Mainstream

I'm not sure when it started. When I was in primary school, I didn't really have a solid interest in anything in particular. But I guess I was into anime back then, cos I did watch a few of it.

The K-Pop Fever started when I was in Standard 6 (for me.) At that time I really did not like it. And I had a good reason why too, I met the wrong fangirls. You know, the type that just SQUEALS and keep saying "OPPA IS MINE!" and keep on trying to speak in Korean "THAT'S SO KYEOPTAA!!"

Basically, those fangirls gave K-Pop a bad first impression to me. And it didn't help when they just showed me pictures of their oppas being shirtless.

And then of course high school happened, and one day my sister showed me a Super Junior video. Guess which one it was? Yep, Sorry Sorry. Wow, feels like such a long time ago. Anyway, that was the starting point for me and then I got hooked. It wasn't that hard really, and during that time (2010) there wasn't too many k-pop fans. Okay, there was a lot, but none of the fans were crazy.

And then it happened. The tsunami of crazy fangirls. I'm not sure when it began, whether during EXO's debut, or even before that, but I noticed it after EXO debuted. Fangirls were craaazy. More of the "OPPA IS MINE" fangirls were born, all around Malaysia. How do I know this? Because there was an increase in K-pop artists doing concert in Malaysia.

Of course, more of my friends also became fans, some naturally, while some brutally. And I don't know why, but I started to lose interest in it. Sometimes my friends would ask me like "Hey, did you see their new MV??" and sometimes I would answer with an excited "YES" or "NO WAS IT GOOD?" but other times I would just say "No, I haven't. Not really interested to watch it, is it good?"

And then last year (or was it the year before?), my brother told me he had Bleach episodes until the end of the series. And I was like "ARE YOU KIDDING ME GIVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME!!"
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a little. But I really wanted to watch it, cos I watched it before I got the K-Pop fever and it was like YEARS AGO so I really wanted to know what happened in the end.

And so, that was how I got back into anime. And I am currently still into it. I still watch K-pop, but I don't really search for any videos, unless I heard it was a good one, or when a group I still like makes a comeback.

Well, if you want to compare it, back then I had a file for K-pop, and it was separated into MVs, Live Performance, Fancam, Variety Show and Etc. I'm not sure how big the file was. I had ONE file for anime, and they weren't episodes, just random stuffs like openings, or funny moments.

Now, my Anime file is 97.4G and there are 33 anime series in it. That does not include random videos of anime which is 2.38G. And my K-Pop file? 5.68G.

Anyway, that's besides the point. What I'm trying to say is, I don't like it when too many people start to like what I like. I mean, of course it's great to have a friend to fangirl with, but when you don't want to fangirl with them, but they keep fangirling around you, it becomes annoying.

Or maybe I just rather be dead than be mainstream.