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Dear White People is very important and well written, but lately I’ve been hearing white people say that because of that show they realize there’s a race problem in America and they had no idea that African Americans were treated like this, and that really pisses me off. I’m white and you know what? I read the news, I listen to what my black friends have to say, it shouldn’t take a tv show for you to figure it out. For this reason though I’m really grateful to the show cause its waking people up, but it shouldn’t have to.

hello yes can westerners who know nothing about kpop pls stop writing essays about how ‘fake’ and ‘manufactured’ kpop is?

just bc you saw bts attend the bbmas that one time doesn’t mean you know the ins and outs of the kpop industry or their career (or any other groups).

please stop perpetuating the idea that idols PAY their way into the industry. because that does not happen. and it’s a massive slap in the face to all idols out there who have dedicated years of their life enduring horrendous training, extreme dieting and often times even leaving their family and friends to pursue their dream of becoming an idol.

all idols have trained so so hard to be where they are, and i honestly can’t stress that enough like just do ten minutes of research into life as a trainee and you’ll see what i’m talking about. so don’t try and downplay their success as an artist just because you think that western artists are ‘more creative’ or ‘more talented’ bc well it’s just not true anyway like how many western artists can sing and dance at the same time and not sound like they’re dying??most artists over here don’t even dance anymore anyway, reason being they know they can’t sing at the same time

basically what i’m trying to say is stop discrediting them. a lot of kpop groups write and produce their own music. and ALL groups have worked ridiculously hard to get where they are. stop comparing them to the likes of One Direction (that’s just embarrassing pls don’t ever do that,,,no rlly,, don’t), Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber because it’s not a fair comparison, the kpop industry and the western music industry are worlds apart you can’t compare them because they don’t operate the same.

Remember, YOUR actions as fans also represent BTS. Be kind to one another (Yes, ALL fandoms). I’m sure you don’t want them to be remembered by people in the U.S. as the “group with crazy, rude fans”, right? Of course you don’t. Be nice.

With BTS here in the States attending the BBMAs, not only are they representing themselves, but they are basically representing the music scene back in their home country, which is a lot of pressure. So to those other kpop fans who find joy in hating on other groups…FYI, this relates to you as well. Not only will the negative comments effect them, it will also do the same to your favorite groups. You don’t want your favorite groups to be stereotyped and to be known as the ones with rude fans, right? Of course not.

Be nice to one another (To ALL artists and their fans) and let’s have people remember them for the positives.

ARMY I know that we are all SCARED, NERVOUS and EXCITED at the same time. But BTS have us AND we have eachother. SO NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. TODAY WE FIGHT!!!

Remember the last clip? It shook us, right? But we saw it coming because of the spoiler pics that was leaked, which sucks. Imagine not knowing that fight happening? The shock level would have been off the charts!!

It’s fun to watch without a spoiler, so please, please, please.. someone petition for Skam fans to notice this thing, like.. the Skam cast will be filming the whole week, leave them alone. I want a spoiler free experience, damn it!

Lets be honest though, the way in which Yousef opened up to Sana about Even. The obvious pain he felt with regards to what went down. The fact it made him question so much and lose his faith. 

Then you have to think perhaps Elias was telling him how much Sana wanted him to go, trying to give him a subtle pep talk because he can tell Yousef likes Sana too. 

Then he gets there and Even is there. No warning or anything. After everything he told Sana, she blindsides him like that. Blindsides his friends, including Even, like that. He thinks perhaps her want for him to be there never actually had anything to do with him and her, but is all about her trying to patch things up between the balloon squad and Even. He sees that subtle smile (that reads a lot like a smirk in that moment) and he gets pissed off. Hurt. 

I’m not saying that makes him kissing her best friend okay at all. But I can see why he’d be mad at Sana for perhaps setting things up how she did. 

