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PR Relationships, Parasociality, and Gaylor speculations (with Dr. Kate Kurtin)

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The Importance of Idol Shipping in Fandom Culture

In South Korea the K-pop industry is notorious for this kind of like controlling management style. This all incidentally leads to a lot of intergroup shipping. The rationality behind it is if they don't have time to date or hang out with other people then who's to say they're not dating each other. While BTS shipping in Japan tends to conceptualize homo erotic relationships between men via sexual practices and behaviors divorced from identity anglo phone shipping tends to instantly overtly deploy LGBTQ identity politics. Both practices possess queer potentials that allow fans to effectively explore their sexuality.

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