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makaeru

This counts as an interview...

Sep 02, 2006 23:52

And so for my speech that was due last week but I'll be working on tomorrow, I've decided to bitch about the nouveau K8 fans (ie the NewS ship-jumpers) and what they're detracting from the group ( Read more... )

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boyz_kure September 2 2006, 14:12:01 UTC

LOL WHAT can you explain the situation cause i have no idea.
but doesnt it not matter how long people have liked a group?
like does it really detract from how much you enjoy their songs or dvds.

makaeru September 2 2006, 22:06:07 UTC

The group's actually having problems with some fans - there are girls following Ohkura home and disturbing the peace around his house, and fans who don't know how to behave at a play, which has resulted in Hina making a very polite (yet incredibly scathing) Jweb entry, and Subaru to fly off the handle and start yelling at a girl who cut him off midsentence during an MC.

And we think Subs is starting to become an alcoholic - he says he's recently put on 20% of his own weight in beer.

boyz_kure September 3 2006, 00:13:19 UTC

oh true! i thought you meant just in the internet community, not actually for the group themselves. that's pretty damn crap :( wtf at them, seriously. and it's mostly ex-news fans? weirddddd.

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makaeru September 2 2006, 21:59:28 UTC

Ohkura's having problems with girls following him home and causing a ruckus around his house, one of Hina's recent jweb entries was entitles "Manners" and was all about how to behave at a play (ie not screaming their names when they're saying their lines, grabbing at them when they're close by on the catwalks, not laughing during serious scenes and so forth. And he apologised to all the fans who weren't going to the shows that had to read that - ie sorry to the good fans who missed out on tickets because all the shithead fans from You & J took them), and Subaru actually screamed at a fan the other day at a con during the MC when she cut him off midsentence by yelling "Tacchon! Say something!". Tacchon: "...about what?" Girl: "food." Subaru: "How dare you talk to him in plain speech, you don't even know him. It's rude to cut people off midsentence, et c., et c."

Those are the main ones.

noesunexito September 3 2006, 13:55:57 UTC

whoa what the fuck, those girl have got to be news/kattun fans.

makaeru September 3 2006, 14:03:51 UTC

That's what I think.

I'd love to see Baru physically attack I nouveau "K8 fan". (I wonder if the contraction No-Kay would catch on?)

Subs has also started googling himself recently - showing up in forums and causing quite a kerfuffle. Especially ones that say "Wouldn't it be cool is Subaru actually could read this?". But they've all been giving him support and telling him how much they love him, so it's not all bad.

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kenaressa September 2 2006, 15:38:59 UTC

Since I don't move in circles frequented by those who create fandom wangst...however, I'll give you my two cents on what bothers me about the bits I have seen.

1- tunnel visioned on Ryo and/or Uchi: this is my number one complaint with the NewS fans. yes, ok, so they're the ones you know about BUT there are six other members of K8. If you're going to call yourself a K8 fan, they deserve your attention too.

2- pairing angst: yes, I know Ryo/Uchi is your OTP (I don't mind it myself) but please stop whining when other K8 shippers pair Ryo with someone else....watch some of the Honjani's floating around, you can practically ship anyone with anyone in K8. (isn't it lovely ^__^v ( ... )

kenaressa September 2 2006, 15:39:54 UTC

....I guess I had more to say than I thought...

essie07 September 2 2006, 19:38:48 UTC

LOL HOW DID YOU KNOW I'D POUNCE ON THIS ( ... )

makaeru September 2 2006, 22:10:36 UTC

How could I not know you'd pounce on it?

Thank you for that. Feel free to add anything else - I'm probably going to go into Hina's jweb and the Tacchon stalkers too. And maybe even that Subs has put on 20% of his own weight in beer.

essie07 September 3 2006, 09:07:17 UTC

I agree with those points too. I think the fandom I was broadly speaking about was the English-speaking JE fandom but yeah, we can't forget the crazy newbie Japanese fans. They're worse than us, but only because they're actually in Japan... if the circumstances were different, I'm sure English-speaking fans would do stupid shit like that as well ( ... )

samiancha September 3 2006, 03:23:09 UTC

"of course it would be better if Uchi were there/were singing"

gar. Yes, for me it's mostly about ignoring the other guys who have been working hard all this time, and that there's going to be a big hoo-hah when he comes back.

It's 'fans' who can't name all the members of the group.

But then I hate that even about fans of groups who haven't split up... and to be fair there's no concrete evidence that the fans causing problems are actually ex-News deserters...