Parasocial Kpop Fans and Their Unrealistic Expectations

Good morning, welcome back, if you don't notice that I'm feeling a little bald today, anyway, have you ever been a fan before, not the kind that blows the wind or a Vietnamese person, you might not know it, but if you can think of a singer, actor, celebrity or even an influencer that comes to mind if at any point you enjoyed the content they created and followed them on more than one social media account, some might call it Behavior as a fan and it's nothing to be ashamed of, some people already have that phase in

their

life or are still actively in it, you think you can escape after 20, but after watching a 12 episode series in less than 24 hours and a handful of new Jean songs later, he just draws you back in like a mouse. trap made with light sticks and photo cards If I knew what Twitter was when I was 14, I would definitely use Microsoft Paint to make collages of Girls Generation and Naruto fan accounts for role-playing games.

Fandom culture has evolved into something quite interesting in the In the age of social media, where celebrities are available on all platforms, even those that are confused whether they are a bird app or a lyrics app, the Chances of interacting with an A-list celebrity have increased dramatically, whereas they would have 30 years ago. You never knew they existed unless you saw them face to face. Some of these hardcore

fans

will spend more hours fanning than people with full-time jobs to update fan accounts with the latest content about

their

idol, which takes a lot of effort. Think that knowing the ideal types of the 13 members of a boy group and all their birthdays is an easy task.

All this is also free work. People aren't getting paid and companies are saving tons on advertising fees. This culture of investing all your free time in someone. Idolizing has made people overly protective of their favorite celebrities, like a mother bear who goes crazy if anyone even looks at her Cubs and if

fans

aren't in attack mode, they will praise a 30 year old for doing what minimum. That young woman there does have something in the store as beautiful as she is. I think we can find some things. Okay, don't worry, we'll talk more about the show in a second.

I can tell you that I want this kind of fan behavior. She's always been there, but recently we've seen it a lot more, especially with K-pop idols who have been in the industry since they were young. We've literally watched some people we've never met before grow up since they were three years old. feet tall like that weird aunt or uncle with no kids but a lot of disposable income many K-pop idols are making the transition from the Korean entertainment industry to Hollywood we are seeing a different side of them that we are not used to seeing and it is causing a lot of tension between fans, some like it and are even proud of them for trying new things, others know it when you find a food you like and end up eating it every day without knowing that it will become your excitement. crutch because you're going through a tough time and five years later, after eating the same French toast cereal every day, the company decides to pull all the products off the shelves without warning and suddenly they come back a month later with the brand.

The promising new packaging will taste like your childhood and the only thing you feel when you take the first bite is betrayal. It's as if we are creatures of comfort and change. It's not the easiest thing for someone to accept what happened when people get older and change, I know it's pretty disgusting right, there are

expectations

that idols will never change, never get old, never date and always stay single and the curated image they give you. shown and what made you find it in the first place should remain that way. K-pop has done a really great job of making really talented artists by putting them through a really strict training process when they are young, making them a PR team's dream client.

They are so media savvy since the gecko that you will definitely not see it grow. group member lounging around when doing a live stream big tits the music itself is pretty tame compared to the pop songs we hear in the states occasionally you'll get some songs with pretty explicit lyrics but if k-pop groups they want to perform live on music shows they will keep it around PG-13 Korea is a society where people tend to blend in and not stand out too much. I think it's called a homogeneous society. Why do I emphasize homo? Oh wait. I think it's called homogeneous.

So in terms of a celebrity's image, it is still quite conservative compared to Hollywood celebrities. Many people were surprised when Jenny came from Blackpink and was cast in Sam Levitz's show. The Idol, the guy who wrote Euphoria and is known for including some pretty impactful characters. material in his productions, wait, let me in. I remember that scene being a little different, but hey, what do I know? That show was a fever dream, so imagine Jenny, who had a pretty clean image for the most part, coming from Korea to make her acting debut. actress on one of the most controversial shows we've seen this year, she swerves, serves and says lines like this, so no one better be better off, he didn't tell me it was a trap, he said it would be good for the club, You know, debuting for the first time as an actress, okay, the material isn't that good, so it's okay, Jenny's fans were divided over her appearance on a show that shows her in a way they've never seen before.

I know Jenny is an adult. woman, but I always see her act innocently. I love cutting out my Jenny photo card. Her hand is on her jewel. Jenny, no, you will rarely see a K-pop girl group have so much contact with the opposite sex in any of their choreography, even when Blackpink performed at Coachella and had concert dates in the United States. Some fans didn't like the fact that they were twerking on stage and throwing out a curse word or two when talking to the audience. Oh, sometimes I forget that she's actually 20 years old if we blink.

