My son graduated with honors with electrical and computer engineering degrees in 2023. He can not get an interview, let alone a job. Any white male he knew in college can't get jobs either. Many are currently working in data center jobs that don't require their education.

— DRG (@suspended1233) December 25, 2024

This guy isn't wrong, however there are a lot of r-slurs I have to deal with applying and interviewing for these jobs. I'm eternally grateful that I graduated before COVID-19.

!jannies we need a toggle to turn that shit off like yesterday

I'd say we need /h/cute twink back but it died for a reason.

CSS osu!

Also posted on WPD

I made a simple version of the circle clicking game osu! with HTML and CSS. I was mostly finished with it around December 4. You can find it on @YourAlterEgo's profile. It's on the desktop site only. If you're using a laptop, using a mouse is recommended.

To play it, you click the circles when the ring (approach circle) gets close to the circle. The right time to click is around the time the ring turns white or when it almost reaches the circle. You can click earlier or later if you want. If the anthem starts at the same time you click the play button, it should somewhat sync with the song (it's not perfect).

Play here on @YourAlterEgo's profile (Desktop only)

If the anthem autoplays or the game lags, try it here:

https://reddreamer.nekoweb.org/cssosu/

The above site is a static web hosting site like Neocities or GitHub Pages.

Click here if you want to vote on polls asking whether you played and liked the game. They're in a comment because you can't have <details> and polls in the same post.

Comment what you think. If it glitches out or doesn't work, comment what went wrong and what browser you're using. If the anthem doesn't play, try closing other rDrama tabs that have audio playing.

Assets

rDrama version (Copy and paste it into your bio and profile CSS if you want)

• Bio Markdown
• CSS (rDrama version)
• Set this as your anthem

Non-rDrama version

I tried making a .zip, but Furryfox (Firefox) kept calling it a virus

https://files.catbox.moe/imovff.zip

• CSS (cssosu.css) (Mirror, name it cssosu.css)
• HTML (name it anything ending with .html)
• Song: lucky-nightcore.mp3 (Mirror, name it lucky-nightcore.mp3)
• Cursor: cursor.png (Mirror, name it cursor.png)
• Logo (used as an icon): cssosulogo.png (Mirror, name it cssosulogo.png)
• Background: background.jpg (Mirror, name it background.jpg)
• Background source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adobetutorialz/4556724799/ (Median filter used to remove the patterns)

The song is a nightcore (sped-up) version of Lucky Twice - Lucky. I got it straight from an osu map (.osz file) with the same song and edited it to start shortly before the chorus.

Questions

If you have other questions, ask in the comments, and I might answer.

1. What is osu!?

It's a free-to-play weeb rhythm game where you click circles while listening to music. This is the game's website. You can try an unoffcial web demo like I did if you don't want to download it. On the actual game and the web version, you can use Z and X to click, which is easier than clicking with the mouse. They also have sliders and spinners, which aren't present in this CSS version.

2. What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets, a language used for styling webpages. You can use it to change the color of text, add shadows and glows, change the page's layout, add background images, add simple animations, and so on.

3. Is there an indicator for early and late hits?

No. I tried to track early hits by adding another <details> element that would be animated to toggle its visibility (and therefore clickability). There would be 2 <details> elements you could click, and clicking the one that appears earlier would mean you hit early. However, this caused issues with the circles not responding to clicks, so I gave up on it.

4. How does it work?

CSS animations, animation delays, CSS counters, and lots of <details> and <summary> elements

This uses a lot of <details> and <summary> elements. To make the circles and play button interactive on click, they needed to be interactive HTML elements. <details> and <summary> elements (normally used for showing more text on click, like a spoiler button) are allowed in rDrama bios (unlike checkboxes), so they were perfect for this. The <summary> is the actual clickable part, so that is the element that is styled into a circle or play button.

The following is what details and summary normally look like.

Try clicking me. This clickable text is the summary element inside the details element.

Hello! This is the hidden text!

