I’m not sure when Kpop became more focused on breaking records, but I know that’s become the main focus of today. Honestly, I really do respect and admire all of the fans who put so much effort into wanting their idols to stay as kings or queens, or wanting them to become kings or queens, and personally I don’t see too much problem in this, except that sometimes this takes away the real meaning of breaking records naturally and takes away the importance and beauty of the music that attracted people to watch the MV or buy the album (that breaks records naturally) in the first place. I understand that fans want to do this (and I want to do it too) because sometimes hard work to achieve great results is a beautiful thing, so all in all there are pros and cons to doing this but it’s not a problem
What my biggest issue about this is when fans deliberately and maliciously overthrow other groups and idols from achieving their best, by manipulating and deceiving fans into tricks that will disrupt the fans’ hard work. For example, recently in EXO’s individual member teasers, and even Red Velvet comeback shows, people have been pretending to be SMTOWN and posting links for fans to click (or even non-fans that are curious and have no idea what’s happening) that will make the view count go lower. This isn’t in the sporting spirit, this isn’t how you get your groups to break records – if your group ever breaks records, it means nothing because you have stooped the lowest way possible for them to achieve greatness. And you know what? If you used malicious ways to ruin another’s success just for your group to achieve success, then IT IS NOT SUCCESS. IT IS NOT GREATNESS. IT IS CHEATING.
When your group achieves greatness and you and other fans like you have stooped to this level to prevent others from doing their best, and to the point where you use deception to trick other fans from helping their group, then once your group achieves greatness no one will see it like that. No one will respect nor acknowledge your group’s achievements.
INSTEAD, if you don’t want to support other groups, simple. Don’t fucking watch the MV, don’t even fucking listen to it – save some of your own face and ego and just abstain. Don’t watch the reuploaded MV, don’t wait for reuploaded videos and watch them, that’s just damn low of you, you scum.
How to support your group? Go do it your own fair way. Instead of writing malicious comments and deceptive links, go stream your oppas and unnies’ MVs, go buy their music, go buy their entire album. That’s how you support your group. That’s how they can achieve success FAIRLY so that everyone will RESPECT AND AMIRE them for it. THAT’S WHEN THEY DESERVE THEIR SUCCESS. Don’t go ruining fans’ hard work, you have no idea how frustrating that feels unless you experience the pain yourself, and don’t ever put yourself in a position where you’ll understand.
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” You should understand this as a fan of a group – why not expand that love into the whole of Kpop? Kpop has to compete with English and American pop that is WAY above them in terms of popularity, exposure, youtube views, streams, etc. How much will Kpop rise if all you’re going to do is to act like little bitches and overthrow another group’s success? We want to expose Kpop into the wider world, SO THAT your group has more chance to break records and EVEN break youtube view count records WHEN COMPETING with English and American pop. If your vision is so narrow as to focus on a popular group in Korea, you and your group are never going to get anywhere. Suck it up, grow up, and open up your mind a little. It is not Kpop we’re competing against – it is the entire world.
Please, it’s nice to be competitive but hold your horses. There is so much we can do to support each other, just like how when we stream MVs we help each other and that’s how we achieve greatness. If you use low ways to help them break records then joke’s on you, you’ve created fanwars and no other fans are going to help your oppas or unnies with their MVs once it’s out. Idols are friends with each other, don’t bear to strain or hurt their friendship because of this. Really, there are so many ways to show your love, and if you don’t want to show love, then don’t show hate.
This applies to everyone, even EXO Ls and REVELUVS. I’m starting this rant because I’m both EXO L and Reveluv and I don’t want our fanbase to stoop as low as the others. Let’s all be fair and supportive, and in situations where we can’t be supportive and loving, then at least abstain from everything. Don’t do things that will make other fandoms hate us, instead spread love, not hate.
Note: I’m only speaking about those who stoop this low and don’t even deserve to be fans. I’ve of course seen other fandoms help my favourite groups Red Velvet and EXO stream their MVs and I think that’s lovely. I believe that’s how we should be doing it.
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