#billboard ask

[peppertaemint]

The billboard year end charts expose Hybe so nice. Jungkook didn't make it into "Billboard streaming chart". Lol.

How does the kpop solo artist pulling "massive streams" not enter a literal streaming chart? I mean, if you have loads of streams, you enter the streaming chart. That's basic, isn't it? Even Jimin made it into that chart even though he has less streams for the period than Jungkook.

So most of Jungkook's streams are ad supported and paid playlisting streams. Those don't count for that chart. And free streams (most from streaming farms obviously) don't weight much for the chart. So actual people listening from proper premium accounts are way less, that's why he didn't make it into it.

Someone needs to expose Hybe and Bongo and end their fake success nonsense.

What do you mean by the “Billboard Streaming Chart”? Do you mean the weekly streaming songs chart, which is counted from Sunday to Sunday? Or are you talking about a year-end list of most streamed songs? I struggled to find a billboard list of most-streamed songs and to find a precise list of their methodology for streaming chart rankings. However, one thing to keep in mind is Billboard is in the US. It is only counting US streaming, unless it is specifically specified that they’re producing a global/world streaming chart. We know that a lot of JK’s streams come from outside the US, so is this that surprising?

If you could write in with the specific chart you’re referring to, I can take a look at how that chart is compiled and comment further. I can’t make any comment on paid or ad-supported streams without knowing how the chart is put together.

[taylorftparamore]

billboard using a clip of the nude model of taylor swift in kayne's video to discuss her career.......... holy shit...............

[lialox]

I read a post and my brain is fried.

There's this person who said yjh decided to regress back for Dokja and compared to him hsy only wrote a novel sacrificing herself.

First of all, both of them should not be compared.

I'm amazed that there are people who disregard hsy's sacrifice and write it with "only" . Her pov and guilt of ruining those worlds isn't mentioned in details doesn't mean it's not there!

Yes, yjh did regress but he was made that way. Iykyk he is a letter from hsy to dokja so in every way he IS going to circle back to him at the end. yjh is hsy's desperation, her yearning to save Dokja.

We all have read the same texts and we know yjh is not that incapable that after 999th turn it'll take him 864 more regression turn to reach the wall again. NO! It happened that way because it is written that way and being a "character" he could not break free of that .

It's his 1864 turn that is unwritten...!!

(ik this is severely non conclusive & controversial opinion. But it is what it is and I do not regret it.)

This is exactly why I have the joongdok tag blocked here.

The sheer hatred SOME joongdokers have towards doksoo (and by extension, yoohankim) is so outstanding to me that I joined this fandom shipping kdj/yjh quite a lot and even enjoyed writing for the ship… but the people of Tumblr have convinced me to hate them forever and never write for that ship again. 😇 

This attempt to “validate” joongdok has the entirely opposite effect and they just don’t get it. I want to boycott joongdok after reading those posts. In fact, I do. Hope they’re happy. 

sigh….

The ORV fandom can be so exhausting.

This whole thing about “hsy only wrote a novel” are coming from people who don’t understand ORV whatsoever.

Yoo Joonghyuk IS a living love letter. 

Han Sooyoung spun the threads he is made up of and wrote every word with her blood. She loved him enough to make a whole person, and in putting herself into her own work, her creations loved him too.

Everything that Han Sooyoung has made loves Kim Dokja. Because the universe was built on her love.

If Han Sooyoung didn’t love Kim Dokja to the extent that she did, Yoo Joonghyuk wouldn’t even exist. 

Arguably, yjh was “only” curious about how there seemed to be more to the story when he was in the 0th round and regressed to discover it. It wasn’t only for KDJ. In fact, it was barely for kdj. YJH accidentally saved kdj in the process of living his life.

Meanwhile, HSY intentionally and deliberately did everything for kdj’s sake right from the start.

If this is a contest about who loves who more, then consider this:

Yjh loves with conditions attached. “I must be by your side.” He is the character that’s meant to reach the reader, you are correct that’s what he is thematically…

If yjh would give up everything to reach kdj, then hsy would give up even that.

