Over the years, I’ve had friends on Twitter and One Hallyu (and its predecessors) make long tweets and posts about how they were quitting Kpop.
“Kpop isn’t a lifestyle.” That is the first thing I think whenever someone writes something like they’re stopping Kpop. It is simply their fault that they let Kpop consume them. You don’t need to be up-to-date on every news story, participating on a few forums and the comments section of the translation sites. You don’t need to watch every variety show your favorite group(s) (member(s)) appear in.
For example, I watched all of Sixteen for Twice, and that was only after five or six episodes had appeared. Enough girls caught my attention and I quickly caught up and waited for the remaining episodes to air. However, since their debut, Twice has had a few of their own variety shows and appeared in a lot of them. I may have caught one or two of the Weekly Idol episodes they were on, but that was it. I didn’t feel the need to watch every single thing they were in, just what I wanted to.
If you could tell from 2014, I didn’t have the time to run the site anymore, so HYSF took over, and after he ran out of time to do it, I took it back over, and then a bunch of authors left. When I closed the blog down last December, I left open the possibility of returning, but as you may have seen by my erratic writing schedule, I don’t feel the need to cover every single thing and write on a near daily basis any longer. I let Kpop come to me instead of chasing everything on several news sites and then writing my opinion about everything that happens. I also stopped perusing forums as much as I used to see everything that was going on in Kpop. Kpop moves quickly and it is easy to miss things. I accepted that. Kpop doesn’t have to be a full-time job like many fans try to make it out to be. Just ONE thing out of many things that one can enjoy.
Have some hobbies/obligations that take you away from electronics is my biggest suggestions. You don’t need to be connected all of the time, you know.