gwentoryfics

YES AND I AM STILL IN MY FEELS ABOUT IT 😭😭

Yay! I’m so glad my post was helpful! I just followed you two so that I can check out your writings 💕 

And I don’t understand it either but fan culture has /always/ been about buying tons of albums just to get into fansigns... I still remember the pic of a girl who made an entire desk and throne out of her Exo albums she was reselling 😂 It’s also horrible and incredibly stressful imo too so.. I’ve never been able to wrap my head around spending that much just to go to a fanmeet?? But it’s always been that way.... consumerism at its finest ig, huh :/ (2/2)

I know I’m super late in responding to this BUT

ahh, i haven’t followed their japanese releases too closely, so I missed that detail! but i’m glad i’m not the only one who feels stressed/overwhelmed by the consumerist fan culture we have. 

for the longest time, i only allowed myself to buy one version of each album because that’s all i needed. but some of my new friends that i work with are SUPER into ateez (i think i might have mentioned this in my last post) so my one friend literally buys a thousand-dollars worth of albums just to get into fansigns. so she sells extras to me for super cheap (like 5 dollars and i can take all the photo cards i want lol). so i have a few versions of the last two ateez albums. but every time i look at them on my shelf, i’m just like... why did I do that? i’m never going to flip through those photobooks again and they’re just taking up space on my shelf. NO MORE lol

well i mean before and after. it has always been a problem and it just seems to have gotten worse because of covid. you're right that they're obviously not getting to do concerts anymore, but like... idk it just seems like such a rip off, and it's so wasteful?

with regular, in-person fansigns, it's all by chance. you buy albums and hope that one of them will get you a win. but it's understood that it's really only an option for korean fans because they're local. i think the virtual fansigns are definitely cool because they give fans all over the world a chance to chat with their faves, and that's amazing. but multiple fansigns per album release? and individual fansigns on top of that? and four different versions of the same album, just because you printed some different pictures? I have friends who are literally spending thousands on albums just for a chance to get into these fansigns, and I'm sure they aren't the only ones out there. they're usually able to sell their excess albums, but they do so at like $5-$10 an album, which is a huge loss. I just can't wrap my head around it.

one thing i always liked about pentagon is the fact that they only ever put out one version of their albums. they were simple, and it was easy for me to pick one up for myself. but I saw this morning that they're doing two different versions and it pisses me off because they're no better than anyone else (and it's cube's fault, I'm sure. Not blaming the boys for that decision).

(EDIT: coming back to this after posting bc im a whole ass idiot, black hall had two versions but i didn't remember that bc i didn't buy one lol oops. the fact remains, though, that i preferred the days where they released only one version)

and like, not tired in a cute way