Imagine some non-Black teenagers from Japan or Europe who love Migos or Megan, but will LOUDLY tell African Americans who grew up with hip-hop for decades that they do not belong in hip-hop spaces.
"Ew, a Biggie fan! What is your old ass doing on rap Twitter?!"
See what I mean?

There is something incredibly pernicious about the ageism prevalent in kpop Twitter - especially around certain fandoms - because it basically erases people for having known kpop for longer than 5 years.
And many of those people are, well, Korean.

Like, imagine thinking that a whole country's worth of artists only became relevant when Nayvie from Kansas happened to find out about it; and now imagine the racism involved in telling the people who grew up with it for 30 years that their view is IPSO FACTO irrelevant.

I was 14 when Seotaiji first came out. g.o.d, Hyori, HOT, I was with all of that. So what was I supposed to do when I reached the age dumb white girls won't tolerate in kpop spaces? Give it up? To them?

Fuck y'all. It belongs to me more than it EVER will to you.

And that's what I mean when I say these baby stans are colonisers.

They may not all BE white people, but as a collective, they MOVE like white people.

They push out the people who were there from the beginning so they can act like they discovered it. Like they own it.

And why?

Simple:

Insecurity. And laziness.

I have never met a group of people who were more obnoxiously proud about not knowing anything about the thing they claim to love than those bellends.

But they aren't proud. Not really. They're insecure af, because anybody would be.

They're insecure because deep down, even the baby stans know they're too old for the equivalent of talking about how their dad is the strongest man in the world - something not based on empirical evidence, but on the fact that their dad is the only man they know.

Which is where the laziness comes in: one COULD do one's research, and come to grips with the fact that things that one likes and things which are objectively best don't have to be the same thing; but that takes work. Paying dues. Self-reflection even.
And we can't have that.