#i know skz and txt were tussling for most popular for a while especially in 2020 and 2021 | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ooblech · 3 months ago

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i wonder if post god's menu stays realise how much of a shift that era was for skz? like obviously you can see retroactively by looking back at their discography irt their sonic signature, but i don't think people who weren't there can seriously grasp how big of a shock it was, they went from stan twitter's favourite punching bag to one of kpop's biggest up and comers practically overnight. they were already relatively popular by virtue of being a big 3 group, and they'd had a bit of success with miroh and less prominently my pace, but the absolute explosion after god's menu and their continued upward trajectory ever since was completely unprecedented for them. and especially given that they had JUST dropped a member. kpop groups do not tend to have massive spikes in popularity after losing members, and when levanter dropped we were all incredibly anxious for skz's future because it looked so bleak. we were crying cheering throwing up over ONE MUSIC SHOW WIN. ONE. they used to be less famous than everglow. do you understand me? are you understanding me.

#everglow's downfall has had kpop twitter's finest scholars scratching their heads for years #mismanagement and massive gaps between releases are probably the biggest culprits #but i think we all need to hold hands and accept that they were never going to be the next blackpink. the timing of it just wasn't right.#skz's timing on the other hand was literally perfect down to the millisecond.#i know we like to talk about how hard they work and all but i don't think we can discount how much sheer luck was involved #because i do not believe that jype or even the kids were paying that much attention to the timing of releases. like be real with me #and also their exponential growth in popularity as bts stopped being so active was not a coincidence at all #bts as a group stopped gaining as many new fans when they started solo activities and the members started military service #both due to a decrease in new music and their new music being so different from what made them appealing to young people in the first place #same with exo to a lesser degree because they never got as famous as bangtan #that left a vacuum at the top which skz stumbled into pretty naturally given their newfound and still growing popularity #all those new gen fans who were looking for the next biggest thing found skz #and with the sheer amount of content they put out they're the natural choice for a middle school kpop fan with too much time on their hands #i know that people still argue that txt is the biggest 4th gen boygroup but i'm not interested in falsifying narratives like moas are #< joke.#i know skz and txt were tussling for most popular for a while especially in 2020 and 2021 #but after kingdom it just stopped being a competition. you can probably still argue that txt are more popular in sk #but with skz consistently marketing themselves as a global group theyve never done as well in sk as they have abroad that's just the truth #im not on twitter anymore so i cant obsessively monitor the trends anymore but also i don't need to because skz have come out on top. LOL #5 years and im vindicated at last.#take THAT 2019 kpop twitter.... <- man who hasn't gotten over anything ever in their life

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