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dangermousieWatching Last Scandal brought something I've been wondering about back to mind:
Why on earth do Korean and other Asian fans seem to get so appalled and pissed off when they find out that a celebrity has been dating or is getting married. Do they really expect 20-something and 30-something men and women not to be in a serious relationship at all - that is insane! (And if so, why would they want to - someone who is so stunted or isolated that they don't seem to have a romantic relationship at any point is not someone any sane person wants to hang around with).
I mean - regardless of the celebrity being single, married, or into stuffed animals fetish, do they really expect that one day on the street they will bump into an actress or singer of their dreams and he/she will go "OMG, where have you been all my life, random fan! Let's get married!" I understand there are some insane people out there who might actually believe it, but mind boggles to process that there are enough of these people that marriage or dating would actually affect a star's popularity.
And yet - I remember reading all over blogs than Kwon Sang Woo getting married would finish him off, or the crazed fangirl reaction when Hyun Bin had a girlfriend, or, most of all, Kimura Takuya apologizing to his fans for getting married. That last one, especially, was beyond WTF! Why on earth does anyone need to apologize for marriage? (If I were his wife, he would have gotten home to a rolling pin to the head).
I did notice, oddly, that the negative reaction is rather less when it's a celebrity dating another celebrity (preferably a costar, thus enabling RPF fantasy which is another weird thing prevalent in this whole mileau*), which is also incredibly weird to me. "OMG, my idol will never be mine, but at least he/she found someone woooorthy because I can pretend they are their characters." WHAT?
I just seriously do not get that at all. Are swarms of people so overinvested and socially retarded that they can't separate reality from fantasy? I genuinely cannot understand.
* I am not talking even about boybands which feed the fanservice, but random actors who act together and what not. Every successful drama always has hordes of people who genuinely 'ship' the leads as opposed to the characters. Creepy.
ETA: To amuse self, uses icon from a drama couple that because a real couple - heh. I noticed that after Nagase started dating her, Aibu Saki hate went rather up :P
Why on earth do Korean and other Asian fans seem to get so appalled and pissed off when they find out that a celebrity has been dating or is getting married. Do they really expect 20-something and 30-something men and women not to be in a serious relationship at all - that is insane! (And if so, why would they want to - someone who is so stunted or isolated that they don't seem to have a romantic relationship at any point is not someone any sane person wants to hang around with).
I mean - regardless of the celebrity being single, married, or into stuffed animals fetish, do they really expect that one day on the street they will bump into an actress or singer of their dreams and he/she will go "OMG, where have you been all my life, random fan! Let's get married!" I understand there are some insane people out there who might actually believe it, but mind boggles to process that there are enough of these people that marriage or dating would actually affect a star's popularity.
And yet - I remember reading all over blogs than Kwon Sang Woo getting married would finish him off, or the crazed fangirl reaction when Hyun Bin had a girlfriend, or, most of all, Kimura Takuya apologizing to his fans for getting married. That last one, especially, was beyond WTF! Why on earth does anyone need to apologize for marriage? (If I were his wife, he would have gotten home to a rolling pin to the head).
I did notice, oddly, that the negative reaction is rather less when it's a celebrity dating another celebrity (preferably a costar, thus enabling RPF fantasy which is another weird thing prevalent in this whole mileau*), which is also incredibly weird to me. "OMG, my idol will never be mine, but at least he/she found someone woooorthy because I can pretend they are their characters." WHAT?
I just seriously do not get that at all. Are swarms of people so overinvested and socially retarded that they can't separate reality from fantasy? I genuinely cannot understand.
* I am not talking even about boybands which feed the fanservice, but random actors who act together and what not. Every successful drama always has hordes of people who genuinely 'ship' the leads as opposed to the characters. Creepy.
ETA: To amuse self, uses icon from a drama couple that because a real couple - heh. I noticed that after Nagase started dating her, Aibu Saki hate went rather up :P
