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anyway the only kpop journalists i trust are rollingstone india i hope buzzfeed gets sued xo

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How tall are you?

163 cm- a bit over 5′4

What color and style is your hair?

I have long dark brown roots, but my hair is red from a certain point down (colored it in the past), and a small, lower half of a vertical stripe of it is bleached. It reaches my bra line in length, I used to have it shoulder length but am currently growing it out

What color are your eyes?

Dark brown

Do you wear glasses?

Black plastic hipster glasses :D

Do you wear braces?

I did, now I have a permanent metal stripe behind my teeth to make sure they won’t move again. I can’t feel it and it’s not visible

What’s your fashion sense?

T shirts, baggy shirts, hoodies- for pants it’s mostly jeans!

Full name?

Meshi

When were you born?

June 21st (it’s close)

Where are you from and where do you live now?

Israel (I’m still here)

What school do you go to?

I don’t, anymore

What kind of student are you?

I was the quiet kid that draws in class, but I also got fantastic grades without trying too hard.

Do you like school?

I liked school, because I could draw as much as i wanted and everything came to me easily

Favorite subject?

Chemistry~ there are so many cool stuff to learn about, my final project was about fireworks and we experimented by building and launching, taking measures to compare between different oxidizers, it was pretty and cool and I liked working on it<3

Favorite tv shows?

anime counts right?? then it’s Soul Eater. Otherwise, Supernatural

Favorite movie?

Now You See Me

Favorite book?

Probably Eragon, because i’m a sentimental one

Favorite past time?

Drawing, listening to music, watching youtube whenever I have time (kpop, crack vids, try not to laugh, vines, ticktocks, the try guys, buzzfeed unsolved...), if I have a lot of time maybe i’ll watch a drama or a series. I stress bake butter cookies sometimes

Do you have regrets?

None that bother me daily, but I guess I did follow a lot of trails that led nowhere and ended up wasting my time. I shouldn’t have went for things I wasn’t ready for, or people that would eventually trash me.

Dream job?

Animator or Mangaka

Would you ever like to be married?

I would, def

Would you like kids?

Absolutely

How many?

Endgame is seven, with the last one being a girl. I am a seventh daughter and I heard the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter is born a witch. I’d like to test it 

Do you like shopping?

Only for candy, soaps and candles

What countries have you visited?

Italy, France, England, Swiss, Belgium, Poland, India, Singapore and Indonesia

Scariest nightmare you have ever had?

None of them stand out more than others, except maybe those dreams I have where I’m a kid during the holocaust and trying to run and hide with my big brother, often they catch him, sometimes I have to hide and hold my breath, panic, run up staircases.. one time I hid in a room where there was a sewing mannequin stuffed with human flesh.

Any enemies?

One.

Self-doubt?

None

Any significant other?

Not right now, I’m too busy living

Do you believe in miracles?

I believe in the world listening to wishes and aiding in ways us humans can’t comprehend, to create a miracle 

How are you?

Tiered ^^; it’s almost 2AM

I’ll tag:

(hopefully you weren’t tagged yet)

@sixdaysofsoftsilver  @moonpils @captainmeow-and-chairmanknots @seunghyub-ah @beomgyu-s

[cinnaaxirl]

Western Validation & BTS

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➳ intro

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➳ what is "western validation"?

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➳ how it's viewed by kpop fans

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➳ my opinion

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          │Hello everyone, I'm here again to

          │express my opinion on a topic that

          │doesn't really matter.

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Disclaimer :

this is my opinion

my opinion ≠ facts

(that's an not equal sign btw)

I'm not speaking as an ARMY or EXO-L or Carat or whatever. I'm speaking as me, these are my opinions.

【 intro 】

imagine: you're scrolling through Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, or you're still one of those people who use Facebook, and that's when you see it. You see the words "at least my faves don't need western validation unlike Floptan Boys" (or something similar).

"Western validation" is often a phrase used to put down BTS.

