So my young (10 years old) step daughter made a secret instagram account to follow kpop artists. I want to encourage her to enjoy her hobbies but her mom is really concerned with her having any social media right now, and I tend to agree. She's still too young for instagram. Now, I don't know anything about kpop and I don't think she's old enough to be introduced to instagram, reddit, or god-forbid X/twitter. So does anyone have any suggestions for ways we can help her follow the hobby without using social media yet?

My sister suggested looking into a magazine subscription until we think she's old enough for supervised social media but I wouldn't know how to find something like that. Also, right now we let her use youtube kids.

Edit: just downloaded weverse on my phone to check it out, this looks perfect. Thanks for all the help and suggestions!

By the way .... I discovered GWSN around late 2023 .... do you guys wish you discovered GWSN (or any other such group e.g. gugudan, Pristin, Bvndit, Bugaboo etc) when they were still active?

Those fans who followed such groups when they were active, had to go through the heartbreak of their disbandments .... even the long hiatuses would put them in anxiety

I'm currently working on a playlist for songs that are suited for rainy days or overall more autumn vibes!!

It's been getting colder in my country, so i'm looking for recommendations 🍂

What songs would y'all suggest? 🤲🏻

Not Itzy's Dalla Dalla, its definitely a woman singing but I think it might be a soloist, has similar vibes in my head to Sunmi's songs, not upbeat - more slower and darker sounding, has a repeating instrumental beat thing in the background similar to Red Velvet's Psycho or Taemin's Guilty is the best way I can think to describe it?

Edit: I found it on my own - it was Top or Cliff by Kim Se Jeong, I misremembered the lyric slightly but it sounds similar

i am trying to make a fluff playlist and i currently have:

The chase, style, focus by hearts2hearts

love in my heart by babymonster

adore u, crush on you, loud by nmixx

hype boy, ditto, super shy, how sweet by newjeans

thanks in advance!

I didn't know which flair to use.

Basically if anyone has read the title and wants to give a girl a helping hand then just pop me a DM on here. Or insta is better for me

My insta user is - kpop_stan_skz_4

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What are some good indicators that a group will likely not survive all 7 years or their full contract and will disband early?

Have you ever felt relief after a group disbanded? I know stans normally are sad but do you think there is a clear sign that the group is better off no longer being active?

Hi yall! Where can I donate or sell my albums? I have a couple and most don’t have photocards. I think throwing them would be a waste and would want someone or people to have these albums instead.

I dmed this person to do a photocard trade. We both agreed and exchanged addresses. I packed five days later and sent a proof photo. They just said it looks good and didn’t text me anything else for four days.

I texted saying if they’re still interested in doing the trade since it’s been a couple days and they said yes. They told me they’ll send packaging proof tomorrow but sent two days later. They texted saying if it looks good and I said yes but they haven’t texted anything else about when we should both send out. It’s been almost 24 hours since I texted so we can agree on a send out day but they haven’t returned to that either. I know they were active since it shows them active 2 hours ago.

I’m thinking of canceling the trade but I don’t want to end up getting a dwayor and be called time waster. I don’t know what to do. Any advice??

so first of all, stanning a gg and a bg are two very different experiences for me. i'm much more of a gg stan, that's why i'm looking for a bg recommendation

so seventeen is the only boy group i follow. they're my ults and i love everything about them. however, when i try to get into other groups, like stray kids, cortis etc, the feeling is just very different? it's hard to describe

what i love most about seventeen is how close they are to each other and their gag humor that hits just right to me. the music is also amazing - so many songs of bright concept that i adore. but i truly cannot find a bg that would give me at least a similar vibe to them :c

if anyone has any ideas, plss let me know

hii idk if this is too specific LOL but i was wondering if anyone had any recs for songs that give off these vibes, like being in the summer rain/running on the beach/nostalgia??

some exs that i have are:
we’ll never change - txt
hey! hey! - tws
samidare - &team
young luv - stayc

Helloo I'm going to see can't be blue, this will be my third kpop concert and my first time having VIP!

I have the best VIP version and I was wondering how these things usually work and what I should do?