<details>
<summary>Try clicking me. This clickable text is the <em>summary</em> element inside the <em>details</em> element.</summary>
Hello! :marseywave2: This is the hidden text!
</details>

The game screen is a <blockquote>. It has a play button at the start (<details> and <summary> elements), and there are 72 blockquotes containing other elements after the play button, one for each of the 72 circles. The bio looks something like the following.

<blockquote>
<details><summary></summary></details>
> <details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p>
> <details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p>
...
> <details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p>
#
> <details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p>
...
> <details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p>
</blockquote>

In HTML, it would be this.

<blockquote>
	<details><summary></summary></details>
	<blockquote><details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p></blockquote>
	<blockquote><details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p></blockquote>
	...
	<blockquote><details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p></blockquote>
	<h1></h1>
	<blockquote><details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p></blockquote>
	...
	<blockquote><details><summary></summary></details><h2>a</h2><p>a</p></blockquote>
</blockquote>

The blockquotes are absolutely positioned and placed around the screen. Inside the blockquotes are the circles (<details> and <summary> elements), the rings/approach circles (<p>), and miss indicators (<h2>). There are also a few <h1> elements between the blockquotes used to mark the start of each section with different colored circles.

<blockquote>
	<details>
		<summary></summary>
	</details>
	<h2>a</h2>
	<p>a</p>
</blockquote>

You might notice the <p> and <h2> elements have "a" written inside them. This is simply because rDrama did not allow empty <p> and <h2> elements.

The approach circles (rings), circles, and miss indicators were all animated with CSS animations. Because osu! has set timings, it's easy to simply add an animation delay to determine when circles should appear. For example, circle 1 fades in 1.13 second after you click the play button, and circle 72 appears 32.73s seconds in.

#profile--bio blockquote > blockquote:nth-of-type(1) {
	animation-delay: 1.13s;
}

The circles, rings/approach circles, and miss indicators inherit the timing from the containing blockquote.

#profile--bio blockquote > blockquote p,
#profile--bio blockquote > blockquote details,
#profile--bio blockquote > blockquote h2 {
	animation-delay:inherit !important;
}

The play button consists of <details> and <summary> elements. When you click the play button, the open attribute gets added to the <details> element, and the play button gets hidden. The game only starts playing the animations for the other elements when the play button has the open attribute. The CSS uses the sibling selector to use the play button to target the other elements.

#profile--bio details[open] ~ blockquote details {
	animation:1.5s fadecircle ease-out;
	animation-fill-mode:forwards;
}

The above means that the circle (the second details) should have an animation named "fadecircle" only after the play button (the first details) has been clicked. The details[open] means that the details element has the "open" attribute. This looks like <details open> or <details open=""> in the HTML. The ~ is a sibling selector. If you write details ~ blockquote, it targets all blockquotes that are siblings of a details element (having the same parent element) and come after it in the HTML.

The circles need to be clickable for a limited amount of time. The visibility attribute both can be animated and affects interactivity. A circle's visibility is toggled through a CSS animation to make it clickable only when it's on screen.

@keyframes fadecircle {
	0% {
		visibility:hidden;
		opacity:0;
	}
	10% {
		visibility:visible;
		opacity:1;
	}
	90% {
		opacity:1;
		visibility:visible;
	}
	100% {
		visibility:hidden;
		opacity:0;
	}
}

When you click on a circle, it hides both the approach circle and the miss indicator. The miss indicator only appears after the circle fades out, meaning that if you click the circle, the miss indicator will never appear. Clicking the circle also makes the circle play a different animation to fade out as a white glow. Like with the play button, the open attribute is used to determine whether a circle was hit.

Hide approach circle after the circle (the second details) has been hit ([open])

#profile--bio details[open] ~ blockquote details[open] ~ p {
	display:none;
}

Play a different animation after the circle has been hit

#profile--bio > blockquote > blockquote > details[open] summary {
	background:none;
	animation:0.15s hitcircle linear;
	animation-fill-mode:forwards;
	border-width:6px;
}

The numbers on the circles and the hit counter were made using the CSS counter feature. The CSS counter feature allows us to count elements matching a certain selector and display the current count using the content attribute. For example, you can make a counter to count the number of circles and display the current count on each circle. That way, the 1st circle will be labelled 1, the 2nd circle will be labelled 2, and so on.

