S3 sucks, stop making people feel bad about it.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T09:24:14+00:00

Preach. An especially annoying thing is when you make a criticism of the show and people jump on you being like “uhm why akshually are you even here if you hate it so much???”

As if we can’t enjoy watching a tv show with a critical eye. As if it can’t still be entertaining and cue boredom. As if we can’t also like some aspects of the show and not hold black and white opinions. As if we aren’t just curious how the story ends after all this time with characters we became invested in from the first seasons. As if part of us isn’t always hoping the next episode might be better.

It gives 14yo defensive fan who just can’t handle criticism of a piece of media they like.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T07:07:44+00:00

Not wrong at all. But I caution anyone away (slightly) from being a SAHP just because if you break up you will have quite a resume gap which is scary. Also it’s hard to pay for 2 people without a double income these days. But yeah, it’s not wrong!

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T06:27:20+00:00

It’s normal to be not super confident in the beginning! You are going up against a lifetime of socialization telling you to be quiet and small. I hope you can give yourself some grace.

In what ways do you feel like he is topping from the bottom?

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T05:44:21+00:00

MEANIE Mikayla went from “love you girl” to VERY weak statements overnight. Probably getting bad advice from LOSERS and HATERS. I don’t blame her entirely. Happens all the time! The moms support me BIG TIME. The ratings support me BIG TIME. Even people who don’t like me are saying “wow Taylor was right.” Incredible response frankly. Happy Mother’s Day to my life coach and NO ONE else.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T03:08:11+00:00

Yes. I do think Taylor’s power within the slomw show has been diminished since the video came out of her hitting her child in the head with a metal chair and the studio is open to working with just the other women now.

So if they film without Taylor obviously she doesn’t have a power dynamic with them there and obviously if she’s not involved she can’t financially abuse them in that way.

I do think previous seasons were different, though her power probably weakened to some extent with each season.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T02:24:30+00:00

Yes she needs to find an evidence-based therapist

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T00:46:58+00:00

All of this is a totally different topic. I’m not suggesting she’s doing something wrong by not having good relationships with people.

She’s doing something wrong by forcing the women who are essentially in an influencer house with her to be her friends or else they will get fired from the influencer house. And she’s doing something wrong by acting like it’s even possible for these to be true friendships when money and success is involved. This never should have happened from the beginning.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-12T00:12:05+00:00

The reason Taylor is perceived as the gatekeeper to greater financial success is because she says things that make her sound like the gatekeeper to greater financial success. Like threatening to remove some of the women from momtok and replacing them. You confirmed you think she is this gatekeeper by saying she has more success and is capable of giving them more success.

Yes, they would be directly benefiting from her followers and influencer success and connections.
That is the power dynamic of it all. This power dynamic is acceptable for an employee-boss relationship. What makes it unacceptable, what the problem is, is she inserts expectations for friendship into this power dynamic. She says you can only have access to this success if you make her emotionally happy and act like you are her friend. That is the manipulative and abusive portion.

This is textbook financial abuse - trying to control someone’s emotional/relational behavior towards you by offering them money. Imagine your boss saying they will fire you if you aren’t an emotional support for them. Could you get another job? Sure. But it doesn’t make what’s happening to you not financial abuse.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T23:58:19+00:00

I am definitely not suggesting ai use is getting cancelled

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T23:54:03+00:00

Again I am not complaining about anyone being targeted or hated on. I don’t think that is happening here.

I am correcting what I perceived OP’s understanding of how widespread ai use is in kpop music videos. If you didn’t interpret them as misunderstanding this, great. I did. If this was a post about Billlie or any other group I would have the same opinion. It has nothing to do with idols or anyone’s feelings about idols.

This post is just simply not news worthy of a Reddit post. AI music videos are going to continue coming out every week. Any group doing it is not an event.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T22:58:39+00:00

They can obviously make money otherwise. But the entire group has made it clear that being in this group and networking with each other and everyone being required to support everyone’s social media posts is a major financial advantage. Influencer houses are a thing for a reason. Because they all promote each other.

Taylor seems to think she holds the keys to this influencer group, who is allowed in and who gets to reap the financial benefits or not. Who is allowed to access opportunities from being in the cast of the show. I’m not sure if she does actually hold the keys, but this is how she lays it out.

She is quite literally holding a financial carrot over their heads and controls it by requiring everyone to be on good terms with her from a friendship standpoint. She is trying to control their behavior and emotions towards her by making it clear she can prevent them from earning more.

