#yea mnet shows have not been doing good on the promo front for a while now

[sanstropfremir]

also i dont remember if you said you watched all of queendom but do you think the show is as effective as it *should* be in terms of promoting groups. ((personally id say no,,, good for viral moments maybe but judging on how wjsn literally won and their company starship is still giving all the attention to their favourite child you've (((id say ive but if you have them blocked))) i think queendom leaves a lot to be desired for helping a group or artist make lasting impressions in public))

i did! well, 'watched' is generous, i never watched the full episodes but i did review all the stages! they're all tagged on my directory page.

and no, i don't think it was effective at all in promoting groups. mnet shows have been dipping in popularity this year, pretty much all the ones i can think of have crashed pretty hard/have not been well favoured, and it definitely has to do with how they're constructing/writing the shows more for drama and 'viral' moments than actually letting performers make good art. the original queendom was somewhat successful i think bc it was the first version, and rtk worked because the point was they were bringing in underdog groups, and a lot of underdog groups are the ones actually putting out good work atm. rtk was a bit of a fluke though and not because of mnet, it's just that the limited resources/restrictions and the combination of groups lead to some really really good stages, but as soon as they changed that formula it went off the rails. rtk did bring tbz a lot of attention, but on the flip side i don't think kingdom actually brought them many new fans and nor did it do anything for skz, the actual winners. it did boost sf9, but i think anything would have boosted sf9 at that point. and queendom 2 did fuck all for anybody. i mean, it let people know that hyolyn is still queen shit, but that's kind of about it. the vast majority of the performances were disappointing or just straight up not good, and the whole point of the show is about the performances.