Hi everyone! I’m Akansha (F, 22) from India, currently pursuing my master’s in psychology. As part of my research, I’m conducting a study and need responses through a Google Form. While I’ve received 80 responses from female participants, I’ve only managed to get 15 responses from male and 3 responses from non-binary and other gender identities fans so far!

I’m reaching out to K-Pop fans of all gender identities because I know how passionate and supportive this community is, and I’m hoping you can help me out by participating in this study. Your input is crucial for ensuring that this research accurately reflects the diversity of fandom experiences.

The questionnaire collects data on demographics, social media usage, and involvement with celebrities and fandoms. If you meet the eligibility criteria, please take a few minutes to fill out the form and share it with others who may also qualify.

Eligibility criteria:

1. Age: 18-29 years (the study focuses on emerging adults).
2. Must identify as male, non-binary, or any other gender identity.
3. Must be a fan of K-Pop or other celebrities.

Why this matters:
Your responses will help shed light on how fandoms impact social interactions, self-esteem, and identity, especially for male and non-binary fans whose experiences are often underrepresented in research.

All responses are anonymous and confidential. You do not need to be from India to participate.

For any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me via email at akanshanaik182@gmail.com.

Thank you so much for your time and support!

link to the questionnaire: https://forms.gle/JmzcMQkG8CZtERDEA

It’s only half as long, since I started listening to bg‘s and male soloists way later 🤓

In which MVs of this year had groups/soloist the most stunning visuals? Outfits/costumes/makeup.

Okay maybe this is just me overthinking things but I honestly feel a bit weird about having so many groups that I consider my ults:

TXT, Twice, (G)I-DLE, Stray Kids, Ateez, NMIXX, LSF and fromis_9.

Most people have several groups they casually follow. Ults are usually your favorite groups of all time but I simply cannot help from obsessing over all of the groups mentioned above. I literally listen to all of them equally and cannot get enough of their content.

Is it normal to have so many ults or am I just making this bigger than it has to be?

Would love to see your opinion😅

It’s hard to assure the color of the walls of Ania’s room, don’t you think? Do you realize? She has her whole room filled with photos and posters of his idols. Hundreds of Korean boys’ faces cover every last corner. On the bed she has Bung Hon Yi solo, even though right beside him he is with Shin Yin, Hao Zan, Bon Ho and Kangmin. These are just two posters, and she has hundreds everywhere. We can see Park Kyung’s pose alongside Sheun’s on the door, Eun Jiwon, Taeyong and Mino behind the lamp on the nightstand, Jaehyun, Xiumin, Choi Minhwan, Jung Yonghwa, Kang Seungyoon, Baekhyun, and Suho sharing closet door... I think at this point we can get the picture of the kaleidoscope of pale faces that Ania’s room was, who is putting on the earrings with the faces of Han Seungwoo and Taeyang engraved in silver.

She is placing the last earring when she flinches. She just heard a familiar howl: Sara’s high-pitched scream. Ania pounces on the window frame and leans out to the street. There she sees Lara, Sonia and Sara, inside Sonia’s dad’s car. When they see her peeking, they scream with more enthusiasm. Ania waves at them and goes back to her room. She rushes to finish getting dressed. She ties the sneakers of Taeyong, Chen Kai and Cha Eun Woo, grabs her jacket of Sadeul, Jimin, Haehchan, June, Chen, Shindong, Hongbin, Xiumin, Choi Minhwan and Lee Daehwi while skedaddles from her room under the attentive gaze of slanted eyes. She does not want to keep her friends waiting so she doesn’t do a final check in the hallway mirror and runs quickly down the stairs.

Her feet pound the entire house as she stomps on the steps. She makes a quick turn and goes down the next stretch. She didn’t even realize that she had to turn again to keep going down. She turns again and keeps going down. Ania would swear there weren’t that many stairs in her house, but her rush drives her efforts and she keeps going down faster. She turns back to face another flight of stairs at full speed, as if she were descending ten stories already. Anguish and fatigue come hand in hand within Ania, who doesn’t know how much longer she will have to descend before she gets out of that whirlwind of steps. The white light grows stronger with each stretch she goes down. Ania squints.

Just when her body begged her to stop to catch her breath, she hears a crash in the street. A brutal collision between two machines on the road. A truck must have run over the car her friends were in. Ania’s heart races. Panic begins to build in her chest. Maybe her friends are dead, and she hasn’t yet finished going down that staircase. Propelled by anguish, she keeps stomping down the stairs at full speed. Her eyes are tearing from the sheer intensity of the light. She drops down one stretch, turns, goes down another stretch, turns, another stretch... Her breathing has been out of sync with her body for some time, and a sticth stabs her with each step. The light is now so intense that she can barely make out the stairs and is guided only by the automatic movement of her legs. She doesn’t hear her friends after that monstrous impact. Something must have crushed them.

