Haven't done an icon set update in a bit. They're coming along pretty well! Got ~120 of em scanned and cleaned up, with maybe 50 left to process.
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teen wolf characters as texts i’ve sent and received
liam: he’s “foul🤢”? no he’s “✨foul✨ 🤭😮💨”
theo: seduction via dna sample collection <3
malia: unchaperoned and you can Bet my ankles will be out and about
lydia: disrespectfully where were the brain cells
mason: i love you and your delulu tendencies but be so for real right now
corey: ohh so she’s 🚨crazy🚨 not 🥰crazy🥰
scott: i’m so sorry i thought Today was Two Days Ago i am Tired
stiles: look we are Professional Shenanigists™ first and humans second
derek: get ahold of yourself, and for the love of God, don’t start crying or i’m disowning you ❤️
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Not to beat a dead horse, but I was watching that new “kpop generations” docuseries this weekend while I was doing chores. Most of it was the normal fawning rehash of kpop so I can’t recommend watching but there were a few interesting tidbits. One thing that caught my attention was someone commenting that BTS was the first group that built a “worldview” where the fans were essentially responsible for “protecting” them and building their success in a way that hadn’t been done before.
I had never thought about it before, but it rings so true with regard to the weird parasocial hangups a lot of fans have and the mindless mob way they come for anyone and everyone that might breath wrong in a way that could possibly be in any way related to bts. It also is honestly the ultimate capitalist gambit that bighit/hybe won the jackpot on. Why pay someone to do your marketing and all that when you can just trick your fans into doing it for you for free? and when you have all the emotional leverage (“oh they didn’t break a record because of low fan engagement, they didn’t chart on billboard because of fans, they didn’t…”) it becomes a really gross, unequal dynamic.
Too many fans seem to completely not see it too which is bizarre, though I wonder if the rise of self as a product (not that it wasn’t before in some industries, but not on the scale we see now) means many people are too used to being free labor and getting conned by capitalism so they can’t see anything wrong with it. I saw kids on twitter saying it would be good to disband SM groups that don’t make money as if making money was the only thing making something have value (grossssss), so I feel like this might be a big part of the problem.
i agree, i think social media + capitalism + the rise of self as product have really eroded people's ability to see when they are feeding into that system and that there IS actually something wrong with it. plus combined with a lack of critical thinking and ability to see other worldviews means that the marketing machine runs itself now, and so effectively that it impacts other artists and even people not related to the industry at all. in general there's such a severe disregard for the value of art as something other than a product to be consumed and evaluated on how much it is consumed, so it's not really a surprise that that's the conclusion that some people have come to, especially when those people are pathologically obsessed with numbers and growth like it's some kind of god.
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