So I’ve been thinking:
Yesterday a Super Junior text post went viral on Tumblr, a post retelling an infamous Strong Heart Choding Junior story, and there were so, so many new young fans asking ‘wait, is this for real? did this really happen..??? WHAT?’ and I realized the new generations don’t know SuJu - at all! They missed the time when there was Strong Heart, when SuJu used to go on these shows and tell this type of crazy stories, missed the heroic Dream Team episode they shot right after the fight and which helped them make up, missed the iconic Inkigayo incident which had fans in a meltdown and racking their brains trying to understand what went wrong for over a year(!) until members finally explained it in the above mentioned story. They probably weren’t given info about ‘it’s refreshing!’ game, about the airport fashion traditions, even classics like EHB, Full House or Intimate Note! But I bet they were instantly given Hate 101 about each member’s misstep with 5 different variations of exaggeration, reaching and taking out of context straight to space. And it’s so sad that the negative moment has been given a priority over 10 whole years of non-stop sheer fun, warmth, happiness the group had (and still has) to offer, of endless unimaginable antics the likes of which you haven’t seen with new groups, or how when a young group does something silly you smile to yourself remembering that time SuJu already did it on a crazier scale.
I don’t know what brought this on but I just find it so sad and such a pity that so many are missing out on Super Junior because of image and hate.
And I haven’t even said a word about their musical side yet.