Good YouTube #10

for this edition of good youtube recommendations, i have finally seen the light. i understand now why people get feral for kpop. I hadn’t understood it all this time. I appreciate fandoms in general so i was happy for the kpop people but now i AM the kpop people. it’s all because Overwatch did their second collaboration with a girl band called Le Sserafim and a song kept playing in the lobby. It got stuck in my head. Who are these people?? Fine, to youtube I go. I searched the band and overwatch and this collab music video came up and I will be honest, it made me feel really weirdly emotional and potentially tearful and I can’t really tell you why:

so then I watched more songs and thought yes, all the girls are girling girling? it’s like I’ve always known the girls are girling girling deep inside my heart

so then I listened to the new album and LOVED this new song they don’t have a video for yet (my favourite of all their songs that i know atm), and when I searched it up later on youtube the autofill said ‘le sserafim ash line distribution’ and i thought oh is THIS what the kpop people do?? because yes, I don’t know who is in this band and i can’t recognise their voices or faces yet so thank you to the fans for clearing this matter up

so then after I saw the line distribution thing youtube realised what was happening to me and it said okay little girl it’s time to show you two separate le sserafim documentary series because did you know their name is an anagram of IM FEARLESS and did you know there were supposed to be 6 people but there was drama and they debuted with 5 instead, and seraphim angels have six wings, and did you know kpop bands DEBUT and did you know, did you know, did you know – AHHHHH TELL ME EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

and did you also know being in a kpop band is emotionally troubling?

well by the time I’d seen all episodes of both documentaries, I knew each person to start having favourites. or biases as the fans call them. i like Kkura! Maybe it’s because she knits, maybe it’s because she is the oldest, or because of one thing she said in the final episode of the Make It Easy series about how happiness doesn’t really exist in the present tense, it’s a thing you look back on and realise oh I was happy back then. god what is happening to me. my youtube algorithm now is dispensing all their interviews, all the shows they’ve featured on, their dance practice videos, and compilations of times they’ve been funny and – then it shows me Mike’s Mic recounting his fall into the rabbit hole a long time ago and yeah i get it now

i started new heart medication this week and I need to set an alarm in the afternoon for my second pill. Hmm, I don’t really want to listen to an annoying alarm. Hmm, hmm, what would I like? I HAVE NOW HAVE A LE SSERAFIM MARIMBA RINGTONE VERSION OF PERFECT NIGHT, THE SONG THAT GOT ME INTO THIS MESS and it goes off at 4pm every day and i feel GOOD

It’s a real Good Youtube appreciation moment because without Youtube I would not know see so much to enjoy. they just seem like a lovely gang

okay it’s been an intense … 2 weeks? of this. do not tell me any more kpop bands yet i need to take my time or my head will explode