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[taetae-armyx]

K-POP: what needs to stop in the K-pop. Industry of K-pop: Problems K-pop Fans: Problems

TW - Mentions of Phobias: Acrophobia, Ranidaphobia, and Fear of Fireworks; Mentions of PTSD. Please skip if these topics are triggering for you. Proceed with caution.

—what needs to stop in the k-pop industry—

Companies Not Taking Their Idols’ Phobias Seriously

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SITUATION #I. - LEE KNOW (STRAY KIDS/JYP)

Lee Know has Acrophobia, which is the fear of heights.

Stray Kids performed their song “Thunderous” for the ‘2021 CHANGWON K-POP WORLD FESTIVAL’. The performance took place…on top of a very tall building.

Now if you’re a Stay (or even if you’re not a Stay), you would know how great of a dancer Lee Know is. His body movement is beautiful and he has such good flow and flexibility. His stage presence is amazing too.

However, as we can see in the video below, Lee Know struggled to perform on the roof of the building. We can see him make smaller movements when doing the choreography, and he’s constantly looking down despite being in the front, where he would usually look into the camera.

A lot of people have pointed out how wrong this was. He has a phobia, an actual medical problem, where he’s afraid of heights. But they made him perform on top of a building?

And what makes this worse is that apparently, this isn’t even the first time. Lee Know had to perform on top of a roof before too.

This really makes me sad, you can see how he really tried to do his best even though he clearly wasn’t comfortable.

SITUATION #2. - HENDERY (NCT/SM)

The next situation was extremely horrifying to watch.

In an episode of WayV Dream Plan, Hendery and Lucas has to enter a frog filled room to complete a challenge. Lucas, while disliking and being disgusted by frogs due to something that happened in his childhood, isn’t really afraid of them. Hendery, however, has Ranidaphobia, an actual extreme fear of frogs.

(the challenge starts at 16:44 and finishes at 29:30, though the part with Hendery finishes earlier)

The room they were in contained real, live frogs. And there was even a frog on the floor.

Hendery was beyond terrified. He literally jumped on the walls and covered his eyes. He didn’t even step into the actual room because of how scared he was.

Ten and Yangyang went to go help them out and do the mission for them. As soon as they opened the door to come in, you can see Hendery run out of the room. He left so quickly.

A lot of people have pointed out how wrong and truly immoral this was. Even Hendery himself expressed how he didn’t expect the production team to do something so brutal.

Even though the point of the episode was for the members to face their fears, a phobia is beyond just a fear and they shouldn’t have made Hendery go through that.

SITUATION #3. - JOY (RED VELVET/SM)

Joy from Red Velvet is scared of fireworks, as she’s traumatized by seeing a firework explode right in front of her in the past.

During one infamous incident in 2019, Joy ran off stage after the fireworks started.

You can really see how distressed she looked. She really couldn’t pretend like everything was fine, she had to run off.

And she apologized for running off stage!Red Velvet Official on Instagram: "러비들😢미안하다는 말 하고싶어서 올려요ㅜ 예전에 눈 앞에서 폭죽 터지는 걸 본 이후로 폭죽을 많이 무서워하는데 오늘은 예상치 못한데다가 갑자기 이명까지 들려서 마지막 인사를 못한채 들어가게 되었어요.. 죄송합니다....지금은 괜찮아졌어요!! 걱정 끼쳐드려서 너무 죄송해요..😢 매 무대마다 잘하고싶은데 예상치 못한 순간들이 올 때마다 프로답게 대처하지 못하는 것 같아서 제 자신이 되게 미워지는데요.. 앞으로는 이런 일 없도록 마음 단단히 먹고 노력하겠습니다!! 죄송합니다ㅜ"Red Velvet Official shared a post on Instagram: "러비들😢미안하다는 말 하고싶어서 올려요ㅜ 예전에 눈 앞에서 폭죽 터지는 걸 본 이후로 폭죽을 많이 무서워하는데 오늘은 예상치 못한데다가 갑자기 이명까지 들려서 마지막 인사를 못한채 들어가게 되었어요.. 죄송합니다....지금은 괜찮아졌어요!! 걱정 끼쳐드려서 너무 죄송해요..😢 매 무대마다 잘하고싶은데 예상치 못한 순간들이 올 때마다 프로답게 대처하지 못하는 것 같아서 제 자신이 되게 미워지는데요.. 앞으로는 이런 일 없도록 마음 단단히 먹고 노력하겠습니다!! 죄송합니다ㅜ". Follow their account to see 3174 posts.https://www.instagram.com/p/BxU1l02g1e3/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

