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(Idk if I have posted enough to make one but I do plan to write more)
I'll be using this blog as a documentation of my interests and the content I consume but also as a method of bringing order into my head.
So there will be lots of posts about many different topics, I'll try to keep it as coherent as possible
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Weak Hero Class 1 & what it means to be a man
I really have to thank my English teacher from high school otherwise I might´ve overlooked this connection entirely.
Yeon Sieun:
Sieun grew up mainly around his dad who has a job in sports so being a man is likely tied to being athletic and good at physical exercise. He is anything but that so he´s been different from a very early age and didn´t fit the standards. This only got worse when his introversion became more prominent so he´s never been part of the in-group, of any group to be precise. How humans grow is greatly affected by their surroundings. Taking into account that he could never fulfill his fathers´ expectation of being a man nor making it as part of a group, I imagine he became somewhat estranged from the concept of gender roles. That he grew up separated from his mother and never had a "complete" family certainly didn´t help. It might not sound like such a big deal, his father obviously didn´t neglect nor hate him, he does care for him but dare I say that most men aren´t exeptionally great at communicating important feelings? Women aren´t always great at it either, his mother obviously being an example for that, not really caring for her son outside his academic achievements, but women are raised differently. I doubt he loses sleep over it but it must have crossed his mind at one point or another, probably in relation to Suho. His decisions aren´t made to adher to a form of masculinity but are based on his moral compass and what he thinks is right and just.
Ahn Suho:
Suho was most likely mainly raised by his grandmother and in combination with his fighting skills that made him some kind of protector. He feels responsible for protecting his newfound friends since they can´t really protect themselves and he is the only one with fighting experience. He embodies, possibly without knowing, what everyone always calls a "real man" without the "alpha" attached to it by the podcasters. Yet, despite the influence of his grandmother, he lacks the skills to properly deal with emotions and to not solve everything with physical domination and violence. Granted, he can hold conversations, recognize that someone isn´t feeling well and talk about it but he certainly isn´t the mediator. This could also just be attributed to his personality but I suppose there are basics that everyone should learn in order to have rewarding relationships. Suho links masculinity to being a good fighter and to protect and provide for his immediate family & friends.
Oh Beomseok:
Oh boy... where do I even start. Beomseoks´ image of a man is someone who dominates through violence, who makes others submit and has power, money and influence, namely: his father. He never had the chance to even attempt at fitting that. He was always at the recieving end of his fathers´ dominance, he couldn´t fight back and nobody cared. All the money came from his father as well, he never really had anything of his own. Then came the bullying, kids are exeptional at picking up on weakness. Now it wasn´t just his father but his social surroundings as well that was threatening. How was he ever supposed to develop a healthy masculinity? He´s constantly at the mercy of people more powerful than him. Enter Sieun and Suho, two people that accept him and don´t intentionally look down on him. Suho is a physical contact person and at first Beomseok probably welcomed it as that was the first time he was touched by someone without them having the intention to harm him. But after realzing that Suho uses violence similarily to his father to assert dominance it becomes more suffocating. He doesn´t feel like an equal, he feels like someone worth less again. His need to assert himself and prove to himself and to everyone else that he is not weak becomes so important that he throws away the only two real friends he ever had. He also becomes indiferent to being hurt, it´s all he´s ever known. Sieun not being able to hit him was the closest thing to love he was granted. Beomseok knows that, he, on his rampage, didn´t want to harm Sieun. Sieun never threatened him. But he failed because he couldn´t assert himself in his new group either, they were just good at hiding that they were only using him for the money that wasn´t even his. He forgot that the money and the power it came with weren´t his to begin with. He mistook Suho restraining him for trying to prevent him from becoming an equal and the other group not keeping him from venting his anger for care, when in reality it was the other way around.
San is still on the Chat GPT thing? Someone please get him out of there, that could become dangerous.
In lights of the recent surge in AI use and the heatwave plaguing Europe, I did some research on AI and found the following:
AI is trained to be helpful, nice and to appease. If it's intended as an acatual avatar it will go as far as to strenghten people in whatever they believe in and not disagree with them. Furthermore, it is set to please. Meaning that there will be as little friction as possible.
Now, if you spend a significant amount of time with that AI, it will warp your perception of a "connection". Human interactions are full of friction but social media has made us (esp. Gen Z) hypersensitive, so much so that if someone has a different opinion, people get defensive and see that as a personal attack. That will be amplified if these people start relying heavily on AI for their "socializing". It will damage their capability of interacting with other humans and can drive them into social isolation.
