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Advanced Topics in Contemporary Moldial Culture
Last Updated on June 5, 2024
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Lately the fields of study/terms internet archaeology and digital humanities have piqued my interest. And (non sequitur?) while my website doesn't exactly conform to typical old-web design sensibilities, i still feel like neocities is the place to be. Site (haha) specificity, the medium is the message, materiality, and other phrases im probably misusing. Maybe it would be best to treat this page as wholly separate from the rest of my site: an offshoot of moldcity, a hut in the woods, living off-grid (or rather, extremely on the grid). I dont know what kind of character my logs and lists create the impression of, but i imagine itll be changed greatly based on what will be chronicled below. So reader beware. If, up till now, i seem fun and cutesy and funny and cute (Aw Shucks), and thats what you visit moldcity for, maybe dont check this page. Although, then again, in all seriousness, and to be quite frank, this is my website and i dont really need to know if/why/what anyone is reading of what i put out.

Kim Jaejoong

I started this research (or at least that's what I like to call it) during my winter break, inbetween semesters of my first year in university. It seems like he's having something of a renaissance these days but his peak–or at least the era i was initially most drawn to–was in the mid-late 2000s. This time period aligns with my previous history of music-based interests and general subculture fascinations, sort of. It is particularly fun to find how people talked (or rather, typed) about him and his group, whether in YouTube comments, blogs, or in discussion boards.
- pheonixiajj.livejournal.com/865.html
- see also: pheonixiajj.livejournal.com/1881.html - The last page i made it to while skimming through them in posted order
- The Shared Imagination of Bishōnen, Pan-East Asian Soft Masculinity: Reading DBSK, Youtube.com and Transcultural New Media Consumption - This inspired the design and layout for this page. Found while desperately(?) trawlling through jstor and my university library's online catalog for "TVXQ" OR "DBSK" OR "Kim Jaejoong" (see my, perhaps retconed(?), use of boolean operators!)
- see also: “The Korean Wave and Its Implications for the Korea-China Relationship.”, “What Is Female Universalism in Hallyu? A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration with a Focus on Japanese Fans.”, "Despite not being Johnny’s: the cultural impact of TVXQ in the Japanese music industry" chapter 4 from K-Pop - the International Rise of the Korean Music Industry, all of which I have open in my browser but have yet to read
- Which male idols do you think are gay? - This is a long forum thread started in 2013. I don't know how to make the link more specific but I'm highlighting (or rather, only looking at) the 10-part series of posts from user "kremlindust" which begin about 7 posts down from the top. The conclusion is particularly jawdropping. You can't be saying that about people! In fact, that same sentiment can be extended to the whole discussion thread–very of its time, i guess.
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Large Scale Cake Shop Baking Videos

I like to watch these at 2x speed. This genre of video differs from travel vlogs, interviews, day-in-the-life, or instructional recipes in how there is little focus on the workers as individuals, there is little to no direct audio commentary aimed toward the viewer, and uses the natural sounds. These videos tend to highlight or otherwise focus on the efficiency and/or the developed skill in making these foodstuffs. Related video types cover subjects such as street foods or cheap/free foods. Some examples include:
- Castella, Sponge, Chiffon: (perhaps because these cakes are being made at a commercial scale, the bakers tend not to fold in the meringue, opting instead to whisk it in regularly)