K-pop group aespa reportedly had to downsize the venue for their Peru concert due to low ticket sales and insufficient demand.
According to social media posts circulating online, the concert was moved from a larger venue with a capacity of 20,000 to 21,000 seats down to a smaller location accommodating approximately 6,000 seats. The adjustment has sparked online questions and discussion regarding the group's overseas ticketing demand.
Netizen Reactions
The sampled discussion from Nate Pann shows a heavily polarized reaction, featuring sharp clashes between rival fandom supporters, criticisms regarding tour planning and concert attendance, and skepticism over fan-war narratives.
1. Lmao, wait, guys, I'm genuinely curious—why does it matter so much if aespa's tickets didn't sell out and venues are half-empty? Why do people who aren't even aespa fans care so much about another singer's concert? Who is trying to stir up fan wars like this, anyway? Every time I come on Pann, I really wonder about this. It's not just aespa either; whenever any other singer has a concert and even a tiny section of the seats is empty, people throw a massive fit.
2. It's pretty funny how even their US concerts are filled with only Asian audiences lolㅋㅋㅋㅋ
3. Did they rent out a local district community center?
4. Talk about a humiliation for the self-proclaimed #1 group.
5. Le Sserafim stans, is how much money they make in the end what really matters even if they couldn't fill the seats? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Then go buy some albums instead ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Buying albums is revenue too, so why aren't you buying albums and instead crawling onto a female-dominant community just to run your mouths ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
6. MY handmaidens lol, are you looking down on IVE? IVE and you guys are pretty similar in North America, so are you really claiming you're ahead when you just had a half-empty South America concert???
7. But honestly, among 4th-generation girl groups, aren't there really not that many groups that fill concert venues better than aespa anyway? For aespa, aren't they the kind of group that has usually managed to pull tens of thousands of people well enough?
8. It's entirely SM's fault. Back when they had half-empty concerts even after releasing dirt-cheap tickets, they should have given up on those regions early on. aespa is super popular in China, so if they just toured countries close to China, tens of thousands of Chinese fans would travel for destination viewing, which would yield a very lucrative revenue stream. I don't know why they're pushing themselves into something that acts as a negative to their career.
9. If they went to Peru, it would've been even more fun if they performed on stage with an alpaca.
10. It's just those older male LE SSERAFIM fans jumping out of the Girl Group Gallery to post stuff like that lolㅋㅋㅋ
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