i feel so bad for kpop idols, especially girl groups. like you sign an eight year contract or whatever when you’re sixteen telling you to wear the shortest most revealing outfits of all time (so short you need to wear “safety shorts” so that you aren’t exposing yourself to the world) which only get shorter as you get older. not only that, you have to practice increasingly suggestive dances to perform on stage with a SMILE (god forbid you aren’t smiling all the time in those early years. unless you’re the “visual” of the group in which case it’s cool and mysterious, netizens tear you apart) while hyper regulating your diet and exercise to the point of mental and physical collapse bc all you’ve been eating is a cup’s worth of food every day. IN ADDITION TO THIS !! you can’t even be SEEN looking at a male idol because dating rumors will spread and investigated by your company bc you need to maintain the illusion that maybe one day you’ll date one of your fans 🤩 and then unless your group gets huge as soon as you turn like twenty four you’re considered useless AND. DURING THIS ENTIRE TIME. mfs are posting your body on twitter with the caption “goals” or whatever which is how they get ppl into the fan base of your group—because the physical outweighs your talent every single time