This might seem exagerated but KPop Idols are probably one of the groups of people who have to deal with that friction the most. They are almost constantly in the eye of the public and anything could create friction. Even though they live with their members, they can isolate themselves and if San frequents ChatGPT, the possibility of him straying further away from what an actual relationship is like increases. AI can mimick human emotions and create the "ideal relationship" but relying on it for socializing and imagining it as your partner will do damage.
No to mention the environmental impact of AI datacenters.
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San is still on the Chat GPT thing? Someone please get him out of there, that could become dangerous.
In lights of the recent surge in AI use and the heatwave plaguing Europe, I did some research on AI and found the following:
AI is trained to be helpful, nice and to appease. If it's intended as an acatual avatar it will go as far as to strenghten people in whatever they believe in and not disagree with them. Furthermore, it is set to please. Meaning that there will be as little friction as possible.
Now, if you spend a significant amount of time with that AI, it will warp your perception of a "connection". Human interactions are full of friction but social media has made us (esp. Gen Z) hypersensitive, so much so that if someone has a different opinion, people get defensive and see that as a personal attack. That will be amplified if these people start relying heavily on AI for their "socializing". It will damage their capability of interacting with other humans and can drive them into social isolation.
This might seem exagerated but KPop Idols are probably one of the groups of people who have to deal with that friction the most. They are almost constantly in the eye of the public and anything could create friction. Even though they live with their members, they can isolate themselves and if San frequents ChatGPT, the possibility of him straying further away from what an actual relationship is like increases. AI can mimick human emotions and create the "ideal relationship" but relying on it for socializing and imagining it as your partner will do damage.
No to mention the environmental impact of AI datacenters.
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Haikyu!! Headcanons
Subject: Kei Tsukishima
These will be random and I might project because he hits a bit too close to home.
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I might be late to the Stranger Things discourse but I wanted to share what I noticed anyway.
I wont shit on the ending even though I do have my opinions on it since that's not what this will be about.
Stranger Things is not as original as it might seem.
This part is very similar to the in 2001 released science fiction tv series "Dark Angel"
the main character, Max, is part of a secret government experiment to create super soldiers
she was born in this facility to a surogate mother who was paid to accept the genetically modified embryo and carry it to term.
after the delivery, the mother was unwilling to give her up - it's not shown what happened to her afterwards but Max tries to find her in the first season
they underwent special training to streghten their abilities
Max, alongside the rest of her unit, breaks out of the facility after one of them is killed - in their nightgowns
there is a timeskip but she spends the majority of the first season trying to avoid the people looking for her and searching for the others who escaped with her
she decided to name herself "Max"
the man in charge of the experiment sees them, especially Max because he added DNA of the love of his life to her genetic profile, as his children
Max is "the perfect one"
after said man "disappears" he is replaced by a short haired blond woman who continues these experiments
one of her "sisters" is caught and used as an attempt at recreating Max after their DNA lab is blown up but she dies because she is "not the right one/not the perfect one"
Max finds her in a tank after infiltarting the facility to rescue her
Max lives together with a lesbian
she falls in love with a somewhat rich dude who tries to do good in the world they live in and exposes corrupt givernment officials, policemen, etc.
Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.
As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.
KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026
“der dativ ist dem genetiv sein tod” und ich bin des genetivs Hofnekromant
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Thank you all for the reblogs!!
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At first, one probably wouldn't say that Sieun is caring but once you take some time and look closely, start analyzing him, you can see it.
Beomseok felt excluded, Youngi never had the chance to get to know Beomseok and Suho didn't see a problem. But Sieun saw.
And he tried. Tried so hard to solve this conflict in his own way. Trying hard doesn't look the same for everyone. Sieun jad never had frienda before them and therefor didn't know any better. But he tried to talk to Beomseok and tried to get him to talk to them but Beomseok was too damaged by his family and Suho lacked the emotional intelligence to see beneath the layers.
But he saw beneath Sieun's. In his eyes. Sieun was never shunned for showing emotions, he just didn't do it with his face.
Beomseok was probably beaten more when he did so he adapted and adopted an aura of neutrality, levelness to be able to ecape this. He swallowed down the pain to keep living.
Sieun didn't, he just didn't feel as much due to the neglect of his parents. That changed when becoming friends with Suho and Beomseok. He wanted to care, to show them that he cares so he used his strenght, his mind, and what he would have wanted to have, a nice meal with company and people to ask and care about him, and did exactly that for the people he cherished.