The first rule initializes 3 different counters to zero. The second adds 1 to two of the counters at every one of the 72 blockquotes inside the game. The third displays the current count of the counter circlenumbers on the circles.

#profile--bio {
	counter-reset:circlenumbers hitcircles totalcircles;
}

#profile--bio blockquote > blockquote {
	...
	counter-increment:circlenumbers totalcircles;
	...
}

#profile--bio > blockquote > blockquote > details > summary::before{
	content:counter(circlenumbers);
	...
}

There are different sections with different colors, and the circles in each section are numbered up starting from 1. To determine when each section starts, there are <h1> elements between the blockquotes. This allows us to use the sibling selector to target the blockquotes after each nth <h1> and change the circles' colors. The counter on the circles is also reset to 1 at each <h1>.

#profile--bio h1 {
	counter-set:circlenumbers 0;
	...
}

The default circle color is red. The circles in the first section use that color. The rules below override the colors of the circles after the first <h1> and the second <h1> with pink and purple respectively.

#profile--bio h1:first-of-type ~ blockquote summary {
	background-color:var(--pink-transparent);
}

#profile--bio h1:nth-of-type(2) ~ blockquote summary {
	background-color:var(--purple-transparent);
}

The hit counter counts the number of circles with the open attribute and is placed on the ::after pseudoelement attached to the outer container blockquote (the game screen). The element displaying this counter needs to be placed after all of the circles in order to count them all, and this meets the requirement.

#profile--bio > blockquote > blockquote details[open] {
	counter-increment:hitcircles;
}

#profile--bio > blockquote::after {
	content:"Total circles: " counter(totalcircles) " | Circles clicked: " counter(hitcircles);
	...
}

The timer was made using ::before and ::after pseudoelements with an animated content property. I found out this was possible from @iheartrdrama's former WPD CSS!

#profile--bio > blockquote details[open] ~ h1:nth-of-type(4)::before {
	content:"0:00";
	left:20px;
	animation:36s timer linear, 0.25s timerFade;
	animation-delay:0s, 36s;
	animation-fill-mode:forwards;
}

The other timer uses the same animation but in a reverse direction.

animation:36s timer linear, 0.25s timerFade;
animation-direction:reverse, normal;

Animation

@keyframes timer {
	0% {
		content:"0:00";
	}
	2.78% {
		content:"0:01";
	}
	...
	97.22% {
		content:"0:35";
	}
	100% {
		content:"0:36";
	}
}

Thanks for reading if you read this post, and thanks for playing if you played the game.

Sometimes I have posts with e.g. +8/-9, which simply gets summarized as -1. This is annoying, so I'm kindly asking that people only upmarsey my posts.

Dorontabi/Mammoth is an anime artist who is an icon within libertarianp- I mean Lolicon/cunnystrags community for basically creating banger tweets like this back in the day

This creates a wave of memes within the community even reaching mainstream weebs.

If you ever wonder why crying emoji are posted below little anime girls or using terms like "darn brat" "r*pe correction" and "Uohhh" this is the guy who origin of the meme.

This time he is also the target of Korean feminists during "The 578th Korean feminist/incel war - battle for Blue Archive". They figured out that he outright admitted to hoarding Japanese child gravure

.

>the frick is child gravure

It has become illegal even in Japan these days of course. MORE screenshots from the Korean feminists, very disturbing imagery even when censored beware

🚨짤 역겨움 주의
아카라이브 공론화되는김에 도론타비도 파묘해야함
-여자애 강간당하는 성착취물 패러디
-아동 그라비아 사진 소지
-아동 이미지 참고해 성인물 그림
참고로 블루아카 일러레로도 활동했음 https://t.co/Jk19jZbsEr pic.twitter.com/2UvPhrGwEm

— 곧감 (@holy__667) September 2, 2024

this guy posts these around online and there is no major call-out, It's crazy.

but these are again posted by notorious Korean feminists so Idk how to confirm the validity of these screenshots