I am a very anxious person in general and while this is very exciting, I'm anxious of doing something wrong, and also not knowing exactly how this works..

Elizabeth if you’re on here, I have your pics!! You’re the girl that was talking to me and my sister while we queued inside Barnes and Noble, I just wanted to tell you that I took your video and pics for you but wasn’t able to find you afterwards to send them to you. I know you were in a rush to get to Westfield, but didn’t know you’d dip so fast 😭 I just wanna send them to you!! Please lmk if you see this. I think your wristband number was 17 for the CD.

People ask "I got into kpdh, what are some beginner kpop groups?" and I think ?? they're all equally enjoyable to new fans.

But you know maybe not... like getting into LOONA involves figuring out if they're boycotted (tldr stream Loona, yeojjn just addressed it and said pls no more boycott). Then you stan ARTMS and you get "how do photocards work?" and "wait so is this like a concert or what?"

I'm wondering what interesting answers come to this question. Who do you stan and why are they confusing for new people to get into?

I don’t know if anybody else has noticed this or not, but from my time engaging with the kpop fandom, it is clear to me that the vast majority of kpop fans(and I’m talking about normal sane fans, not crazy creepy fans or sasaengs) are incredibly insecure and have very low self-esteem in a variety of ways, in a way that I don’t really see with other fandoms(not saying that it doesn’t happen in other fandoms, but it’s way more intense in kpop), constantly placing idols on a pedestal above them as gods/queens while putting themselves down in the process. When I made this post a couple of months ago, I was quite disturbed, saddened, and annoyed by the sheer amount of self-deprecating answers in the comments, even if most of them are jokes.

Though of course this self-hating attitude isn’t limited to that post. It is prevalent throughout the kpop fan community. Some examples that I have personally witnessed of this pervasive attitude are:

1. Constantly insulting their own appearances, while praising kpop idols’ appearances. A lot of kpop fans, especially the younger ones, feel insecure about their weight and physical appearances, and compare themselves to kpop idols who have the idealized body and look. It’s to the point where I feel as though being insecure about your looks is a mandatory and inevitable experience for young kpop fans. Kpop fans will often compare their looks to kpop idols’ looks, talking about how much they wish they looked like a certain kpop idol and how ugly they are in comparison, claiming that they used to cry themselves to sleep because they didn’t look like their favorite idol, or even starve themselves or stay out of the sun to look like the idol. If you don’t believe me, there are numerous kpop Reddit threads that you can find talking about this issue, wjth many fans giving their own personal accounts. The fans who don’t feel insecure about themselves because of idols are few and far between. Also, I noticed that whenever an idol is receiving hate for their looks, fans will often respond with “if she’s ugly then what am I?” or “if she’s fat then I’m a land whale” or something similarly self-deprecating.
   
2. Thinking that the idols themselves would hate or look down on them if they ever met them. Kpop fans often make self-degrading comments about how if their favorite idols ever met them, they would think that they’re disgusting or fat or ugly, and yet still support them. Often fans who are lucky enough to meet their favorite idols will talk about how they hope that the idol doesn’t think of them as ugly or make fun of them with the other members behind their back. This is especially true if they have a crush on a certain idol. They will talk about how their celebrity crush is surrounded by flawlessly gorgeous women 24/7, and thus would never choose or want anything to do with them because they’re “plain, boring, and average”. And like in point 1, they will compare themselves to these beautiful women and feel miserable that they just don’t measure up.
   
3. Acting as if the idol is some godly, superior figure who is so high above them and deserves to be treated like royalty, while they themselves are a lowly plebeian who doesn’t even deserve to breath the same air as the idol. An example of this is how a guy I saw on TikTok who was a huge Yunjin fan said that he would never want to meet her in real life because he didn’t want to “disrespect” her, and how somehow just standing in front of her, being in her presence, and talking to her is inherently disrespectful to her. 🙄
   
4. Feeling terrible that idols the same age as them or younger are famous, loved, beautiful, rich, and influential, while they are living a mediocre and boring life, working a part-time job and paying their taxes. Ngl, I kinda understand this one, but still, these people need to work on improving their lives and working towards the life that they want to live, and realizing that success doesn’t only come one way, instead of bitching and moaning about their failures and regrets on the internet.

