Your good fried Bop told me you're a Stay and that you kind of introduced her to Stray Kids.I was just curious about something. Since I know you're a pretty big gtopper, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Minsung. What do you personally think about them?I've already told Bop that, to me, it comes across as queer baiting, gay4pay fan service and she agreed with me. But I'm really interested in hearing your perspective as well.
Hello!
I did certainly introduce Bop to Stray Kids, but I think calling myself a Stay is a stretch lol I was into them in 2023 as I really enjoyed their music, but it didnāt go much beyond me wanting to own their albums and watch their MVās on repeat. I was a Bang Chan girlie back in the day, so Minsung is very much on the periphery for me in terms of what Iāve seen and studied.
From the few things I have seen of them, it does play as fanservice to me. Iām inherently mistrustful of any romantic or sexually-charged on-stage interactions in any k-pop fandom, as the public display of it all makes it far less legitimate to me. I havenāt seen enough content of them off-stage to have an opinion one way or another.
In my early GTOP days, I told Bop I wouldnāt have believed in GTOP if it wasnāt for the sheer amount of off-stage interactions and evidence supporting that relationship. Thereās too much to ignoreāand while GD especially can be less than subtle to us GTOP truthers, it really isnāt as obvious as being straight up fan service. They toe the line of how far theyāre willing to go, but theyāre certainly not behaving like other fan-service-only ships.
For example, I love ToDae to death, but to me, thatās just two boys who love each other as platonic soulmates, and like to get playful and flirty because the fans love it and it makes them giggle. I donāt think itās harmful (I flirt with my best friend all the time š ), but I also donāt think itās indicative of anything real.
My gut is to believe Minsung is much the same.
Sorry to not have more to contribute to the debate, but Minsung is definitely a blind spot for me since Iāve been out of the SKZ loop for so long!