Anyways. The argument falls apart since these guys can’t exist without each other and they cannot love without one another. The novel is yoohankim and anyone who tries to remove a part of that equation in “canonverse” is not an astute reader. I do dislike how I get worked up over people who have little to no literacy… 😔 shame on me. 

I understand that other people have different interpretations but this is like reading the bible and coming to the conclusion that we should kill people. Sometimes the writing/interpretation itself isn’t bad, but the people who act on it are. 

Notice how some joongdokers have a problem with doksoo, but doksoo truthers don’t have a problem with the jd ship itself… our problem is with the bad people shipping it instead. Sorry to hear you ran into bad people on your Tumblr scrolling 😔

And sorry it took me a while to answer this, I really had to process it. 🤢 

(Yoohan to each other is a whole other story you can’t be this intertwined and not feel a thing about each other)

[class1akids]

What are your thoughts on Bakugou being ranked 15? Ignoring that rankings still exist.

Do you think this is Hori saying that Bakugou doesn’t care about being number one anymore and that his main goal is to be heroes with Deku? And that being rivals with Deku is all he wants now?

Or is it saying that Bakugou never grew or developed since he was a teenager to better conduct himself in public?

I kind of answered this question already when Ch 430 revealed that Shouto was ranked higher than Bakugou.

Basically, no, I don't believe that Bakugou is holding back (for him that's a sign of disrespect, and he has no reason to be disrespectful towards people like Mirio, BJ, Mirko who are all ranked higher than him, plus saved his life).

Also, since higher ranks get better money, if Bakugou wanted to finance Deku's suit, it makes no sense for him to not try to get the best ranking possible.

I was a bit surprised that he was 15th - I thought he would be 8-10 based on what Deku was saying in Ch 430, with Shoto, Shoji, Kirishima and Iida all ranking above him.

So I personally think that the type of hero work that's mostly around these days is not the best fit for Bakugou and the way Hawks changed the ranking criteria (which is never explained by the way) doesn't favor him.

What I mean is:

Bakugou has a highly offensive quirk and great battle sense. But big threats like AFO don't exist anymore. When it comes to catching car thieves in a highly populated urban environment, his quirk does not give him edge over someone like Sero or even Mineta.

He has to hold back his power all the time. Because his quirk is so offensive and destructive at full power, he has to constrain it. If he let out full-power cluster, he'd be faster than Iida probably, but also would destroy all the buildings along his path. So he has to tone down his explosions, so they don't break the windows or even disturb people.

His quirk is also not great for rescue. Not useful in fires, only so much he can do in earthquakes, in floods, not to mention never put him close to a snowy mountain, if you don't want an avalanche.

His quirk is not great for little crowd pleasing. E.g. Shouto can go on patrol on a hot summer day and earn lots of favors with the public just by cooling down the streets - Bakugou at most could entertain the kids with fireworks - but does he do that?

Attitude - he's just not interested in pleasing his fans and has no natural desire in him to make random people happy like some of the others do.

Lack of charity work - he is focusing his caring on a smaller group of people; Deku's suit, giving rides to Edgeshot, others too probably, but he gets no points for that.

Basically, Bakugou's quirk, battle tactics, leadership skills and attitude is built to shine in big, legendary fights and there are just not that many of those anymore.

He became the shonen comic book hero who struggles a bit with the realities of a peaceful, mundane life (431 was a bit tongue-in-cheek about that).

[The only thing that really puzzles me is why Mirko ranked so much higher than him, when she's just a female copy-paste Bakugou with the same attitude issues]

[mmmairon]

For me?

[the-radio-demon-blog]

What do you think of her? @voethebeau that is? 🤔 lol

Dear Voe seems like an interesting gal to say the least!

A charmer like me which I can appreciated. However she seems to favor modern technology more than I. And she does have a skill for...a favorite hobby of mine. Perhaps to put it in the plainest way would be: murder?

