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if u were 13 in 2013 i think that was just the year they blew up 😳 before exo-m I never kept up w/ chinese music but suddenly they were this huge phenomenon, and probably the first kpop group to get so big there (suju-m flopped rip..)

yep yep I was in 8th grade I think. honestly i was a petty little teenager and I didn’t like them at first because of that whole feeling of “everyone’s into them now and no one’s talking about the groups I like anymore” but it didn’t take very long for me to come around, especially when I was 14 and rly getting into kpop more than ever and learned that taemin and kai were besties and all that.

man was exo blowing up in the states massively tame in comparison to what’d happen with b/t/s pretty soon after that……… sweet summer child me……….. didn’t know what was coming

#kibumblabs #also yeah suju-m shouldn’t have flopped but alas…….. I think they just weren’t marketed super well tbh like in comparison to exo-m #and of course exo just had the extra kick of being brand new and newly popular and all #and more social media which. I think attributes to every group that’s gotten big internationally over the years since suju started it all–#the more social media to use for advertising and interaction with fans the more popular the groups are gonna get. hence why you have that #stairstep of like. exponential growth. bts is really close to exo in age/debut date but they went hardcore with more social media presence #than any other group Ever at that point in time. thus the members were more visible and seemed closer to the fans and blah blah blah #you get it. like I can’t stress enough how Little any of this has to do with any group’s amount of Talent. it’s solely advertisement and #cultural/societal shifts especially in regards to social media #gotta give exo some mad credit though for being the first group to get big enough in the states to be considered trendy and cool to be into #because even though there were groups pretty big in the states in their respective niches- being someone in middle school in this time #period- boy it was Not a ‘cool’ thing to be into and I heard plenty of racist remarks back then pre-exo when certain other kids learned I l #liked kpop and whatnot. it was weird (not in a bad way) to see that shift so fast into being at least Normalized and not just another thing #lumped in with weaboos and like. any other East Asian media really.#sorry this was long I just. went through a bunch of middle school flashbacks there for a sec

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