Hello! long story – I'm hosting my own kpop fest and wanted to do a bingo for fun, and found your bingo generator through sportsanime. If you want to see, my final bingo guide is here.
Early last year there was the bleak boyband bingo fest and I typed up their bingo boards with links to their CuriousCat explanations to be added to your list! A lot of my mutuals (and myself) was inspired by the BBB and would love it in a bingo card. Many thanks! (also please credit lowhours instead since it's their brainchild)
Uberboard
capitalism induced “found” family, short term gains at a long term cost, big fan of your own modelling work, the greater the success the greater the pain, know exactly what you’d rather be doing but won’t quit, loving it and realising you’re the only one who feels that way, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029836849”>member who bailed before debut</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1022220728”>believing the Myth</a>, Holy Shit We Are Flopping, no idea what you’d rather be doing but it’s definitely not this anymore, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1023909243”>in on the grift from the start</a>, keep expecting to encounter your limit on what you’ll compromise on and not finding it, wholehearted fan of predecessor pop acts, signing on with gritted teeth because this is your one shot, blatant management favouritism, the guilt of being incredibly relieved when it’s over, members leaving and the group continuing, “we were just coworkers” narrative readjustment, suspected stockholm syndrome, last minute addition to the group, early disbandment by company decision/going broke, early disbandment by group choice, some want to call it quits, some want to keep chugging, drastic branding shift, on camera prank reveals far too much, palpable desperation as group nears expiration date, public sniping post disbandment, ignoring naysayers leaders to ignoring valid criticism, waiting for the public to realise you’re a fraud, obnoxious personality to compensate for lack of talent, post-disbandment identity crisis, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>chasing the stage high in “healthy” ways</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>chasing the stage high in unhealthy ways</a>, self-aware sell our, was any of it ever real?, addicted to stage and only feel alive when performing, pathetically grateful for any creative control, sleep deprivation is a form of torture, constant threat of falling from heights of success, exponentially increasing animosity towards press, discovering a new kink on camera, homesick but no idea where home is, openly despising your fans, mid performance horniness, post performance horniness, feeling immense scrutiny when attempting a normal adult activity for once, let along if you fail at it, leaning into the pseudo-intimacy w/ fans, acting out and testing boundaries b/c you’re simultaneously all powerful and incredibly trapped, stage name complex, concerningly hysterical on-stage crying, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>Masochism is barely subtext</a>, child labour, speedwalk and avoid eye-contact, every unthinking expression or gesture recorded and overanalysed, anything you own, wear or do emulated by fans, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1023909243”>exhibitionism is absolutely not subtext</a>, will never, ever, ever escape this period of your life, idolsona is just an exaggeration of all your worst qualities, company camera 20cm from face at all times, bizarre public disguises, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>feeling like an alien interloper in real life</a>, ruining a normie’s life by dating them, picking up smoking because its own of maybe 3 addictions that probably won’t ruin your career, age vs talent heirarchies, mixed talent levels, unjustified loyalty to company, most ambitious, least popular, filial piety, glad to have contractually obligated company, cross group dating, cloud chasing friends from back home, too busy taking care of younger members to have your own dramas, over-reliance on staff for “external” human contact, filial piety but you’re not happy about it, picking up others mannerisms, refusing to drop the coworkersona, forgetting that staff do not exist to serve, family wealth disparities, inter-group power struggling, bringing up idolsona behaviour in arguments, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029829372”>concerning amount of docility for staff</a>, all eyes averted from trainwreck member, toxic rivalry, no time to acknowledge that particularly blatant cry for help!, fitting arguments around celeb schedule, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>hero worship</a>, exploiting intimate knowledge to keep each other limping along and the product functioning, knowing exactly which buttons to push for maximum reaction, trainwreck turns infection, resenting others for their emotional vulnerability, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>pigtail pulling</a>, openly resenting fanservice, casual nudity, stop smothering me!, no wait come back please smother me, struggling to describe group intimacy to outsiders, ominous mindreading abilities, resenting others for their emotional resiliency, bedsharing as a coping mechanism, bedsharing as self-harm, clashing love languages, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1035676923”>irony, the sixth love language</a>, resigned acceptance of knowing the team j/o schedule, shipping ruins your relationship/s, giving up on asserting personal space boundaries, RICHARD SIKEN EPIGRAPH, fanservice as outlet for sublimated emotions, pseudo-dating member/s without realising, there are other gay ones and somehow they’re dealing with it infinitely better than you, X likes Y and Y loves X, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1028089665”>horny for honorifics</a>, codependency, lying about your ideal type, being the gay one, is this gay or is he just hot and I’m touch starved and don’t know how to relate to normal people any more, weird threesomes, pavlov’d by fan reactions to skinship, everyone