Considering i just left with-astro officially, it’s time to tell you all this one sided bs that went on within with-astro, astro’s first fanbase.
Let’s go aaaaaaall the way back to where it all started. Originally, it was me and two others (flowereunwoo was the one i remember the most and i forgot the other!!!) on here stanning "iteen” (i will call them astro from hereon) predebut. it was a couple months before the webdrama. We didn’t know shit and with-astro was the place to go considering astro didn’t have a twitter or any of that shit. They had all the videos, also translations (was the first place where you could officially find translations that were even remotely correct). So i saw they were hiring and i was like!! Oh!! This new rookie group!! I could get into them holy SHIT and so i applied and (ofc) i got in considering nobody knew astro’s name. This was a bit before the webdrama came out to give y’all a point of reference. So, when astro first got their twitter, at first, i was the only one doing translations which i thought was a bit fishy but i was told there would be more people to help and the founder of with-astro (sky) would help me with translations if i needed it bc i didn’t know korean for shit, i had gotten into kpop 6-7 months beforehand and only started learning korean 5 months before. I busted my mf ass to upload this shit. I would sit on my computer, refreshing their twitter compulsively to make sure i was the first one to update the translations on tumblr + twitter first and as a result, it became a sort of habit? To want to make OUR fanbase the most updated. i remember i would be heading to school and they would be posting and it would really bother me that i wasn’t able to translate at the time. i would look up every fuckin’ word they said bc i, literally just learning hangul, didn’t know korean for shit! but she said it was fine! update wrong translations because thats totally a nice thing, to misinform fans :) As time passed, astro’s debut was forthcoming and new fans were piling in aswell as fansites, the fansite list had to be updated which i did myself, as well as we needed a new HTML (i edited every page on the current HTML). Our FAQ was also extremely outdated and some of the english didn’t make sense (sky’s first language isn’t english and i’m not upset about that, but at least make the damn FAQ updated so it still doesn’t say “with-iteen”... YOU’RE THE FOUNDER YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DO THIS!!). I, completely by myself, was uploading fantakens, retweeting them on twit, translating, updating cfs, updating general news, and most importantly, answering questions which, for the most part, i had no idea the answers to. It was EXTREMELY one sided. Sky would do nothing whatsoever and i was alone. Several times i asked for help and she told me her internet wasn’t good (which is like? How? You created a fanbase) and if she couldn’t help then hire staff? But i don’t know if you noticed, it was all ME hiring staff. Thank god, literally probably 4 months ago? I found julia who has been a saving grace for me (translating), and serena who mostly uploads fantakens (although i’m sure she got sick of the one sided work as well considering the founder did NOTHING to help). This is who is behind the limited posts you have been seeing from with-astro. We had 3 staff in the end, for a fanbase who was the first astro fanbase ever, isn’t that a bit pathetic? It’s been coming up on 2 years in with-astro and today i have decided to finally leave. If any of you see a post of “hiring” from with-astro, i highly suggest NOT? Considering the founder doesn’t want anything to do with astro any more and can’t even be a decent human and reply to the 15? Or so asks that were piling up in the ask box before i left. before i left, i mentioned to sky (word for word) “the asks on tumblr (and i’m sure twitter) are piling up. if you have any respect for the followers and fans of astro, you should update them on what’s happening”. I really feel bad for those 2 who i really hope aren’t still there and have followed me and left, as the job is EXTREMELY one sided. I highly suggest just asking @astrodaily the questions considering i’m sure their founder gives a shit rather than with-astro’s founder who, in the end, didn’t give a shit to begin with.
