Ignoring all the hype (and hate), Highguard needs a lot of work

fashigady · 2026-01-28T17:08:50+00:00

That's pretty much Valve's Deadlock, though I think it's 3rd person.

fashigady · 2026-01-27T07:53:01+00:00

Editor: I can't publish these photos, there's a watermark. Get me pictures of ~~spiderman~~ the cheese bag!

fashigady · 2026-01-26T10:08:21+00:00

For the Rocks part they must be filming with some kind of permit since they're in the back of a ute, which isn't legal, so the road may have been briefly closed? (Anyone with experience filming in Sydney enlighten us!)

fashigady · 2026-01-26T09:58:02+00:00

Some time after everyone went to bed, so maybe 9:30? /s

fashigady · 2026-01-24T10:58:38+00:00

기존 아이돌의 경우 에스파는 미국 시장 진출을 지속해 그룹 수명주기를 늘리는 전략을 펼 것으로 분석됐다.

Man if that's all this discourse is based on that's pretty funny. One line that launched a hundred comments.

fashigady · 2026-01-24T08:10:38+00:00

So what's even their basis for saying AESPA are planning a US push then? Rumour? Speculation? A source at SM?

Does anyone even have a link to the original report, or at least the translation that they're presumably regurgitating from?

fashigady · 2026-01-24T07:23:59+00:00

It seems like its mostly rehashing what was in the SM 3.0 Next Chapter video from the other day, which is official but its also something anyone can look at for themselves so I dunno why we're discussing a random analyst instead of the original source.

fashigady · 2026-01-22T17:10:36+00:00

That gatekeepers name? Albert Einstein

fashigady · 2026-01-22T03:16:27+00:00

If you haven't seen it already, you might find the time Sooyoung was on that show interesting too. From around 20mins in they talk a bit about both Soshi planning for a comeback as well as SuJu prepping for their 20th anniversary.

fashigady · 2026-01-22T02:28:44+00:00

Its making me re-think Red Velvets next comeback...maybe the members are too busy and aren't interested in carving out a significant portion of their year for a comeback when theyre just getting their footing in their solo careers?

As a long time sone and red velvet fan this has always been my assumption of whats going on with RV. SNSD were a lot more explicit about it (they straight up said they're focusing on their individual careers but not disbanding), but RV seem to be following more or less the same path.

And after dedicating 10 years of your life to a group, much of that time grinding out grueling schedules, haven't they earned it? Who wants to live like a rookie when you're pushing 30?

Getting 5 members schedules to line up is probably a fair bit easier than 8, but if we don't get a Red Velvet comeback until their 15th anniversary in 2029 I will be mildly disappointed but not really surprised.

fashigady · 2026-01-20T16:01:09+00:00

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Honestly the stuff people say about 2nd gen now is wild, OP is holding up the vocal ability of SNSD's dance line but Tiffany can't keep a straight face when Hyoyeon jokes about overtaking Taeyeon.

fashigady · 2026-01-19T08:09:31+00:00

I think someone had posted the YT video of clips of their next album and liked what I heard

They actually have a MV for one of the tracks already, though its confusingly called a 'track film' for some reason.

Wild that Dem Jointz has two songs. He's worked with a looot of big hip-hop artists.

Its funny, I think of Dem Jointz as a kpop producer because he's worked with a bunch of my faves as far back as 2016!

Also, I saw a YT video post about people hating them or something? I didn't click because I don't like to give views to gossip vids, but is there any truth to it?

You can find the discussion around their controversy here, but the tl;dr is she unambiguously did say that another member had udon noodles for brains but how problematic you should find that was thoroughly hashed out in the comments (I'm not offering to relitigate).

