Sasaeng culture is…. Yea 😔 Another can of worms
Sasaeng culture to the extreme— like mailing your menstrual blood contaminated sanitary pad to a celeb or somehow being able to evade security and then put poison into something that you know the celeb will consume is ahhhhh (all real life examples, btw, of things happening to celebs in K-Ent.)… In the case of extreme sasaeng behaviours like the 2 examples ^, I blame it all on the “fan” or anti-fan themselves, because no one is ever going to tell another person do to those things unless the both of those people have issues. Such extremes ^ happen because the fan or anti-fan themselves don’t know how to think, and not because of something someone else— like the celebrity— has or hasn’t done to encourage the extreme behaviour. The onus of how a person thinks, views, and sees another person—which then dictates their behaviours— is all the sole responsibility of the person themselves imho
On the other hand, if a celeb is obnoxious and is a horrible person to another, and is caught and seen by others and people react—albeit, unkindly— that can sometimes be the fault of the celeb, because they also need to know that their own actions have consequences and people will have opinions because a celeb is a public figure wherein what they do in front of open doors (i.e. in public, in front of fans and antis) is fair game— versus what they do behind closed doors—unless the celeb actively took measures to keep things private and their privacy was/is infringed upon. Some celebs don’t actively take measures— but fake doing so— because they believe that “bad press is still press” and will get their names trending, which is what the ultimate goal of some celebs are.

At the end of the day, privacy—or lack thereof— and what a celeb does and who those actions (and even the attitudes) reach and touch upon is a whole can of worms and a much more in-depth conversation than a simple “Did they deserve it? Did they not?” black versus white or debate or comment made online

* aot a lot

I agree, even the celebs themselves would never agree to nor condone such behaviours, and I’m glad more and more celebs come out online to put a stop to it— some even proactively prevent it— in C-Ent., but K-Ent. definitely needs to do more. I’ve increasingly seen more comments that are now able to take a more subjective, positive— and sometimes, even joking— stance on things made by anti-fans against their bias’ wherein they will say, “Well, so-and-so celeb’s antis don’t seem to be much antis at all if they’re seemingly online 24/7 willing to make the effort to comment/critique, watch, and hate on the content and the person they claim to be an anti-fan of… In a way, they are actually generating more traffic and clicks and popularity for the content of the celeb they claim to be an anti of” 😏

They’re obviously not thinking or not thinking straight 😔 Almost— maybe are— delusional

I’m sort of glad that I’ve been exposed to news about such sasaeng behaviours, because it’s definitely helped to shape the type of fan that I have become for celebs that I like/love and has shown be what and what not to do, how and how not to think, and how much or how little or how deep or not I want to—and should— delve into a celeb. It’s helped me to see these celebs as PEOPLE—just like you and I are— and that what they do as celebrities and in their fame is a JOB, nothing more and nothing less

*Being exposed to such behaviours very early on in my journey of becoming a fan of some celebrities

@bebeswtz That is a very perceptive remark and I appreciate that. Indeed sometimes knowing that you *don’t* want to be helps you decide what you want to be.