudden I Need U was e v e r y w h e r e. By then, I was about to graduate form middle school and had become significantly more matured, dropped my vocaloid phase, and was more open to new music. Heck, I even began getting into Western music again at that point. So with this new open mind and a strong curiosity, I watched the MV and listened to the song and liked it a lot. Eventually I went on to listening to all of hyyh pt.1 and by the time hyyh pt.2 was released, I considered myself a casual fan. I was particularly impressed that each member has some sort of involvement in each song they do; That was something you didn't see often in idol groups.

 

Then 2016 happened and I fell down that army hole fast.

 

Well firstly, I really, really, really liked the Young Forever repack's extra tracks and remixes. Fire and Young Forever are still favorites to this day. So as a result, I was looking forward to Wings when they announced it in the fall. 

 

I remember seeing all the teaser pics and the short films and trailers and I was just kinda... shook.

 

Seriously, everything was just so well done, I kinda wanted to scream out of-- I don't even know tbh. Jimin's, J-Hope's, and V's captivated me. And the MV teaser looked like one big kink, and I loved every single bit of it. But when it released, oh my god when it released I was snatcht, shookt, blesst, a l l  o f  t h e  a b o v e  b e c a u s e  h o l y  s h i t  t h a t  w a s  r e a l l y  g o o d. 

 

Surprisingly, that album managed to musically beat E*X*O's for me, and I knew that it was a sign that I'm missing out. So I began to watch Bangtan Bombs, varieties (even the big cringe we call American Hustle Life and the legendary show we call Rookie King), saw them win their first daesang, and by then I became dedicated.

 

 I'm going to their concert in three weeks and I am so hyped ahmagahplz.png

 

 

Where am I now?

 Well it's been three years and I'm still here imstupid.png

 

tbh, since I was in the hardcore anime fandom before K-Pop I'm used to this. All the mess and record-breaking and arguments and stuff. For me, this is really just another new music genre in the end. 

 

Ever since I got into K-Pop though, my tastes definitely matured and became more diverse. I actually winded up dropping vocaloid for the most part, and the amount of J-Pop I listen to is now majorly Perfume. I started to like R&B a lot and surprisingly some EDM as well. I also started getting back into Western music because of it.

 

I'm a sophomore in high school now, and I think along with the fact that I'm getting older, K-Pop may have made me a little bit more mature and open-minded?

 

 

Maybe I'll add side stories but idk, it's late here so maybe tomorrow

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I had just gotten into the J-Pop (Vocaloid specifically, if that counts) and anime fandoms actually, and I fell in deep. Like, all I would watch was anime, all I would listen to was vocaloid, and I blatantly refused to consume any content that wasn't Asian, especially Japanese. 

Oh my god, I was the exact some way. For all of middle school and like half of high school, I was a total weeb. rlytearpls.png

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