While Winter and Karina are gradually becoming the leading female idols of the 4th generation, Ningning and Giselle are attracting less attention.
Thanks to their great achievements in 2021, aespa is currently the leading girl group of the 4th generation. However, it seems that the popularity among the members is uneven. After they performed at the 2021 SBS Gayo Daejeon festival, Korean netizens discovered that Karina and Winter‘s Savage stage fancams had high views, while Giselle and NingNing had far fewer views.
Specifically, Winter‘s Savage fancam earned 270 thousand views after 2 days of airing, the highest in aespa. Second place is Karina (235 thousand views). NingNing received 43 thousand views, while Giselle only gained 36 thousand views.
Fancam views partly reflect the popularity of idols. Therefore, the above difference makes some people wonder if aespa has more fans only (who only likes 1 member) than OT4 fans.
In fact, Karina and Winter are the two most popular members of aespa. In the December 2021 female idol brand rankings, Winter ranked 2nd, Karina ranked 4th, Giselle ranked 7th, and NingNing was at No11. However, many people believe that fancam views reflect the level of interest that the public has for aespa members rather than the difference in their fan bases.
Winter and Karina are the two most popular members so many people search and watch their fancams. Besides, the 2 girls are Korean, so they easily win Knetizens’ hearts. As for NingNing and Giselle, they are foreigners so understandably they get less attention.
Netizens’ comments:
- The public knows nothing but Karina and Winter
- I think it’s just the public’s reaction
- Even you, who wrote this post, only watched Karina and Winter’s videosㅋㅋ Aespa doesn’t have many fans yet so I don’t think their fandom is divided, but the public is different
- Half of the members are foreigners so they give more love to the Korean members
- Giselle and NingNing are not the type of idols that the public likes
- Koreans don’t care about Chinese celebrities
- I’m also a fan of Aespa, but to be honest, I only watch Winter’s videosㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Although there is a difference in popularity among aespa members, that does not mean that Giselle and NingNing are completely unpopular. These 2 foreign female idols still had a relatively high position on the female idol brand ranking chart in December 2021. In November’s chart, Giselle was also ranked at No4 while NingNing was ranked at the 6th place. Hopefully SM will have the right strategies to shorten the reputation gap between the members and give all 4 girls the opportunity to show themselves to the public.
