My Photoshop Graphic

Recently I have been dabbling in Photoshop, and since I had the horrible idea of reading Anterograde Tomorrow I have been having so many ideas. Yeah I literally cried myself to sleep the night I read Anterograde Tomorrow. It was so beautiful yet so so so sad. I am starting to get teary eyed just thinking about it. Well anyways I wanted to share what I made on Photoshop inspired by the story. It is kind of bad, I have seen WAY better stuff on Tumblr, but I thought I should give it a try.

RANT: EXO Leaks

Ok if you are an EXOtic then you have already heard about, seen, or even listened to the WHOLE LEAKED album. I haven't thankfully. My tumblr dash along with the EXO tag was blowing up with complaints about the situation. It even got to the point where EXO's producer warned the fans that if they keep spreading the leaked tracks he will call the FBI. As threatening as that sounds, I doubt he would do that. But let's back track for a second and discuss how this whole situation came about.

Alright, I think it all began when the skies were one, the legends- haha no. Seriously speaking, my theory is that this happened from an over delayed comeback, which is what most of you think is the source of this too.  Yes other fandoms may say that they waited for a comeback longer than EXOtics did, but think about it. Were those groups that were mentioned rookie groups? Did they only release 1 mini album and promote that one album for more than a year? Probably not. Honestly the only fandom I think can relate to EXOtics are those that are the fans of JJ Project (seriously what happened to those guys). We only had 6 songs to listen to and 3 music videos to watch. I can understand that fans got bored and wanted something new. The fact that they are rookie groups adds to the hunger of the fans making them impatient.

What happens when you get impatient fans? You have fans trying whatever they can to get news on their group no matter at what cost. Hence, you get this whole EXO issue. If you think about it, the problems is partially the company's fault. They waited too long for this comeback. Also, for a big company like SM wouldn't you expect them to have better security. Ok leaking the demo of "Wolf" months before it's release is bad, but can be easily looked over. However, having something be leaked THREE TIMES on the SAME group makes it look suspicious on SM's part. A scheme of advertisement if you will. It may or may not be, I have no legit proof to back up my thought. Whatever the case is SM has to either step up on security or thoroughly keep an eye on their employees.

As for the fans, I can't say much as if I say too much it will look like I am leaning to one side. In my opinion listening to the leaked songs or watching the leaked dance practice is something you shouldn't do. For one it defeats the purpose of them setting a specific date for the comeback. They do that to build hype and excitement of not knowing what to expect. It makes the whole experience much better. Second you have this guilty feeling after you listen to them. Sure at the moment you would be all happy a fangirling over the songs, but then you start to think what EXO would think, or what do they think about this whole situation.

I'm not mad at the fans that stumbled upon the audio or the ones that couldn't hold their curiosity (the song is right there of course you would want to hear it. I had to stop myself from hearing the album and watching the video). I am mad at whoever leaked them. Did they really have to share it to the whole world. If they themselves were fans of EXO then I am ashamed to have those kind of people in the fandom. Maybe they thought they were doing EXOtics a favor, but all the did was cause a war within the fandom. Once it's

started it's hard to stop the audio or video from spreading. I was on  Tumblr and a bunch of EXOtics were telling people to stop spreading the leaks, but to no avail. Even today I see the leaks on my Tumblr dashboard.

But what can you do? What's done is done, and we had no way of preventing it. I think SM should take some notes this time and not make the EXOtics wait so long for a comeback when they just barely debuted. Sure it creates a lot of attention and anticipation, but the fans get so idol thirsty they don't seem themselves anymore.

What do you think? Were the leaks a good or bad thing? Do you think it's correct to listen or watch the leaks?