More info on the lolcow farm (female Kiwifarm image board) with details

the guy deleted everything but is now back with https://x.com/agbdrhr5325ntf3/ recently

So what do you dramatards think? Are the Korean feminists full of shit and he is a true honest Lolicon libertarianphile or a full-blown libertarianphile libertarianphile. Inb4

Edit: Turn out Rdrama covered him back in the day https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/224595/korean-femcel-vs-incel-gender-wars

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Info- So is that all he got you for Christmas or was that just a side secret Santa thing? (43)

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Angriest Comments

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Good on you! NOT an over reaction at all. I'm a pretty low key kinda girl. I know I'm a bit hard to buy for. But my husband does try and today I got some very nice things from him. But if he'd done that? I'd be incredibly hurt. Really upset. Just shows no concern or love for you at all. He did not even try a little bit. That's just awful.So sorry you are having a shit day now. And nope. I wouldn't want to be hosting any darn dinner for anyone. Block the whole lot of them after sending them all a text telling them to frick off and leave you alone. And after only 3 years of marriage? Your husband is like this? That's very bad sign, Frankly? I'd review my marriage to that man. YOu are too young to already be stuck in a marriage where your husband treats you like shit. I've been married 30 years and we have had our ups and downs. But he has never treated me that disrespectfully and with such lack of kindness or decency. Think hard whether you stay with that man. Truly. (1)

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NTA for being upset about getting a thoughtless present from your husband. Been there. It hurts. But ABSOLUTELY YTA for cancelling dinner for EVERYONE??!! Wtf? Grow up! You ruined Christmas and you need to get out there and apologize to an entire family. If you're gonna be petty, you should've opened that candle in front of his family and started tearing up and excuse yourself until someone came to check on you.  You should've waited for someone to b-word at your husband FOR you. That wouldve made him the petty selfish one, not you.  (2)

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Why would the box with 'The Warlords' gift be under the tree?ETA: For everyone who keeps explaining why they keep non-family presents under the tree, none of you are explaining why a present for an online friend would be kept under the tree instead of posted to them directly. (7962)

That's not the only thing too. A blown up phone with everyone in his entire family telling her she's selfish and just being completely obsessed with her as if they don't have anything better to spend their time on. At Christmas Eve at all times. Secret Santa with names on the tags so it's not anonymous. Plus a $100 requirement "Hosting Christmas dinner every year for his family" even though they've only been married for 3 years.Last but not least is glazing a ham all day. What in the goddarn frick, nobody does that to a ham all day long. OP needs writing lessons. And someone to tell them to never, ever do any kind of elaborate crime. They will be caught within minutes with all the holes and arrogant stupidity throughout their obvious fake story. (545)

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VEGETA SSJ3 TRANSFORMATION IS SICK AF #DAIMA #ドラゴンボールDAIMA pic.twitter.com/hyLTaRJgeF

— DRIZZI (@Ragnar_AY) December 27, 2024

https://search.brave.com/images?q=ssj3+vegeta+games&source=web

For reference

The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.

Take a big step back and FRICK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2024

Give them jobs designing chips, both sound like top tier geniuses

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

pic.twitter.com/cmG4XOCO4O

— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) December 25, 2024

Every year Egyptian !football player Salah posts a picture of his family with a Christmas tree and every year it causes Muslims to chimp out

Last year

https://rdrama.net/post/232074/the-annual-marseytaliban-chimpout-at-salahs

And the year before

https://rdrama.net/post/134140/egyptian-footballer-mohammed-salah-celebrates-christmas

@Merryvann

Fk u

— Khaled. (@k7vak) December 25, 2024

والله محد فخر العرب غير @Mahrez22 💚

— الجازي🦌🇸🇦 (@jzo_99) December 25, 2024

@Hamad_Alain_1 انتهى موسمكم

— عمــر (@oa3370) December 25, 2024

دا احنا ها نشوف صياح للصبح 🎄🔥🤌

— 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗙𝗬 (@Monir_Wasfy) December 25, 2024

الله يهديك ويصلحك يارب

— فيصل | نوتنغهام 🇧🇷🌲 (@NFwrst) December 25, 2024

Salah posting Christmas pictures yet again even though he knows it’s 100% haram?

