ignorance being kpop’s clutch is starting to fail

追加: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I'm going to be honest, being ignorant is just starting not to cut it. If you've watched any of my TikToks or my full-length YouTube videos, you know that I give people the benefit of the doubt off it. I don't automatically assume that these K-pop idols are awful human beings and racist piece of [ __ ] that genuinely believe that black people do not deserve equal rights. I genuinely and still think that a lot of K-pop idols are just ignorant. Period, next sentence. I feel like these K-pop companies are going to start using that as a crutch if they already aren't.

[00:00:28]They're going to lean into that more.

[00:00:30]That is because K-pop is obviously more global than it has ever been. Currently now, you can thank BTS for that. But because of that, all of these K-pop groups and K-pop companies obviously want to reach the level that BTS is on.

[00:00:40]They want to break out globally. They want to be popular in America and in India and in Russia and etc. But K-pop seems to not only refuse but pride itself on being ignorant and not educating itself on the cultures and the specific black American culture that it's built off. K-pop is, I would say, one of the final bosses of capitalism.

[00:00:58]And to K-pop, everything is a commodification. And I find it so interesting and absolutely valid a take I 1,000% agree with when people only consume Korean culture through its most capitalistic commodified version of it.

[00:01:10]People only consume and interact with Korean culture through K-pop, K-dramas, and K-beauty and think that's an actual reflection and representation of South Korea and its people. Well, of course, since you're interacting with the most commodified versions that you can buy and listen to, your takes are incredibly ignorant. I'm pretty sure it was the '90s, South Korea poured a lot of time, effort, and money into Korean things that they could export like K-pop, like Korean entertainment overall. I think because South Korea was industrializing so quickly, they had to make South Korea commodifiable. Is that a word? I don't know, but you get it. And because of that, I feel that's why K-pop only sees other cultures within the capitalistic landscape and only sees other cultures as commodities. If you only see black American culture as a commodity {slash} capitalistic good, you do not think it is any deeper than fashion, baggy jeans, and cornrows. You don't think it's any deeper than, "Oh my gosh, this rapper talks like this, let me mock it. You don't think it's any deeper than these AAVE phrases that black people use. So, you just copy it because you're in a business and you want to commodify the commodity. With the combination of getting these K-pop idols that are in the most, if not one of the most, homogenized places in the world, there is baseline level of ignorance. I don't know much of anything about South Korean education in terms of South Koreans being educated about things outside of South Korea. So, South Koreans, y'all can let me know in the comments below, but I don't think it's a deep dive and that makes sense because why would they need to be concerned about other things besides themselves?

[00:02:36]America don't even teach American history correctly. So, why would You know what I mean? I'm a very context.

[00:02:40]You did not just fall out the coconut tree, girl, okay? So, I needed to say that. Period. Next sentence.

[00:02:45]Being ignorant is not cute anymore. It is 2026. It is not 2006. Being ignorant is not a crutch to fall on anymore. On top of the fact that a lot of these K-pop idols are pushing 30 or 30 or over 30. A lot of these [ __ ] have pushed 30 off a cliff. So, while some of them are absolutely ignorant, that's not cute because you're a grown ass person. How do you not know these things? And it's starting to be hard to believe that you are 27 and you don't know that [ __ ] is a slur if you say it and you're not black. And then before I get ahead of myself, cuz it's like, okay, you're ignorant. I can accept that. I don't know if I want to support somebody who's ignorant though cuz like what else could you possibly be ignorant about? That's just not an attractive quality to have as a human being. And think about it, in real life, if you find out I want to clarify what I'm saying. A lot of people, me included, are ignorant about things, but it's when you are ignorant about very basic things, a lot of people are going to question you and probably just not want to be around you. The more K-pop blows up and gets global, the worse it is going to be when inevitably these K-pop idols continue to do something ignorant or straight up racist, whether that be to Southeast Asians, whether that be to black Americans, whether that be to whomever else they so choose to pull out the hat and say something crazy about. Like I said, it, not 2006, it's 2026. If I go outside and ask a random stranger on the street if they know who BTS is, there is a higher chance that they do now. And if I ask them about K-pop, they probably only know two things, both not good. One of them being that the K-pop idols are abused, which not true for most of them. And number two, now, racism, appropriation, ignorance.

[00:04:10]Especially now in the current political landscape, I can only specifically speak on America cuz that's where I am. This can also just be in general, too. I feel like there is really starting to be a big divide between, I don't know how else to say this, really dumb [ __ ] people and intelligent people. And when I say intelligent, I don't mean you have to have a PhD or you're a dumb [ __ ] I mean people that rely on ChatGPT and AI to make everyday decisions and they can't even summarize things and write paragraphs on their own without relying on a [ __ ] AI chatbot to do it for them, versus people who, now at this point it's going out of their way to look things up and not rely on AI, not rely on ChatGPT, and are not depleting their [ __ ] motor functions because they're too lazy to [ __ ] look [ __ ] up. The divide is getting bigger, people are getting more illiterate and less nuanced. And people that interact with music in a way where they are doing more than just listening. They're dissecting lyrics, they are figuring out what these artists' identities are, hold a lot of the impact and influence when it comes to the music industry. They fall on the intelligent side of this divide currently, and they are [ __ ] tired of dumb people. I feel like a lot of people are starting to get very [ __ ] tired of people that can't do one thing without ChatGPT and AI. On top of the fact that, and I can just make a separate video about this, K-pop does not see and understand that if you want to get popular in America, you have to get the validation of black American people. They just see black American culture as a commodity and they don't see black Americans as people to respect. They also, once again, do not understand that if anything is popular in America, it's either because black American people signed off on that [ __ ] or black American people created that [ __ ] You want to get in the club, you can't be [ __ ] on the bouncer. The [ __ ] It feels like K-pop has been around for so long. It's not. It's still very new and very fragile at that. If K-pop wants to evolve, they have to change. You know what K-pop is starting to remind me of? One of those comics that was really big in the early 2000s because they said things were shock value, transphobia, racism, homophobia.

[00:05:59]And now it's 2026 and they complain that all of these snowflakes are upset about the jokes that they're making. When it turns out they were never funny in the first place.

[00:06:07]So,