I can understand the appeal of both having been in both western and kpop fandoms. Like, the appeal of the homespun garage band childhood friends narrative vs the these are the ones who stuck it out and were chosen to be the best fit with each other. In kpop there's a lot of very popular survival tv shows which directly build on that idea of whittling down a big group of trainees to the best/most popular ones who get to form the group. Which is also similar to how One Direction was formed - a bunch of reality tv wannabes who had never met before they were lumped together by a manager - so the narrative can work in western fandom too.
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Date: 2022-01-15 06:22 am (UTC)