This is why we’re clear. https://t.co/BW2K4slgAc pic.twitter.com/7f99R11E3n

— Dirshe²⁰🇸🇴☪️ (@LFC_Wirshe5) December 25, 2024

What kind of muslim salah is?
I don't Understand.

— Lii🇸🇴 (@LibannLFC) December 25, 2024

https://t.co/FgA3zCoQBp pic.twitter.com/xmAHh9m4mA

— يحيى (@Yahye17092) December 25, 2024

frick this guy https://t.co/cgdiFDGmRb

— numaan (@luconum) December 25, 2024

Couldn’t even bother to open eyes for Eid https://t.co/hGKT00d1sL pic.twitter.com/nbu1QbQhxR

— 🇸🇴 (@defact0_) December 25, 2024

كل سنة المنحط يحاول يكرر فعله الشنيع
وانت لا توقف بتبيان الحقيقه pic.twitter.com/Be1j5ZyirE https://t.co/hBpIxTGrBG

— ابو أصيل | صلوا على النبيﷺ (@6x7z1) December 25, 2024

خلاص محمد صلاح تأثر بشكل مرعب من بعد ما وصل لبريطانيا من هذي الأفكار و اكيد يدري انه غلطان

الله يتوب علينا و يهدينا كلنا

— SAIF ALSIYABI (@saifalsyabi1) December 25, 2024

والله مستفز ياخي مستحيل انه مايعرف انه حرام !!!!!!!!

— A7 (@A79816680294436) December 25, 2024

خلاص والله زودها كانه قاعد يستفزنا الكلب ذا

— عبدالرزاق | صلو على النبيﷺ (@klaus_jr7) December 25, 2024

حسبي الله عليه وعلى كل من مثله وشاكلته ويقول انه مسلم

— إبراهيمو (@iIbrahimooo) December 25, 2024

ياخي بس كل سنة نعيد نفس كلام في اخير مصار شي موضوع صار مقرف

— Razine Triki (@razine_tri49678) December 25, 2024

this guy is a kafir and will put his religion down multiple times just to twerk Christians on the internet. disgusting behavior man. https://t.co/fKLm4xvd6a

— notakteer (@notakteer) December 25, 2024

May Allah punish you accordingly and dismantle Liverpools season as punishment. Shirk shall never prevail https://t.co/LUFCI7rE1Q

— sacre (@280120A) December 25, 2024

الاحتفال او التهنئة في عيد الكريسمس يعتبر مشاركة صريحة بأن سيدنا عيسى عليه السلام ولد في هذا اليوم وأن المسيح هو ابن الله الذي تم صلبه.

وهذا الأمر مخالف لجميع نصوص القرآن وعقيدتنا الإسلامية، نفتخر كثيراً بمحمد صلاح داخل أرضية الملعب ولكن هذا الأمر غير مقبول ومخالف للإسلام.… https://t.co/GSumccPcbX

— أبو فيصل (@Nssr___9) December 25, 2024

There's about 20k replies already, you could go through these all day if you wanted

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/5e01ce420000000001002a3b?xsec_token=YB1YMzsh42ShrAl5Bjit-ce3Yu76u5elZg6j-TKGwgP88%3D&xsec_source=app_share&xhsshare=CopyLink&appuid=642fa63200000000120118b6&apptime=1735005949&share_id=03c0839e3aca475fa667eb19b70bc672

Hope you can make her lose weight in the game https://t.co/vkoptiCx7m

— Joseph 🕊️ (@CaudilloXIV) December 28, 2024

Yes, cut the racism crap now! https://t.co/9LU3Qb2b65

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2024

No it's not about ketamine.

