Reminds me of when Occupied Korea sent a bunch of K-Pop and K-dramas up north as a propaganda effort (which prompted the trash balloons), I remember thinking about how shitty / creepy K-pop can be to non fans (to me at least) and how so many k-dramas have a plot or at least a character whose whole point is how fucking shitty it is to live in Occupied Korea, how little class mobility there is, how fucking cutthroat and classist people can be against the poor, etc.
I used to live with roommates who were really big fans of K Pop and would explain what was going on to me sometimes. They were very frank when I asked followup questions as to how abusive and exploitative the music industry there is, how it’s basically run by middle aged businessmen who are trying to manufacture groups of perfect boys and girls. How these singers and dancers are not well compensated for their work in spite of their enormous successes, and their lives are thoroughly controlled by enormous corporations. How in interviews their favorite performers publicly profess that they hope their children will not end up in this industry.
It seemed strange to participate in the spectacle given their awareness of how miserable it made people that they presumably cared about.
The treatlerite does not concern themselves with thoughts of how the sausage is made. Even when they already know. Especially then, in fact.
Absolute chads. Like, ‘Western decadence has caused complete smoothness in these poor children’s brains’ is probably the collective opinion of the audience.
Insta comments:’they love it, they are scared’
If you locked me up in a room with k pop playing, i would kill myself in 3 hours max
If they’re scared, why celebrate at the end? Lmao
Because they’re in a quantum superposition of both needing to cheer to not be executed, but also will get executed for cheering.
However, as the concert came to an end, the mood began to shift. The audience responded with enthusiastic applause, showing their appreciation for Red Velvet’s performance.
Lol that was so very enthusiastic.
Instagram doesn’t let people with no accounts watch reels (or access any content, for that matter) anymore.
This sucks because the union I’m in shares a lot of our stuff through Instagram
kittygram is a frontend, simmilar to nitter/xcancel for twitter, though most public instances are often rate limited.
That’s very good to know, thank you
If kittygram doesn’t work for you, I often download instagram vids using https://fastdl.app/en2
That’s awesome, also, and kind of more my jam. Thank you for the tip
Welcome.
psa imginn.com can also work well
I can still view them using Firefox mobile, I just have to tap past the Open In App nonsense. Not sure if they’re doing a/b test blocking or if it’s system-dependent.
The frontend the other user posted is cool, though. Definitely gonna set that as a redirect.
This hasn’t worked for me in weeks, unfortunately. I’m either absolutely unable to see the post in question (more common when it’s reels), being redirected instantly to the Google Play install page, or can see it very briefly, for like maybe less than two seconds, before being redirected to the same page
That’s annoying, I hate how ubiquitous meta shit is. And discord
You said it. The worst, for me, is that my country’s government posts shit on Instagram. Even Trump was able to spin his mastodon fork or whatever, but we’re stuck with fucking meta
This is just how people watched formal performances from like 1700-1900. You don’t want to interrupt the performance so you wait til the end to applaud and then you go all out if you really liked it
Charlie Kirk’s funeral had more production than whatever is goin’ on there. Shits boring on its own, thats what the massive light structures are for.
Especially boring considering the types of shows the DPRK will put on. If you’ve ever seen one of their school performances Like this: https://youtu.be/WrQ0bJpx7D4
(Also I find the description of the video so funny. “Quite scary”. It’s fucking synchronized dancing. It’s something people have been doing for millenia. Libs are so brainrotted about the DPRK that someone in the DPRK taking a shit would terrify them.)
Another example of a native DPRK performance: https://youtu.be/DhurHN_znoo
And the K-pop thing being underwhelming to them begins to make sense.
At least unappealing. Very different styles of entertainment here. I dont think the addition of a full production would have changed their reactions much anyway. Like don’t get me wrong, I’m not enlightened, and I CAN be entertained by an ass shaking, but its like a 2 minute thing and not an entire dance routine worth. On the last note, it could have even been the coordination. Those kids had far more coordination than that kpop group did.
I think theme plays into it a lot. DPRK art has deep meaning. It’s about the revolution or the nations survival or something like that typically. K-pop is more like silly. It has no deep meaning. So they may see that and be confused as to what the point of the song is.
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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I’m like 90% sure whoever uploaded this changed the music because I can see the singers moving their lips but there are no vocals. Why would someone do this.
Frivolous automated copyright strikes on music