She wrote :

“Luvies, I’m posting because I want to say I’m sorry. I’m scared of fireworks after seeing a firework explode right in front of me in the past and it was unexpected. On top of that, I heard ringing in my ears and I went in without saying my final goodbye to you.. I’m sorry.. I’m okay now! I’m so sorry for causing you concern.. I want to do a good job at every performance and dislike myself when I can’t react professionally to unexpected moments.. I will strongly prepare myself and work hard so that this won’t happen again in the future! I’m sorry.”

It’s really sad that Joy felt she had to apologize for this and even disliked herself for acting…normally.

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So my point is, companies should consider the phobias that idols have and make sure they don’t put the idols through these situations. It’s very harmful to the idols’ mental, and sometimes even physical health.

Think of how much better those performances would be if JYP didn’t make Stray Kids perform on top of the building, keeping Lee Know in mind, or if SM didn’t use fireworks to keep Joy safe.

So yeah, to conclude, companies should start taking phobias seriously, and fans too! Some fans make jokes about these phobias which is really disgusting. I know that some NCTzens make fun of Hendery for acting the way he did, and some people sent Eric Nam photos of rats after he stated in an interview that he is scared of them.

I hope that in the future there are no more incidents like these and that idols feel comfortable doing the things they love!

✎ ̼ ◡̈ idols being criticized for their body types .

there are so many idols who are suffering due to the crazy amount of toxicity in the entire k-pop fandom, and there are so many reasons, invalid hate, body-shaming, visuals, skills, sasaengs, etc., etc.. but let’s zoom in to a particular type of hating that i am against.

body shaming, hating someone for the way their body looks. first, body shaming. the amount of hypocrisy that the haters have here is mind-blowing. there are so many idols out there who are constantly skinny-shamed and are accused of having eating disorders, like rosé, lisa, somi, wonyoung, etc.

but what if they are naturally like that? did you ever consider that before bashing them for their body and accusing them of having an eating disorder, which is not a light thing to be talked about? why do you talk like you know everything and anything when you don’t even know the idols in real life, behind the cameras and their personas?

you say they should gain weight, but what do you say when they gain weight are at a healthy weight? they receive so much inhuman hate, fat-shaming, calling them a pig, ugly, etc.. do you have common sense? what makes you think hating on them like this just because of their weight is okay to you?

you call yourself a fan, yet you criticize every single thing you don’t like about them, what is this fandom coming to? a fan was supposed to be people who support the idol for who they are right now. why go on nitpicking on the small things when the idol seems perfectly happy? do you realize, you are making them sadder when you add posts, comments that hate on their body, that is not a worry for your faves? that is body shaming.

✎ ̼ ◡̈ people invalidly hating an idol .

i am so sick and tired of seeing random people hop onto those hate bandwagons before even learning properly about the situation. for example, giselle’s scandal. when people were criticizing her for mouthing the n-word, other people who had not liked totally unrelated things such as her visuals, dance, rap, singing, etc., took this as a chance to hate on her for those things as well.

this makes no sense at all. i get that you might not have liked an idol from the beginning. there are some people in life that you might not go well with, and that person just might have been that idol. this is okay, we do not have to love every single idol in the industry. this is actually close to impossible, but this is still not a reason to hate on an idol mercilessly.

