#idk food for thought. kept thinking about the dísney example because yeah if someone was a little to invested in a show when they were adul

[hwiyoungies]

there's a good example for this whole age "discourse" thing. say it wasn't kpop but rather some disney star, let's go with miley cyrus when she was doing hannah montana, she was 13-18 when she was doing that show, a show that was crearly meant for an audience of a similar age, so if any adult was investing any big amount of time of that it did raise some eyebrows because why are you watching a show that is meant for kids when there's content made for you (there's a lot of nuance within that as well but still). sure you could've enjoyed the songs, maybe watch the show with a kid from your family but you never invested any more time on it besides that because you were not the target audience. the difference with kpop is that they're putting kids of the same age range miley was when doing that show, but the target audience is not the same, it's adults, it's whoever wants to consume kpop, so at surface it seems like there is not any issues with it because, hey, if i'm the target audience why can't i enjoy this? why can't i spend my day enjoying this content made by teenagers even if i'm an adult? if you take all the context out it's odd no matter how you put it. "but context matters!!!!" sure, it does, but shouldn't the safety of the teenagers matter more? shouldn't we be more worried about why these companies keep debuting younger and younger kids instead of if we're being accused of being a weirdo? like ask yourself why is it weird to possibly like a disney show but not weird to like a kpop group with teens the same age as the disney star as an adult

#hope this makes sense lmao #it's not that you can't enjoy music when you have a big age gap #hell my mom loves michaelbuble and they basically have a 20 years gap but she has never been Invested in him #but it's how you're invested how you interact with the content #the issue with kpop and debuting teens is that they're being treated and judged as if they were adults #when they're not #none of the nj girls are going to school. the youngest is 15 that shit is not ok #and if we keep supporting stuff like that it's only going to get worse #there's also the whole thing with how fast people are moving on from groups too so like #are you all gonna drop them as soon as the new hot thing arrives? that's a whole another conversation #but the new hot thing always tends to be youngers fresher and all that jazz #idk food for thought. kept thinking about the dísney example because yeah if someone was a little to invested in a show when they were adul #it was kinda weird ngl #b.txt