saying ‘I love you’ but not quite in the way you’d like, subtract all the parts of you that came from them and there’s nothing left, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1054591629”>intricate rituals to touch the skin of other men</a>, burgeoning substance abuse/alcoholism as comedic fallback, responsible persona martyr complex, can’t open up because of your leader responsibilities, almost saying “we” in solo interviews, tattoos are boyband themed, clinging to “normal” behaviours as reminders of humanity,: Normal Young Person Roleplay, relentless perfectionism that never lets you properly enjoy success, what the facade and what’s you, is there even a “you” amongst the funhouse mirrors, high school drop-out, no vocabulary for your existential crisis, inflated ego due to being smartest of the illiterates, only thing scarier than what you’ve become is knowing you had it in you all along, deep mistrust of any affection, youngest and therefore the most brainwashed, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026851657”>escape manoeuvres that draw the noose of the boyband psyche tighter</a>, “body on the line” taken to the extreme, tattoos to assert bodily autonomy, crushed by the weight of your own potential, all motivation is from external sources, desperately trying to recapture glory days, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>taste stopped evolving at age 16</a>, oblivious selfishness, compulsive behaviours with obvious origins.,
GIRL GROUP BOARD
No longer bearing any resemblance to your siblings, thank fuck I haven’t had my period in years, quite literally hamstrung by constantly wearing heels, matching nosejobs, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1040240327”>singing is materially impacted by surgeries</a>, flexibility as a talant, on-camera eating, never getting to use your lower range when singing or speaking, foundation is 3-4 shades lighter than it should be, body is your worth, slutty exhibitionism because it’s fun, slutty exhibitionism because it’s your job, safety short wedges, pretty untalented one, talented unpretty one, resting bitch face to customer service rictus smile, spankbank stages at military events, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029124910”>unwilling allies</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1040142140”>no new friends and/or no friends at all</a>, not sure who in the group you can trust, enjoying the girlcrush concept slightly too much, excessive playing with each other’s hair, Sincere Sisterhood believer, BFF roleplay becomes real, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1028486232”>lesbian cat amongst the pigeons</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1027009267”>schrodinger’s butch</a>, not wanting the group to end because then heterosexuality kicks in, clueless het pigeon amongst the lesbian cats, do I want to be her or sleep with her?, sacrificing talent for easy money and fame, any attempts to upskill are thwarted, X and her back-up dancers, pointlessness of trying to make dedicated fans out of a male fanbase, knowing you will never be as successful as a comparable BG, sweaty men at fansigns, promotional limbo when younger GG debuts, mass hate from fickle fanbase, grinning and bearing yet another schoolgirl concept in your late 20s, wishing for less solo stans, desperately trying to establish solo avenues because otherwise your career is dead in the water in 3 yrs, enjoying schoolgirl concept a little too much, knowing management is pitting you against each other and walking right into their trap, hurtling towards expiration date (always sooner rather than later), group concept is only as mature as youngest members, aware of your own interchangeability and disposability, “nation’s little sister”, girly airhead image as punishment, doing everything rights and still flopping, Arrested Girlhood, Thought you were the one who could break free of GG curse(s), am I good at being an idol or good at being a woman? Sexualised or infantilized. Those are your two options, consciously leaning on Gender Performance for idolsona, having to lay aside your well-developed and hard earned adult identity yet again, keeping ruthless ambition as hidden as possible, can’t contain disgust for male variety show hosts, moronsona leaks into everyday, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1062623083”>trapping the emotionally volatile tomboy deep inside</a>, only taking care of yourself so you can take care of others more effectively, baby-talk, resenting younger idols’ (relative) freedom, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1054591629”>gilded cage stockholm syndrome</a>, having to fake humble when you know you’re hot, “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”,
FOREIGN IDOL BOARD
Speaking 3 languages and being fluent in none, can’t remember the last time you heard your name pronounced correctly, using the wrong language with your own family, different language = different persona, being the most popular member in your home country, not being the most popular member in your home country, “if we were arguing in my native tongue I’d be winning”, learning insults first, growing fluency and growing realisation you don’t like these people, pervasive sense of being treated with suspicion, having to accept you will just always be making mistakes on camera, treated like the idiot sidekick on variety shows, damned if you do, damned if you don’t, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029829372”>no opportunity to share nuanced insights from your unique life experiences</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1040142140”>sunk cost fallacy x1000</a>, dying without skinship because you don’t know how to communicate otherwise, always out of the loop, grateful for even the most half-assed attempts by local members to engage w/ your culture, extremely tense hyperawareness of political conflicts, demonized by two countries at once for minor slights, no real choice in which local idol adopts you, intense bond with countrymates despite clashing personalities, exploiting oblivious foreigner stereotype to do what you want, extra precarious employment status and knowing it, constant jetlag,
