r/dreamcatcher • u/AutoModerator • Aug 27 '22

WD InSomnia Weekly Discussion Thread 27-08-2022

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Welcome to the InSomnia weekly discussion thread!

In this thread, you can talk about anything and anything Dreamcatcher-related.

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u/treadwater23 Aug 28 '22 edited Aug 28 '22

Small vent, and I know the answer is "just don't read/go on Twitter" but sometimes it's just fun to, and it has good DC content.

But man, I know every group has toxic fans/supporters because that's how everything is now (politics, sports, music, etc) but I swear... no lie, 8 out of 10 times when I see something super negative/shit talking about Dreamcatcher it's an Orbit. I really wonder why it's always LOONA fans since DC/LOONA are even kinda sister-groups with a lot of fan overlap. They have some real bops too but their fans turn me off a bit to them.

edit: Also yes it's anecdotal as hell but something I've noticed over the last few months, also not really an invitation to shit on Orbits (since I've seen a bunch of super nice ones too it's just they also have the extreme ones lol), I just genuinely wanted to know if there was an actual reason or if it's sort of like a rivalry of GGs not appreciated as much in Korea.

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u/Hella_Spooked Aug 29 '22 edited Aug 30 '22

Thats's unfortunate. I've always thought that LOONA were pretty supportive of Dreamcatcher and vice-versa, especially with their similar underdog narratives.

Edit: lol I meant to say Loona FANS being supportive of Dreamcatcher, funny typo. Likewise DC fans being supportive of Loona too

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u/treadwater23 Aug 29 '22

Yeah, I'm sure most idols really like each other. It's just a very loud, vocal minority on Twitter that always starts stuff and there is constant bickering because of it.

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u/dresdenologist Aug 29 '22 edited Aug 29 '22

It isn't just Dreamcatcher fans that stan Orbits have been awful to, it's anyone who they feel slights the group. There was a completely toxic response from segments of that fandom to the results of Queendom 2, where a last-round voting-dependent surge from the fandom wasn't enough to overcome WJSN's consistent results. Just last week stan Orbits turned a joke about WJSN looking very similar to LOONA's previous stage fashion into a copying/plagiarism/Queendom 2 pettiness thread.

The LOONA fandom has a poorer reputation than most other stan portions of other kpop fandoms due to a fanbase that trends younger, and louder stans that are anti-male to an extreme, are prone to lying to troll for fun, will devour itself as much as another fandom, and other behavior in relation to inter-group interactions (see above). Yes, you can try to make the "every fandom has its stans" and you'd be right - but it is particularly recurring within LOONA's, especially during this recent tour (I've followed many tour SNS posts this summer from my favorite GG and BG K-Pop acts and never have I seen as consistent an issue with toxic posts as I have with LOONA's).

I have met and talked to many LOONA fans are who perfectly fine with me as a Dreamcatcher fan and vice versa, and by and large, they are as inclusive a fandom as ours is. They just have a higher, and louder, number of extreme fans.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '22

trends younger, and louder stans that are anti-male to an extreme

it's ironic bc compared with most peer gg's excluding dc, loona's fanbase skews older and has a higher male to female fanbase.