sorry to fill your inbox with negativity, but i can’t keep it in myself anymore bc it just irks me so much. like the reactions to that lighthearted & funny hj drinking compilation was really the last straw. because my first thought was literally haha, how fun it would be to party with him, then i look at the replies and it’s absolute madness. nd i understand that it’s partly bc a hfer posted it, but the other half ??? the things that those people are saying ??? it’s literally so fcking weird, and ive been thinking how to describe it for a long while, and i can only say that it’s some kind of boy mom fetish. it’s not even just abt this post, like i’ve been seeing this behaviour for a long while. like ofc, hj is silly & cute nd sometimes does dumb bullshit. but these ppl are literally dumbifying him nd it’s so fucking weird 😭 like that is a grown ass man, who is actually very capable if you just looked outside of this tiny box wrapped up with a pink bow youve forced him into?? nd it’s NOT abt how sometimes bottoms are cutified & softened, NO it’s about how they’re literally dumbifying him. which idk, write your ao3 fic abt it if you’re into it, but they’re literally treating him, the REAL PERSON, like that and thinking they’re DEFENDING HIM. like from what??? 😭 ppl thinking he’s a grown man who’s capable of critical thinking? that he’s a 26 yrs old guy who knows about the existence of alcohol, cigrattes & sex like any normal person & he is not an uwu baby living in a sugar castle who sees the world in pink nd glitter?? like oh no, what a scandal, he is a normal human being!! and this type of bullshit is barely or not at all observed with any other members. bc i must emphasie this is not simply cutesy bottom logic, this is literally calling him airheaded and soft like a baby & bullshit like that, like what. the. actual. fuck???? like brother, just because when he was 18 he was shit at a game he played with his friends & probably barely cared about on a pre-written variety show DOESN’T mean he’s stupid??? like dont you notice how that’s so fucking degrading??? 😭 nd i seriously can’t call this anything else, but a boy mom fetish. literally reducing his agency & him as a whole person into this weird childlike role who cannot think for himself. and it’s so fucking weird, like oh my god, that is NOT hyunjin at all 😭😭😭 like if you have to pull out a pic of him from fucking 2000 BC where a stylist put him in a fuzzy sweater to prove your point, then idk, haven’t you thought that maybe your perception about him is a little off? like people will change through 9 years. & i would sort of get it, if it’s to like rebuke this “bad boy vibe” of him, BUT 1. you don’t have to do that by stupidifying him??? 2. if we live with the same exaggerations they do, then hj’s vibe is tortured poet, sad emoboy3000. i feel like ‘lover’ perfectly captured who hyunjin really is, like it’s so quintessentially him, it’s insane. from the tortured, yearning lyrics, to the visuals of the mv, it just perfectly represents who he is as a person to me 😭 like srsly, if you ask me how i’d describe him, i would say to watch lover and you’ll know. and if you try to contradict that with an off-handed remark that’s taken out of context & mistranslated and a pic that you had to dig out from the deepest pits of pinterest, instead of taking the lyrics HE wrote, the visuals & vibes HE curated nd wanted to capture at face value, then idk man, i think you don’t like him at all
(so sorry for the long rant, i just couldn’t keep it inside of me any longer. i just like your tweets & i agree w you on a lot of things so you accidentally ended up on the receiving end of it, i’m sorry 😭)