Dreamcatcher: their latest comeback ‘vision’ was one of the worst and underwhelming releases I’ve heard, along with the majority of their b sides from that album, so I had to unstan. I was expecting better for this comeback since Maison was released, but it just got slightly worse.
IVE: don’t get me wrong I still love the girls, but since After Like was released I did like the song during the first few weeks, but as time passed I completely grew out of it and I find the song annoying to listen to. So now I don’t consider myself a stan for this group but more of a group I just ‘like’.
Golden Child (+ all other groups I’ve ‘stanned’):
thinking about it now I regret getting into the ‘stan’ culture. This means, watching a lot of their content and keeping up with groups constantly on their SNS, getting into a fandom Twitter and seeing all of the group’s related content there, buying albums of releases I don’t even like, stream & constantly keep up with collecting hearts or whatever to vote for them during their comeback.
Knowing that I know a bit too much about the members personality-wise, there’s either some or most members that I can’t stand in terms of their personality and the kind of vibes they’re giving me.
So Golden Child was the last group I ever got into (or completely stanned), but after steering completely away from all their content, SNS and everything else, it felt much better.
I thought that in order to be a stan (or a huge fan) of a group that I’ve had to do all of those things, but then I realised that I don’t need to do any or some of those things I’ve listed/mentioned above. But I’m still not gonna get into the ‘stan’ culture till this day.
edit: now with golden child, for some reason I can’t seem to listen to the majority of their songs anymore (as a whole - including all their discographies) also there’s some songs from their game changer album that I still haven’t listened to and heard of till this day