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  That's just drawing another similarity.
  I remember being school and people would argue about whether industrial metal was lame or not. Power metal was similarly frowned upon.
  You look into any kind of fandom like this you'll find the cliques and the tribes and their disputes.
  I still wouldn't describe teens arguing about kpop and football hooligans tearing up a pub before a game as "the same".
context: Ah yes but footy fans have a love hate relationship with a football club where Kpop fans just love all the time. The two are not the same, a football club is more complex with individual players, managers and owners. All come and go, sometimes yearly and more than that for managers. >
  
  it's actually quite similar in that sense too! idols within a group all have different positions (leader, main vocalist etc) and they often do their own work as a solo artist too, and depending on how well the group they often leave and move to another company when their contract finishes which is usually 2 years! Plus a lot of kpop fans despise the owners of the entertainment companies and their managers for many reasons not relevant to the post! We also try to hold idol's accountable for the shit they do and call them out when necessary! >
  
  You're just talking about fandom in general. Not every football "fan" engages in these behaviours, and doubtless neither does every Kpop fan >
  
  Of course it's general! By no means do I think that every single person in every single fandom behaves like this but the majority are like this! >
  
  Not the majority the reason you only see the "special" fans is because there the only ones who care enough to go to the event >
  
  There's going to be similarities between fans of anything because that's what it means to be a fan - that you really like something and follow it as a kind of hobby with a degree of enthusiasm.
  You could draw similarities between kpop and stamp collecting or anything else. It's kind of trivial. >
  
  I'm aware that you could draw these similarities between all fandoms, but my point with this is that in my personal experience and many other people I know's experience there's such a divide between the football and kpop communities usually because footy fans enjoy taking the piss out of us when in reality we aren't much different!