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just a thread to clear out some of my thoughts re: blackpink, aoa, stan culture.
these two situations aren't comparable in terms of magnitude so i'll be censoring b/p in the rest of this thread. i just happened to make the mental connection today and wanted to type out my thoughts before they went away.
so, personally, if i want a group to get dragged for some reason, it's because i'm angry that they're still in the spotlight after doing so much harm/actively doing horrible things and not getting called out for it.
that is why i rt/like a lot of tweets criticizing/mocking i//dle and b///ts. there just isn't a level of criticism for either that i'm comfortable with. people don't care about what i///dle does to dark-skinned people, and arm///s are not willing to actually criticize b///ts.
the reason i bring this up is because with the a/oa situation... i'm just reminded of how many people only like to call out people when they're not their faves. or they want to only drag people that they've always disliked for some petty reason but now have the chance to do so.
b/p styling has ALWAYS had some level of cultural inappropriateness. this has been true for a while. i'm south asian. i like b/p but this statement doesn't change that my liking them is embittered by the fact that they always have some weird exotic element to their songs.
what complicates actual, constructive criticism of b/p (that will never go anywhere because yg doesn't care obviously) is that a lot of desi stans on kpop twitter... are arm/ys.
i'm in this very strange position of not being 100% happy with b/p and the constant need for them to randomly pull up middle eastern beats paired with south asian imagery, but then also not vibing with the threads calling them out.
the information that south asian arm/s provide about what b/p has wrong in their mvs is often correct. my problem is their INTENTIONS. they often only care because b/p is a direct competitor to bts. it's a situation where the criticism is correct... but the intentions are wrong.
they want to see b/p dragged. they weaponize their culture to do so, knowing full well they wouldn't care if it was b/ts, and they make it a lot harder for people like me to say anything.
figuring out how to word this has been helpful for me in terms of centering my thoughts regarding a/oa these last couple of days. i'm really upset. i've been with them for years. i can't quite come to a decision regarding them yet. i can't drop them but i can't let them be.
the only thing that i know is i HATE seeing non-aoes give their input. i never thought i'd be this kind of stan, but seeing speculation from people who don't know the full story and don't have empathy just makes me want to die.
but at the same time, i feel conflicted. i'm also angry at jmn i want to see her criticized. so why does it bother me to see non-aoes get angry at her?
it just feels like... you have no reason to be angry at her. i don't think you'll care about mina in a few days. you don't care about what jmn did to her. today you want to be able to tweet "fuck that hag jmn" and then call it a day. i can't accept that.
too many times on kpop twitter, people only have opinions on things they'll care about for a day until the next story comes along. is it so hard to just support the victim and not tweet about how you've always hated jmn? i hate the intention.
aoes are in so much pain and all these tweets just add to that pain. why are you angry at jmn when you don't know the full story? i can understand feeling anger after reading mina's accounts... but prolonged anger? when mina is still in pain? when fnc wont be held accountable?
it feels performative. it feels like people just want to call jmn a drug addict. it feels like people won't care about mina in the next few weeks. fnc will never be criticized by kpop stans because jmn is an easy scapegoat.
