I need to vent this out.

Recently, when I came back to k pop after my hiatus from it, I began stanning TREASURE. And to reiterate, I didn’t intend to devote my time to them unlike with BIGBANG, 2ne1 and WINNER, but it just so happens that TREASURE has charms that pull you in, and the next thing you know, they have you wrapped around their fingers. But in a good way ofc.

It’s really good to have a bias group again, esp when all of my UB are on hiatus, if not, disbanded. TT__TT However, I realized after a few years away from kpop, and coming back into it, this world became more toxic that it already was before. Imagine saying a group is already a flop 24 hours after their debut simply because they didn’t made a PAK, or reached a certain number of views the first day. I was baffled by this standard of success. What the heck happened in appreciating the music? Why do we measure their worth through numbers? Yes, ofc, I get it that it helps monitor a group’s impact, but the 24 hours milestone? Personally, I feel that’s ridiculous. Instead of celebrating their debut, a part of us gets demotivated because they didn’t start as big as we expected.

And try as I might, I cannot avoid the culture of hate, absurd comparisons and trolls that seem to live off of negativity by dragging treasure.

I feel so bad for the boys. They are just rookies, and all of them are still too young to be exposed in such backlashes and harsh criticism. I hate it more that most of the hate stemmed from the fact that they are from YG. I don’t want to think that Koreans are sleeping on Treasure because of the issues about YG, but it inevitably shows by how trolls would shower hate comments on them by dragging YG along the lines. It’s also disheartening looking at the domestic charts. Treasure is full of so so so much potential and I am just sad that people refuse to acknowledge this because of superficial biases.

All these sentiments are pushing me to do better for them. My gosh I never streamed an MV before not even when my biases had a comeback. I only watch their MVs when I want to, not purposefully in order to raise the views. But now, I’m streaming Treasure’s MV on 4 devices at home, 3 to 4 hours a day because I want them to be recognized for the talented gems they are.  I pray, really really hard, that one day they’ll become the most successful boy group. Not to slap back at the haters and at SoKor for being snobbish, but simply because they deserve it.

I will remember these sad moments, because when the time comes and they are finally charting #1 songs (which I firmly believe will come true), I won’t allow anyone saying that they got there because they came from a big company. They did it because they’re TREASURE.