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We smoke the bones of baby dolls.
max keeps answering with two words at best at the press conference as a sign of protest 😭
Q: "How much has changed on the car overnight because it seems there's a big upgrade on performance?"
Max: "A lot"
Q: "Can you elaborate?"
Max: "No. I might get fined or get an extra day [of community services]"
Q: "Are you confident with the race pace?"
Max: "Maybe?"
Q: "How much of a a step into the unknown is the race given the problem you had yesterday in practice?"
Max: "It's unknown....This is not towards you, don't worry. I don't want to upset you!"
JFC
It just keeps getting worse. Is the entire country fucking insane?
I have seen toxic fan culture from all over the world. I thought Japan had it the worst until I was about 14 and learned what knetz are and omg the stories some of these idols were telling on Strong Heart were just the top of the iceberg. I read articles about people actively trying to kidnap gg members. Didn’t one guy try to drag an SNSD member off the stage? I really thought it would change as the artists and international fans became more outspoken and greater in number but it just seems to be getting worse. What I don’t understand is how can anyone possibly see peddling to the Korean market as more profitable than aligning with international interests? Like when I get down to the root of their motivation it’s clear that they only care about profit. Are they all just profoundly stupid???
Istg if Big Hit hurts these boys after all the shit they’ve put them through, after all the hard work they’ve put in to get to where they are, to lift their tiny little company out of the dirt and to the top of the New Big 3, that’s it I’m out. I have hope still that the culture can shift but it’s very small and very weak.
Now all I can think about is how they feel. How must it feel to stand on stage and expose yourself body and soul to people who will use that vulnerability against you? How must it feel to hold hands with someone at a fansign or look someone in the eyes during a fan call and wonder if they actually care about you or are just using you to fulfill a fantasy? How must it feel to be studied and judged and followed and harassed and threatened and assaulted by people who claim to love you? How must it feel to know that if you are not perfect and objectifiable every second of every day that your whole world will turn on you? How must it feel to starve yourself, exhaust yourself, harm yourself, hate yourself all for the sake of a swarm of jealous abusers? How must it feel to worry that every person you form a connection with could just be using you? How must it feel to fall in love and still have a little voice in the back of your head asking if they truly like you for who you are or for what you can give them? How must it feel to objectified and sexualized and demonized every single day? How terrifying must their daily lives be? What makes all these questions worse is the knowledge that they still get up every day and do it all anyway. They pose and smile and dance and sing and work themselves to the bone regardless of the hate and fear. To be an idol must take an extraordinary amount of courage. To be so scared and feel so small but to love so much that none of that matters. They derive their joy in life from bringing you yours. How can anyone hate them? How can anyone hurt them? I’ll never understand.
A union for idols is necessary at this point. Seeing that video of Seunghan walking past those funeral wreaths and then reading that he went looking for the support posters he’d seen before, that shit broke my heart and now all this rage that I have towards the industry has bubbled up again. I am in no place to do anything about it. Where do I put all this anger and sadness until I can use it? I want to scream and cry for these children. For these people. The people who give their whole lives to bring joy to others. Their whole dream in life is to be someone who makes others smile. How can they do this to someone like that? How can people torture a person who just wants to be happy by making others happy. That’s so pure. That’s a selfless motivation. To want to be loved by loving others. You must be truly soulless to hurt someone like that.