A few more times soon she will be 30 years old. How exactly did people expect Jenny to dance in a show made for Western audiences? a lot of skin, but by North American standards this really isn't that bad, a small correction that actually had to be used in this first scene of the show, there is a fine line between being sexy and being vulgar, a comment that has been circulating around the black rose spear is that she was forced to do the show, no one will really know if she was forced to do the show or not, but a 27 year old girl and one of the biggest K-pop girl groups right now, the chances of her not having a say in what she wants to be involved in is pretty low, the only hostage situation I know she's been in is when YG locked Blackpink in the basement for five years, supposedly you might not be around agree with their decisions, but that's the strange thing about the situation, fans think they know exactly what. her idol is thinking that BTS is a seven-member group well known for having a very active fanbase along with some terribly obsessive fans.

America may have a strong military, but in terms of social media warfare, BTS's armies are the type that send you an embarrassing situation. photo of you that you have never posted before with the caption this you over the years BTS has had some changes to their image due to them getting older and wanting to experiment with their craft, the most notable member who had the biggest change in their appearance is Jungkook, who started with the image of a talented boy next door in Korea, then did a complete 180 degrees and became a member of a punk rock band with facial piercings and tattoos that are still considered taboo by Korean standards if you have tattoos. and they're about to go on TV, you better make sure it looks like the production assistant got tired after putting on some skin-colored bandages and thought that's probably enough, believe me if I'm wrong.

I think Jungkook is the first member of BTS. release a solo song in English aimed at a North American audience and all hell broke loose when he announced that a popular Korean actress was going to play his love interest in his music video, well yeah, who else would be a Macy's mannequin ? What I saw was from a fan on Weavers, which is a platform created specifically for K-pop groups to interact with their fans. If you can't tell by the number of emojis she used, she's pretty upset. Hello Jungkook, happy 4th of July, okay first. we continue the grammar police informed me that he said happy 4th of july thanks to my 130th degree in english that helped me see that i have a feeling that this person's first language is not english unless he later considers himself impressed, She wrote a complete Sonnet and I published it for free.

Extremely disturbing rumors about your Seven music video have been driving me crazy since I read them on Saturday, July 1st. Oh wow, that was a repeated phrase. Is it true that actress Han is going to appear? make an appearance in your Seven music video. I'm praying, hoping and hoping that they are just false and vicious rumors and lies, please tell me that they are just false and vicious rumors and lies, can you and would you tell me that they are just rumors and lies man? I really said copy and paste but do a little different each time if it's true, if a woman appears or appears in your Seven music video and it's not just rumors and lies, it will be a betrayal.

I never forgive betrayal. I am very forgiving but I never forgive betrayal betrayal is unforgivable betrayal is unacceptable if I am betrayed I will be gone for all eternity and say goodbye forever Jungkook, can you and could you tell everyone everything about your seven music video? Can you and would you reveal everything about your music video? Please talk everything about your music video quickly and as soon as possible. Do you know that's what ASAP means? I desperately need to know the honest and sincere truth. Thank you. Alright. I think we just witnessed someone's death. Villain origin story.

I don't think this is something that is meant to be shared with the public. We keep journals and thoughts in our heads for a reason. If she is on a first name basis with Jungkook, where she can ask for information behind the scenes. his music video should keep it a secret, Han, so he got an increase in followers on his Instagram, as he should, people were interested in the actress who appeared in jungkook's music video, which is a pretty natural reaction, unfortunately their comments section needed a cleanup. aisle 5 after the toxic side of the fandom left their hateful comments, this tends to happen when an idol interacts with someone who might have the potential to have a romantic relationship with them.

I hate Hansohi because she holds Jungkook's hand. I don't know what to say. You, but a 25-year-old man, probably does a lot more than just hold hands. I'm pretty sure it's called building Ikea furniture together. Those odd-sounding pieces of furniture will test your relationship to the max. Also sorry to say this is what some of you act like when idols are just trying to live their lives let me catch you looking at her again let me catch you looking at her again uh I'm not going to let me catch you looking at her again Sorry it's been like a month and that scene still haunts me and wasn't even the worst one to come out of that show.

There are many different reasons why people tolerate a celebrity. You might be a fan of his work. The music he makes. Maybe the content. posting makes you really happy personality can be a great thing like hey I could see myself dating this person he seems really cool there is one type of fan that takes

parasocial

relationships to another level and those are boyfriend, girlfriend, Yes I want a deeper explanation behind the psychology of why Idol fans are so interested in

parasocial

relationships. This Creator does a great job of explaining it along with a deeper look at fandom culture in East Asia.

The moment was a bit funny. The video of her appeared. In my recommendation while working on this video it just goes to show you how interesting this topic is. One term was specific to China when we talked about parasocial fans, model fans. Model fanatics who engage in fantasized kinships with their idols. These fans often call themselves brother fans, brother fans, mother and father fans of their idol. These terms aren't really seen in the West because I feel like we skipped that step entirely. Fans who engage in this obsessive, overly productive behavior are not. 100 because of them, this industry has created a formula for how to attract this specific type of fans who will write or die for you if there is even the slightest chanceEven if you can hang out with them in the future, there's always the chance that Jungkook or Jenny could contact you. in DMS, if you are not known to be dating someone publicly, it really is like a moth to a flame and the flame is made of photo cards, light sticks and fan cameras.

