5 million views

Thanks everyone!

If you guys remember, Suckmydee wrote this article when we reached 100,000 views. When this blog started out, it was mainly for me and the people I came to know through allkpop and Tiara Diadem. I got banned from 6theory for posting disgusting porn (funny, but worth it) and I got exiled from Tiara Diadem along with Bou, who used to write here under Antidelusionalkpopfanism, 아저씨, and djschlotte, who still comments here from time to time. I believe the only other person from before I started AKF is Rotary.

In March 2011, I was getting bored of 6theory and was posting some disgusting porn in some threads. It took the mods roughly 8 hours to ban me, so sorry Ninja that you had to clean all of that shit up. I met Suckmydee and Lickmypunani through that thread and started talking to them on Twitter. Suckmydee suggested that I start a blog and I followed her advice. I named the blog "Anti Kpop-Fangirl" because it was the Kpop fangirls that made me mad. I just stated my honest opinion "X looks ugly in this concept, Y song sucks ass" and they would bitch at me and report me to the mods.

If you go back to April 2011, you'll see that this blog mainly started out as a personal Kpop blog for me. I just wanted a place to post my own opinions without crazy fangirls bitching and moaning about them. I had recruited Bou and David to help me since I got along with those two pretty well (and maybe too well with David since you fuckers started Chuckvid). Later on, I added Suckmydee and Lickmypunani to the staff, all comprised of people who I had known before AKF. Along the way, instead of having AKF as a personal blog, I wanted to spread the idea that people can enjoy Kpop without being batshit insane about it. I like to have fun with Kpop, which is why I used to post "fap posts" and edit a lot of shit through MS Paint. I have a vastly different humor from most people, which is probably why this blog is hated by anyone who doesn't get my sense of humor.

AKF started getting more popular in the summer of 2011 after people started linking to it a lot. Once Kpop Secrets and reddit linked AKF, that's when the site started growing, which brought upon the two dark eras of AKF.

In the summer of 2011, I had expected to become busier because I was a retard and decided to major in accounting. (Don't major in accounting, seriously. It sucks.) I needed to hire more writers since I was still writing 60% of the posts. This was the first time I hired people that I didn't know and didn't have strict requirements for authors to meet. That's why I hired anyone who wanted to join the staff. Go back to July 2011 and you'll see why I purged half of the authors. It was terribad back then. I had hired fangirls and they were writing shit that didn't belong on AKF.

The second dark era was the winter of 2011. This was when the comments looked like the diarrhea you would see on 9gag. (I was always a 4chan lurker, so I have never really liked 9gag at all.) The comments were painful to read. I had tried spreading an idea and attracted the wrong type of people. After consulting with Asian Junkie, I removed the anon option to comment. I was never asking for philosophical debates in the comments, but anything was better than "Nigger," "pinoy," "637," "Tednee," "Suzy is a fat whore," etc. spammed in every article.

Both of those dark eras were when AKF hit peaks in viewers, and after I made changes, the readership dipped in half. Both times, I accepted having less readers if it meant that I would actually want to visit my own blog.

In 2012, after making changes and removing some authors, I knew I needed a new direction to take AKF in. I hired Zaku, and soon after that, sulli_fag, Reehji, and CombatBaby, all people I had known well since I started AKF. This decision worked, since AKF started gaining a lot of newer readers. The articles were getting better and the comments were actually worth reading again.

That bring us to today. I would like to thank everyone who has ever helped with AKF, be it that they were an author here or helped spread the site's name to others. Despite having a lot of fangirls pissed off at me for disagreeing with their delusional opinions, I have met a lot of cool people through AKF. A lot of people have the same idea of just enjoying Kpop for what it is and to not make it into something that it's not. It's okay to enjoy idol songs. It's okay to dislike songs. It's okay to dislike members of your favorite group. It's okay to think an idol is hot. However, some fangirls get way too protective, and plenty of people have met these fangirls that made the Kpop fandom leave a sour taste in their mouth.

I have recently given up on trying to convince fangirls that this site isn't Anti Kpop. I have tried for two years now and it's to no avail. Every author on this site enjoys Kpop, but they dislike the general Kpop fandom. People accuse me all the time of hating Kpop. If I hated Kpop and Korean entertainment, I wouldn't translate shit for fans on other sites. I wouldn't be running this blog.

Anyway, as a treat for everyone for reaching 5 million views, the site will be redesigned. It's being worked on right now. The plan is to transfer all of the data to the new site when it opens up (meaning that antikpopfangirl.blogspot.com will direct you to the new url) since the site runs slowly for a lot of people and the site looks like it's from 2003. We will also be using Disqus, which should make it much easier for people to comment (all you really need to do is link your Twitter account to Disqus in order to comment.) We are also still looking to hire new authors for AKF, as we already have our web designer and graphic designer.

Again, thank you everyone and here's a gif from klogg.