It's not really just BTS anymore, recently SM put out a statement that said Red Velvet will be releasing an English version of Bad Boy on their new album -- what did people claim ?

Ah yes, western validation.

【 what does western validation mean exactly? 】

There is no official Google term for this, as it's something made up by kpop fans.

From how I see it, western validation means someone (a kpop group) is seeking the approval or wanting to become popular in the west (but really just America).

This term, like how BTS started being considered overrated, only came about AFTER BTS started getting popular in America. If we want, we could say this term was made to be used on BTS. Though, as I mentioned before, it was used on Red Velvet, so it's not a BTS exclusive term, but I think we all know it started out that way.

【 so, how do kpop fans view western validation? 】

how about instead of telling you I share screen shots?

I like how ignorant and stereotypical the last screenshot was.

"no more ugly 1d stans" and then the tags say white people = 1D stans.....

I won't finish what I was going to say

As you can see western validation = bad

【 my opinion 】

here comes the part where I get judged based on my opinion.

You're either going to agree with me or not,

I think the term "western validation" is kind of pointless. People who say "my faves don't need western validation" probably just mean their faves don't need to do interviews in America. However, I believe that the "western validation" is very helpful to some of us. For example, if companies don't see that their group is popular or gaining significant attention in certain areas of the world, they're not going to send their groups to tour there.

That's why a lot of the time, when groups do a "world tour" it's mostly just America, extra parts of Asia and MAYBE South America. Like, EXO is pretty popular in India, so it would make A LOT of sense if EXO did concerts in India (unless if SM doesn't give two craps).

Let's take some other groups for example -- Vixx is doing pretty well in Korea, they've been a group for 6 years now. However, they don't have international success like Seventeen or GOT7, and they've only been to the US three times and have only done 4 shows (in small venues) in three cities, they've also never had an official "world tour".

Seventeen has had one world tour and Got7 has had two and this is because they're popular international -- but where internationally? That's right, in the west.

Monsta X, GOT7, and NCT all have had interviews by billboard and other western media. In a way, groups coming to KCON is western validation.

In a way, catering to fans outside of Korea is looking for validation.

what is even being validated though?

Do they really need to be validated by award shows if they already know they great bop music and have killer choreo? Awards don't tell them they're great at what they do, it's the fans.

BTS got popular internationally before they got popular in Korea. So, they were already validated in the west (by fans) before they were in Korea (by award shows + fans).

Why is it BTS that gets people complaining about them needing western validation to be famous?

I honestly think this constant battle between BTS/ARMYs vs the kpop community is ridiculous. However, both sides constantly feed into it, that's a rant for another day though.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Edit 1:

Also, I just realized that Monsta X, NCT, Super Junior, EXID and BTS were all on Buzzfeed Celeb so if doing activities in America count as western validation all these groups would be looking/seeking it out. Everyone turns their cheek when it doesn't come to BTS.

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Twitter Introduces Over 35 Premium Video Content Partnerships To Asia Pacific

- ARIAs, Filmfare, International Cricket Council, Riot Games, among others will feature new live and in-stream video programming on Twitter

- Twitter rolls out in-stream video advertising offering to the region starting with Australia

SINGAPORE, Sept. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, the first place to see what's happening, unveiled a robust slate of premium live and in-stream video content deals across sports, news and entertainment this morning at All That Matters. Over 35 collaborations were announced, bringing hundreds of hours of new exclusive video and live original programming, live games and events to the platform. The announcement includes extensions of existing global live deals and brings new always-on premium video content on Twitter to advertisers in Asia Pacific. In relation, Twitter rolls out in-stream video advertising offering to the region starting with Australia - more details here.

