Jonathan Emmesedi<p>I've been posting a lot about Kpop recently.</p><p> This frequency was not my original plan when I started on Mastodon. In fact, I started <a href="https://c.im/tags/KpopOfTheWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KpopOfTheWeek</span></a> with a resolution to confine my kpop posting to this once a week schedule. By limiting myself, I hoped to achieve three objectives.</p><p>In the first place, I hoped not to swamp the timelines of people who follow me but who have no interest in kpop. I also wanted to put a ceiling on the amount of time I was devoting to idols, comebacks, choreo videos and all the rest of it. Finally, I hoped that forcing myself to pick out just one MV or stage each week would oblige me to discriminate in the best sense of that word: to make thoughtful and careful choices.</p><p>My plan for self restraint hasn't quite worked out; as the charmingly unidiomatic title of that excellent Twice song puts it, "I Can't Stop Me". I dread to think how many non kpop fans have muted or blocked me, and I do worry at times about the hours I am devoting to kpop. On the other hand, I have found that selecting just one YouTube for <a href="https://c.im/tags/KpopOfTheWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KpopOfTheWeek</span></a> and writing a line or two to explain my choice has helped me think more clearly about my Kpop preferences and has saved me from mindless thumbs uppery.</p><p>Aaah! I had to get all that off my chest. Now please enjoy the Twice Studio Choom!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Kpop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kpop</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Twice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twice</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ICantStopMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICantStopMe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/StudioChoom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudioChoom</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/vWAC8Wkt9ok?si=5EEllgTfr_xfrW8I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/vWAC8Wkt9ok?si=5EEllg</span><span class="invisible">Tfr_xfrW8I</span></a></p>