“Seventeen are flops”
I often see this sentiment thrown around on stan twitter towards Seventeen and I wanted to rant about how wrong that is.
Yes, Seventeen usually has low MV views. So what? MV views don’t determine a groups success and they don’t mean jack shit in Korea. Seventeen doesn’t have as big of a international fandom compared to other groups, most carats are from Korea (and Japan), which is probably the reason why MV views are so low because YouTube views don’t mean anything in Korea.
So please stop pressuring Carats to stream MVs for hours, that’s pointless and completely unhealthy mentality. The fact that I see some of y’all guilt tripping Carats by saying Seventeen is going to disband soon (they aren’t) if they don’t stream is manipulative asf. A lot of Carats have lives outside of kpop and we might not have time to constantly stream and that’s okay! Seventeen themselves told us they want us to continue living and focus on what’s important.
Newsflash: MV views aren’t important!
So stop acting like it is. Clearly Seventeen doesn’t need them because they’re still in the top 3 most successful boy groups. Seventeen sold over 900k albums for Ode without a repackage and there’s no doubt they’re going to sell over 1 million this comeback. So to call Seventeen flops or Carats lazy is so wrong and so not true.
Seventeen are a successful group and they’re successful without Youtube views. Seventeen always does well with sales and that’s what matters most. They didn’t win Album Of The Year last year for nothing, clearly people in Korea know how successful they are but international fans still seem to think Seventeen are struggling. WHEN THEYRE NOT!!!
Lastly, stop comparing Seventeen/Carats to other groups/fandoms. What works for other groups doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll work for us. Stop pressuring, manipulating and making Carats feel bad for not streaming. Please go get a life!
Please share this with every crazy svt anti you know lol
Amen.
