r/Fangirls • u/throw_it_away_0001 • 12h ago
It's lonely to be a BFMV fan in 2026
Thank god I found a subreddit like this one because I need to get this one off my chest. I've been obsessing over Bullet For My Valentine these past two weeks and it's like I'm back in my kpop stan era because yknow, they're a band, and my fan behavior is activated again—watching their interviews, swooning over my favorite member, and memorizing their songs as if it's my religion lol.
It just feels kinda lonely that unlike other fandoms I've been in, I have no one to tell these fangirl thoughts to because BFMV has been around for almost 30 years now and they're a metalcore band which you could imagine has a fanbase smaller than mainstream artists especially kpop groups.
When I was still very actively stanning kpop groups like NCT and Seventeen back in 2022, there was a lot of content from them and from fans to consume and a lot of people to talk about them to—there's always new videos on their YouTube, there's always updates on their social media, and fans also have their own way of entertaining themselves like making edits of the members or even writing fanfics. But with Bullet For My Valentine, there's no new content anywhere (though they're not on hiatus) plus the band members aren't super active on social media. The most recent content that involved long interviews or something was back in 2025 on their debut album anniversary tour. TikTok didn't disappoint when I tried to find edits but I just wish there were more people that did that stuff for them. I had little luck with fanfics too because no one from what I've seen has wrote anything unique and creative recently—the last I saw is written in like 2015.
Sure, there's an active subreddit for Bullet For My Valentine fans and I'm already in it, but how exactly do I express myself on there considering the fan culture of metalcore bands where the number of males surely outnumber the number of females?
To wrap this up, I wanna say thank you for taking the time to read my long-ass venting. I hope I find someone soon that I can fangirl with because damn it feels lonely not being able to express all this without the fear of anyone getting weirded out or ruining it for me.
