Anonymous #3 7w

facts😭😭😭

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Anonymous #3 7w

I was going to say more, but it’s lowkey not worth it. I wouldn’t be mentioning bts’ impact and success had this entire community not absolutely shitted all over bts for literally no reason. the industry WOULD be dead and gone without them seeing as all the decline that happened while they were on hiatus. mainstream success and international tours for most, if not all groups, would NOT be a thing without bts.

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Anonymous OP 7w

this is genuinely not true stop acting like western fans saved kpop + they were touring internationally before bts even EXISTED as a group

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Anonymous #3 7w

We look at the global market, not just Korea

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Anonymous #2 7w

its korean pop idiot we look at korea. even if bts never existed at all kpop would have continued being massively successful

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Anonymous #3 7w

In Korea. Only. Since those are the metrics that seem to matter to you. Good for you.

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Anonymous #2 7w

1. groups were touring internationally before bts existed 2. local success is better for group stability 3. other groups have gone internationally viral without being connected to bts at all. your racist dadas arent as important as you think they are

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Anonymous #3 7w

sure now ask the average person outside of korea if they can name one group from before bts was a thing. bts is def as important as we think they are.

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Anonymous OP 7w

this is such an american-centric take. other groups have been popular in other non-korean countries + everyone knows psy and gangnam style. the international success of bts also had nothing to do with the international virality of other groups

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Anonymous #3 7w

everyone knows psy but that’s not a group is it? on top of that, im not from the us, this is what i know that i think and just about everyone i know thinks. their international success opened doors for every kpop group after them, so yes bts’ success absolutely has something to do with the success of those that came after them.

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Anonymous OP 7w

please enlighten me as to why soloists do not count as kpop. moving the goalposts is crazy. also youre clearly not from the east because youd know this take is stupid if you were. and no their virality had nothing to do with the virality of other groups/songs/the genre. bts didnt have anything to do w shit like gangnam style, cupid, super shy, magnetic, “big wave” (dice), etc

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Anonymous #3 7w

holy shit i said “ask the average person outside of Korea if they can name one group from before bts was a thing” that’s why im excluding soloists. bts ABSOLUTELY had to do with magnetic and super shy at the very least? they literally built that company. hybe wouldn’t exist without bts and who knows how many idols wouldn’t have chosen that life without bts?? you cannot take bts out of the equation for kpop after them. you just can’t because they are the reason kpop became known internationally.

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Anonymous OP 7w

1. soloists have always been central to kpop. putting some weird restriction on it needing to be a group of multiple members is hilariously biased. 2. songs from smaller companies literally have gone viral. its so funny how you ignore songs like cupid blowing up because it doesnt fit your narrative of bts being the reason korea has a pop scene. 3. kpop was known internationally before bts. there were international tours before bts even existed

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Anonymous #3 7w

Yes, it’s important that kpop is centered in Korea but you’re forgetting that it’s the industry and everyone in it that’s working to make kpop global lmao like significant part of this that ur completely ignoring

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Anonymous #5 7w

way to completely ignore what i said in my comment. since you cant seem to read all of it, ill copy and paste this for you: 2. songs from smaller companies literally have gone viral. its so funny how you ignore songs like cupid blowing up because it doesnt fit your narrative of bts being the reason korea has a pop scene. 3. kpop was known internationally before bts. there were international tours before bts even existed

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