For some people this might seem like the bare minimum but for someone who has never experienced this before, it is new and also challenging. One has to navigate in unknown terrain and see what works.
Ateez, MBTI & Fashion
Yes, these three are related and in this post I will explain how. This analysis is based on the book "TypeTalk" by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen.
I won't be working with all letters to make things easier as I am also still learning. Instead I'll use temepraments. There are four in total: NF, NT, SJ, SP and I'll try and asign one to each Ateez member with explanation.
Disclaimer: This is my opinion and my point of view. It is limited to what I see and know and therefor subjective. My opinion isn't written in stone and there is always room for improvement, the same goes for everyone else.
@storkmuffin I remember reading your post about how Mingi is a lot more blunt than the rest and I have another theory as to why that could be the case.
In terms of their Source of Energy (Extraverted/Introverted) Ateez is equally distributed if we look at their most recognized test results. Hongjoong, Yeosang, San and Jongho are Introverts and Seonghwa, Yunho, Mingi and Wooyoung are extroverts.
But if we look at their Feeling/Thinking distribution, Mingi is the only Thinker in the entire group. I have seen people on PDB typing him as ESFP but I will just go with him being ENTP.
While T/F is about decision-making, it also translates into how we speak. There is less consideration for feelings and how something would affect other people. That's where the stereotype "Thinkers have no feelings" comes from. To Feelers it might sound straightforward, blunt and sometimes even cruel if someone addressss something directly and matter-of-factly instead of being more considerate about their choice of words.
Now, in comparison to how the others talk, Mingi already stands out with his voice since he doesn't do that soft talking that Yeosang, San and Seonghwa do and the others don't have that naturally deep voice. Pairing that with his bluntness, I can imagine why people might think of him as rude.
This is merely a theory since I don't share that experience.
What ties in with my last post is something we see not just in Kpop but regarding almost all if not all topics posted, though I'll use Kpop as an example since I want to discuss something in relations to that.
Us vs them, right vs wrong.
The constructive criticism is seen as an attack of the haters, the others. People who don't share their opinion and are therefor a threat to the idol they're attached to.
Before I proceed, I want to make clear that there is nothing wrong with seeking a break from reality and engaging in fandom and fantasy to brighten up life.
Onto the topic at hand, now why would people even become offended enough to engage in hate themselves or react in a hostile way when they encounter people who don't share their opinion.
Social media bubbles.
Way before Tiktok rose to popularity, there were Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. To be honest, I have no idea how FB works, I have never used it nor was I fond of Twitter, I still am not. However, I assume they all work the same way.
Algorithms used by social media platforms are programmed to show you content you like. That way, they can keep your attention and keep you scrolling. That's how they make money.
This is how the bubble forms, the algorithm keeps showing you content you like and keeps you away from content you don't show interest in. Continuously seeing content that assures you in your opinion and simultaneously being subjected to "see what the others are doing, this is wrong!" by the people "on your side" of course will be imprinted into your brain. The more people engage with their bubble and don't seek varied opinions and different points of view, the more unwilling to change and rigid they'll become because it becomes more and more uncomfortable to confront that one's opinion also might just not be the only right one.
That, of course, is about the people that are already far into said headspace and in this case parasocial relationship.
While initially a method of politics to separate the voters and public to prevent uprising and keep them focused on each other, it has now carried into every day life due to the increased use of especially Tiktok.
Tiktok wasn't always like this but its increased popularity has made it perfect for this kind of conflict.
Now, the business of Kpop is to sell you a perfect idol to form a relationship with. That ensures the survival of the group. I can imagine that, aside from the desire to be loved or at least feel loved the people prone to develop such relationships also long for "the perfect man" in a world where the polarisation of men and women keeps increasing. A growing number of men show interest in going back in terms of feminism to escape the "male loneliness epidemic", a perfect idol however wouldn't want that. The version fans have made up about them would protect and support them and in return they support and protect this "idol character" of theirs.
If that idol is now threatened by something with valid reasoning, what happens?
Exactly, they fight to prevent any possible dammage. This is currently happening, although not on a grand scale, within the atiny fandom.
Why?
Because of the WooSanHwa trip to the Harry Potter museum.
I'm not sure how well known it is that J.K.R. is an open transphobe and has used her money to support anti-trans politics but even me, who is engagimg with LGBTQ+ content on social media has seen maybe 5-10 videos and posts about this.
