Fuck all you tiktoker's who posted this website (idc if you cut the website name out) If there ever is another website like this I'm gatekeeping it from y'all SO HARD. AND YOU DUMB LITTLE GIRLS WHO ARE ON THIS WEBSITE GROW UP YEAH?? 3 reply
I became a K-pop fan around 2017 but disengaged once it became mainstream and, in my view, lost some of its original appeal. Ever since the global explosion of Korean media like K-pop and K-dramas, I’ve noticed that some people act as if Korea is the pinnacle of culture or even human existence.
For example, when you see videos of people from a completely different ethnicity, there are always comments saying things like “if you look closely, this person looks like Heesung (for example),” or comparing them to a specific idol, even when the resemblance is barely there. I understand that people naturally compare others when there are similarities, but K-pop fans like these often seem to stretch it in every context to fit a "kpop appeal"
What exactly drives this tendency among some fans to treat K-pop as a universal framework for interpreting appearance and identity?