potato cat :3 · 21d
Hiii so this isn’t so much of a question but kind of a rant but I’ve seen some people who are genuinely bothered by the idea of the members actually flirting with women 😭 especially with the ktinys tweets so many are assuming that the members were flirting or doing who knows what with the fans (when in reality ktinys are reacting like that because the performance was amazing but I digress) and it got me wondering like do people really think the members are incapable of finding women attractive or something? Idk it’s kinda surprising to see people who are actually annoyed by it
oHhhh i think rather than actually about the members, it’s more of How some people were talking about it??? bcs it’s kinda giving that bi-erasure kind of narratives?? so it’s not about the members directly, or about their sexuality— just how people talk about it. i think we can imagine it as hmmm let’s say i’m a bisexual and i’ve been dating women. then after that i start dating men and people are being like, ‘did you go back being straight??’, ‘i thought you’re gay??’, ‘:so you weren’t gay after all’, ‘i knew you were just curious’, ‘did you repent?’ — sorry if the examples trigger anyone 🥲. so it’s like just bcs i date someone of the opposite gender, it doesn’t mean my sexuality isn’t valid yknow. and i think there are lots of cases where some people (including the queers btw) are lowkey kind of biphobic.
but relating this whole thing with the fan service, as i said, it’s not directly about the members, i don’t think people are actually focusing on their sexuality fr fr, it’s more of how others talked about it and be giving that kind of words/narratives/assumptions. or how heterosexuality is still made to be ‘default’ when it’s not the case.
also some people actually used this as something to lowkey ridicule some fans (idek why they did that?? to make them jealous? but yeah things like that did happen so….. 😭)
but yes you’re right about ktinys, they’re reacting about the performances and the very good fan service. a lot of the tweets i’ve seen acknowledged the fanservice and personally i’m actually feeling good about it? bcs that’s one of the ways of how to retain the local fans. we gotta keep in mind that fandom culture can be different according to the countries and s.korea has lots of fan service thing and people know this. even if fans can’t help but to be delusional, they still acknowledge fan service as a fan service. so in a way, i hope this makes people to be more interested, truly pay attention to all members rather than just their bias all the time. it’s a good marketing, suitable with the target market.
