So, I’ve just watched a YouTube video and in the comments they were talking about “toxic” fans and “toxic” fandoms.
Someone mentioned how “toxic” fandoms shift and how at one point one fandom was considered “toxic” and a year later it was another. They also talked about how they suspect that in 2019 either NCTzen or Stay could become the next fandom being labelled as “toxic”.
Of course this is just one person’s opinion and nothing more but it made me reflect on some things:
You can’t keep a fandom clean of “toxic” fans since they can and will be found everywhere and in every fandom. However, I noticed from my own experience there’s certain fandoms that managed to stay on the down-low for as far as I’ve seen. Or at least, I haven’t seen the fandoms engage in fanwars or there had never been any big incident going on.
I guess it’s impossible to stay fully free from incidents but I hope we can manage to stay on the down-low and stay a loving fandom (both Stay & NCTzen ofc) throughout 2019 and the years to come.
And in general, I just wish all of us could spread more love in the upcoming year, no matter whether this love will be directed to your faves or another group, just spread that love and support.
There’s something that all kpop groups have in common and that all of us should be able to agree on and that is them being in an extremely hard and judgmental industry with very high expectations and beauty standards. All kpop groups and every single member has worked their butt off to get to the point where they are now (regardless of whether you like them or not) and I hope you all agree with me when I say all of them deserve the same amount of love and support since all of them do need it. However, of course I don’t mean to say you can’t have an ult group, I’m just trying to say it’s very unhealthy to make one group seem superior to the other or even worse, putting another group down.
Therefore, I hope Stays, NCTzen, Carats, Monbebes, Armies, exo-l, igot7, Reveluv, Blinks, Once, and literally any fandom can unite a bit more in the upcoming year and support and spread love upon everyone.
In the end we are all here because of one reason and that is, we love kpop, so why do we feel the need to fight?
Let’s stick together and hype all groups to the moon and back because they deserve that appreciation.
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