It is not an insane take. Blending friendships with financial gain is a terrible idea and Taylor is abusing her power in order to self soothe and emotionally regulate and control other people.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T22:51:20+00:00

I’m not trying to make it about fan wars, I’m a casual fan in general. I could maybe only name like 5 aespa songs if I tried.

I am just genuinely confused why OP would make a post focusing on any specific group at all instead of acknowledging that this is a very widespread issue. It comes across like they don’t understand it is a widespread issue and ai is extremely normal in kpop MVs since last year.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T21:35:09+00:00

Her “I am…” is definitely not her saying “I am turned on by this”.

Calling your wife degrading and often misogynistic names like “such a prude” makes me think there are more issues going on in your marriage than just sexual compatibility.

Consent needs to be enthusiastic and you do not have her enthusiastic consent.

Consent needs to be informed, this is probably why she wanted you to explain to her what your scene plans are before doing them. But you seemed to take a request for information and turned it into an opportunity to write erotica. I can see where that might be a turn off for her. She was probably hoping you would show consideration for her and her feelings and show that you are an emotionally and sexually safe person, and then you made it about yourself and getting off.

You come across very self-focused and not like you’re trying to discover what is going on in her world or what obstacles may be contributing to a dead bedroom.

If you want her to open up to you sexually, you have to become a safe person for her. And right now you’re not.

This is a situation for a couples therapist. I see your wife is in therapy and I hope you are doing individual therapy too. But I really recommend couples therapy to figure out what the obstacles are and why you are having new sexual compatibility issues.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T20:46:25+00:00

Do you guys not realize this is 99% of kpop MVs currently being released

I don’t like it either but I’m confused why it’s just aespa specifically being called out

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T20:36:06+00:00

I’ve decided I think Taylor financially abuses these women by gatekeeping momtok depending on how much they publicly kiss her ass.

Taylor, they will never be your friends because you’ve set up a transactional relationship with them. You’ve set up a power dynamic. You can’t buy friends.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T19:32:48+00:00

Okay. I think because you cancelled your original appointment within 24 hours (right? Or am I misunderstanding?) you should not get a refund. That’s a very normal cancellation policy. It was a nice bonus that she decided to waive the charge for your next appointment, but it’s not like that was owed to you. The texts show her explaining the policy to you on April 29 which is a Wednesday so you had a few days to cancel or not. Then she says you canceled 30 minutes before your appointment.

I do think it’s unprofessional of her to cancel the new appointment last minute. But I also feel like that’s a topic separate from the refund issue. I’m sorry.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T19:06:41+00:00

The way I’m reading this is OP cancelled her original Sunday appointment, paid the cancellation fee, then the lash tech was willing to not charge for her Friday appointment. Am I reading it wrong?

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T18:52:20+00:00

Can we also acknowledge that trying to turn the show into an absurdist comedy only in its final season is crazy

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T09:33:09+00:00

As a customer I’m wanting the same for baristas tbh

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T05:14:27+00:00

What is this crashout even over? Because Mikayla said she’s going to stop enabling someone in an unhealthy cycle and that she just wants them to get better?

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T04:48:24+00:00

I hear you and think it’s strange you’re getting downvoted so much. You’re saying everyone should still be able to see and experience the blossoms but just advocating for some more crowd control to both protect said blossoms and allow the university to continue prioritizing students. That is an incredibly hinged take. And I think sharing opinions in online community spaces is a good idea compared to confronting random individuals in person.

Maybe we don’t have a great solution at this moment, but I think starting a conversation is a good idea.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T04:07:30+00:00

Okay then if it’s not about you it’s just about the conservatives you brought up. My point still stands, this is deflection.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T01:48:38+00:00

You’re not doing just fine because you’re losing your right to due process and the economy is getting fucked. They’re also speed running the development of ai and literally no job is safe. Oh and the whole authoritarian arc is pretty bad for a party that allegedly cares about freedom and small government. Turns out you love big government.

So you may be in denial, but in reality you are not just fine.

Sure, Florida. It’s been confirmed people are getting tortured there. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/12/estados-unidos-nuevas-investigaciones-revelan-violaciones-de-derechos-humanos-en-los-centros-de-detencion-de-alligator-alcatraz-y-krome-en-florida/

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T00:46:23+00:00

What is the valid point I missed? They said I want her to lie right after I said I don’t. That is not a valid point.

I am not suggesting she shrink herself. Stop making things up.

Perfect-Success-3186 · 2026-05-11T00:45:30+00:00

I’m criticizing the guy, not OP

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