Momo

I'm all for art, and NewJeans over here.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Trailer park aesthetic.

There are times where I swear to god, I feel like this should've been me.

Like I literally don't do any of that shifting stuff but then again, I'm only a bit similar when it comes to those with those interests. I have a deep love and connection for and to this aesthetic so much that just looking at it feels like home.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Happy Pride Month to EEEEVERYONE, 🌈🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈💕💕

I live in a country that re-enacted a bill that prevents and punishes any LGBTQ+ association, identification or support. If it gets passed, no healthcare, no legal support,no human rights for LGBTQ+ individuals.

They wanted him to sign that bill and pass it as a law before pride month began. Ghana wanted to make a statement. I don't have any pride in that country at all, especially for this reason. Billions of dollars spent trying to prevent LGBTQ individuals from existing.

Happy Pride Month, y'all 🥳💘🌈

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Mood rn

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Mood rn

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

And I think I should speak on kpop more because why tf not

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Really wish I could post more, but I literally run 7 different accounts on here and I somehow have to account for each of them being different variants of myself.

[do-not-u-dare]

”Explain yourself” followed by “stop making excuses” has always baffled me because the fuck you think explaining myself is????

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

You know, I was told I was banned because a post I made was "off topic" which it wasn't, but then again, I feel I was banned for a completely different reason.

A reason which includes a childlike individual who can't seem to shut the fuck up, and I think I'm okay knowing that the community I was just booted from, didn't want to actually discuss serious matters in kpop and only wanted the glitter and fun of it all.

Mind you, there's folks on there constantly sharing nsfw smut content about idols, and the one who wants to discuss why idols should be treated as humans is the one being banned from the community.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

First They Came by Martin Niemöller. It’s one of the most famous writings about silence, complicity and people refusing to defend others until the danger reaches them personally.

"First they came for the Communists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews

and I did not speak out

because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left

to speak for me.”

It originally came from Niemöller’s postwar speeches and confessional writings reflecting on the rise of Nazism and how many people stayed silent while different groups were targeted one by one.

It is not only about fear. It is about conditional empathy: people assuming injustice is tolerable as long as it happens to someone else. That’s why the writing is constantly referenced in discussions about public indifference, selective outrage and people only recognizing abuse once they themselves become vulnerable to it.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Your Boss is Your Dad Heavenly Father ???

There’s something deeply strange about the way certain idols are treated when they openly align themselves with powerful executives.

People constantly talk about “changing the industry” and fighting against exploitation, unfair contracts and idol mistreatment but then turn around and romanticize the exact corporate hierarchy that created those problems in the first place. That contradiction becomes impossible to ignore when idols publicly glorify executives like Bang Si-hyuk to an almost uncomfortable degree.

The Yunjin situation especially stands out because it goes beyond simple respect for a producer or company founder. Calling a billionaire executive “father,” making symbolic gestures toward the sky while referring to him and sending exaggerated kiss poses toward him on broadcasts creates a dynamic that many people would absolutely criticize if it involved other companies or other executives. Yet somehow, when it happens with certain idols like this, people brush it off as cute, funny or harmless.

What makes it even more jarring is the image Yunjin has built around herself. She positioned herself as someone who wanted to “change the industry,” someone aware of idol culture’s flaws and someone supposedly different from the manufactured system around her. But how can someone claim to oppose the industry's unhealthy structures while publicly participating in executive worship culture? The K-pop industry already has a long history of encouraging idols to treat CEOs like parental figures because it creates emotional loyalty and discourages criticism. Seeing that same dynamic repackaged as empowering or progressive feels incredibly performative.

The double standards become even more obvious when you compare public reactions to NewJeans and Min Hee-jin. People endlessly psychoanalyze the girls’ relationship with MHJ, accusing them of being manipulated simply because she was openly protective of them and emotionally involved in their creative direction. Meanwhile idols openly praising Bang Si-hyuk with borderline devotional energy is treated as normal fandom content.

And that’s the inconsistency people notice.

If the concern is truly about unhealthy power dynamics then the criticism should apply fairly. People can’t claim to care about exploitation while selectively ignoring the ways corporations encourage emotional dependence and loyalty branding in excessive manners, like the one normalised with Bang Si Hyuk and his "children".

The industry has normalized executive idolization so much that fans don’t even recognize how bizarre it looks anymore. Imagine if idols from another company called their CEO “father,” made symbolic gestures toward him and publicly acted affectionate in ways fans usually reserve for celebrities or love interests. The discourse would be endless. There would be think pieces, concern posts and accusations of manipulation everywhere.

But with HYBE, people suddenly become very flexible about boundaries.

That selective outrage is exactly why conversations about ethics in K-pop often feel dishonest. The standards change depending on which company is involved, which fandom is speaking and which narrative is currently socially acceptable online.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

Some of you are genuinely dumb. And I think that's one of the things I love so much about the internet and the anonymity that comes with it, though not to say that if it wasn't I would be off, I definitely would still get on here and call folks out for being dumb af.

For one to explicitly expose themselves based on a somewhat vague post I made, that has got to be a new kind of... you know, that word that if I use right now, I'd be labelled ableist for 🙂. Never mentioned a name, or an account whatsoever, all I seen is a bunch of stuff in my inboxes from an account claiming I attacked them. Honey, if I make a rant post on here, what makes you think it's directed towards you?

