#personal prediction

Seems like we're getting an exaggerated amount of money on August 2025.

Right now it's not like kpop is experiencing popularity that's unheard of in the history of pop music—there's always been trends. It's more that they are bands of foreign poc appealing widely to women that are starting to take over a corner of the industry... and we all know that this won't be allowed to stand. Eventually you'll start to see popular media do the same thing to them that they did to people like taylor swift, britney spears, and whoopi goldberg—suddenly all their achievements are worthless, they're overrated and always have been, and they only appeal to teenage girls. This will be especially true for bands like bts, twice, blackpink, exo, and nct who either have a lot of recognizable awards/achievements or very active fanbases because they will be the most visible and influential targets. Newer bands (like stray kids or txt) that are also being pushed to market heavily to the west will then be cycled in, but will eventually end up in the same boat. And because of how extreme idol culture can be and because it's categorized as pop culture, I feel like kpop will be the first and easiest target BUT the same thing will eventually happen with all asian content (kdramas, webtoons, anime, etc). Right now there's a growing market for east asian media in the USA that's allowed to exist because of money. Once that cash cow has been milked for all it's worth, watch how it gets treated.

Hell, maybe even charge bullets. Unique Ammo that buffs itself at a certain charge count/x. Like imagine an ID has normal or spicy ammo but if you have Y+ charge count, each coin that uses ammo inflicts some extra debuff.