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I think Taerae’s drop of popularity is a culmination of a few things: 1. A lot of his BP fans were casual (like what you said), 2. He has a very flamboyant personality and is SO obviously queer that there is no plausible deniability so that killed a lot of delusions that his fans had once more of his personality came out, and while he didn’t change since BP, back then he didn’t have as much screentime to showcase himself so voters probably didn’t know about him like that unless they watched the YouTube videos most people didn’t engage with 3. Half of the time they style him it’s the same old boring things or they style him like a kindergartner and that can be off putting to fans or not interesting to new fans so even tho all the styling for all the members is pretty crap he has it the worst (alongside Matthew’s constant shorts or jorts 🤨). And 4. He can be unlikable (let me speak my truth 🗣). I get it because honestly I act like him a lot but he’s very particular and does make comments centering himself in variety (if you genuinely observe when they do variety shows, most of his reactions are him saying “I wouldn’t do that” “I can see that” “that was for me” or give reactions that take away attention from the other members. I don’t think it’s malicious, just him being himself, but it can be taken wrongly as being attention seeking). If you just observe his mannerisms outside of when he’s dancing for fun you’ll see what I mean. Plus he’s not really promoted much on top of all these things so it somewhat makes sense he’s lost momentum.
so what's the plausible deniability... and don't say the flamboyant personality like what else is there 😭 actually don't answer idc but i feel like you can only rlly say that with hao lmao and a flamboyant personality has never stopped anyone from having fans even in korea! I just don't think taerae is queer it's a common sentiment I see but people are always so sure when he doesn't even give much but I'm not knocking it. And I can't lie and say it's surprising that he dropped, it's just having a bunch of casuals then them leaving his chance to build a core fanbase was wasted and here we are. His styling is probably one of the bigger issues now alongside promotion but also the last point mmmm I guess but in general most things u listed are pretty normal idt any are compelling reasons. Taeraes kinda going out like how a lot of main vocals do it's like a weird pattern but truly the #1 thing is the fact that he never got promoted like he could've been going down the sohee route minus the mc thing but look 🤦♀️
Can i just point out something thats missed is he still has bad stage presence and dance skills are poor too, i dont blame him but this is a trait of many main vocalists who have smaller fanbases compared to other membrrs. kpop is a visual industry when you watch zb1 stages hes just not gonna catch ur eye. but i think fans should stop caring about fancams when only core fans of the member will care about it
it's true that he's similar to other main vocals it's a factor but it's not even close to his biggest reasons imo like he's not terrible and his role is big enough we can overlook it it's rlly the fact that he's not promoted or highlighted
wakeone is honestly dumb as hell for not highlighting his vocals more, he blew up twice for his vocals outside of boys planet (reaching non fans) and wakeone has the brilliant idea to 1) give him barely any main vocal lines in their first album 2) take the very line that made him go viral during hot summer and give it to another member???? and everytime he does blow up for a cover (koms, idol next door etc.) they proceed to do absolutely nothing with the attention and then everyone forgets again, even in good night a band song and a ballad both of what taerae is known for they gave him at most 2 lines like wth is their goal its so aggravating atp even in run run a BAND SONG he had 2,5 lines and half of them were harmonised with a non vocal member it's 😕..... ☹️... especially if you see how big companies promote their vocals usually just look at sohee 🤕
LIKE EXACTLYYYYY sorry ppl always sensationalize the backlash for the superlady tiktoks when it wasn't that big and more so about the fact that he was doing an old trend consistently it's rlly just how hes been promoted as a main vocal that he hasn't grown
I mean I think they are getting better with that I’d say like he’s usually up there in the lines in their latest release and he did an ost for the most popular kdrama in years and it highlighted his voice well. I mean he even performed it at kcon live, I think they will probably highlight him more this cb vocally because I can’t imagine them doing a sweat line distribution on us again
they definitely have I feel like in general promotions have gotten a bit better butttt they started on a terrible foot especially him since he's a main vocal and wakeones own trainee but I feel like at this point itll be super hard to build a big core fandom