Purely by mistake, really. I'd never heard of it in my life, didn't know anyone who liked it at all, no one at my school knew what it was either. Then one Saturday night I was home alone watching random YouTube videos on the TV and a kpop compilation came on, I watched it, and that was it.
From there I just watched more videos, slowly listened to as many groups as I could, then eventually started to watch variety shows and find out more about the idols themselves.

I used to stan a lot more groups than I do now -especially boy groups - which I suppose makes sense because I was getting a feel for kpop and what I liked the most. But as soon as I found exo, it was a no brainer that they'd be my ults to be honest. Every group id decided i liked before that fell by the wayside. And I got into exo the same way, just by watching music videos and I eventually came across them. Then I watched Showtime I think.

I didn't really have any interests at the time so I think it was just the right place right time. I didn't really plan to like kpop for this long because all my interests before that had only lasted a few months at a time, a year maximum, but kpop was different. I tried to get over it when I turned 18 but it didn't work so I'll stick around I suppose 😂