I would have to get to know Voe better before I form a complete opinion on the Billboard Doe.

[fifteenloove]

I mean I like Jannik well enough but the fan favorite award to him... fishy. It's Carlos who has more followers, gets more likes and sells out stadiums, and he's much more of a superstar

accusing someone of using payola and bots to win awards

comparing followers and likes on social media

"he can't sell out stadiums!" "he has no stage presence!"

WELCOME BACK STAN TWITTER

[tennessoui]

i cannot stop thinking about shattered glass anakin going door to door canvassing for the man he´s never met and who´s never met him, researching dumb politics using dumb wikipedia on his dumb compute dumbfounded people get paid for this shit, truly a thing of beauty. no pressure but .... GIMMME GIMME GIMME NOW

it’s not anakin’s fault he’s a mechanical engineering major who has never once thought about politics in his life only to take a class on democracy and fall in love with his TA and decide to do something that’s honestly sort of lame in an attempt to impress her only to then find out the candidate he chose to support at random is actually smoking hot and also very interesting and also not interested in winning

(it is anakin’s fault for all of it tbh)

can’t wait to write a scene where anakin’s like wait I could have been getting PAID for this??? and obi-wan is like “yes. you’re hired.” and anakin’s like :D sweet and obi-wan’s like “and now you’re fired. Please cease and desist with any and all campaigning efforts.” and his lawyer who has to be there for most of his conversations with anakin skywalker for legal purposes cough politely and is like “severance pay” and obi-wan is like “oh. No never mind Mr skywalker that was all a little hypothetical exercise. you are not fired and you are not hired. but please do stop.”

[highway-userboxes]

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[voethebeau]

You and Alastor are so cute together!!!!

“We are!”

[wreckedandpolemic]

can i be greedy… if so i, m, o, and v for actress!au 😊

i - intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect.)

it’s not always sweet, but it is always loving. even when he’s calling you filthy, degrading names, doing whatever he wants to you while you just take it like a good girl. there’s always adoration in matty’s gaze, murmured reassurances exactly when you need them, his hands soothing even when they’re delivering stinging slaps. and, god, when you do have sweet sex… matty stares into your eyes, sharing slow, passionate kisses that drip with love as he fucks deep into you. god, i love you, he murmurs into your mouth. i love you so fucking much.

m - motivation (what turns them on, gets them going?)

he’s a love boner type of boy!! he’s genuinely gotten hard just from watching you in your element, networking smoothly at a party or gracefully wrangling reporters on the red carpet. he’s never been so glad not to be the centre of attention for once. it’s so hard for him whenever you have an upcoming movie, poor boy, starts getting turned on seeing you in trailers or on billboards because fucking hell, look at my girlfriend. can’t believe she lets me hit.

o - oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

as we all know, matty’s a munch in every universe, makes you cum on his tongue every chance he gets, sometimes at the expense of his own pleasure. but fuck if the sight of your pretty, plump lips wrapped around his cock isn’t the star of his fantasies every night. you love giving him head, making him come undone with your mouth, letting him take only what you want to give. the power is intoxicating, and you always feel like you’re winning, even when you’re the one on your knees.

v - volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc)

of the two of you, matty’s the loud one. he can’t shut the fuck up, moaning and gasping and whining constantly. and he’d probably die if he couldn’t dirty talk you while you’re fucking, moaning such a good little slut and takin’ me so well, darling and this pussy was fuckin’ made for me, right? in your ear with his hand wrapped around your throat.

matty also takes pride in breaking you, getting you to fucking scream for him, even if it takes hours upon hours. he’ll fuck you, finger his cum out of you, lick you clean, press a vibrator against your clit until you’re a twitching, whimpering mess, until you’ve lost count of how many times you’ve cum and gotten so lost in pleasure that you couldn’t even begin to curb the noises you’re making.

