>>9975108>And fuck no being willing to collab with males doesn't make Suisei a "bad" or "outlier" idol fuck that shit.I really don't care if you think alt idols are idols my guy, they're not and there's a reason that AKB48 and adjacent groups are both:
1)the types of things people think of when they think of the word "idol"
2)the type of group where girls who have boyfriends are often harshly dealt with
>I-idols aren't GFE!No, but they are a certain kind of a person. A person who is an idol doesn't get a boyfriend for her fans sake, even if she doesn't do GFE.
Imagine if you had a really good friend who loved you like a brother, but who you loved as more than that, way more. She cared about you, and knew that those feelings hurt because they were unreciprocated.
A normal person would never deprive themselves of anything for a friend in that way, of course. At best, they'd try and detach themselves. But we're not talking about a normal person, we're talking about an idol. The idol doesn't want them to detach. But she is expected to care about her fans emotional well-being.
It is not a reasonable expectation for an ordinary human being to concern herself with the irrational feelings of another. But idols have never sold themselves as aiming at being simply ordinary human beings. They sell themselves as dreams.
The idea of obsessing over an entertainer purely, and ONLY, for their "journey" through life and watching them improve, and openly deriding any sense of commitment to their fans, is in my experience a very Amerifat attitude. Not sure if it stems from their built in hyper-individualistic guilt complex where they feel they have no right to expect anything from anyone or whatever but it's always obvious when the superfan is a burger