I am well aware that Wooyoung is a big Harry Potter fan and I'm not here to expect he stop being a fan but it is true that by paying for official merch and experiences one is funding her agenda. Knowingly or not.
Below Wooyoung's instagram post I saw several people defending him and telling him to pay no mind to "the haters". The haters being everyone addressing the J.K.R. situation.
This is a nice example of what I explained above but also the "infantilization" of idols. "Leave him alone", "stop talking about politics" or my favorite "Atinys need to stop portraying him as some politically aware social justice warrior [...]"
What...
Is he not a grown man? Does he not deserve to know about who he's giving money to? Does he not deserve the opportunity to act uppon his morals?
I think he does.
I think we all do.
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On behalf of @storkmuffin 's advice I have decided to contribute my own two cents to the Ateez fandom.
I hope you'll stick around and see what becomes of your encouragement.
You are all welcome to interact with me here or send me asks & messages.
I'm primarily interested psychology and interpersonal relationships as well as philosophy, so that's what I'll be focusing on.
Please note that I do not know Ateez personally so anything on here will be the results of my limited view and knowledge about both Ateez and the topics above. This is all just for fun.
I am by no means the only correct instance, if you think differently, that's fine. Everyone is entiteled to their own opinion.
I don't want this to be a disclaimer post only so I will start with something general that I think should be addressed.
Fandom culture.
Something I've recently come to internalize regarding KPop is the uncertainty of who you're supporting.
As you've said, idols craft their images, their idol characters to what sells best. They cater to women and sell intimacy as a parasocial and essentially one-sided/reflecting relationship. What I find scary about this is that one can't know what kind of person that idol might be.
This also has to do with "babying" idols and saying things like "he would never do this". I'm not really into female groups so I can only speak about my experience in male idol group fandoms.
How do you know? You don't.
You have no idea who that is, what he's like or what he might be doing behind the scenes and after Taeil and his scandal, I've grown more sceptical towards this.
When I say "you" I don't actually mean you personally, I just use to have someone to address.
I'm aware that this uncertainty will probably remain and I won't get clarity unless I somehow befriend an idol.
I haven't seen anyone talk about that it bothers them in a way, they have likely either made peace with it or just don't care too much about the actualy reality before it is revealed and just enjoy their fandom experience.
For me, this is something that will probably always either bother me at worst or intrigue me a best. I have a pressing need to get to the bottoms of things, find the truth and see what happens then.
This might also be why western stars have never piqued my interest quite as much. There is usually not much in place to keep their "real" personality hidden and sooner or later their audience will find out what kind of person they support, either because they reveal their political standpoint or something else.
Idols are so much more interesting, as is the industry.
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@zero0ki This should be your own post! There's a lot packed into here. Very short answers to your thoughtful post.
a) I don't know how long your engagement has been with Kpop, but uh, everyone in Korea, including people who didn't know much about kpop, all had a terrible and horrible wake up call because of Seungri and his crimes, and then recently we had another wake up call because of that Rapist NCT member. So yeah. We don't know.
b) I think the key word you're using is 'support' as some element of the fandom. I do not include 'support' in my concept of my fandom of Ateez. I am interested. I covet the goods and the concert tickets. I enjoy their work. I respect them as artists. I wish them well. But I don't support - I don't try to raise the 'ranking' of songs they put out that don't rock my world (and it's not possible that every single song will do that for me). I don't buy goods that I don't think are worth it or appealing. I don't follow projects that don't intrigue me.
c) Because 'support' isn't part of my concept of my fandom of Ateez or any artist, I don't feel concern or the need to 'know' their 'true' selves. I just want their professional selves, and I want their actual lives to be comfortable and nice, because they bring me happiness and I want them to be happy in return. But I feel no need to know.
I see what you mean.
I've been following Kpop since 2021 and that was also the time I got into Ateez.
I suppose this is a risk you take when enterimg a fandom of something as planned as a Kpop group. Here, in the west, it is a lot more common for celebrities to be exposed and canceled for their views or their crimes.
I also don't engange in content that doesn't interest me, nevertheless separating private and profeasional is something I possibly still need to learn in order to be at peace with this.
Support, to me, is anything that will gain them something. Attending concerts, buying merch, etc. because I am giving them money and time and space in my life. That will get them money, attention and space to influence me/my decisions.
The reason why this bothers me might be because in present time something you enjoy could very well and fast turn out to be something you don't agree with at all. This has made me a bit more hostile and unwilling to just accept this as it is.