Introduction

In the west, Kpop is typically derided. Oftentimes this is because it is creatively bankrupt and consists of cookie cutter songs and artists. Other times it is hated for the immaturity/insanity of its western fan base (teenage girls, trannies, and neets.) Still more people hate it because of the oppressive nature of its industry. Whatever your reason, it is clear that kpop is slop. Goyslop, if you will. However, it is Goyslop of the highest order. Made to be agreeable to the largest audience possible's most base instincts. This combined with the nature of the industry (more on this later), means that it is ripe for drama; and yet I very rarely see kpop drama on this site.

Typical kpop fans

Now I don't like Kpop, but the drama potential of kpop became apparent to me a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon the news of Newjeans trying to cancel their contract. I spent 3 days gorging myself upon the news and it's associated buildup. To be frank with you, I became addicted to kpop. Not the music of course, but the drama surrounding it. I had a desire to post about Newjeans and share that delicious drama with you all; However there was a massive amount of background information to sift through and organize. I realized the full deets would require a series, and when I realized that, well, I started seeing DC in my eyes.

However, I am lazy. I don't want start a full series if it won't pay off, so I figured I would create a prototype, a pilot episode if you will. If you all enjoy this post, and I get my goombling funds, then I'll begin work on the Newjeans saga in earnest (with a few filler episodes thrown in, of course)

First off, a few warnings and disclaimers:

1. A lot of kpop groups have minors in them. I will be posting images and videos of various kpop groups throughout this series. If you see next to an image or video, that means it contains someone who is CURRENTLY a minor. You have been warned.

2. Kpop sucks from a musical standpoint, but it has ear worms. I will link to songs, concert performances, and music videos as part of this series, but I would avoid listening to the music if possible. Otherwise you'll end up like me and have Crazy by Le Sserafim stuck in your head for two weeks, a fate worse than death. Songs that I think are a big risk for this will be marked with a next to the link.

An example of these two points:

these ones are all over 18, I just wanted to provide an example

(Pictured above: 5 Korean shaman perform a sissification ritual on their unsuspecting male audience)

(The shaman's evil chant)

3. As I said earlier, I just started my research about a month ago, so I'm very likely to get things wrong. This will be compounded by the fact that the really juicy shit is found on Korean sites and forums, so I will either use Google translate, or the translation of random freaks on the internet. if I do get something wrong, don't worry, it's working as intended

Without further adieu,..

...Let us go down...

... The K-hole

The Drama

If you've made it this far and know anything about kpop, I'm sure you're wondering why I used an image of Twice. It's because they tangentially relate to this story. How? Well to understand that you need to know who/what JYP is.

Background

Jin-Young Park

JYP stands for Jin-Young Park, a South Korean singer who rose to prominence in the 1990's and parlayed his success into his own media conglomerate, which he humbly named JYP Entertainment (hereafter JYPE). JYPE is one of the 4 major companies that dominate the South Korean music industry. Their most successful artists are Twice, Itzy, and NMIXX (no not the sex cult).

For years JYPE has tried to break into the American market, with only middling success. Their most recent attempt was actually about a week and a half ago when Twice released a comeback that featured Megan THEE Stallion on the title track. One of their recent schemes has been to launch Kpop style American groups under a brand new division, JYP USA.

Strategy - Twice feat. Megan Thee Stallion

Now something you need to understand about the kpop industry is that in a weird way, it's almost like professional sports, having the following things in common.

1. Opportunities and success are largely based on God given talent. (If you're not a slim rice foid who can dance/sing/rap better than everyone else you don't have a shot.)

2. The window of opportunity is very slim, If you don't make it big by 30 you probably never will.

3. At the highest levels, there is a LOT of money at stake. (For example, the exclusive contract Newjeans is trying to get out of likely has a penalty of $200-400 million.)

For these reasons, kpop idols go through a sort of training period before they actually are put into a group and debuted. The idols essentially drop out of school and join a training program, where they learn how to sing, dance, rap, and be charming in front of a camera. Just like young athletes and their coaches trying to make it big, these schools have a very "whatever needs to be done attitude" to training, with horror stories abounding. This is considered standard practice in the industry, meaning that almost every kpop groups you see was carefully planned out years in advance.

JYP USA planned to continue this proud gook tradition with their flagship girl group VCHA, a group formed in 2023 from the winners of a web show A2K (America2Korea) on youtube, where JYP himself selected members to form an American kpop group. However, they ran into one small problem: The breakable American spirit.