Ania is drenched in sweat. Everything around her radiates white. She cannot distinguish anything. The trance is what propels her down the stairs. And further down. And further down. She is completely alone with her breathing. In that infinite whiteness, Ania is nothing. She barely exists. Then she falls. The stairs ended abruptly, and her legs were not ready. On the ground, her hands touch a surface that her eyes cannot distinguish. Ania lifts her head, and in the distance, she sees a point. Her legs fail when she tries to stand up, but she manages to walk toward that point. When she gets close enough, she sees it. It’s a coconut. A tropical coconut. In that space of deep and infinite light lies the coconut. Tears dry on Ania’s face, as she bends before the coconut and caresses it. Furry and innocent.

**I posted this in another channel and it got removed for not being an accurate place to post, so apologies to every who answered bc I couldn't respond soon enough before it was taken down :(

I love hearing how people got into K-pop and especially since I don't have any friends who are into it (although my 40-year guy friend willingly went with me to the SVT concert in Oakland and another friend as me to make her a "k-pop gateway playlist" on Spotify, so it's starting haha), I think it'd be fun to hear other people's stories :)

I got into K-pop because my mom actually sent me a video (probably BTS? I honestly can't remember now) on instagram of a group's dance performance. My mom and I both love dancing and have been involved with dance studios at various points in our lives, so she was basically like, "Hey I think you'd like this, it's pretty boys dancing really well." Which was true haha.

That got my algorithm starting to slowly suggest more K-pop geared stuff and I'd see little clips here and there, but then what really started it all was a clip of Felix from Stray Kids. I could not believe that that voice belonged to that man so I ended up looking up some of their songs on youtube and found Maniac, which I became totally addicted to.

It was mostly about the dancing/performance aspect for me at first, like I was sooo awestruck and fascinated by the choreos and performance videos, but then saw more and more clips of their cute interactions, variety show moments, the utter chaos all these idols seem to get into lol, and that really hooked me. Something about watching boys be loving and sweet and totally ridiculous with each other is just heartwarming I guess (coming from western american culture where there's so much machismo and aversion to outward or physical affection between guys).

From Stray Kids I discovered BTS, who of course I'd vaguely heard about before being into K-pop, and I know a lot of people say they're overrated but wow I really love them. I think their story is so lovely and I hate all the inter-fandom warfare so I'm just gonna say now that I am not about putting down other groups to uplift others (obvs we all have our own preferences and musical tastes and biases and whatever, but like, ALL these idols work really hard and go through so much, why bring any more negativity to the fandoms? So many of them are friends with each other anyway, and I doubt they'd want their fans being cruel to their friends. anyway...)

Getting into BTS led to other groups appearing on my feed, and I got into Ateez briefly (still love them I just haven't been listening to their music as much), and then that iconic clip of Mingyu's body roll in Maestro popped up and I will admit I was like damn who is this hot man, looked up Seventeen, fell in love with Hoshi in Spell, fell in love with S.coups in Shadow, Dino in Wait, and then fell in love with all of them in GoSe and every other video I watched of them haha.

Seventeen also appeared during a really hard time in my life (this summer my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, my little brother fell into a really bad drug scene, I've been struggling with severe anxiety and depression) so they have a special place in my heart right now since watching all their stuff really brought some lighthearted joy and laughter to me on some dark days. I thought I'd never be able to afford going to a K-pop show but some lovely people in my life pitched in to get me to the Oakland show last month and it was such a surreal, wonderful experience. Still am not over it!

I love the interactions, the dancing, the hard work all these idols put into their shows and their music, the way they connect with each other and their fans, and some people would probably not consider me much of a fan (like I'm not into the whole bias thing personally, but love it for other people, I've never bought albums or official merch, and I don't have a weverse or even twitter), I'm a huge fan in the way that makes me happy and what I have the capacity for. I stream lots of music and devour videos on youtube and make my friends let me play K-pop songs at parties and try to keep up on what news I can. It's been such a fun experience and while I know the K-pop industry def has some toxic, dark sides, I also really admire parts of it and am glad at least that it's brought these groups to our lives!

Okay, anyway, I'm just rambling, but tell me your K-pop story!