Going all out exposing yourself, you know what I'm tired I have to use desperately rn I'm off

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

So a couple months back, while I was dealing with a couple things, I had a really important thing taken away from me, just like that.

And those who took that thing away from me were obviously, in classic fashion, the victims in this case. I was devastated, but I finally got out of that environment, and a few weeks later, I wrote a song about it.

Ladies and gentlemen, I will not be sharing that song

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡

[damnsomeonebeatmetothatusername]

Does it snow where you are? Unfortunately for me, I've never seen or felt snow in real life, only in movies. As a kid, I had always wanted to taste it. So of course, I went into my freezer, and scraped "shaved ice" off the freezer door and ate it.

Gosh, it tasted so good. If I ever come into contact with snow, trust that I'm eating it(but just the one that falls later).

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

And that's one deleted ask for today. Honestly, y'all need to stop bothering people here, it's fucking Tumblr.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

"CHANGE THE IDOL INDUSTRY"

Okay, but do you want to change it for better or for worse?

There is a conversation K-pop fans keep avoiding because it is uncomfortable, and because it forces people to admit that exploitation in the industry is not sustained by executives alone. It is also sustained by idols who knowingly participate in the machine, benefit from it and then pretend to stand outside of it morally.

This is especially obvious with HYBE idols, because HYBE has spent years branding itself as the “progressive” company. The company sells self awareness as a product. It markets vulnerability, activism, individuality and “changing the industry” while functioning through the exact same systems of hypercapitalism, image manipulation, parasocial exploitation and corporate consolidation that fans claim to hate in every other company.

The most fascinating example is Yunjin openly saying she wanted to “change the idol industry.” That statement became iconic because fans interpreted it as rebellion. But what does it actually mean to want to “change” an industry while voluntarily signing with one of the most powerful corporations actively benefiting from the system you criticize?

At some point people have to stop infantilizing idols and acknowledge agency.

No, idols are not all-powerful. No, trainees are not handed unlimited choices. But there is a difference between surviving within a corrupt system and consciously helping sanitize it. HYBE idols in particular often act as the polished human face of corporate expansionism. The company packages them as intellectual, emotionally aware and socially conscious while still engaging in aggressive fan monetization, impossible beauty standards, fandom engineering and relentless content production designed to keep consumers emotionally dependent.

And yet fans constantly separate idols from the corporations they directly uphold.

People will criticize HYBE for overworking artists while praising idols for “working so hard.” They will condemn parasocial marketing while obsessively consuming livestreams engineered for attachment. They will accuse executives of manipulation while defending idols who actively participate in the branding strategy because it benefits their careers.

You cannot endlessly claim idols are powerless children while also praising them as empowered artists, cultural revolutionaries and industry disruptors. Those narratives contradict each other.

If an idol claims they want to change the industry while continuing to profit from the exact mechanisms that make the industry abusive, people are allowed to question the sincerity of that claim. Especially when the “change” being promoted rarely threatens the structure itself. It usually just repackages exploitation in softer language.

Instead of dismantling idol culture, companies like HYBE aestheticize self awareness. They turn critique into branding. The idols cry on camera, speak about pressure, mention mental health and discuss authenticity, and fans interpret this transparency as proof the company is morally different. But emotional openness does not equal structural change. In many cases it becomes another marketing layer.

That is why so many controversies around HYBE feel strangely hollow. Fans keep treating every issue as an isolated coincidence when there is an obvious pattern: emotional narratives are repeatedly used to shield the corporation and its artists from accountability. Criticism becomes “hate.” Concern becomes “bullying.” Corporate strategy becomes “organic artistry.”

And idols themselves are not outside of this process.

Many of them knowingly participate in fan manipulation because the system rewards it. Many understand how fandom culture works. Many know their companies weaponize attachment and moral loyalty. Many continue benefiting from systems they publicly criticize because the systems still elevate them materially, financially and socially.

Again, this does not mean idols deserve harassment or dehumanization. It means they should be treated like adults with agency instead of symbolic dolls fans project innocence onto.

People are very comfortable criticizing faceless executives because it preserves the fantasy that idols remain pure victims untouched by complicity. But industries this large do not function through executives alone. They function through collective participation, including artists willing to market themselves as reformers while still serving the same corporate machine.

If you genuinely want to “change the industry,” eventually that has to involve more than aesthetic rebellion, emotional interviews and carefully curated authenticity. Otherwise “changing the industry” just becomes another slogan sold back to consumers by the industry itself.

[thechainsmeaniloveyou]

I have a theory about people.

They don't actually hate AI images, they love to show how much they "hate" it so they look good in other people's eyes.

We've been doing the whole taking an AI generated piece of material and saying it's real. People would recognise it and say they hate AI, calling it slop, garbage and whatnot.

Make a real drawing, song, painting, sculpture, any piece of art, and tell people it's AI. They'll call it slop, garbage, and point out a million things wrong with it.

"It's emotionless, soulless, garbage, wrong proportions" and then some.

The thing is, people don't actually care about art, they just want to prove they do. By supporting what is perceived to be human, you're doing the right thing. The second you're unsure, things get nasty.

This is the same thing that happens when someone poses a masterwork as their own, people are ruthless in their criticism. The context of it being done by “one of the greats” completely changes people’s perspective.

Some of van goghs stuff would get ripped to shreds in a 400 level art school critique.