The Lawsuit

Kiera Grace Madder, 17, (stage name KG Crown) was one of the lucky girls who won A2K and had her dreams come true of becoming a pop star. At least, that is what she thought before entering into the Korean style training system. In May 2024, after enduring months of abuse, KG decided she couldn't take any more, and requested out of her contract. JYP USA refused, citing. that she owed them over $500,000 for training and production costs. Seeing no other option KG filed a lawsuit on December 7th in the state of California to terminate her contract. The complaints of abuse are summarized below:

Now the interesting thing here is that none of this is illegal in South Korea, where JYPE is based. A court there ruled that idols were contractors and not employees, meaning that they were not entitled to protections granted to employees under South Korean labor laws. However, VCHA was based in California, which not only has strict labor laws, but EXTREMELY strict child labor laws, due to the history of child actor abuse in Hollywood.

The general consensus online seems to be that most of the allegations of abuse will go nowhere, but the complaints regarding working hours, denial of profits, and the $500,000 debt are likely to be decided in KG's favor due to California Labor laws.

The Reaction

/r/kpop reacts

IG post

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/1h94lj7/vcha_kg_posts_an_instagram_story_update_regarding/

JYPE response

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop/comments/1h9w7w1/jyp_usa_issues_statement_regarding_the_lawsuit/

/r/kpop_uncensored reacts

IG post

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop_uncensored/comments/1h94n0n/kgs_instagram_story_reveals_she_has_filed_a/

Summary of legal complaint from KG

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop_uncensored/comments/1h94z98/summary_of_document_detailing_jypes_mistreatment/

JYPE response

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpop_uncensored/comments/1h9w3k1/statement_from_jyp_usa_on_vchas_twitter/

Random gook reaction (translated by /mu/, retrieved from desuarchive):

Twitter Reacts

Based Twice fans reacts to calls for a boycott, VCHAcels sneed

>No you HAVE to boycott!

to be clear we have been boycotting for months because jyp is a zionist and the company has continued to do collabs with zionists and are continuing to boycott now also because of the recent news with vcha and jype's mistreatment of its artists

— JYPE FILES 📌 (@jypefiles) December 9, 2024

>Kpop?

Outro

How this will all play out remains to be seen, the most likely course of action in that JYPE realizes that this whole thing is poison to any future attempts to gain a foothold in the American market and just cuts the mayofoid loose without retardedly trying to recoup its "debt".

If you enjoyed this post let me know and I will begin work on the Newjeans saga.

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@Redactor0 grandpa confirm what I got wrong

Nothing fam. Just like I expect from you. Let's see if there's a few points I can elaborate on slightly.

USA Navy forces were not immediately aware of the ramifications the Battle of Midway would have upon the momentum of the Pacific Theatre

Keep in mind that both sides didn't even know how what ships the other had. They were getting bullshit intelligence from their own pilots all the time, so for example the Japanese were overestimating how many carriers they had sunk and had no idea we still had 3 left in the Pacific at that time.

the sheer dominant magnitude of the influence an aircraft carrier would as a weapons platform would supercede even the wildest prewar speculations

I gotta push back on this just slightly. Battleships were going obsolete but it wasn't completely over quite yet. Notice how important they were at Leyte Gulf on both sides and that was near the end of the war. This is one thing where I actually got some insight from computer games. Like so often, that comes in the form of actually getting the geometry involved. A battleship at flank speed could get about as far overnight as a carrier-based plane could fly (I'm oversimplifying here, but you get it). So you could actually dash in and catch them with a little luck. Especially if there were a few clouds out.

But it was really marginal. At the end of the war the proximity fuze for AA shells came out which helped the battleships a lot but also jet engines and guided bombs. And just planes that could fly farther. So it was really obvious by 1945 that within a few years they would be totally useless for fighting other ships.

the Royal Palace in hue

The bastards got there before Old Man Redactor could take pictures of it. But there was a lot of beautiful stuff left in Hue even after the battle.

this upcoming deafeat would be the greatest blow dealt to the US for the entire war

That's a really good way of putting it. You must have some angloid DNA.

