Your good fried Bop told me you're a Stay and that you kind of introduced her to Stray Kids.I was just curious about something. Since I know you're a pretty big gtopper, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Minsung. What do you personally think about them?I've already told Bop that, to me, it comes across as queer baiting, gay4pay fan service and she agreed with me. But I'm really interested in hearing your perspective as well.
Hello!
I did certainly introduce Bop to Stray Kids, but I think calling myself a Stay is a stretch lol I was into them in 2023 as I really enjoyed their music, but it didn’t go much beyond me wanting to own their albums and watch their MV’s on repeat. I was a Bang Chan girlie back in the day, so Minsung is very much on the periphery for me in terms of what I’ve seen and studied.
From the few things I have seen of them, it does play as fanservice to me. I’m inherently mistrustful of any romantic or sexually-charged on-stage interactions in any k-pop fandom, as the public display of it all makes it far less legitimate to me. I haven’t seen enough content of them off-stage to have an opinion one way or another.
In my early GTOP days, I told Bop I wouldn’t have believed in GTOP if it wasn’t for the sheer amount of off-stage interactions and evidence supporting that relationship. There’s too much to ignore—and while GD especially can be less than subtle to us GTOP truthers, it really isn’t as obvious as being straight up fan service. They toe the line of how far they’re willing to go, but they’re certainly not behaving like other fan-service-only ships.
For example, I love ToDae to death, but to me, that’s just two boys who love each other as platonic soulmates, and like to get playful and flirty because the fans love it and it makes them giggle. I don’t think it’s harmful (I flirt with my best friend all the time 😘 ), but I also don’t think it’s indicative of anything real.
My gut is to believe Minsung is much the same.
Sorry to not have more to contribute to the debate, but Minsung is definitely a blind spot for me since I’ve been out of the SKZ loop for so long!
