six feet under // the weeknd.
“A few years ago, I was crying and whining at my mom and sister while I was really drunk. I asked my mom and sister… it wasn’t long after we’d moved. I asked them if they were happy. I got drunk and woke up my entire sleeping family, like some ahjussi. It had been my number one goal in life, you know, to make my mom and sister happy. They both woke up and told me they were happy. But I was so envious at the fact that they were able to reply that they were, indeed, happy. Because it wasn’t like that for me. I told them while sobbing: I want to be happy too. Then I felt like I’d done my mom and sister wrong. But from then on, I started contemplating about happiness. For about six months, I pondered specifically over what I would need to do to become happy. I think that time of transformation has come. I think I need to be happy, now. I must become happy. I am going to be happy.”
Rest in Peace. You will be missed, our dear Jonghyun. Life may have been cruel now, but I hope you find another life where you’ll achieve your happiness. Sing on in heaven, and watch over the boys and shawols you left behind. We aren’t angry, we aren’t going to curse you, you won’t be remembered for how you died but for how you lived. You touched millions of hearts and graced a gift upon this world that can never be replaced. You’ll live on in our hearts and within the happiest memories we shared these last ten years. Go In peace, this is our final goodbye.Let’s meet again.
YOU CAN’T SPELL ‘BEST’ WITHOUT BTS
JUST LETTING Y'ALL KNOW WHERE THIS BLOG STANDS.
The K-pop fandom on Tumblr cannot be messed with. The love for K-pop is so off the charts, it’s the only music genre that exists as its own Fandometrics list. To celebrate the genre and its ultra-passionate community, we analyzed all the tags from January 1st, 2017 through August 16th, 2017 to determine the most talked about groups, idols, and ships. Fighting!
If you’ve been following along since we introduced the K-pop list on May 1st, 2017, you know that BTS has been No. 1 since the very beginning. Furthermore, #BTS was the eighth highest trending tag on all of Tumblr during this six month period. That’s more popular than any TV show, film, or video game. The next highest trending K-pop-related term was #bangtan, at No. 17.
Though our weekly list is made up of both solo artists and groups, we focused solely on the bands for this In Depth (but we see you, G-Dragon 👀).
During this 228 day period, these 30 groups garnered a combined 200 million engagements. We noticed that boy groups are more popular, nabbing 90% of the conversation. K.A.R.D represents the only co-ed group on the list. The full list below:
BTS | 40.10%
EXO | 12.46%
GOT7 | 7.19%
SEVENTEEN | 6.54%
Monsta X | 5.28%
NCT 127 | 2.46%
SHINee | 2.56%
B.A.P | 1.60%
BLACKPINK | 2.35%
Twice | 2.10%
Red Velvet | 2.00%
VIXX | 1.93%
Girls’ Generation | 1.22%
Big Bang | 1.17%
DAY6 | 1.22%
Mamamoo | 1.17%
NCT Dream | 1.13%
iKon | 0.95%
Wanna One | 0.94%
f(x) | 0.66%
K.A.R.D | 0.68%
GFriend | 0.64%
Pristin | 0.54%
Super Junior | 0.45%
Infinite | 0.49%
BtoB | 0.48%
NU’EST | 0.46%
Block B | 0.43%
2NE1 | 0.41%
Cosmic Girls | 0.38%
Shipping is most definitely welcome in the K-pop world. There’s no surprise that the top ten K-pop ships are comprised of our top two bands. BTS pairings alone received a whopping 88% of the total ship engagements. That’s a whole damned fleet. Did your OTP make the cut?
Jikook Park Jimin & Jeon Jungkook, BTS
Yoonmin Min Yoongi & Park Jimin, BTS
Taekook Kim Taehyung & Jeon Jungkook, BTS
Yoonseok Min Yoongi & Jung Hoseok, BTS
Vmin Kim Taehyung & Park Jimin, BTS
Namjin Kim Namjoon & Kim Seokjin, BTS
Kaisoo Kim Jongin & Do Kyungsoo, EXO
Chanbaek Park Chanyeol & Byun Baekhyun, EXO
Taegi Kim Taehyung & Min Yoongi, BTS
Yoonkook Min Yoongi & Jeon Jungkook, BTS
If your biases didn’t appear in this post enough for your liking, there’s a whole blue website out there for you to explore. Try these out for all of your reblog and liking needs:
Jungblue (@jungblue) has immersive and beautifully-written BTS fan fiction.
FY! Twice (@fyeah-twice) curates the latest news and photos of JYP’s nine-member girl group.
Hansolmates (@hansolmates) writes fan fiction for every SEVENTEEN scenario you could ever dream up.
BloominFlowers (@bloominflowers) makes majestic digital fan art of boy and girl groups.
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DREW IS A BLESSING. ugh this boy is a nut.
Jungkook fell out of his bed while sleeping and Yoongi laughed so cutely at him