As a kind of experiment in masochism, I decided to focus my attention on the chat section during this week's Music Core livestream.
The livestream chat on Youtube is filled with the dregs of kpop — fanwar spam, petty bickering, and all the emojis and exclamation points you could want!!!!
Between Super Junior competing against Sistar and Winner and comebacks from 2PM, Teen Top and T-ara, it was bound to be a long program. Join me as I recap an hour in kpop hell.
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The livestream chat on Youtube is filled with the dregs of kpop — fanwar spam, petty bickering, and all the emojis and exclamation points you could want!!!!
Between Super Junior competing against Sistar and Winner and comebacks from 2PM, Teen Top and T-ara, it was bound to be a long program. Join me as I recap an hour in kpop hell.
From the beginning, the chat consisted of almost nothing but group spam, primarily for the biggest acts of the evening: Super Junior, 2PM and T-ara. Three songs in, someone already just could not anymore.
In hindsight, that should have been me.
Then, during Nasty Nasty of all things, came a plea for some sanity.
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By the time Secret came on, someone finally vocalized what it was like to be a non-crazy person in the chat.
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Then came T-ara, which unsurprisingly caused bickering.
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Teen Top proved to be a crowd-pleaser, with some over-the-top spamming. But then there was this guy:
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By the time Secret came on, someone finally vocalized what it was like to be a non-crazy person in the chat.
Oh yeah, and the video quality got shittier throughout the hour, too.
That only made me enjoy it more.
That only made me enjoy it more.
Then came T-ara, which unsurprisingly caused bickering.
Although, that didn't stop one especially motivated ELF from creating this work of art, which was then was copy and pasted ad nauseam throughout the rest of the show.
I breathed a sigh of relief when T-ara finished performing, thinking that at least that drama was done, but some hater had to slip one last one in during the next act.
What did I tell you about the video quality? By this time, it was like I was staring at a pile of dung
with a bunch of flies going to town on it.
with a bunch of flies going to town on it.
Luckily, I was not the only one.
I screen-capped this for the top highlighted comment, and after I got it, I noticed the bottom one.
I had no clue what he was talking about at first, but Anti Kpop-Fangirl later explained it to me.
I had no clue what he was talking about at first, but Anti Kpop-Fangirl later explained it to me.
Teen Top proved to be a crowd-pleaser, with some over-the-top spamming. But then there was this guy:
Next came the sanest comment of the entire night. Sane, but futile.
You don't belong here.
Finally after 50-some minutes of near-constant ELF spam, the last act of the evening, Super Junior, took to the stage, which gave us this.
A headache-inducing time was had by all.