sorry to be on this again but the fact that after the timeskip it’s been like 2 decades and rust looks like shit and is drinking ten beers a day and marty’s hairline has receded further than his career and he’s got a beer belly. they just don’t make old man yaoi like this anymore
🇲🇽 #Mexico: Protesters broke down the doors of Mexico’s presidential palace today, repeatedly ramming a truck into the building. The protests were surrounding the violent kidnapping of 43 students in 2014, which many believe was directly enabled by corrupt police.
Me @ the writers of The Rookie: “it would take 200 min of breathing fentanyl at the highest airborne concentrations to yield a therapeutic dose, but not a potentially fatal one”
Aka a lesson in trying to police different countries’ fan cultures
Before the Jonas Brother and One Direction and BTS and Exo but after BSB and NSync there was DBSK. DBSK was a 5 member kpop boy group that dominated kpop and followed on the coat tails of the singer BoA in bringing kpop to an international audience, with a heavy focus on Japan, through the early and mid 00s until they ultimately had a Zayn level fall out which rendered them a 2 member group to this day WHO I LOVE DEARLY but that another story
This story is about when they came back to Korea in 2008 with their fourth album. You see, they had been promoting almost exclusively in Japan for 3-4 years at that point. They had released a third Korean album in 2006 but their record labels focus was on Japan because Japan is an insanely lucrative music market. Japan is also notorious for their incredibly respectful and quiet fans. They stay quiet and allow artists to sing without interruption.
Korea does not have that fan culture. Korea is loud and screaming and fan chants and balloons and light sticks and engaging. And in 2008 Korean Cassie’s (DBSK fans) were well aware of the difference between their fan cultures. To the point where they had convinced themselves the reason DBSK didn’t come back to Korea or promote in Korea all that much is because they enjoyed the quiet, respectful nature of the Japanese fans.
So when DBSK went on their first comeback stage and recorded their first takes the Korean fans stood their quiet. Respectful. Because that’s what they thought their idols wanted. But guess what? The fans were wrong. And after their first take the five members of the group announced to the audience something along the lines of “please don’t be quiet. We love when you’re loud. We love YOU as a fan base. We love your CULTURE as a fan base.”
Because the members DBSK were able to appreciate both the quiet nature of Japan when they performed and the energy and chaos of their Korean fans. They loved both.
Tbh I'm glad my teen cringe was rping as Pokemon on an anti twilight guild on gaia, rather than like miles long pointless call out posts and discourse and shit. at least I know no one was traumatized by complaining about sparkly vampires