#<- that's because all the followers who've been completely ignoring your posts come out of the woods the moment you post a poll

[rainbowsky]

Hi Rainbow!!!

Is it bad if we don’t love GGDD’s new dramas post-2021? I’ve watched all of their new works on paid platforms but haven’t really loved any of them… and it makes me feel like a bad fan lol. Wfs are always going off about how we only support cql and nothing else so I feel like I’m just proving what they are saying. But on the other hand, I watch “straight” cdramas all the time and some just have better plots than others. I was really excited for ygy but so far it’s not my cup of tea and I find myself hyped for other dramas currently airing instead.

Hi Anon!

If you've watched all their dramas on paid platforms, it's hard to say you're a bad fan. That is by far the best way to support their work - through views, subscriptions, etc. Whether you liked a project or not, at least you've supported it.

You are under no obligation to enjoy their other work, but I think it's unusual for someone to dislike every other show they've done. You really watched them all - every one of them - and didn't like any of them? You didn't like The Youth Memories? You didn't like Being a Hero?

It's understandable that you'd dislike a shallow, cringey offering like OOL, but The Youth Memories? Really? That show is so good, I can't understand how you could dislike it. Have you really, honestly watched them ALL? 🤔

I can see why some people are a bit disappointed with The Longest Promise. I think that drama has been SO overhyped for years, as people have been dying to see it, and maybe they got their expectations ratcheted up too high. But it's also only just begun airing. I think people need to be patient and give it a real chance. The story has only just begun.

If you find yourself repeatedly disappointed it might be worth taking a closer look at your expectations. When you set an expectation in your mind, it's going to always be a guess, and it's going to almost always be an incorrect guess, and you'll go into the experience from a comparison mindset rather than from an open-minded one.

I personally try to avoid making assumptions - positive or negative - about something I haven't yet seen, and I try to go into everything with an open mind.

I've observed a lot of turtles who have stratospheric expectations for The Longest Promise and are feeling disappointed, and a lot of turtles who've had negative expectations of The Youth Memories and have completely skipped it. Both are doing themselves a disservice.

My advice for people approaching GG and DD's projects (or really, ANYTHING we encounter in life) is to try to go in with an open mind. Don't ignore or skip something just because you assume it won't be up your alley. You can't possibly know that until you try it.

Don't assume you're going to absolutely love something, either, or create preconceptions in your mind about what it will be like. Take it for what it is, and maybe through that open-minded perspective you'll find something about it that appeals to you.

And if you do watch it and find you don't like it, well at least you supported their projects. There are a lot of other dramas and films out there for you to enjoy, and there will be much more to enjoy from GG and DD in the coming years.

Edit: Follow-up post here.

#the longest promise #ggdd projects #ask

[nostuntmanneeded]

I've thought about the 'jabs' a couple of times as well and while I don't exactly condone namecalling and that I do believe that people go out of line in a couple in situations, in my opinion, the ones specifically that were mentioned above like spoiled brat and things like that are not just plain petty and untrue remarks, because I can get where the frustration is coming from and that's a huge thanks to the long insightful tips. Try to go back to the recent thorough tip talking about Cultural Appropriation and the ones explaining what's wrong with her doing PR, it might help you understand things more. People are not calling her dumb because they think she's illiterate, she's being called dumb because the way she behaves is not on par with her age and the behavior of a person capable of acting and making decisions with good reason and responsibly and also has decent cognitive skills. She's not a child, she's a grown woman who is almost 30 years, she should know better. A reasonable person would know better than to make multitudes of unecessarry travels at the height of a global pandemic or at least know how to follow the protocols. Never forget that when she went back to the US, it hasn't even been a week upon arriving LA when she was found hiking outside and when she posted a picture of her at the cinema, it has been over a year since the pandemic started at that time, and she have made a lot of travels by then, you can't possibly tell me that she was not aware that she was supposed to isolate herself for two weeks. Even if for some insane reason, she truly was not aware if it, I wouldn't exactly call it wise and responsible to choose not to learn about the protocols of the country you're travelling to in the midst of a deadly and uncontrollable pandemic, and so is choosing to follow your boyfriend all the way to Prague and invite your manager and mom to follow you there like you're on some sort of vacation while they are on lockdown. The authorities and citizens are obviously scared for their health and safety, the lockdown was imposed for a reason, I'm pretty sure the last thing they want are tourists (who aren't properly wearing masks) roaming around while they're trying to keep things in control. I'd consider that dumb and inconsiderate. One thing I've learned from one of the tips is that you should not trivialize cultural appropriation as it's a complete disrespect and mockery to the oppressed people who owns the culture that is being appropriated. I can definitely see why people find her dumb for willingly participating in something like that, many people were just so hurt and infuriated that they find it unbelievable that someone would be capable of doing something like that simply found it insane and foolish. She's not a teenager, she's a grown woman well capable of identifying what is right and what is wrong, she needs to act her age and act responsibly. She's way too old to be this ignorant about a lot of things and not too old to know how to use technology at the same time, the internet is a vast and almost limitless platform to educate yourself, and it' free. It's not her friends or "boyfriend's" responsibility to teach her these things and to be the ones to make her take accountability she's old enough to know. "Dumb" doesn't even have to be necessarily an insult, sometimes there are just people who are essentially dumb and that's that. If she isn't dumb then I guess she must be fully cognizant of her actions, the consequences that comes with it and the amount of people that can possibly affected and hurt by her actions then and she's just consciously ignoring it and is deliberately choosing to be indifferent and selfish. Now, about the spoiled brat part, people are not calling her spoiled just because of the fact she's rich, she's being called spoiled because she's taking advantage of her privilege and making a career out of it. As mentioned before, it's one thing to use PR stunts to boost your career but to use it as the very foundation of your career is just unethical and unprofessional.

Pursuing a career as an artist is extremely exhausting in every sense of the word with all the drawbacks you have to deal with like financial issues, discouragement, anxiety, constant rejection and all that, artists go through a lot of shit, buying your way into an industry is a big insult to artist who basically beat themselves while trying to pursue artistry. Regardless if you tried to put some effort developing your skills, it doesn't change the fact that you cheated and that you possibly stole an oppotunity for someone who is way more deserving, it's such a privileged mindset and completely selfish. If you want to achieve something, do the work, and I mean all the work that is required, if you're really passionate about it you'd know for a fact that it would completely be worth it and that taking the long way instead of a shortcut would benefit and teach you more. I don't have that much to say about the talentless part because it's highly objective and talent is irrelevant to one's moral character but I think that comes from the people who've seen her work and was not impressed by it at all. Also the fact that she's using PR to build her career kinda implies that she herself is not convinced that she has talent, that she doesn't need to pull a stunt in order to be succesful because she's a capable person. Just my two cents.

Anon, you deserve to do a mic-drop!

While I'm not a fan of name-calling either, the names that were mentioned have a legitimate reason. They're not insults, but merely harsh criticisms at the things she's done and the things she continues to do.

This was perfectly said.