Ticketmaster is just crazy. I logged in forKiss of Life Glasgow tickets the second they went on sale, chose 2 seated tickets at £85 each, it said they were unavailable, page refreshed and then every seated ticket was £285!!! Dynamic pricing sucks

It was even showing standing as unavailable

I kept refreshing and managed to get 2 standing after 20 mins phew!!!

Hope anyone else trying was successful too

Looks like the Lodon tickets are gone now too

Really could have taken bigger venues

As the title, what was the best Kpop Concert(s) you have been to?

So far I have been to the the following:

London - Pixy, Dreamcatcher, Ateez Manchester - XG Seoul - Nmixx. I also saw some groups practice 3 songs each at the rehearsals for last years Gangham festival (Stayc, NCT Dream, Ateez, Aespa)

My top 2 favourites are Pixy and Nmixx

2. Nmixx - it was the 1st night of their 1st fan concert and also my wife and I were in Korea for the first time. Concert lasted 2 hours 40 mins (even though at that time they only had releasd about 14 songs). Their live vocals are AMAZING and in between songs they were such great performers doing covers, karaoke, dance challenges and games. They were so emotional at the end of the concert and you could see how much they love preforming. Before we went to Korea I only knew a few of their songs but I had listened to then all before the concert. My bias is Jiwoo because she was so entertaining onstage ans she cried during her thanks and the end (she was so cute).

3. Pixy is my favorite concert as it was such a small venue (c.500) and I was almost at the very front. It felt like a very intimate and personal concert and the girls were amazing (sadly Sua didn't perform as she was ill). During their slow songs they seemed sad at times, which I thought was connected to the emotions of the songs themselves but, now I think it may have been because the knew it was their last tour. Lola was always my bias and he was amazing but Dajeong really stood out with her energy. Dia was such an exceptional performer and Rinji was such a great addition to the group (a shame she had so little time) she connected so well with everyone. I am so thankful I got to go and got VIP. I was able to get the group photo and say hello and thank you to them in person. I used my only words of Korean to do so and they seemed really excited that I spoke Korean

Next year I'm going to see Ateez (Manchester), Aespa (London), and Kiss of Life (Glasgow).

Maybe you find new groups or soloists to follow, 54 hours long

I recently got into a debate about jeno being compared to a Samoyed dog. You know how kpop has been for the last few years, idols being compared to animals that they look similar to. All the members of nct dream have that and jeno is always compared to a Samoyed dog even by his members and himself. And this group of Indonesian jeno solo stans are saying that it's "disrespectful" and "we're not close enough to these idols" to do that type of comparison cause we're just fans. But I thought we all did it for fun in a harmless way of course nothing too far. I mean even jeno's character plush is a Samoyed dog... I just wanna know if any other Indonesian kpop stans understand where they're coming from? Like is there no such thing as comparing someone to a dog in a harmless and non derogatory manner? They're acting like i threatened jeno's family and called him slurs. Thank you!

Edit: this all started because someone posted a jeno lookalike contest and it was a bunch of Samoyed dogs. It was really cute and harmless! And the jeno solo stans said that Jeno was sent dog food and Jeno was having a identity crisis. Like okay I don't support the small group of fans who send a human dog food in anyway but GO TELL THEM ABOUT IT. why are you getting mad towards people who haven't done anything to harm Jeno???

Most songs are from 2022 and earlier as I haven’t been keeping up with the current kpop scene 🥲

I have a few non-kpop songs mixed in there but it’s mostly kpop!

Let the game begin!

Note: 1 is the first song added, 664 is the most recently added.

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I was looking for a video like this that talks about the best-styled groups because I was thinking about, I know opinions are different so I just wanted to ask what you guys think about the best styled and do you agree with the video, I do to a certain extent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c3l6klccQw&t=55s

What's your "not in my bingo card" this 2024: KPOP edition?

Coming here after watch The video made from YouTube seem like there's something missing important history in K-pop that's not included. Is there any video made K-pop history that talk about how this trilogy.?

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZBIvgnQzDO4?si=a1huZ_qxDOVtg3kX.

The story of K-pop is a complex one, and both Seo Taiji and G-Dragon with other K-pop are essential parts of its history. (A balanced presentation will do justice to both of these legendary artists and the exciting journey of K-pop!)

This post is about G-Dragon as far what I know, if you read this you might be can share some of list should be mention more in K-pop history, I would like to know more.

This video does a great job of highlighting major milestones in K-Pop history, but it's missing a huge piece of the puzzle—G-Dragon. He's not just another idol; he's a game changer who revolutionized what it means to be an artist in this genre.

