Korean Netizens Are Seeing A K-Pop Fandom Shift From Group to Multi Stans

They find the current generation to be more free.

In the world of K-pop, the culture and trends are ever-changing.

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Now, with fifth-generation of idols, many have started to see the differences between current and past idol fandom culture.

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Recently, an online community post garnered attention regarding the differences in idol group fandoms today.

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“Title: During EXO, INFINITE, WINNER, and iKON, people would be shocked if we even looked at other idols…but now….

…it’s the era of ZEROBASEONE, BOYNEXTDOOR, RIIZE, &TEAM, TWS, and NCT WISH, and there are many fans that stan these groups that also watch other idol videos too.

I also stan one of the groups mentioned above and I listen to other idol songs and watch stage performance videos sometimes. Currently, I’m into BOYNEXTDOOR and NCT WISH’s songs.”

Korean netizens agreed that times have changed and the K-Pop fandom culture has become more flexible.

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• “These days fans stand a member from one group and another member from another group…there’s a lot of solo stans too which is nice.”
• “Back in the day fans really hated solo stans.”
• “Yea a lot of flexibility these days.”
• “I agree there’s a lot of solo stans within groups now.”
• A lot of people just listen to all songs and enjoy all of it.”
• “The multi-stan era is so nice.”

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• “Agreed. Back in the day, you would be criticized for even batting an eye towards another group.”
• “Back in my day, people would unfollow you if you liked another idol outside of your fandom.”
• “This is natural since there are a lot fewer K-pop fans than before.”
• “Broadcast talk about this too so it’s become much more easy to do so.”

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• “The multi-stan era.”
• “I can also see that there has been an increase in multi-stans.”
• “Yeah, there are a lot of multi-stans these days. There are a lot of people that stan who’s hot right now, and it changes all the time.”
• “During second and third-gen, people kept quiet when they liked other groups, but now everyone does it freely.”

Do you agree with this? Are you a multi-stan?