LOS ANGELES—After reacting to k-pop music videos for the last five years, a veteran youtuber surprised subscribers by providing his first-ever genuine reaction to a k-pop music video.
“Hmm, this is a pretty pedestrian concept and song,” the k-pop reactor said in a rare of moment of breaking character. “The hooks could have been better balanced with less percussion – opening more room in the mix for the atmospheric reverb-y vocals. But the point dance provides a cute double-entendre on the song lyrics which was a really nice touch.”
Shocked to hear a less-common form of artistic critique offering nuance on the genre, K-pop subscribers were quick to express dissatisfaction with the reactor’s bias.
“Proof that Veteran K-pop Reactor is biased against LOONA” one netizen wrote in the comments.
After realizing that his comments offered the rare potential to constructively shape the broader discourse around the finer points of k-pop, Veteran K-pop Reactor was quick to revert back to his old habits of expressing extremely positive comments for every irrelevant detail in BTS music videos.
“Wait a minute, I didn’t get into this to say anything profound about K-pop,” the reactor said to himself. “I got into this to make low-effort content within hours of a MV release that games the YouTube recommendation algorithms. I also wanted affirm the limited world view of K-pop stans who believe that their idols are incapable of doing wrong.”
“KPOP DAD REACTS TO BTS MV FIRST TIME” read the title of the reactor’s 500th BTS reaction video to his 200k subscribers.
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