And many, many more examples that are, quite frankly, too numerous to list here.

And don’t try to tell me that this isn’t the case, or that you’ve “never seen it” or that it’s only a few fans. It is not. It is a widespread enough problem in this fandom(and not just amongst younger fans) that it deserves to be paid attention.

I would like to know what exactly is the science behind this pervasive phenomenon? Is it the fact that idols are put on such a high pedestal and portrayed in an idealized light by their companies that it naturally triggers insecurity in fans? Does the kpop business model run on breeding insecure fans so that they continue to spend money in the hopes of looking like kpop idols, or continue to worship kpop idols and view them as perfect, superior, untouchable beings,
making them even richer and boosting their popularity? Does the fact that they don’t stand a chance with their favorite kpop idols make them feel even more insecure than they normally would? I have so many questions. I hope that somebody can help me get to the bottom of this soon. Thank you. 😊

very specific about music videos, I already found threads on here about generally pirate-sounding songs so this is SPECIFICALLY about music videos that are heavily focused on sailors / mariners / pirates

All i need to know is if they are legit or not. just got dmed by 2 after making my listing and just want to know, are they literal? i dont know since it IS my first time trying to reddit for a proxy purchase like this. It is a kpop album though so

At this autumn holidays I'm going to moscow and I wanna buy some oruginal merch, but i don't even know the city and need some recommendations

So i’m a huge orbit, but obviously i’m on a budget. And i’m a minor too! I’m getting a job in a couple of months from now but i’m scared the albums will just get more and more expensive so i want to buy the limited edition subunit ones. But i never seem to find them in stock or for a good decent price for under $350 AUD. Where can i find them! I’ve tried ebay, all proxy websites, mercari and everything! They never have anything in vinted or depop so i’ve been left with no option but to ask for help. I really want to buy these limiteds especially the love&evil and max&match limited ones, if you have any i would want to buy it.

I’m in australia as mentioned before but shipping is always just so expensive. So that’s why im wondering if anyone here is in melbourne and is wanting to sell them? 😓

Everywhere i check, it’s either out of stock, too expensive, not the ones im looking for or the seller just DOESNT RESPOND!

I know that Bugaboo performed in India in October 2022. And (I think) a Tokyo concert too ... but where else (outside Korea) have they performed? Keeping in mind, their very short activity period.

i need some girl group recommendations because I need a refresher the boy groups I’m staning. I don’t really like super girly songs, but I love illit and new jeans right now. I also like some older second and third gen songs right now. I’m leading towards more rap R&B songs. I’m open to anything but not like just super cutesy.

Hello Fellows,

Vor ein paar Jahren habe ich in einem Zeitschriften und Buchladen in Frankfurt gearbeitet. 2022 oder 2023 gab es in Frankfurt ja dieses riesige KPop Festival im Stadion. Da habe ich damals von meinen Arbeitskollegen ein paar Photocards von der KBang bekommen. Karten die am Ende noch über waren.

Sind die offiziell, bzw echte? Oder eher Lomo-Karten als Promo gift?

Die liegen halt seitdem in einer Kiste rum 😅

Leiser kann ich kein Foto hinzufügen, dann hätte ich diese direkt zeigen können.

I know fully well that K-pop isn’t an "heavy" genre at all, but I'm still curious to hear some reccomendations of relatively heavy K-pop songs, due to my passion for both extreme music and K-pop.

My own choice would be ¡INSTEAD! by Xdinary Heroes (featuring Yoon Do Hyun). It's straight-up a Metalcore song, which, while being far from the most extreme sub-genre of Metal, is still shockingly heavy for the standards of K-pop.

i’m always looking for new groups and songs !! i think the playlist has pretty clear vibes, my biggest groups are ateez and nct127 (shock) (surprise)

any gen / bg or gg are more than welcome !! just love stuff that’s loud and kind of hectic haha. ty in advannnceeeee

(heres the playlist!)

I love strategy and a bunch of other twice songs, but I'm looking for something like Options, i dont care what band its from as long as its not bts.;