Twitter executives including Global VP of Revenue & Operations Matthew Derella, Managing Director of Asia Pacific Maya Hari, and Director for Live Partnerships, Bo Han, presented the video content offerings to brand and agency partners. They were joined by guest speakers including Dan Rosen, CEO ARIA, Anjali Kapoor, ‎Head of Digital, Asia Pacific - ‎Bloomberg LP, Alexander Broun, ‎Director, Digital solutions APAC at FOX Sports, Diane Ho, Head of Screens, Seven West Media Limited, among others.

"Live is at the core of Twitter. In Q2, we streamed over 1,200 hours of live premium content globally from leading brands across sports, esports, news, and entertainment," said Matthew Derella, Global VP of Revenue & Operations, Twitter. "Asia Pacific is the growth engine of Twitter and we could not be prouder to extend our success with both live streaming and in-stream premium video content in the region."

"Digital video consumption is growing rapidly in Asia Pacific and estimated to grow to over a billion by 2020," said Maya Hari, Managing Director of Asia Pacific, Twitter. "Introducing over 35 live and in-stream video sponsorship deals today to APAC advertisers will strengthen the success of our only-on-Twitter experience in the region and globally, combining high quality streaming video with conversation on what's happening in the world right now."

Attendees were given an overview of the different ways marketers can "be what's happening" by advertising against premium video content to influential, connected audiences. New live and in-stream video content announced on stage included the following:

Sports

International Cricket Council (ICC): Cricket is the most popular sport in multiple Asia Pacific countries, and Twitter lights up around international matches every year. Fans will be able to experience replays and highlight videos on Twitter from the International Cricket Council (@ICC)'s events in 2018.

Channel 7 Sports: Tennis fans in Australia will get a closer look at the first tennis grand slam of the year via @7tennis on Twitter as they bring highlights and videos from the Australian Open throughout the two weeks of the event.

Fox Sports Asia: Fox Sports Asia (@FOXSportsAsia) is one of the region's largest sports broadcasters and have been leaders in the production of snackable video content for fans on Twitter. From the US Open tennis to Asian football, motorsport to golf, Fox Sports Asia will be bringing fans their most premium real-time highlights videos on Twitter in 2017 and 2018.

Riot Games: Riot Games (@RiotGames) is Twitter Australia's partner on League of Legends, the world's highest participation eSports title. The partnership has seen two full Live stream experiences for League of Origin and Oceanic Premier League Grand Final, as well as ten live broadcasts via Periscope Producer. The partnership will see more eSports action coming for fans in the Asia Pacific region.  

Entertainment

KBS Music Bank Weekly Shows: KPop is absolutely massive on Twitter, and Twitter is teaming up with one of South Korea's biggest broadcasters, KBS World TV (@KBSWorldTV), to reward KPop fans on the platform. KBS World TV and Twitter will livestream an original KPop content 'Music Bank' series every week from Oct, 2017. KPop fans on Twitter can enjoy live streamed performances of popular KPOP bands like BTS, EXO, TWICE, GOT7 and newly emerging groups.

Filmfare Awards: India's most established and most popular Bollywood Awards will continue to strengthen the partnership with Twitter in 2018 with nomination announcements, Red Carpet clips, behind the scenes action and exclusive interaction with winners. This year, as a first for any Indian awards, Bollywood fans across the globe will get to watch a premium live stream on Twitter from a special show around the Filmfare Awards (@Filmfare).

ARIA Awards: The ARIA Awards (@ARIA_Official) are one of the premiere entertainment events in Asia Pacific, honouring Australia's top artists and biggest global stars. In 2016, we saw #ARIAs trend globally on Twitter, as users had their say by voting for an award exclusively on the platform. This year, ARIA and Twitter raise the bar with the partnership again, broadcasting the ARIA Awards Red Carpet coverage exclusively live on Twitter around the world. No matter where you are, Twitter will bring you a front row seat to the ARIAs action.

News

Bloomberg Asia Pacific: Bloomberg (@BloombergAsia) will be bringing its unrivaled Asia Pacific programming from daily market updates, the latest technology news, to bi-lingual business insights from Japan, to Twitter. This new in-stream video collaboration will reinvent the digital breaking news experience and offer new opportunities for brands to align with Bloomberg's premium content.

