"I swear mom, the house was on fire already!"

I've been getting my kpop news from Allkpop for quite some time now, from when they first opened up, that guy and his blogging. Then they started expanding, like google, but unlike google, they hired dumbasses to write articles. Now if you happen to be reading this and are currently a contributor to Allkpop, then I'm sorry you have to read this. But honestly, some of the crap that these people write, the writing in general, and the headlines are about as ridiculous as Pat Robertson accepting my lifestyle, or me going to see any Saw movie in the theater. It brings down the integrity of Allkpop, first of all, and it opens the door to all the twenny and teens from around the world, mostly girls, to congregate at what should be a respectable Korean Entertainment Blog. It's like when Napster turned mainstream... how dumb was that? The first rule of fight club: you do not talk bout fight club.

Case and point: a recent headline reads "Jung Il Woo is gay?" Now, besides the sites explicit discrimination against homosexuality, evident in their description of 2PM being among the most desired men in the Korean gay community, they take a very cavalier attitude towards blogging. Granted, it is the Internet, home of goat cheese boy and napkins for Iraq, but there is a classy way of blogging (like me), and then there is just a retarded way (Allkpop). If it were a site with only a sole contributor, he can say and do whatever he wants; that's what Prez does and it works for him/her/it. But Allkpop was started to bring breaking Korean entertainment news to the English-speaking world (mostly Korean Americans, initially), not to give their uninformed, ignorant, and dumbassary two cents on things they obviously know nothing about. I love when they need to give a mini Korean history lesson and end up butchering Korean history to the point where all us who actually study it are going 'and there goes the dignity in our profession'. The article I started with about questioning Jung Il Woo's sexuality actually has nothing to do with his sexuality, but his upcoming portrayal of a gay man in a play. Now I can see how for the retarded contributors of Allkpop the two may be the same, because playing a gay man and actually being a gay man may teeter the lines of fiction and reality too much for the homophobic and ignorant idiots, but I mean when I go see Tom Cruise macking it with some woman in Mission:Impossible, I don't automatically assume he is no longer gay; he's just acting.

Another pitfall of Allkpop is their recent obsession with things that aren't really news, not even worthy of a tabloid, things I like to call 'shit online'. In other words, some Korean singer/actor passes gas and Allkpop is right on top of that. Most of this surrounds recaps of variety shows, and what these idols say about things that we really could care less about. Like I really give a damn who Go Hara's #1 male idol is, or that 2pm fans with too much time on their hands photoshoped their faces into the 'Gods of Study' drama stills. To me, this seems like stuff that one would find at a fansite, not a news site, which they claim to be. But don't blame it on them, the contributors are probably only 15, if their writing is any indication of age and/or education.

So I've done it again, I've probably ostracized most of the world against me by being too pompous and too educated. Yeah, well bite me. The best thing about the Internet is that you can say whatever you want whenever you want, you know, unless you have work to do or your mom is bitching at you for not doing your homework. Luckily at this point in time, neither is true!