why are you so openly expressing your dislike for an idol so much? do you have an idea what this does to the idol when they see it on their feed coincidentally? they do a lot of monitoring to see the reaction of netizens, how do you think this will impact them and their mental health? or do you even think about that at all? maybe not.

if you don’t like a certain group/idol, just literally leave them alone. don’t watch m/vs, don’t look up interactions, don’t go looking up their pictures posted on social media. do you realize, by doing these things, you are subtly giving them more support by giving more views and searches?

just go stan other groups you like, there is no reason to invalidly hate them and give them scars that cannot be taken back. no human deserves this. ever. there are some actually problematic idols that should apologize properly, but so many of the idols out there don’t deserve the hate they get.

[ghostbsuter]

"What the fuck did you do!?" Sam snaps, glaring at Tucker.

"I don't know!" The man in the chair replies helplessly, fingers tapping desperately as they crash landed not even seconds ago. Quote nicely actually.

"Where are we? Is this a new dimension? Tucker! Is danny here??"

"Sam, I swear if I knew I would be telling you!"

She groans, opening the latch of the ship and storming out. It was normal, similar to their own world.

Sitting down on the gras, grasping the greens of this world, she hums at the thriving energy pulsing.

"Who are you?" A teen in clad red and black holds his bo staff threateningly at her, behind him following a guy flying and two- a girl and boy- hanging back.

"No, who are you? What's up with those costumes?"

The boy blinks, taken aback.

"That's Robin," the flying teen says with a gruff, arms crossed. "I'm super boy. We're the Young Justice, you landed in that shabby thing-" He threw a thumbs up at their ship.

"In our city."

Sam doesn't know what to make out of them.

"Okayyy, what's up with the costumes again?"

Robin pipes in. "We're heroes."

"No fucking way." Them? Heroes? What.

"Yes, way." The one boy from the back appears in milliseconds, puffing his chest with a grin.

The blond girl follows with a sigh, it's fond and not a moment later is she back in confused stance.

"I don't believe you."

[healthylko]

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[bijoumikhawal]

anyway I am going to spoil everyone's fun. The Mummy is a racist movie, it's frustrating that it's popular and no one discusses that, and let me explain why

Whitewashing/brownface/self orientalism. The Carnahan's are meant to be mixed race. Their actors are white. Oded Fehr is white and a significant portion of his career has been playing exotic brown people in media made for white people, specifically while weaponizing the ethnic ambiguity he does have. Imhotep is white- insult to injury, his actor is an Afrikaner! Playing a pre-colonial African character! The only Egyptians played by people who arent white are the sex pest warden, Dr. Bey (also a minor character who dies), and Anck-su-namun. None of their actors are Egyptian.

The portrayal of Egyptian men. The warden and Jonathan are both portrayed as pathetic, weak, morally circumspect, and the warden is a pervert. Imhotep is also a pervert, frankly. The Egyptian public at large- mostly male crowds and male workers- are literally canon fodder and senselessly killed on multiple occasions. They're turned into mindless zombies, with no consideration given to what happens to them afterwards. Did hundreds of people just die? In public? The only two Egyptian men that aren't utterly horrible are Evie's boss, Dr. Bey, and Ardeth.

The portrayal of Egyptian women. The only two we actually hear speak is Evie and Anck-su-namun, both of whom have orientalist tropes applied to them- Evie, when they make her dress "local", and Anck-su-namun with the whole titlating "the pharaoh has me walk around naked and covered in wet body paint so no one can touch me without him knowing" nonsense- similar tropes are applied to Ardeth, frankly, with how his tattoos are portrayed, his ethnic background, etc. They specifically chose tattoos a Western audience would still find sexy (which aren't based on the actual local tattooing traditions). Face veils in early 20th century Egypt didn't really look like that, even the ones you might call flirty, and I find portrayals that make Ancient Egyptian society's overall often greater comfort with bared skin into titillation for the audience pretty offensive, especially as there are currently existing cultures in Africa viewed through lenses like that. It's not merely ahistorical, it's apart of a broader issue with how living people are viewed by others.

