I’ve noticed a lot of my close friends who explicitly weren’t into Asian men when we were in HS are now obsessed with K Pop and dating Asian men. While preferences exist, representation does matter outside of idpol.
It has its problems behind the scenes but so does hip hop and punk which we both readily embrace as anthems of the working class
I think that any form of popular entertainment under capitalism will have problematic and exploitative mechanics behind the scenes, but that's much more a function of capitalism than it is any inherent feature of the genre.
I’ve noticed a lot of my close friends who explicitly weren’t into Asian men when we were in HS are now obsessed with K Pop and dating Asian men. While preferences exist, representation does matter outside of idpol.
It has its problems behind the scenes but so does hip hop and punk which we both readily embrace as anthems of the working class
I think that any form of popular entertainment under capitalism will have problematic and exploitative mechanics behind the scenes, but that's much more a function of capitalism than it is any inherent feature of the genre.