Type of Fans

[soyundorito]

Ok, I have wanted to talk about this since a long time, I have seen a lot of mocking around for older fans, and I want to say this

are people over 20 supposed to get over whatever they liked when they were teens? Honestly adults are the ones with enough acquisitive power to support their likes

i have also seen a lot of female fans calling male fans gross, even tho they had not done anything just calling them gross because “why would a male like a girl idol for? Ofc it’s gross” ... why? Can’t they like idols like female fans? Honestly the most disturbing things I had read comes from young female fans, which is as wrong as the things male fans could post 

idol culture in Korea/Japan is different, that a male older than 15 likes a girl group doesn’t mean they’re perverts, just like a female older than 15 linking male groups, liking idols there is not something strange, it also doesn’t mean there aren’t perverts on both sides just like there are male perverts there are female perverts be it old or young, doesn’t mean you’re going to swear at any older or male fan 

[Shinki]

Well what do you expect from western having western views on idol stanning culture? Bitches left and right saying dumb shit thinking they know crap about it

[soyundorito]

1 minute ago, lgbtshinki said:

Well what do you expect from western having western views on idol stanning culture? Bitches left and right saying dumb shit thinking they know crap about it

Honestly like... legit some give the dumb argument “I stream the videos!1!” Okay and? They buy the albums, merchandise and go to events too which is what gives money to the idol because they do not live on streams 

fans are fans it honestly so sad that they categorize themselves as better fans lol

[Ksoo9]

Agencies are targeting older female fans. 

Boyness / Boyish Beauty

2 of 10 boys in this song are 1996ers.

Shinee legendary debut song

 

[xo Nix xo]

Been a Kpop fan since 2010, when I was 14 years old. I'm definitely a different kind of fan than I was as a teenager, and I'm glad to be able to have the same interest but express it in a more healthy, mature way. As an older fan though, I do feel cut off from a lot of modern stan culture. Not like that's necessarily a bad thing. I went on the Amino App and left as soon as I saw kids born in 2008 on there. Nope, no thanks.

[Yoonability]

5 hours ago, xo Nix xo said:

Been a Kpop fan since 2010, when I was 14 years old. I'm definitely a different kind of fan than I was as a teenager, and I'm glad to be able to have the same interest but express it in a more healthy, mature way. As an older fan though, I do feel cut off from a lot of modern stan culture. Not like that's necessarily a bad thing. I went on the Amino App and left as soon as I saw kids born in 2008 on there. Nope, no thanks.

Are you me? I feel exactly the same way. I sort of miss the old stanning through forums/livejournals. Oh, the amount of time I wasted on Soshified! I joined a Discord when OH was out for so long, but I felt so old lmao. Couldn't find anyone that I clicked with and Twitter stanning culture also seems a bit too much for me.

[xo Nix xo]

1 hour ago, Yoonability said:

Are you me? I feel exactly the same way. I sort of miss the old stanning through forums/livejournals. Oh, the amount of time I wasted on Soshified! I joined a Discord when OH was out for so long, but I felt so old lmao. Couldn't find anyone that I clicked with and Twitter stanning culture also seems a bit too much for me.

I miss aspects of old stanning, but what I'm most nostalgic for was between 2010-2012, before I knew that there were online Kpop communities, I just fangirled by myself. I printed out pictures and hung them on my wall, rewatched all of Super Junior's music videos 5 million times, sneaking earbuds in class to listen to the terrible quality Youtube-to-Mp3 downloads on my iPod, sharing them with my friends at school (who had no idea why I liked it lol) during lunch. It was so innocent and drama-free. I felt like I had something safe to rely on. It wasn't until fall 2012 when I met one of my best friends that I realized that there are other Kpop groups out there, as well as huge online communities. I became an EXO fan and got a Tumblr, and that's when things got toxic. I was obsessively stanning, getting into keyboard wars with EXO antis, feeling like I had to protect the members like it was my job. "Exotic" Tumblr in 2013 was filled with depressed teens, and we all just fed off each other. I stopped intensely stanning when my bias in Ladies' Code died; it just became too painful to get that emotionally invested in the lives of people I didn't know. 

Stan Twitter reminds me so much of the toxic Tumblr fandoms of 7 years ago, but amplified and even more harmful. Nobody has correct information and so much needless drama get started there. I have a small group of "NCT Grandma Fans" I found on Amino before I left (all born in the '90s lol) and it's been nice talking with them. I do wish I had more friends around my age who are multifandom fans though. 

[RMS]

Western views are shitty. Just ignore them.