the revolution will look like a k-pop fandom
K-pop fans are doing good things for social justice and people are stunned by it. But why are they stunned? Buzzfeed writer Eleanor Bate, an ARMY (BTS stan), suggested via a tweet that much of it comes from a subconscious misogyny; a lack of attentiveness towards the transforming political orientations and personal agencies of predominantly young women and femmes in their online dedicative spaces.
“I just think ~some people~ wouldn’t be so surprised by k-pop stans’ organisation and activism if they had actually recognised (predominantly) young women’s dedication to their interests as legitimate in the first place instead of accusing them of being bots or cheaters :)”
https://twitter.com/eleanorbate/status/1268296997339049985?s=20
Engineer and writer Jackie Luo tweeted a coincidentally complementary thread wherein she questioned why these predominantly female K-pop fans are not given such significant interest and attention for their leftist radicalization in online communities as opposed to how their male counterparts have been under the microscope for their right-wing radicalization in online communities.
“god bless the stans AND ALSO everyone who’s surprised is late! there’s been so much coverage of teen boys getting radicalized toward the right through the gamer community and nearly none…
