K-Pop Nine: A New View on K-Entertainment

So I would have had this posted sooner but I am so livid. I am so livid because up until this point everything worked so well together. All the videos fit together in a very obvious way to me. Everything LOONA acted as various puzzle pieces that combined together with no hassle. While I put a lot of effort into my theory, I haven't had to change anything around. I've never had to change my line of thinking. Until now. With LOONA's third sub-unit, yyxy, I've had to rethink many things that I thought true about the Loonaverse, and I hate it. I absolutely HATE being wrong. I have lived my life being more or less right about everything that I have chosen to do. With this theory, I could handle being completely wrong about the entire thing because there's probably going to be no actual confirmation about the correctness about this. But for a tiny thing like this one video, I absolutely hate being wrong. With that being said, let's begin. In a random turn ...

Since posting part 1 of this theory, several things have been pointed out to me that have been proven false, so I will amend these inaccuracies in part 3 of the theory. Until then, here is my proposed timeline. If you have yet to read part 1 of my theory, you can find it here . I recommend reading Part 1 first, as you won’t understand what I’m talking about. My theory has four different sections to the timeline. First is the pre-timeline, meaning events that occur out of the actual timeline. Second is the Pre-Paradox, referencing all points of the story before Kim Lip messed with time. The next section is the Post-Paradox period, which outlines the immediate effects of the Kim Lip Paradox. The final section of the timeline deals with the events that I propose will connect most closely with the final debut video; I’ve called it Escape from Eden. All videos will be listed in the order of which they occur, except for a few that happen at more or less the same time. As wel...

It’s so hard to have a conversation with k-pop fans without the topic of YouTube views coming up. There are so many people in the varying subsets of this fandom who believe that YouTube views are the most important indicator of popularity. In some ways, yes, YouTube views can show that a song or group is popular. On the other, bigger hand, it’s complete and utter bullshit. Yes, that’s right; the hours you have spent refreshing YouTube to make sure your bias is getting the most views in 24 hours means relatively nothing. For the sake of transparency, when I’m talking about general popularity and success I’m not talking about worldwide popularity. I’m talking about domestic popularity in South Korea and international fans. International k-pop fans, of course, not being representative of the music tastes and sensibilities of their respective countries. If any k-pop fans are actually using the YouTube views of their favourite group to boast about true international popularity they...