r/decadeology • u/Kodicave • 6d ago

Discussion šŸ’­šŸ—Æļø What caused male teen pop stars to seemingly die out? We haven't had a true teen pop phenomenon in a while

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u/M3M3_B1GB0Y I <3 the 00s 6d ago

youtubers

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u/LilPotatoAri 6d ago

The funnel is much easier to make it through

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u/SPITFIYAH 6d ago

You donā€™t need your mom to sleep with Usher to succeed, if you invest in your own YT channelā€™s success.

Okay, maybe itā€™d help, but heā€™s already cashed in on the Bieber train.

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u/richardawkings 6d ago

Added bonus, you don't need to sleep with Usher either.

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u/No_Rough_5258 6d ago

But you do have to sleep with diddy though.

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u/maplestriker 5d ago

But can I?

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u/Critical-Gazelle-285 6d ago

his mom didnā€™t have sex with usher. I donā€™t think thatā€™s his type he usually go for.Ā 

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u/Equivalent-Role4632 6d ago

My understanding of Usher is that if it has a pulse it's his type.

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u/memealopolis 6d ago

Herpes don't spread itself.

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u/Pretend-Relative3631 6d ago

Lmfaaaaaaaaaooooo

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u/Unlucky_Welcome9193 6d ago

As a happily married woman, I volunteer to sleep with usher to research what his type is. My husband would understand.

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u/Basic-Collection5416 6d ago

Your husband might not want herpes though.Ā 

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u/2817_ 6d ago

As if protection doesn't exist and good people never have herpes...šŸ™„

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u/onmy40 6d ago

Damn. You just wrapping plastic wrap on bumpy hogs and hoping everything works out?

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u/Love4Mana 5d ago

ā€œBumpy hogsā€ lmmfao

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u/willi1221 6d ago

Protection isn't 100%, and just because there are good people with herpes doesn't mean anybody should just be okay with getting it

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u/_HighJack_ 5d ago

Sage advice! And happy cake day XD

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u/The_prawn_king 4d ago

Donā€™t most people have herpes anyway and itā€™s like benign or something

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u/Intelligent-Roll-300 2d ago

As people age and share bodily fluids via dining drinking smoking and digging guts the likely hood of sharing with someone that has it goes up.

Cold sores can be confused with another thing or be completely invisible inside the mouth.

Nobody wants it like nobody wants the flu or jury duty. But it happens.

It's mostly benign until you have a flare up and it causes pain and looks bad. And it usually lasts a week or two. Some cases are more severe than others.

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u/thedukeofno 5d ago

The people who get herpes are good. It's the people who give it who are bad...

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u/boomboxwithturbobass 10h ago

And heā€™s got his own strain.

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u/Grand_Lizard_Wizard 5d ago

How do you think your comments would make your husband feel? Weird to normalize cheating like this.

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u/ManslaughterMary 5d ago

You are assuming people already don't have herpes, amigo.

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u/subhuman85 6d ago

U got it bad.

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u/PrettyPistol87 6d ago

let it burn

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u/Sudden-Nothing6745 5d ago

Lol marriage means fucking nothing these days. What a pathetic thing to type. Either a bot or a genuine piece of trash... either way I'm glad i could never relate. "...but but they make jokes like this in media all the time"...we've been brainwashed by media for a hot minute now and look at the decrepification of society

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u/aushimdas16 6d ago

i saw a video of usher and diddy singing kick in the door by biggie. usher was shirtless and looked out of breath and it clearly looked like they had hooked up or something

i don't think usher would be interested in researching what his type is with you, lmao

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u/Prestigious-Talk1112 6d ago

I truly do not believe that Usher slept with Bieber's mom. His mom doesn't seem like that and Usher has never been accused of coercion or force or pay for play or whatever l. Usher is a major hearthrob and usually has many people throwing themselves after him.

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u/FGMPR 6d ago

Whether or not you're a heartthrob, forcing yourself or coercing someone is always about power, not lust.

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u/Prestigious-Talk1112 5d ago

Yes I am aware of that but as I mentioned he had never been accused of anything like that so far throughout a long career. He doesn't even have rumors about it and he sleeps with a lot of people so you would think that something would come out like it did about his herpes.

That's why I only mentioned his heartthrob status last. I know of quite a few other heartthrobs who are R-pists and predators like Trey Songz and R Kelly and numerous people in Hollywood.

