September 13, 2018

Hmm…

Well, I don’t think this fully requires a reading, but I did one anyway, lol. Prepare yourself for a long and aggressively worded response. 

So, basically, my thoughts on this (that are also reflected in the cards) is that yes, they resent it, but not for that reason alone. It’s more about how the term “KPOP” has become a tumor on the name, BTS. Like, other companies use BTS as a marketing strategy by taking their groups to the US and being like, “they’re KPOP!! You know, like BTS!!” and everyone KNOWS that they do it, but everyone wants to pretend that BTS is opening doors and they want that to happen and like… ??? NO?? Sure, they want people who are just now coming up in the industry to be successful, but they don’t want people (the whole fucking industry) that took massive shits on them constantly to be using all of what they worked for to try and “level the playing field”

Like, the level of tension and aggravation that comes from them, especially Namjoon and Yoongi, like… fucking hell it’s just pressure in their chest that has them wanting to fucking scream sometimes. That’s why they make such a statement all the time about the term IDOL and labels in general. They’re trying to get their point across without actually saying it. They want to be separate from it, they want to not have anything to do with it. They are their own genre, their own industry, their own shit altogether and people are trying to pretend like all of South Korea is entitled to the benefits of what they and BigHit built??? Do people really not get how offensive that is though.

Like, BTS is not “opening doors” or “paving the way” for other KPOP acts, they are simply succeeding and other people are trying to leech off of it.

Like, side story here, but when my mom died my uncle took all of her life insurance and I had to move out of our nice house into a fucking hut that had no running water, no gas, no heat and was infested with cockroaches and centipedes for over a year (yes, I lived like that, lol) and I had no money to eat and was obligated to eat the 80+ cans of fucking unsweetened applesauce that the previous occupants left in the kitchen while selling my book collection, my BTS merch collection, and just flat out stealing money to be able to feed myself and my dogs, and TRYING so fucking hard to contribute something to the bills (my grandparents owned the house and paid for the electric and wifi for me)… and like, he magically got a new apartment and a new car and started shopping at wholefoods - keep in mind he was 40 with a job and I was 19, just graduated high school, had severe anxiety, no friends, no job, no car, and a dead mother… like??? PARDON???

Like, I suffered through that shit and I turned shit around FOR MYSELF, BY MYSELF and I had a dream one time, JUST A DREAM, where he asked to borrow money from me and I fucking woke up ready to fucking kill someone because like???????????? To literally spit in someones face for so long and then to act like you’re entitled to what they have because they’ve surpassed you… To think you’re now entitled to their charity, I just can’t fathom it.

Like it’s so plain and simple. They don’t fucking hide it, people just choose to not LISTEN to them.

Like, obviously, they can’t say it and they won’t say it, and they don’t have to say it, because K-fans (and the general public) will see it as denouncing national pride as the “KPOP” label is like a “made in Korea” thing now, so it’s kind of a slap in the face to tear it off, I imagine. But then you have the ~western~ fans who would also be pissed because they would see it as that dumbass ~!*Western Assimilation*!~ shit that you all like to pretend is a problem so that you can complain about something rather than just admitting that you’re actually angry about the fact that they aren’t small enough to want to cater to you and your demographic exclusively.

TL;DR - yeah, they resent it.

Lol, this topic though. It eats my soul.