[akkivee]

Vee im thinking about how the hypmics are popular and its making me giggle so hard like...... What ??? Its so funny to me i know they are like technically idols but also yeah lemme pull up with some merch of Yokohamas Most Dangerous Men. Let me just ask a Doctor with a Busy Schedule to Pose for some Photo Cards. Like imagine going outside and seeing your teacher on a billboard sex baiting like LMAOAOAOAO (yes im talking about that one set of official art they made... Why were they shirtless...) its so ....!?!??!?!? Insane to me i actually giggled when i watched rhyme anima and saw that ramuda had bb merch. It feels like they are supposed to be living normal lives like nobody gaf about them i know thats wrong but seriously come on

i think part of it is that the boys don’t like the drbs so they don’t capitalise on it lol. like they get to do cool stuff like the freestyle gladiator thing with the mixed up divisions, the curry battle, and lowkey being used to push political agendas bc they do have fame being drb participants but i doubt they want to give chuuoku even more power over them than they already do

and some of it might also be chuuoku not wanting to give them much more power and sway as well. like hifumi and jakurai actually talked about this in the wake of their win lol but chuuoku regulates what they can and can’t do as division champs (in a stifling piece of worldbuilding i understand why it exists but that sucks ass bro lol) chuuoku doesn’t want a repeat tdd situation where they could potentially rouse the nation into arms

and now i might be talking out of my ass here lol but i also think the citizens of chuuoku japan just respect them lol. they were selected by chuuoku to fight and nobody outside chuuoku’s walls seem to really like their government lol. they are regular ass people lol that is your overworked drb champion salaryman dissociating on a bench in the park, that is your 2nd drb champ homeless person sleeping with a newspaper as a blanket on the street but it’s not like they chose to be drb participants so they might also be really aware of that lol

[lamperts-bleach]

drew u for my infection au..,,, i hope u like it

It’s cool! But, why do I have Kasper’s looking germs? Please don’t say I’m infected with germs…

(WAAAA ITS SO COOL/OOC//)

[erikahenningsen]

rejanis wild west sheriff/outlaw au?

Regina doesn't particularly want to be the sheriff but her father was the sheriff, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather, etc. and when her parents only had girls she was basically guilted into succeeding her dad.

Regina is just. bored and unbothered all the time. People come to her and say that someone stole their horse and she's like okay? what does that have to do with me?

Janis and Damian and co rob banks not because they really need the money but because they love the rush of successfully pulling off a heist and evading the cops.

Regina generally doesn't care much about her job but she becomes somewhat obsessed with these robbers because it deeply frustrates her that nobody can figure out who they are. Regina almost caught up to one of them once, and got a glimpse of her face. She was so surprised to see a woman that she almost ran her horse off the road.

Damian keeps telling Janis it's stupid to keep targeting the same town but Janis is fascinated by the sheriff, who is possibly the hottest woman she's ever seen. She gets a rush from frustrating her in particuclar.

Send me a potential AU and I’ll tell you five fun facts that would happen in a story

[mariocki]

Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 225/?

Billy Joel - Big Shot (1978)

"Well, you went uptown riding in your limousine,

With your fine Park Avenue clothes;

You had the Dom Pérignon in your hand

And the spoon up your nose.

Ooh, and when you wake up in the morning

With your head on fire

And your eyes too bloody to see,

Go on and cry in your coffee

But don't come bitchin' to me."

[messrsrarchives]

why are u vegan ( is this a rude question )

not rude dw !! i went veggie at,, 13? i wanna say. my friend had a vegan mum and he tried vegetarianism one january so i did it too, and then it kind of just spiralled as we both learnt more about it. i ended up transitioning to veganism a few months later :)

mostly for me, ethics and environment. the health is also a thing (Game Changers is SUCH a good documentary) and it's cheaper for me, but the environmental reasons were the ones that won me over :D and then ethics came along after watching some more documentaries and going to the marches etc

so yah ! :D originally vegetarian in solidarity and then vegan once i learnt more about it :p