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Im Young Woong has built an empire of ajumma fans that is surpassing any K-Pop fandom

Sunday, June 11, 2023

 Article: "The rich mothers of K-Pop that make up Im Young Woong's fanbase" fans in their fifties listen to more music than teens

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[+153, -35] I'm so sick and tired of trot! Enough's enough. There's no difference between idols and their hook songs and trots.

[+55, -7] I'm not an Im Young Woong anti but I'm sick of seeing him on the Melon charts. I feel like I need to switch over to Apple Music.

[+46, -5] The culture of music is changing with the times. The elderly are learning to enjoy their retirement by listening to music and healing. Invest in yourself. Life is short.

[+56, -22] He's constantly in the Melon top 100 so I just canceled my subscription

[+23, -1] I feel like there's way too much trot shows now... it's actually turning me off from the singers.

[+28, -11] I quit Melon because of all the Im Young Woong songs in the top 100. I'm so sick and tired of him.

[+23, -7] I left Melon because of this guy. If you play the top 100, it's all his songs. I'd understand two or three being up there but his ajumma fans have every single one of his stupid songs lined up there, ugh. I started making my own playlists and deleting all of his songs. His ajumma fans are ruining it for the rest of us and it's actually making me petty enough to refuse to listen to his songs no matter what.

[+17, -1] I'm honestly a bit amazed that he's gotten this big ㅎㅎ

[+15, -5] Please don't try and link trot to K-Pop

[+19, -10] I'm in my forties and I like Im Young Woong. He's good at ballads and drama OSTs too. His albums have a lot of different genres... He was the #1 favorite singer in the Gallup poll of forties last year.

[+33, -25] Im Young Woong's fanclub reminds me of the JMS cult. They treat him like a god and have no problem crushing any other artist in his way and attacking their fandoms. They seriously look possessed with how easily they'll attack anyone who's against him.

[+8, -0] His ajummas are in their fifties which means they were the start of the early days of fandom culture. Now they have the money and time to back it all up. 

[+23, -17] His fandom feels like a mental illness

[+8, -2] His fans aren't true fans. They'll take his articles and spam them with thousands of comments... They'll trash all of the music charts by purposely lining up all his songs on them. This can't be what real fandom culture is... How can they be so inconsiderate to everyone else? 

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