I was like the #1 yousana shipper #1 yousef stan and now I don’t know what to do with my life

I swear y'all in the Skam fandom fucking annoys me to no end sometimes. Like I love most of y'all but you annoy me. Like this show has 3 past seasons and you all know how Julie Andem does it. And yet you’re still quick to yell cancelled and shit to certain characters. Like Y'ALL RELAX JULIE’S GOT THIS. There were characters in season 1 that I immediately cancelled and by the last episode they got their shit together. From the first season I learned that Julie is a fucking master at what she does. It’s been 3 and you people are still blind. Like I said relax, take a deep breath, and hiatus is only one week we’ll survive. :)

if they fucking made me fall in love with yousana just to take them away from me i’m suing this show

I find kinda interesting that in this season, Sana’s season, we don’t have literally enough time to be sad for sana. We never experienced this before. In season 3, we were desperate as hell only for isak and noora in s2 and Eva in s1. We weren’t sad for anyone else, just for the main. We were focused on the main.

But in this season, first we were worried about even and now we are upset about noora. And from the beginning of the season I asked the same question with anger ; WHY DO I FEEL WORRIED ABOUT OTHERS? THIS IS SANA’S SEASON, WHY DO I KNOW FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT OTHERS? and I feel so dumb that I finally understand this now. Because Sana is worried about others. This is why I feel anxious. because she feels anxious. Sana is not only fighting with her own demons, but fighting for/with others. Everyone trusts her because Sana knows™, right? She takes everyone’s problems as herselfs and be sad for them. She even can’t find enough time to be sad for herself because her friends are not doing ok. And even though this fills my heart with warm feelings, it triples the pain. Now we are sorry not only for Sana but even and noora and others. Because my girl has this huge heart that can’t stand see anyone sad.

Damn

This damn thread!

I really hope so !!!

Maybe, just maybe, the conflict of this season won’t be a relationship. I mean there are so many other things it could be. Maybe they will surprise us and bless us with a healthy relationship that will stay steady while everything else starts going downhill

the latest clip wasn’t a carbon copy of evak or whatever the fuck. sana is at home. the way the space is occupied is something that’s very important to mena muslim culture. shes with her mom and the boys are in the living room. yousef entering when she’s peeling is IMPORTANT because sana doesnt feel alienated just with the girls. there’s also a distance with the expectations she has to fulfill as a muslimah, which was previously highlighted beforehand through her discussion with her mom. yousef showing her how, showing her that he is also unconventional according to tradition but still respecting her space. them having an adorable moment of peace was completely different than what the kitchen scene meant for evak. it’s unique only to them. it was beautiful and meaningful. the whole “you need to bring it towards you” was also a very neat nudge towards addressing sana’s tendencies to distance herself from her feelings and bottle them up. the clip being called “insha'Allah” is also important, since that’s what her mother says to her when sana expresses her belief that her husband will cook in her future home. it expresses uncertainty but possibility, as well. yousana may or may not happen but they are suited for each other. beautifully so.

Look….it’s sUPER interesting how we have an established love interest…and yet y'all r trying to imply that yousef isn’t, in fact, Sana’s love interest. Because, every other season has had a fast establishment of a love interest, and there’s been no fight put up. Y'all were over the moon when Evak was established, but this incredible Muslim girl of colour has a healthy relationship with a beautiful boy of colour and all y'all can do is grasp at straws and complain abt how things are “too perfect” mayb Julie is trying to show that Muslim girls can have nice, healthy, non-mysogynistic relationships, unlike what western media mostly chooses to portray. For the moment, maybe just take a breather and relax

My favourite thing about the Sana x Yousef romance storyline right now is how innocent yet intimate it is. I mean their entire ship is literally based on a one-sided text message, two short irl conversations, and a bunch of stolen glances and smiles. And that’s just it. It feels so familiar. (Whether or not they’re endgame), what they are right now is just so important as it is. Sana changes the song on the radio because it feels too inappropriate, Yousef wants to show Sana how to peel the freaking carrots but is reluctant to actually touch her (even though he could have easily done that whole guy-holds-girl’s-hands-to-guide-her), there’s no pressure to immediately start making out with the other person or attempt at anything beyond these sweet stolen conversations about kids and carrots. The most intimate they get is when Yousef passes the knife and carrot to Sana and it sounds lame ik, but it’s also so wholesome to me, it’s real and it’s human and it’s so so beautiful.

you know what i love? that yousef works in a kindergarten. likes to cook. likes to dance. and it’s implied that sana isn’t keen on cooking. likes science. likes basketball. skam is breaking muslim and muslim gender stereotypes.

