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Which is worse as a KPop fan?

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Which is worse?  

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  1. 1. Pick one!

    • Being a KPop fan that didn't like PSY when "Gangnam Style" was popular
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    • Being a KPop fan that doesn't like BTS currently
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U R Messy AF Star

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Most people I knew didn't even know k-pop was a thing when gangnam style dropped, so PSY was just the "gangnam style guy." And while BTS has more of an international presence, it's not that different. Unless I interact with other k-pop fans, they don't come up.

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I remember one time in highschool I was in the football stands for marching band and this girl (who was known to be irritating af) sitting behind me was looking at my phone while I was scrolling through tumblr and yelled, "OMG is that Jungkook?!?!" It was actually Bambam, but I legit told her I had no idea what she was talking about and shut my phone down real quick rofl. 

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A Hamster Named Loneliness Global Superstar

A Hamster Named Loneliness

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Actually the opposite.

Gangnam Style is a meme, it's not a musical masterpiece or whatever.

BTS's old releases are a hundred times better than the like of DNA, Idol, BIL.

 

do you mean BWL? Like BIL (assuming you're talking about Boy in Luv) was from their old pre-2015 releases. 

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People can like and dislike whatever they want. But where I'm from Gangnam Style really was just a meme and Psy was just "that horse guy". A lot of people didn't like his song but thought his dancing and appearance was funny. So I'm inclined to say that if you didn't like his songs back then, then you'd probably be a part of the majority opinion.

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Most people I knew didn't even know k-pop was a thing when gangnam style dropped, so PSY was just the "gangnam style guy." And while BTS has more of an international presence, it's not that different. Unless I interact with other k-pop fans, they don't come up.

 

KPOP isn't that trendy even with BTS's fame (and PSY's fame back in the day)-it's still an interest/hobby of an alternative minority. The fame of BTS and PSY didn't necessarily make KPOP 100% mainstream in Western culture (or culturally fuse with Western culture altogether), but much more like how Justin Bieber (as an individual) and One Direction (as a boy group) are famous-just being the individualistically current trend (and possibly fad in the case of PSY; for BTS, they're still rising so it's hard to say yet) of Western society today (PSY famous for PSY and BTS famous for BTS). However, both PSY and BTS got Western culture curious somewhat interested in KPOP in some degree (foreign curiosity not a prioritized mainstream interest), especially BTS (did better in that aspect, much more established) coming from someone whose first KPOP bias group was BTS (now it's MAMAMOO) and whose (first and current) ultimate bias is from that group as well.

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It was annoying when Gangnam style hit big for me because people seemed to view Kpop as a joke genre back then. People would make fun of me for liking it because they thought all Kpop was the same without even having listened to anything other than Gangnam style. At least if people only like BTS because it's trendy it means that they take BTS more seriously as actual music rather than a joke.

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I remember one time in highschool I was in the football stands for marching band and this girl (who was known to be irritating af) sitting behind me was looking at my phone while I was scrolling through tumblr and yelled, "OMG is that Jungkook?!?!" It was actually Bambam, but I legit told her I had no idea what she was talking about and shut my phone down real quick rofl. 

 

Kind of awkward, but LMAO (btw, Jungkook and BamBam don't even look alike at all-not even a single bit, so not sure how she got the conclusion or just plain delu fan girl). harharplz.png

Again, BTS being mainstream famous and trendy in Western culture/society right now not necessarily meaning that KPOP is mainstream in and trendy or culturally fusing with Western culture/society. From past experience, if you go back to middle school and high school and tell people that you're listening to KPOP (assuming that the majority listens to whatever is popular in Western pop radio right now), they would look at you funny or if you're from another planet or get labelled as "weird"-however, since BTS is a current trend right now in Western culture, I guess you'll get a pass and BTS is regarded as a "Justin Bieber" or "One Direction" of the present day, and even some don't even associate BTS with KPOP at all.

 

Funny story, I was taking my freshman club mentee (I'm a college sophomore btw) to see Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald as part of our monthly mentor/mentee meetings and when we were about to enter a movie theater as the BTS: Burn The Stage movie was supposed to over by the time (iirc, it was their last screening of the day and the theater that I went to played the movie for two days with 3 different time slots and the tickets for all the screenings sold out really fast), saw a bunch of middle school and underclassmen high school aged female students swarming out of not one but two of the movie theaters like crazy (not a small group like you would expect for a KPOP group, but like a swarm of bees, so like a big crowd) and the type of fans that swarmed out weren't necessarily KPOP fans (or looked like one) but those who I think would like Justin Bieber or One Direction (if they were my classmates back in middle school or high school) or whoever is popular right now (they just gave me the vibe lol) since the crowd that was going out was way more diverse in terms of race and ethnicity (surprisingly, there were overwhelmingly more white and Hispanic (non-white) middle school girls than Asian coming out of the theater (not saying that the former aforementioned groups can't be KPOP fans, but just surprised by the demographics)) than the average or expected KPOP fan group where I live lol. 

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DiSsOrGaNiZeDsUsHi Senior Idol

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It's not a "worse" for either. K-Pop fans have their preferences just like anyone else.

 

The hype for "Gangnam Style" was huge wherever I went. People who didn't know what K-Pop was got into it whenever the song came on. People who were fans of K-Pop got into it. Everyone got into it and genuinely enjoyed it. The song and dance had a positive effect on people, from small kids to grandparents.

 

I consider BTS a household name, meaning that people (whom I've come across) have heard of them. People know that they're a popular Korean boy group. But unless the people are fans they don't know BTS' songs. And unless they're fans they don't talk about them.

 

These are just my experiences.

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