@byulcat ok most importantly: take care of yourself! post whatever you want, whenever you feel like it! no pressure~
@byulcat the streaming thing i think is about balance. when i say "i don't stream" i mean i listen to a song exactly as much as i want to! if that's a lot, then i guess i stream a lot! but i don't like, use incog windows and playlists to spam views. that's just disingenuous and un-fun tbh
sorry for the late reply! thank you for your kind words and patience. i posted a bit more today on here. i have a lot of thoughts on the second thing so bare with me for my long reply.
i kind of get what you mean and i don’t think people should feel pressured to listen to releases they don’t like or exhaust themselves with e.g. trying to check multiple tabs open with youtube videos and a spotify playlist. but of course streaming doesn’t need to go like that. you listening to music when you want to is of course streaming! next to latte, i’m an army and the dissonance in attitudes + familiarity beween fandoms towards streaming is really shocking. on tumblr and twitter, i see fans of smaller k-idol groups take pride in not streaming, treating listening to the music as a huge chore. but when you like the music, why would it be a chore to listen to it?
streaming is also treated like a sign of pathetic obsessive fan behaviour, but it’s just the basics of beng a fan of music! it can be done in the background while studying / cleaning / working. imo it‘s much more productive than e.g. how petty accounts complain about bts winning at music shows (because the korean gp listens to the music), demanding for different groups winning awards instead, but then openly share they don’t stream their fave group? it makes no sense. like, we can’t wish for smaller groups to rise on the charts while also expecting fans to not stream.
streaming and purchasing songs has can have a huge effect, like look at Brave Girls who charted and even won a music show award with Rollin’! that’s amazing! Laboum in fact gained some traction among the korean gp with an older song as well and rose on the charts after Brave Girls’ revival. so this is why i want to try harder to encourage other lattes to listen to and share their songs.
also side note but i’m confused by you mentioning incognito windows, because using those only leads to views and streams being removed. playlists are useful, though not so much on youtube, which prefers clicking on a video directly. i thought these things, like not looping songs or refreshing the page, not muting a video etc., were commonly known but i suppose not? it does show how there is a lack of familiarity with how streaming works.