Idols usually have a squeaky clean image where boys are expected to be innocent and sexy and girls are supposed to be innocent and sexy, is this what Taylor Swift meant when she said everyone is a sexy babe and says whatever they want? over the egg and act too cute? It may seem really embarrassing to Americans, but in Asia there will be grown adults doing fan service, some idols fully accept doing this kind of thing since their fans like it, some of them also find it very embarrassing, but hey, sometimes they just you gotta cash a check, just look at those MPC tick tockers if The first time I was exposed to Jenny or Jungkook was from American Media, you would have never known Jungkook was in the trenches in Korea making eggyo for middle aged men.

Wow, that sentence sounds like something Chachi BT would write nowadays, it's so rare to see celebrities. Without any presence on social media we are supposed to feel connected to all these different ways of communicating with people, but at the same time we have never been more disconnected and alone when fans invest all their time in someone they idolize, they start to have a sense of entitlement and ownership over these idols, where they forget that they are actually human beings. who do human things like getting into relationships, some fans will feel betrayed when things like this happen when Exo's Chen posted a letter to her fans telling them that she is marrying her fiancé, that she is not a celebrity and that she is also pregnant with his son.

If you don't already know from the topic of this video, you can probably guess what happened. "I have a girlfriend who I want to share the rest of my life with," he said in a handwritten letter to his fans. Some fans even protested in front of his company's building and told him to leave the group for not being a considered member. I think Chen owes us an apology. He should feel sorry for his fans who have dedicated their time and money to EXO. Unfortunately, he didn't utter a single word to express his Sorry in the letter, these obsessive fans were in the minority, but it's still quite traumatizing to see something like this happen, especially in your fandom.

Taeyeon, a member of the growth group Girls Generation, actually apologized to his fans at the airport when the message was leaked and an EXO member was dating a man, why always EXO? They can't take a break. Smoking is an activity that is generally frowned upon in South Korea. You will rarely find an idol smoking or vaping, as it will damage their image if they do. getting caught probably wasn't by choice when BTS was in the US for the Grammys. BTS's Taeyang had a photo taken outside where he was in the middle of a smoke break, this caused many fans to say that Hollywood was negatively influencing him. and that every time Idol leaves Korea they change for the worse.

I don't think crossing the border gives someone the whole personality change. He might have already been smoking in Korea, but he was more reserved about it, it's more socially acceptable. smoking in North America he probably felt more comfortable smoking in public here there is nothing wrong with a grown man smoking but the thing is that V is part of BTS who are partners of UNICEF promoting the end of violence and abandonment, as well as self-esteem and well-being. -being notes the last word so he should have taken care of his image in public someone even brought a no smoking sign to one of his concerts you spend hundreds of dollars on a concert ticket and Ticketmaster Would Fall For This Unless You Have the zoom function built into your contact lenses, you probably didn't see that smoking was a hot topic among celebrities, it even happened here when Zayn Malik was still in One Direction and fans discovered he was smoking, the directors came out to protest with gems how are you doing.

Wow, times were simpler back then, huh, even recently when photos of Jenna Ortega smoking a cigarette appeared before the public, some fans were disappointed by how young she is and how she is setting a bad example to her young fans . Have you seen the types of movies she's been in recently - she got stabbed multiple times in a scene that she wouldn't need a smoke break afterwards. I think she is now 20 years old and had a lot of young fans when she was at Disney, she is not like these celebrities. who are actively promoting cigarettes and vapes to their young fans, were having their own private time.

All of these photos were taken by the paparazzi and published with other consent if she has been keeping up with HBO shows or she has been on Tick Tock in the past year. You're probably familiar with Pedro Pascal, who blew up for his role in The Last of Us. He's actually been in the industry for over two decades and suddenly has a new generation of fans who like to make edits of him. If people did more than 20 years that would be called scrapbooking, while he gives off a lot of girlish energy. I wonder how he feels about this new wave of fans treating him like a precious stuffed animal.

I don't know, don't make him a fan. school staff cams like this, do you think we've learned some self control by now after watching all these people embarrass themselves online? I already have third-hand embarrassment seeing all these tweets asking a 50-year-old man for a cinnamon bun, but the human experience is repeating the same mistakes over and over again, but with a different source. With fandom culture, there will always be young fans who overshare or don't have the mental capacity to understand that calling someone who could be her parents baby friend is a little weird. The solution is not a bunch of dogs or bullying these people into stopping this behavior.

Every two hours the internet randomly decides to pick a person to target for no reason, we don't need more of that, but if we talk about it, let's educate and really try to understand why this is happening, then to be honest it probably won't be will stop in my life, so I better start creating fan accounts to post fan edits for my number one Idol YouTube algorithm. Chan, the only completely fat entity other than the Other 20 Celebrities and Idols I Like. If you enjoy my content, you can check out the algorithm that is a daily snack by liking this video.

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