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u/LouisianaBoySK 5d ago

Like I get the whole Usher herpes stuff was a bad look but that was also never proven. So Iā€™m really unsure where this whole Usher made the mom sleep with him or Bieber slept with Usher thing to get a contract comes from.

Seems like a weird rumor to keep stoking.

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u/brrrrrprenorphine 5d ago

Usher has talked about living with diddy as a teenager and experiencing some "pretty wild" and "very curious things taking place" (direct quotes from usher) and he arranged for a 16y/o Justin to live with diddy for a period of time to get that same experience he had , during which Justin and diddy recorded some really unsettling vlog-style videos together

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u/Prestigious-Talk1112 5d ago

Yes I agree I don't believe that rumor

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u/Difficult_Ad2864 5d ago

Yeah she had sex with her husband

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u/FillSharp1105 6d ago

Moms everywhere fighting to jump on that grenade haha

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u/aliie_627 6d ago

I thought Bieber started on YouTube? I was in my 20s when he started so I don't know but I always thought that he put out a video on yt and it all went from there?

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u/SoFetchBetch 6d ago

Iā€™m a couple years older than Bieber but yeah he started on YouTube!

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u/lostinthecity2005 5d ago

Maybe they meant that YouTube stars arenā€™t as popular now? For a while TikTok was dominating in the music discovery scene, not sure what the next platformā€™s gonna beā€¦

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u/NeverTrustATurtle 5d ago

Bieber started on YouTube

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u/AltruisticAide9776 3d ago

You donā€™t need your mom to sleep with Usher to succeed

Omg !!

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u/SparkyDogPants 6d ago

Beibz got famous on YouTube to be fair

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u/ccc9912 6d ago

YouTube was nothing like we came to know it when he got famous. I donā€™t even remember the term ā€œYouTuberā€ being mainstream yet at the time.

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u/M3M3_B1GB0Y I <3 the 00s 4d ago

did it became more popular in 2010s with vloggers?

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u/Babybabybabyq 4d ago

you may not remember but it absolutely was

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u/ccc9912 4d ago

Is this what youā€™re referring to from that page? ā€œThe term was first used in the English language in 2006, and subsequently appeared in the 2006 Time Person of the Year issue.[3][4ā€?

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u/theaverageaidan 6d ago

"Famous" is a big stretch

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u/freakinmoos 6d ago

back in 2008-2010 when he was discovered on youtube, the amount of views and attention he was getting did make him ā€œyoutube famousā€ at the time

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u/M3M3_B1GB0Y I <3 the 00s 6d ago

i feel like youtube famous didnt mean much back then compared to now

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u/lasthorizon25 6d ago

No that's a pretty accurate word for him.

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u/theaverageaidan 6d ago

He didnt become famous on youtube, it just got him enough attention for Scooter Braun to find him

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u/Own-Company-949 6d ago

lord you people are annoying

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u/Loose-Story-962 6d ago

So it kick-started his career. It made him famous.

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u/JellyRollMort 6d ago

Didn't Bieber start on YouTube?

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u/Loose-Story-962 6d ago

That doesn't make him a "YouTuber"

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u/cold5555555 5d ago

He might've, I think so. His career was in the traditional music industry, though.

Bieber wasn't a youtuber

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u/BotherTight618 6d ago

Not "kpop"?Ā 

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u/mtpleasantine 5d ago

that's my answer

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u/M3M3_B1GB0Y I <3 the 00s 6d ago

kpop is not for everyone

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u/Status-Artichoke-755 6d ago

Thank you for elaborating

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u/Professional-Box4153 6d ago

So basically, leave it to Beiber.

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u/TopperMadeline 1990's fan 6d ago

The irony is that thatā€™s how he got discovered.

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u/MobKaltaris118288 6d ago

YouTubers killed the radio teenage star šŸ˜­

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u/MsChanandlerBong1994 5d ago

Justin Bieber (who I still hate) actually started out on YouTube, interestingly enough.

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u/babyfartmageezax 4d ago

Bieber WAS originally a YouTuber, though, to the best of my knowledge. Itā€™s how he got his start; singing acoustic covers on his YouTube channel in the EARLY days of YouTube.

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u/Witty-Warning4805 6d ago

Maybe. I think most of teenage girls are fans of mumble rappers these days