Fandoms

K-pop fans in London await the arrival of their idols.

Kpop fans are not a force to be taken lightly. For every idol group up on the stage dancing to choreographed steps and singing (or not) with angelic voices, there are going to be hundreds, thousands, or millions of fans screaming their heads off and waving around signs to support their favourite band and for the chance to be acknowledged (looked at) by their favourite idol.

One unique thing about Kpop is that not only are there fans, but there is a phenomenon the internet has spawned called antis. Antis are people who love a group so much that they devote their time to spending hours a day putting down other groups that could be seen as competition for their favourite group. They make anti-blogs, anti-facebook pages, they scour the internet for content they can use against the other groups, and fill every comment space of other groups with negative remarks.

Just with antis come the group's defense fans. They spend just as much of their own time defending the groups the antis are fighting so hard against. They often give themselves names to unite under a single cause. Fans of Girl's Generation are known as Soshis. Fans of the wildly popular 2NE1are known as Blackjacks. And so on.

You can find countless facebook pages dedicated to attack and defending just about any group out there.