Bleak Boyband Bingo prompts
Early last year there was the bleak boyband bingo fest and I typed up their bingo boards with links to their CuriousCat explanations to be added to your list! A lot of my mutuals (and myself) was inspired by the BBB and would love it in a bingo card. Many thanks! (also please credit
Uberboard
capitalism induced “found” family, short term gains at a long term cost, big fan of your own modelling work, the greater the success the greater the pain, know exactly what you’d rather be doing but won’t quit, loving it and realising you’re the only one who feels that way, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029836849”>member who bailed before debut</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1022220728”>believing the Myth</a>, Holy Shit We Are Flopping, no idea what you’d rather be doing but it’s definitely not this anymore, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1023909243”>in on the grift from the start</a>, keep expecting to encounter your limit on what you’ll compromise on and not finding it, wholehearted fan of predecessor pop acts, signing on with gritted teeth because this is your one shot, blatant management favouritism, the guilt of being incredibly relieved when it’s over, members leaving and the group continuing, “we were just coworkers” narrative readjustment, suspected stockholm syndrome, last minute addition to the group, early disbandment by company decision/going broke, early disbandment by group choice, some want to call it quits, some want to keep chugging, drastic branding shift, on camera prank reveals far too much, palpable desperation as group nears expiration date, public sniping post disbandment, ignoring naysayers leaders to ignoring valid criticism, waiting for the public to realise you’re a fraud, obnoxious personality to compensate for lack of talent, post-disbandment identity crisis, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>chasing the stage high in “healthy” ways</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>chasing the stage high in unhealthy ways</a>, self-aware sell our, was any of it ever real?, addicted to stage and only feel alive when performing, pathetically grateful for any creative control, sleep deprivation is a form of torture, constant threat of falling from heights of success, exponentially increasing animosity towards press, discovering a new kink on camera, homesick but no idea where home is, openly despising your fans, mid performance horniness, post performance horniness, feeling immense scrutiny when attempting a normal adult activity for once, let along if you fail at it, leaning into the pseudo-intimacy w/ fans, acting out and testing boundaries b/c you’re simultaneously all powerful and incredibly trapped, stage name complex, concerningly hysterical on-stage crying, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>Masochism is barely subtext</a>, child labour, speedwalk and avoid eye-contact, every unthinking expression or gesture recorded and overanalysed, anything you own, wear or do emulated by fans, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1023909243”>exhibitionism is absolutely not subtext</a>, will never, ever, ever escape this period of your life, idolsona is just an exaggeration of all your worst qualities, company camera 20cm from face at all times, bizarre public disguises, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>feeling like an alien interloper in real life</a>, ruining a normie’s life by dating them, picking up smoking because its own of maybe 3 addictions that probably won’t ruin your career, age vs talent heirarchies, mixed talent levels, unjustified loyalty to company, most ambitious, least popular, filial piety, glad to have contractually obligated company, cross group dating, cloud chasing friends from back home, too busy taking care of younger members to have your own dramas, over-reliance on staff for “external” human contact, filial piety but you’re not happy about it, picking up others mannerisms, refusing to drop the coworkersona, forgetting that staff do not exist to serve, family wealth disparities, inter-group power struggling, bringing up idolsona behaviour in arguments, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029829372”>concerning amount of docility for staff</a>, all eyes averted from trainwreck member, toxic rivalry, no time to acknowledge that particularly blatant cry for help!, fitting arguments around celeb schedule, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>hero worship</a>, exploiting intimate knowledge to keep each other limping along and the product functioning, knowing exactly which buttons to push for maximum reaction, trainwreck turns infection, resenting others for their emotional vulnerability, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>pigtail pulling</a>, openly resenting fanservice, casual nudity, stop smothering me!, no wait come back please smother me, struggling to describe group intimacy to outsiders, ominous mindreading abilities, resenting others for their emotional resiliency, bedsharing as a coping mechanism, bedsharing as self-harm, clashing love languages, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1035676923”>irony, the sixth love language</a>, resigned acceptance of knowing the team j/o schedule, shipping ruins your relationship/s, giving up on asserting personal space boundaries, RICHARD SIKEN EPIGRAPH, fanservice as outlet for sublimated emotions, pseudo-dating member/s without realising, there are other gay ones and somehow they’re dealing with it infinitely better than you, X likes Y and Y loves X, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1028089665”>horny for honorifics</a>, codependency, lying about your ideal type, being the gay one, is this gay or is he just hot and I’m touch starved and don’t know how to relate to normal people any more, weird threesomes, pavlov’d by fan reactions to skinship, everyone saying ‘I love you’ but not quite in the way you’d like, subtract all the parts of you that came