I am so fascinated by the way they’re falling in love, it’s so fragile and soft. sometimes they have those types of flirting that you blink and you miss it, but you don’t want to miss anything so you pay close attention to everything. and suddenly you can see how Yousef look at her and how Sana glows every time she catches him, they haven’t even properly touched yet, not even a handshake, i think and yet…. you can see by simple actions like that fb message he sent supporting her or he starting conversations just to see her smile, how gone is that boy for her.

😏😏

can we talk about how sana literally told her mother that her husband was going to cook for her since she couldn’t cook, and then yousef the fucking master chef waltzes in and teaches sana how to peel carrots,,,, if that isn’t foreshadowing,,,,

Me : *plays “I feel it coming”  to ignore all the Mikael theories….*

sana’s dimples reblog if u agree

@people in the skam fandom being racist/islamophobic who went crazy over Isak and Even: what happened to alt er love?

one thing I love about skam is how small and seemingly insignificant moments come to mean so much as the story progresses. in yesterday’s clip (Fy Faen) a lot of us noticed sana tuning out the sound of the crowd and the music from the party as she was preparing to do her salah. at the time of the clips release, it kinda displays how, in moments of prayer, there is only you and allah. and that was a really important image to show non-muslim viewers because it connects us to one another. but after watching it again the next day, when the next clip dropped (I Feel It Coming), it gains a new purpose. on Saturday morning, as she’s doing her prayer, the sound of sana’s phone rings louder than the prayer in her head. she has to do the salaam and break her salah because she can’t focus. then the music starts and she tries, she really tries to continue her reading but she can’t tune it out so she breaks it again. where the night before she was easily able to turn off everything around her, even when she was in the room of a complete stranger, it shows that something has to really be wrong for sana to not be able to focus on herself and allah. I think the ease with which she was able to begin her prayer the night before really highlights how much she’s hurting when you compare it to how distracted she is the next day, and I really am just amazed by Julie’s ability to show her character’s internal struggles manifest themselves in unspoken ways. because sana doesn’t say she’s hurting, but we see how off she is and we’re able to know just by watching her behavior.

😂😂👌🏻👌🏻

After 4 months,,it’s finally Fredag not Friday.

Wooow I feel like I need to watch the whole serie again, like every episode just to see every details !!!!!!!!

i love how sana’s season seems to tie in with the underlying disfunctionalities of friendships. from s1 julie always emphasised how she wanted to focus on teenage girls and their problems so she slowly established the girl squad who for the most part seemed to have this admirably strong bond, the girls were supportive of each other when they had boy or school or family troubles… but now that we see it all play out from sana’s pov we suddenly become aware of all the cracks, all the miscommunication, the constant little hurts that words/simply being ignorant/not paying attention to someone’s reactions to your comments can cause.

in the previous seasons we might’ve assumed that sana sometimes felt excluded but now we see just how much they don’t know about her private life. she had always come off as a girl who can’t be fucked with, a girl that is not phased by ugly comments or harrassment (the text on her locker) and who always has a comeback and can shake off any mistreatment easily. but now that we see the close-ups of her, there’s the sadness and the distance and those walls that never fully come down and how she needs to put back the brave/unbothered expression on her face every time vilde makes an ignorant comment or the girls plan an activity/order some food that doesn’t take sana’s religion into account and it must feel like a little cut that won’t kill you but makes you bleed. it’s the constant sores that you have to live with but sometimes new ones catch you unaware… 

sana is so estranged from the other girls that she’s probably never brought them home, never talked about about her brother in detail, likely never talked about her religion with them and certainly never brought up how she finds all of these little things that occur daily so hurtful. i’m sure we’ll get there. i’m sure julie intends to show us that there’s only so much a person can take without breaking down/snapping/retaliating eventually. i hope we’ll see sana making them aware that inaction or assumptions/being inconsiderate are just as hurtful as straight out attacks on a person/their religion.

