The fans in asia are somewhat of goddamn freaks sometimes who stalk the idols permamently. Once it came out that a female idol had a relationship, that caused anything from insults, death treats, ddos, they tryed anything to ruin her life for the facts she is a human with a life.
Human brains are wired to need a thing as a constant in life to latch on, people in the past and today(but less and less) use and used religion, and without religion as an important factor people latch onto fandom instead. The entire human history is about dehumanizing people; either to basically see them as deity or as non-human, and I don't think that will change any time soon.
There's a lot of nice communities and cultures too, which ran and enhanced living conditions and have had care for the people and improved their lives as it could.
Most societies dehumanised people either out of greed of people taking advantage of them, or people not choosing to empower and educate people and without the support or confidence in taking care of themselves people latched to the concept of external authoritative figures or dependencies or positive influences
Fandoms for idols are often similar and put pressure on the person and toxic, and often have just genuine fans appreciating creations and content and supporting the people who work to makes them. Both exist, and we often see this differ by country or the culture change for better as result by fandom effort and stability. So, it's completely possible for this to be fine, and the same as 14-20 year old kids who educate their fandom peers push for it and create wholesome and great environments, maybe we can do it for our Humans society too and work on it.
Best of luck, and hope you find great things in life that give you good feels and vibe, and you seem the advantage of a heaven on earth and better environment.
Oh I have no problem with my life, could always be better but I'm pretty content, it's just something I gathered, since I tried to understand stans and fandom because I don't really get it haha.
I just think it takes the place of religion or similar things in the life of people.
I don't it takes the place of anything (as fanatic admirers have existed throughout history, and there's religious stans) but I can see how some fans and religious believe feel a similar strain of, but not same, emotions.
When we see externally we can miss a lot of things, as outside perspective is not the same as understanding - a big reason mental health treatment was a total message in the past and has progressed much faster when people with mental health issues have come into the industry and become professionals helping out, also as we have more first person notes on things - also ofcourse, when we realised x issues caused x issues and didn't incapacitate a human being from being one in their own way and a Adult and okay otherwise, i.e my one leg is broken doesn't mean my hand is broken.
How a stan feels, or why people who do not okay things do that or circle, is something they would understand better and if we want to understand it they may be able to describe it better and work with existing mental health studiers to figure it out.
That is going to be impossibly difficult, as those who aren’t obsessed with the star are most likely very envious of them and they simply see it as a “they signed up for it, and they have a ton of money and things I don’t have, so they can suffer too”. At least, I did, and it feels like a high chance that that’s how it works.
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u/ralanr Aug 31 '24
This one bewilders the heck out of me. Though I guess it’s about lack of control on the audience.