from them and there’s nothing left, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1054591629”>intricate rituals to touch the skin of other men</a>, burgeoning substance abuse/alcoholism as comedic fallback, responsible persona martyr complex, can’t open up because of your leader responsibilities, almost saying “we” in solo interviews, tattoos are boyband themed, clinging to “normal” behaviours as reminders of humanity,: Normal Young Person Roleplay, relentless perfectionism that never lets you properly enjoy success, what the facade and what’s you, is there even a “you” amongst the funhouse mirrors, high school drop-out, no vocabulary for your existential crisis, inflated ego due to being smartest of the illiterates, only thing scarier than what you’ve become is knowing you had it in you all along, deep mistrust of any affection, youngest and therefore the most brainwashed, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026851657”>escape manoeuvres that draw the noose of the boyband psyche tighter</a>, “body on the line” taken to the extreme, tattoos to assert bodily autonomy, crushed by the weight of your own potential, all motivation is from external sources, desperately trying to recapture glory days, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1026006233”>taste stopped evolving at age 16</a>, oblivious selfishness, compulsive behaviours with obvious origins.,
GIRL GROUP BOARD
No longer bearing any resemblance to your siblings, thank fuck I haven’t had my period in years, quite literally hamstrung by constantly wearing heels, matching nosejobs, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1040240327”>singing is materially impacted by surgeries</a>, flexibility as a talant, on-camera eating, never getting to use your lower range when singing or speaking, foundation is 3-4 shades lighter than it should be, body is your worth, slutty exhibitionism because it’s fun, slutty exhibitionism because it’s your job, safety short wedges, pretty untalented one, talented unpretty one, resting bitch face to customer service rictus smile, spankbank stages at military events, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029124910”>unwilling allies</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1040142140”>no new friends and/or no friends at all</a>, not sure who in the group you can trust, enjoying the girlcrush concept slightly too much, excessive playing with each other’s hair, Sincere Sisterhood believer, BFF roleplay becomes real, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1028486232”>lesbian cat amongst the pigeons</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1027009267”>schrodinger’s butch</a>, not wanting the group to end because then heterosexuality kicks in, clueless het pigeon amongst the lesbian cats, do I want to be her or sleep with her?, sacrificing talent for easy money and fame, any attempts to upskill are thwarted, X and her back-up dancers, pointlessness of trying to make dedicated fans out of a male fanbase, knowing you will never be as successful as a comparable BG, sweaty men at fansigns, promotional limbo when younger GG debuts, mass hate from fickle fanbase, grinning and bearing yet another schoolgirl concept in your late 20s, wishing for less solo stans, desperately trying to establish solo avenues because otherwise your career is dead in the water in 3 yrs, enjoying schoolgirl concept a little too much, knowing management is pitting you against each other and walking right into their trap, hurtling towards expiration date (always sooner rather than later), group concept is only as mature as youngest members, aware of your own interchangeability and disposability, “nation’s little sister”, girly airhead image as punishment, doing everything rights and still flopping, Arrested Girlhood, Thought you were the one who could break free of GG curse(s), am I good at being an idol or good at being a woman? Sexualised or infantilized. Those are your two options, consciously leaning on Gender Performance for idolsona, having to lay aside your well-developed and hard earned adult identity yet again, keeping ruthless ambition as hidden as possible, can’t contain disgust for male variety show hosts, moronsona leaks into everyday, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1062623083”>trapping the emotionally volatile tomboy deep inside</a>, only taking care of yourself so you can take care of others more effectively, baby-talk, resenting younger idols’ (relative) freedom, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1054591629”>gilded cage stockholm syndrome</a>, having to fake humble when you know you’re hot, “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”,
FOREIGN IDOL BOARD
Speaking 3 languages and being fluent in none, can’t remember the last time you heard your name pronounced correctly, using the wrong language with your own family, different language = different persona, being the most popular member in your home country, not being the most popular member in your home country, “if we were arguing in my native tongue I’d be winning”, learning insults first, growing fluency and growing realisation you don’t like these people, pervasive sense of being treated with suspicion, having to accept you will just always be making mistakes on camera, treated like the idiot sidekick on variety shows, damned if you do, damned if you don’t, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1029829372”>no opportunity to share nuanced insights from your unique life experiences</a>, <a href=“https://curiouscat.qa/bbb_fest/post/1040142140”>sunk cost fallacy x1000</a>, dying without skinship because you don’t know how to communicate otherwise, always out of the loop, grateful for even the most half-assed attempts by local members to engage w/ your culture, extremely tense hyperawareness of political conflicts, demonized by two countries at once for minor slights, no real choice in which local idol adopts you, intense bond with countrymates despite clashing personalities, exploiting oblivious foreigner stereotype to do what you want, extra precarious employment status and knowing it, constant jetlag,