Buzzfeed Japan: BuzzFeed Japan (@BuzzFeedJapan) is cooking up a storm in one of the tastiest nations on earth. @TastyJapan will be serving up new and original cooking video series exclusively on Twitter, offering the best recipes, tips and secret ingredients in snackable video Tweets. The in-stream video collaboration is an extension of our partnership with Buzzfeed globally.

Network 18: Network 18 is India's leading media conglomerate across financial,  general and digital news, with channels including CNN-News18 (CNN's India affiliate), CNBC-TV18 (CNBC's India affiliate) and firstpost.com. Building on their successful partnership for Budget Day 2017, Network18 and Twitter are working to expand their partnership for Budget 2018.

"Over the past few years, partnering with Twitter has been a key part of generating buzz, excitement and tune in for the ARIAs. Twitter is a leader in delivering great, live content, and we are very excited to now extend our partnership by becoming the first awards show outside of the US to livestream our Red Carpet coverage exclusively on Twitter, taking the ARIAs live from Sydney to music fans all around the world." - Dan Rosen, CEO, ARIA

"We're excited to be embarking on this journey with Twitter to reinvent the digital breaking news experience. By combining Bloomberg's high-quality journalism and data-backed objectivity with Twitter's global immediacy, we are creating the world's fastest and most credible modern news source." - Anjali Kapoor, Head of Digital, APAC, Bloomberg

"We, at Worldwide Media are pleased to associate with Twitter once again for the Filmfare Awards. Last year, we explored some never-before-seen opportunities with Twitter such as introducing first ever emoji for any Indian awards. This year too we look forward to bring exciting and out-of-the-box ideas to engage the huge number of Filmfare fans. This partnership will further enhance the massive reach of Filmfare Awards." - Deepak Lamba, Chief Executive Officer, Worldwide Media Pvt. Ltd.

"We are your premier window with a nonstop 24X7 stream of the latest and the most popular Korean content capturing the imagination of audiences worldwide. With Twitter's unique ability to reach mass audiences across the globe, we are excited to reach Kpop fans all over the world with LIVE streaming performance of popular KPOP bands like BTS, EXO, TWICE, GOT7 and newly emerging bands, every week. This real-time engagement with the ever-growing global fan base adds a new dimension to our original content like the 'Music Bank' series, bringing it to their fingertips anywhere in the world." - Dong Seol Geum, Sr Manager, KBS World TV

"As a leading media and entertainment company we offer news and original content relevant to the evolving needs of the Indian consumers. People come to Twitter with a discovery mode and Network 18's current affairs, financial news and original content will offer them a unique glimpse into what's happening in the world right now. Our interesting perspectives and powerful storytelling, aligned to Twitter's real-time engagement and reach will create more value for our viewers." - Avinash Kaul, Managing Director, A+E Networks | TV18 and President - Strategy, Product & Alliances - Network18

"Our philosophy at Riot Games is that we put the player-experience first. We want our players to have choice when it comes to where they watch their esports and to be able to watch on the platform that provides them with the the interactive experience they prefer. Twitter allows fans to connect with each other and the event in a unique way which the stats show they're enjoying." - Daniel Ringland (@RiotStupendous), Head of eSports Australia and New Zealand, Riot Games

Full list of partnerships available to advertisers in Asia Pacific can be found here.

About Twitter

Twitter is what's happening in the world and what people are talking about right now. From breaking news and entertainment to sports, politics, and everyday interests, see every side of the story. Join the open conversation. Watch live streaming events. Available in more than 40 languages around the world, the service can be accessed via twitter.com, an array of mobile devices, and SMS. For more information, please visit about.twitter.com, follow @TwitterSG, and download both the Twitter and Periscope apps at twitter.com/download and periscope.tv.

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