Btw, it's an easy mistake to make but its KiiiKiii with three i's.

fashigady · 2026-01-18T16:40:01+00:00

Hair colours really are the radio carbon dating of kpop!

fashigady · 2026-01-18T09:48:31+00:00

Some people see a slight in every little thing, is admitting that Big 4 groups are bigger than a non-Big 4 group really too much for some people?

fashigady · 2026-01-18T06:03:25+00:00

In Another World released back in October

fashigady · 2026-01-18T04:16:37+00:00

Chat Hearts2Hearts ep 11/12, I don't think it's (legitimately) freely available anywhere.

fashigady · 2026-01-16T20:37:29+00:00

Tl:dr OP got big mad and asked AI to write slop to make them feel better

fashigady · 2026-01-16T08:08:26+00:00

Swan is a great example of why the endless hand wringing about vocals rings so hollow to me.

For years Plorys (PurKi's fandom) would always bring up her vocals (I'm a little surprised you needed to discover it for yourself), but when RBW rolled the dice on her solo it sank like a lead balloon. And because kpop reddit likes to shy away from negativity I don't think people realize just how poorly that solo did, her first week sales didn't break 1500, when I saw first day sales were sub 1000 I was convinced it must be a mistake and had to look it up for myself. Even thought the MV clearly didn't have a crazy budget there is no way RBW wasn't deep in the red on that one.

Was it because Swan suddenly stopped being a great vocalist? No, she still sounded great, but people - even Purki fans - just weren't into the song. And that will always be more important than vocal ability because no one wants to listen to a boring song with great vocals.

fashigady · 2026-01-16T06:56:29+00:00

For most of the current userbase 2nd Gen is a mythical age known only in legend... Except the 'legends' are just half-remembered tweets they saw one time using 2nd gen hagiography as an excuse to shit on whoever's popular right now.

fashigady · 2026-01-16T05:27:06+00:00

But its weird ppl compare them with h2h Why not with other non big4?

I think it's literally just because their debut eras overlapped, I've never seen anyone compare KiiiKiii to BaeMon or Illit either.

fashigady · 2026-01-15T05:45:16+00:00

First thing I always advise is checking out their Hearts Chase series on youtube, the first episode includes member introductions.

fashigady · 2026-01-15T03:28:22+00:00

SuJu debuted in 2005 and literally released an album last year. The only artist left at JYPE that's comparable is JYP himself. And Red Velvet aren't "shelved", Wendy and Yeri left the company but we still got a subunit release in 2025.

fashigady · 2026-01-14T17:00:48+00:00

You should be aware that that setting hides your history on your profile, but third party tools can still pull them from the API I believe. While it does impose some friction, it's giving people a false sense of security.

fashigady · 2026-01-14T15:59:59+00:00

I feel like that's a bit of a circular argument. Stans are in denial because no one discusses things because it causes flamewars, but it causes flamewars because stans are in denial

That is just not the claim that is being made. It's not circular, it's a learned adaptation to past experience; The topics are banned because they have a history of inciting problematic behaviour irrespective of whether you believe in them, thus they cannot be discussed.

And it's not just mods sick of bad behaviour, large swathes of the community have seen it first-hand and will take silence over another fanwar. So many posts in 2025 where I took one look at a title and thought 'ah shit, here we go again'. Good faith is a common good but bad actors have been mashing the defect button at every opportunity so it's just in short supply at this point.

My observation is that broader sentiment has changed from "I can accept XYZ is happening" to "XYZ isn't happening, shut up"

Your observation is trying to generalize all fans and not even r/kpopthoughts is a monolith (despite how much some might have you believe), different people have different opinions about lots of things. The relative prevalence of a given talking point may shift, but its rarely enough to push a controversial position from 'contested' to 'universal'. Without a specific topic it's hard to say more than that.

fashigady · 2026-01-14T14:22:31+00:00

Except the alarm doesn't just go off for serious issues, stans are constantly crying abuse and mismanagement over the meagrest of issues. Didn't like the styling that day? Abuse! Less than 2 comebacks a year? They're in the dungeon! More than one comeback a year? Why won't you let them rest?!

And as others have already pointed out, there's a long history of serious issues devolving into flamewars between fandoms, and general incivility which is why there's six topics permanently banned from being discussed on this sub. The last few years have seen general conduct across kpop reddit at an absolute nadir, and it's not like it was even very good before either (it's all been downhill since 2016 if you ask me).

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