Fandom

Citing Aging Concerns, Young Adult Becomes Too “Old” for K-pop Music

After living a full life to the elder age of 20, a self-aware netizen was found exiting K-pop fandom for becoming “too old” for the music. Despite never owning a mortgage, holding a full-time job, nor completing her junior year of college, the geriatric netizen had reached that critical milestone where she had to find new music to impress acquaintances in small talk.

Girl Groups

Teenage Idols Going Through Awkward Phase Between Being Aegyo and Sexualized

“They just turned 16 (Korean age), so they’re at that difficult age when their audience has dwindled to just a few of her fellow female teens and a frightening number of male incel sasaengs,” explained TWICE-member Nayeon, who chuckled as she recalled going through her own girl group growing pains, which she described as flirting between the two extremes of “sweet and innocent” and “fresh, eroticized fodder for the male gaze.”