I read tweet about chinese ssaeng's and damn most of them are rich people who do nothing but stalker their idol
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It’s crafted that way, the companies make everything in such a way that it draws in as many parasocial people as possible (plus they craft an image that puts the idol on a pedestal like they aren’t human so it makes it easier to feel okay doing it). The idol is the product, if you get people hooked on the product they’ll keep spending money. Money is everything. And yeah sure they have to spend money to keep the idol safe but they make enough from just owning the idol that the cost is negligible. It’s the same way that phone and app companies engineered everything so that we’d become addicted to phones / social media. It wasn’t an accident
ill never understand idol culture why do fans literally never leave the idol alone and go everywhere they do