Even from his childhood (1992-2000s), https://youtu.be/8aIiC62-81U?si=pDFUuJ4p1PxLC7NA G-Dragon showed an incredible vision and dedication to music and entertainment. https://youtu.be/bK7mA6kRS9g?si=YrNv07ef-GyQiZe4

His work after 2000s, before Big Bang was formed, already showcased a level of artistry and creativity that was different from any other idol at the time. https://youtu.be/spNzvQTKRNI?si=tafNO1BURn98nxvO

He wasn't just a talented musician; he was a visionary who blended fashion, music, and art in a way that challenged conventions and redefined what K-Pop could be. https://youtu.be/oto_X4WfV5s?si=6C3VIHGf6V_A8YBk

G-Dragon's impact on K-Pop's global rise is undeniable. He's a cultural icon who helped shape the genre's sound, style, and its embrace of individual expression. It's impossible to discuss K-Pop's international success without acknowledging his influence.

Giving G-Dragon just a brief mention makes it seem like he wasn't a major figure in K-Pop history, but he's a true innovator and a game-changer. His legacy deserves to be recognized alongside Seo Taiji and BTS—he's a crucial part of the K-Pop story.

The seeds of G-Dragon's future influence were planted in the early 90s, even if he wasn't a public figure yet. Here's how I can explain the connection:

1. The Influence of Seo Taiji:

• 1992: Seo Taiji and Boys debuted and revolutionized K-pop. Their music was innovative, and their style was bold, setting a new standard for Korean music.
• G-Dragon's Early Inspiration: G-Dragon was just a child in 1992, but Seo Taiji's influence was undeniable. G-Dragon has repeatedly cited Seo Taiji as a major inspiration, acknowledging how his revolutionary music and artistic vision impacted him.
• The Impact on K-Pop: Seo Taiji's influence was immense, shaping the path for the future of K-pop and artists like G-Dragon.

2. The Rise of H.O.T. and the Idol Boom:

• 1992: H.O.T. was already gaining popularity in the underground scene, even before their official debut in 1996.
• The Idol Era: H.O.T. and other idol groups at this time were defining the new era of K-pop. They embraced a more polished image and energetic sound, paving the way for the idol culture that continues to dominate the genre.
• G-Dragon's Future Context: G-Dragon's rise as a K-Pop idol would be influenced by the idol boom that H.O.T. helped create.

3. G-Dragon's Early Years:

G-Dragon appeared on the children’s TV program Bbo Bbo Bbo in 1992!

G-Dragon was part of the group Little Lula which debuted a Christmas album in 1993, but his contract was terminated soon after.

1993 at the 5 , G-Dragon was a young boy, but his love for music was evident. He was already immersing himself in music, experimenting, and developing his artistic vision. https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/9-personal-things-dont-know-gdragon/

• The Seeds of Innovation: G-Dragon's early experiences and his exposure to the emerging K-Pop scene, including the influence of Seo Taiji and H.O.T., are crucial to understanding his journey and his future impact.

• A Future Visionary: While he wasn't yet a public figure, G-Dragon's future as a game-changer was already being shaped.

• Direct spoken : G-Dragon himself has openly spoken about the influence of Seo Taiji and H.O.T. on his artistic development.

• Early Works: G-Dragon's early work, even before his debut, showed his unique talent and artistic vision. This early creativity is a testament to his early passion.

• The Legacy of Influence: G-Dragon's global impact on K-pop is undeniable. He built on the foundation laid by artists like Seo Taiji and H.O.T. and pushed the boundaries of K-pop further.

It's important to show that G-Dragon's influence isn't just about his later career; it's about the culmination of his early experiences and his dedication to music and entertainment.

(It's like tracing a river back to its source. The river's journey is impressive, but it all started with a small stream!)

heya!! i'm a bored artist and want to draw a male idol, but i'm struggling to decide who. i've been stuck in a neverending "draw zhang hao, draw kibum" cycle lol.

examples include, but are not limited to: nouera(makemate1), shinee, infinite, exo, vixx, got7, monsta x, nct, nu'est, enhypen, stray kids, cravity, e'last, ghost9, ateez, p1harmony, ab6ix, the boyz, oneus, txt, zerobaseone, boys planet, wanna one, x1, boynextdoor, xikers, tws, evnne, 8turn, ampers&one, younite, the new six, etc...

Or will they lost their na,e?

Every once in awhile I rediscover an album I really like and REBOOT by Wonder Girls is my current one. Faded Love is my fav from the album and everything about the song is perfection.