This is more of a me thing, other Egyptians may not agree: I think mummies as a horror trope are racist. The key fear to mummy movies is that white people might get punished for disturbing the graves of the honored dead. You are asked to identify with literal colonizers and view the local population as antagonistic (past and present in this case), especially in this movie, which is set before England started pretending it wasn't controlling Egypt (and by the damn way, ask ANY Egyptian when the country got independence and we'll say 1956. Between 22 and 56, England still had explicit control over some of the government, notably foreign relations and military, it used this an excuse to justify control of Sudan, and it was militarily occupying the country, especially the Suez area. When King Farouk tried to make a decision they didn't like, they put his palace under seige. That is not independence. Whoever made the 1922 declaration the first result on Google is manufacturing apologia for imperialism).

[alecz-obssesionz]

Is the Radiance a cult leader or a CEO of a business here in your Modern AU?

▪︎ She's the CEO of her own bussiness, but probably has the cult leader attitude all around, she knows how to manage and deal with others<3

▪︎ I like to imagine her company being called "LightPlague" or something, this one being in charge of studies, sale of medicines, psychiatry services and other remedies oriented towards sleep and it's dissorders~

On the surface yes, they work to help people but she has her own issues

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[scarapanna]

[WIP] I FINISHED SKETCHING ALL THE 6 PANELS I'LL LINEART AND COLOUR FOR THE AU INFODUMP WOO

It's gonna take a while (Considering there's another pic I need to work on out of the 9 I've started shfhsh), but it's possible bsbfbs

[gorefemmeart]

i am back on my rvb bullshit

[kiwioala]

DUDE . A GIRL CANNOT LIVE IN PEACE WITHOUT SOMETHING HAPPENING TO THE CUBITOS WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ROIER??

[mfshipbracket]

You know for a fact that with different match-ups the semi finalists would have been Aragorn x Arwen, Doctor x Rose, Gomez x Morticia, and Westley x Buttercup. The fact that you've already pitted them against eachother in and before the quarter finals feels like a rigged bracket...

i wanted to see tenrose and westercup die. is that what you want me to say? i wanted to string tenrose and westercup shippers along and lead them like lambs to their elimination slaughter. i was the puppetmaster controlling the strings behind the arawen tenrose neck and neck battle and i knew the whole time that arawen would come out on top. is that the confession you're looking for? what do you want man we're just some funny little guys running a silly little ship bracket and we're about to go on vacation; do you really think we have the time or intimate knowledge of human behavior and fandom popularity to rig a poll on purpose? c'mon.

[aleprouswitch]

One thing I've noticed during my time on the local Chattanooga noise scene is that most artists like collaborating with other artists and forming these little incestuous side-projects. Everybody plays with everybody else and at times, what you think is a totally new act on a bill is really just the same dudes under a different name.

I've been thinking about this ever since a friend of mine looped me into this mega-project he's putting together. It started out as just 4 - 5 people, but he keeps adding parts and recruiting more and more artists, and it's turning into the damn Mahavishnu Orchestra of East Tennessee. Frankly I'm kind of overwhelmed by it, not to mention that dude is already booking studio time for all of us.

Perhaps I'm too much of an introvert, but I really do prefer having my own stand-alone project and working by myself. As mentioned, my own debut album is going to be top priority this year, and anything that interferes with that will be relegated to the back burner. I'm putting myself above others in an artistic sense, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

I have a desire in me to get a full-length release out under my own name, something written by me, performed by me, recorded by me, and only recruiting outside help for recording vocals and the mixing/mastering process. The friend of mine putting this mega-project together volunteered to help with recording, but I'm still going to try and do a bulk of it on my own.

Maybe I'm stubborn. I don't know. I just want this album to be me.

