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one fan, one camera, one member, zero interest in anyone else on stage.
means a video shot and edited by a fan that isolates a single performer, usually from a k-pop group, for the length of an entire song.
from emerged from korean fan culture in the 2000s when fans brought camcorders to music shows to record their bias exclusively, since broadcast cameras cut between members and left favorites underserved.
twitter weaponfancams got repurposed to drown out unrelated political hashtags in 2020
industry responsek-pop agencies now hire official fancam teams for every member
lengthtypically one full uncut song, three to four minutes
view countssome individual member fancams outview the official music video
for instance
jimin lie fancam — bts performance clip viewed over 100 million times on youtube
soompi fancam awards — annual fan-voted awards dedicated entirely to fancam videos
blm hashtag flooding — 2020 twitter users mass-posted fancams to bury racist hashtags