It was the single greatest massacre of VC forces to the extent that they literally ceased to fricking be a political power within the communist sphere in Vietnam entire and Cambodia. From then on the North Vietnamese had near absolute control of military operations.

The VC were never really an independent force. At least not at the top level. There were lots of commies in South Vietnam at the beginning of the war of course, but the leadership was always directed from Hanoi. What was really changed by Tet is that all these low-level commies native to the South got killed off. After that, there was no longer any pretense that this was a guerilla war. By the time the old man got there (I think 1970) it was completely a conventional war between the North and the South fought with advanced high-tech weapons. He wasn't hauling an M-16 around when he was on his photography trips to old historical buildings in Hue because there weren't any guerillas to be scared of. Those people were all dead.

The Phoenix Program was also very helpful here. Just using basic 1960s police and office work they rooted out the commies in the villages. This was basically just turning the tables on them. Going after everyone who is on the enemy side. Except we didn't use terrorism the way the VC did, chopping off the head of the mayor's kid and shit like that. The cops just arrested people in 90% of cases. (Statistics on the Phoenix Program are quite interesting, something to go into more detail about someday.)

The US and ARVn performance was absolutely spectacular, perhaps one of history's great battles like fricking Cannae or Waterloo or something

Let's not suck our peepees too hard here. Old Man tells me a story second hand of a guy who had been in some big base around Saigon during Tet. He complained that he never got to shoot anybody because they were all slaughtered by .50 cal machineguns before they even got close enough. This wasn't Hannibal or Wellington we were dealing with.

us Air Cavalry (helicopter troops)

My dad will swear up and down that he hated everything about the Army but this is exactly the kind of comment that would draw him out. The 101st was airborne, it was NOT cavalry!

the lies and deception of the military a and 2 administrations about how good the war went

That's what the real crisis was. If it wasn't Tet it would have been something else to trigger it. They kept saying the war is about to end and they were clearly lying. This is a generation that wasn't beyond sacrifices. Everyone's parents had been in WW2 in some shit job sweeping asbestos off the floor of a shipyard or on the side of the world fighting. A lot of them never came back. But there was a purpose. People will sacrifice a lot for a purpose, but if they're getting jerked around, they notice real fast.

Old Man's story about this is listening to the radio where Nixon is saying that we're not bombing Laos and he's looking up in the sky and there's planes above him heading west. It didn't take fricking Descartes to guess where they were going.

unexpectedly brought low USA civilian morale to continue to send their sons overseas into the meatgrinder

A lot of the conventional wisdom about this isn't always right. We had something like half our casualties after Tet. (One third, I dunno.) And popular support for the war wasn't really eroded all that much if you look at the polling data.

Keep in mind that there's a certain class of people who dominate the discussion of the Vietnam War. Specifically: Guys who dodged the draft so they didn't have to go there and know anything about it. There's an extreme level of self-serving bullshit they claim. Like that the "Anti-War Movement" (lol you sure cared about the Vietnam-Cambodia war) had any impact at all on anything other than being so disgusting they helped get Nixon elected in 1968. These are the last fricking people on Earth you should ever believe. I trust the guys fighting on the other side 1000x more than them.

By the time 2023 arrived the most critical munitions would be basic artillery shells

So my two things I was saying going into this is ATGMs are gonna be important (because of experience in the Middle East in previous decades) and basic b-word artillery shells. There was this cult of precision munitions from Desert Storm. The thing I never heard anybody explain is: What if you don't know exactly where the enemy is tho?

Unironic WW1 bunkers and trenches also came to dominate the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine from Donbass to Crimea, with static artillery war and massed charges for both sides being the most popular strategy, on a grinding stalemate similar as to the ending phase of 1952s Korea War.

The last full-scale war we had between two opponents that was a fair fight was the Iran-Iraq War and it was a heck of a lot like this. I keep telling everyone, but nobody believes little old Redactor. I guess I gotta post more Chronicles of Victory.

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