The Controversial World of K-Pop Photocards
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- In this video I discuss a series of controversies surrounding the sale of K-Pop photocards. The goal of this video is to analyze whether the practices behind these collectible cards come from a genuine celebration of the artists or if they are abusing fanaticism and consumerism to make a profit.
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This reminds me of the Pokémon Card Collecting Scene. It's really impressive how K-Pop bands are capable of selling this Photocards in an abusive way.
It's interesting to see how the merchandise collectables market can be THIS abused if the IP is popular enough, SPECIALLY if they collaborate with another established company
And then the resellers... Ugh
Going into this video knowing nothing about photocards was insane 😭
The only time I get photo cards is the rare time I decide to buy an album or membership box, and mostly when I go to concerts and people hand out unofficial photo cards that they made. I like when fans make art or jewelry more than photocards, it's always a bit like an obsession with collecting something, instead of buying something meaningful to you. The girlies spend so much money for rare photo cards 😭 idk how they manage to do it
as someone who buys the albums ocasionally i do agree that the photocard industry for kpop is madness! In addition to that as someone who lives in a nordic country it is harder for us to get the albums and they cost more, which makes the whole "social" point in collecting the cards a bit useless since not many people here are into kpop this much to buy a 50 USD album of two songs just for the bits of cardboard ;-;
Also i believe that there are more groups and artists not only releasing more albums per year, but also more versions of the same album with different photocard sets, making it more expensive for consumer to collect the whole set of cards.