What lines are we accidentally crossing as fans?

When most fans think of people crossing the line as "fans", they think of sasaengs. And yes, they are the most openly disrepectful and delusion of us all, but, maybe we all are a little like them. For me, the idol I respect the most is Roy Kim. He's my ultimate bias, I love him, and I do what I can to stay within my boundaries as a fan. I have rped him before, yes, but after doing so I realized that I am not fit to impersonate him -whether real or not- and that it's a very big role to take on when roleplaying an idol. Generally in roleplays people associate the roleplayer with the idol, and it can cause hate and opinions about a group or idol before the person has even explored their music or personality. And because I feel so strongly with that with Roy, I have left roleplaying all together because I don't think it's right to do that. I think that's crossing the line, and a lot of us do not see it like that as fans. Fanfiction is also crossing the line, I think. To be honest, most of the time when I write "fanfictions" i'm just face, name, and setting stealing from what I know best -kpop. So, no, my intentions are not necessarily bad but as a whole, yes, it's still bad. Alexander from U-KISS has tweeted about fanfiction, not enjoying it because as he puts brilliantly (this may not be word for word), "We(idols) already have lives. Why write about it?", thus concluding my point.

But, the thing I'm wondering about most lately is the pictures we have of them. On our phones, on our computers, etc, etc. I know it's great to fangirl and I know it's great to love but I feel really inclined to delete all of my pictures of Dongho because he said he wanted to be treated like a normal person. A normal person wouldn't have millions of people with pictures of him on their phones, you know? I'm just wondering if maybe it's wrong and selfish to keep them -sure, you can say they'll never find out, but where is the good or respect in that? I don't want him to be forgotten, and I don't want to not be able to look at pictures at him, but at the same time I get the feeling like it's wrong....

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ChaoticDarkAngel #1
And as for the pictures? No that's not selfish. As long as you aren't claiming the idol as yours, then it's perfectly normal XD My sister has One Direction pictures in her room and on her computer, she's still sane and not selfish.
ChaoticDarkAngel #2
Mhmmm I disagree on the roleplaying. Roleplaying is just for fun, I mean, I just see it as a hobby and nothing serious ^^; As for fanfiction: I highly don't see how fanfiction is 'disrespectful'. Look at DBSK/TVXQ/JYJ for example: All five members have read fanfiction. Yunho and Jaejoong both actually read the infamous Yunjae book 'Gashyeon' or something and liked it XD So it shows not all idols are offended by fanfics.

The I can understand: But still. It's fanfiction. Not real. Were just using the idol's faces and making our own characters basically? Sorry I'm not good with words ><

I hope you aren't offended with what I wrote ^^; I'm interested in blogs like this.
dream_keeper88 #3
There are published authors who don't like us making fanfictions of their works. So, as respect, we don't write a fanfic of Lestat [Anne Rice's vampire]. On the other hand, there are authors who don't mind their fans writing fanfics about their characters. It can be seen as publicity as well, as long as the fans don't take money for their fanart or fanfics. So, Kiss Mes should respect Xander's wishes. No fanfics about him. But as for the others, as long as it is okay with them, then fanfic writers are not doing them harm. Of course, there are still limits on what we can write. Here in AFF, we do have restricted content. We can't write fics on , ia, extreme violence... It's in the terms of use.

As for photos, I keep some because I use them in making my own graphics. Anyway, it is in the territory. Celebrities know that their fans have posters of them on their walls. Now that Dongho is no longer a celeb, perhaps, his photos should be kept for memories sake.

There are online sasaengs and they are no different than the ones who physically invade the privacy of celebrities. These online sasaengs have contacts [regular sasaengs] who would do 'missions' for them. And there are companies who provide these services. Creepy, I know.

As long as we don't earn money from it and that we don't make them feel uncomfortable with it [ like Xander; I know GD and TOP told their VIPs not to 'ship' them], and we don't write restricted content, I think it's okay to write fanfics. Oh btw, is Xander still a celeb? There should be no written fanfics about him after he left, if that is the case.

Oh, I also wrote this a long time ago: http://www.asianfanfics.com/blog/view/617101
RP #4
Well, they are normal people, but you can't join in and be famous, then hope to be invisible. Fans are fan. As long as they are not hurting anyone, it should be okay. But that's just me. ._.v
NumberOneShawol #5
I agree with you, but here's the thing and I may sound harsh by saying this so I'm warning you now. Every idol, or any celebrity in general knows that when they become part of the public eye, they can expect this sort of thing to happen. People will put pictures of them in their phones, they will have them as their profile pictures on twitter, facebook, instagram, etc. They knew this going into this type of business. If they don't like it, then they shouldn't have become an idol. It comes with the territory. It's just natural for fans to worship their idols and if they don't become crazy stalkers and learn their boundaries, then there's nothing wrong about it. Yes, sometimes fanfiction does go too far, but as long as nothing portrayed in the story happens, then there is really no harm done to anyone. It's just an exploration of our imagination and there is nothing wrong with being creative.
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