[quackle]

Chase/Nichelle? 😇😇😇

anon. are you /srs or /j. i gotta know. because i have never seen this pair before 🧍🏾‍♀️

[opspro2005]

Yep...He's not only a #Pureblood, with #PureDNA, but funny as hell, devastatingly handsome, a Constitutional Conservative, and he can cook too. 😏

[mrmallard]

I know the song Superman (It's Not Easy) by Five for Fighting is like metaphorically comparing the struggles of the narrator with that of Superman - being a figure who's expected to be seen as invincible and infallible, heavily implied to be like a new parent who wants to give their kid everything, but having struggles and anxieties that they wrestle with to provide that illusion and fill that mythical role. Yes, I am an immovable rock who will never shatter - but men weren't meant to fly with clouds between their knees. I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane. Even heroes have the right to bleed.

But it works so well because it's such a great portrait of Superman himself. He too is only a man. He dreams. He's bold and heroic and fantastic, but he understands the frailty of human life and he knows that he's just one guy trying his best. He's just as much the man in the song as he is the figure who the figure is comparing himself to.

He does a lot of good, but he's still Clark Kent, the man who reminisces fondly about his deceased dad. He's Clark Kent, the guy who gets along with Lois Lane and who would take both halves of the world and hold them together under the sheer magnitude of his strength if it were falling apart around her. Now, he could probably physically do that - but it's the weight of how he feels about her that matters. It's something he shares with all of us at our most idyllic selves, with the fantastical element of actually being able to make good on his promise if he needs to - but he's still Clark Kent, the man. He still worries, and regardless of his supernatural ability to help them if he absolutely needs to, he still fiercely wants the people he loves to be okay.

Everything that makes Superman special is - for the last labored lyrical reference in this Tumblr post - the special things he's looking for inside of himself. He works as the impossible figure of a hero that a person might always strive to meet, to keep his family happy and comfortable and safe while keeping up the facade, but CLARK KENT IS ALSO THE GUY. HE'S A GUY. HE'S GOT A HEART PUMPING BLOOD AND EVERYTHING THAT'S AWESOME ABOUT YOU AND ME.

So like the song is a great case study of a man trying to live up to impossible standards and become infallible, which is fallacious and impossible by the narrator's own admission due to the human flaws that are screaming to come out against his efforts to be that sort of figure, but it's an outstanding case study of Superman as the man and the myth. The pretty face beside a train and the guy who acknowledges that men like him aren't meant to fly above the clouds.

And the weight to which I feel that this song exemplifies the duality of Superman so well is only exacerbated by the 10+ years of "what if someone killed Lois Lane and Superman became a fascist", or "what if Superman actually wasn't Superman but was actually Casual Murder Is Okay Man because real people would actually Commit Mass Murder if they were Superman", in almost every significant cultural depiction of Superman.

Like yeah, Evil Superman is a cool concept. But that's all he is to most people nowadays. If Evil Superman existed, who's SO MUCH COOLER and MORE INTERESTING than 1950's NUCLEAR FAMILY BOYSCOUT SUPERMAN, how would BATMAN have to KILL HIM????? Would he drop a KRYPTONITE MOON on him?????? It feels like that's all anyone says or feels about Superman any more.

So like, the song Superman (It's Not Easy) by Five for Fighting maybe isn't meant to be a commentary on the duality of Superman. Superman is explicitly a reference point, the narrator compares his efforts and struggles with the huge feats that Superman accomplishes despite the very human doubts and shortcomings that comes with being a guy in uncharted water who's just trying to do his best - but it's not explicitly "the guy is Clark Kent". It's just a metaphor for this regular-ass dude to vent his insecurities about being a supportive figure despite his insecurities. The comparison is invited, but it's not Literally a song about Clark Kent's relationship between himself and his persona of Superman. I'd even say that this is explicitly not the case.

But viewing it as being a comment on the duality of Superman, it's still one of the most cohesive and straightforward depictions of the guy in the last 20-ish years. It is a superb fucking song.