and we can also see that there’re many layers to friendships and even though the girl squad’s friendship may have seemed like a well functioning one at first glance, we now have an insight that noora makes up lies to get out of group activities, maybe bc she knows the topic of william will be discussed or she’s depressed bc of william, deep down she knows it’s over between them and the girls make it quite clear they want her to get over william. but she’s just not ready to move on and feels like she can’t talk to them about him. there’s always the offers from vilde or eva that they could set her up with someone, like being alone was unhealthy, like she failed somehow with william.

i’m sure the other girls also hurt. chris must hate how easily the others dismissed her breakup with casper, how they never bothered to ask what happened. just bc she tries to be a positive person doesn’t mean she never gets hurt when her relationship is taken as a joke or how awful chris feels when vilde looks in the mirror and exclaims how fat she looks and even though she knows the comment is rooted in vilde’s body dysmorphia it still feels like it’s an indirect criticism of her body… 

we also know vilde basically got together with magnus bc of the others’ comments on how she was not getting any dick and who knows how triggering she finds it when noora reminds her of her eating disorder by pointing out something she eats (even if it’s just an ‘i’m proud of you’), it makes her question whether she should’ve eaten it or was it a jab that she’s eating too much? 

or how eva hates the thought of jonas hooking up with any of the girls (yes, she’s over him but still, no) or how they sometimes jokingly say she has an alcohol problem, and yes, sometimes she gets that feeling that she’s being judged for being promiscuous. these may all seem like small things but they hurt. 

and then there’s sana who feels like an outsider in basically all areas of life except for maybe school (but even then it’s not the same for her - gym class sucks; she still gets the odd looks for wearing a different outfit). it’s the conversations about physicality with boys, it’s the food (’that pork with apples was delicious the other day’), it’s the parties where she’s the only one not drinking/smoking if noora is not there, it’s how they arrange to meet right when it’s prayer time for her and she never points it out to them, it’s the assumptions about her religion/family/values that she’s long stopped trying to correct… the list is endless.

so i really hope julie will educate us about many ways there are to be misunderstood, how to be better and more supportive friends, how not to dismiss the intricacies of every culture and religion, how to live and let live and be considerate and celebrate differences.

Preach

this is a friendly little reminder @ the skam fandom that:

- sana and the balloon squad are all poc, stop erasing that part of them

- if you are a racist and islamophobic person then please leave because no one needs whites who fetishize white mlm but hate on every poc/muslim character

- if you are white and poc call you out on being racist then you cannot argue back saying you were not racist or that they are being racist towards you because listen up REVERSE RACISM IS NOT FUCKING REAL

- stop sending shit to any muslim and/or poc in this fandom and stop correcting them because listen up buddy, us white people do NOT get to say what is or is not racist

- stop being a fucking dick no one needs your annoying ass here

😞😞

the penatrators: make the girls they fucked wear their hoodies like they’re some kinda objects to be Branded™ and get into fistfights smashing bottles on people’s heads.

some of y’all: THESE BOYS ARE SO HOT WHAT GOOD GUYS!!!!!

the balloon squad: don’t stand for disrespecting women and talk about serious social issues like racism and police brutality.

some of y’all: ………. yaaaa i can’t be interested in these “loud macho straight guys who preen” they’re so basic they’re demons they can’t be trusted.

SKAM 4.01 Clip 3 - So Hot (Subbed)

4.01 + squads