For me I started in 2023 when my best friend at the time said something about Blackpink and I was so impressed by there music I started standing them. (Dont stan them anymore(
In 2021 my friend showed me some Blackpink songs and I became a blink and later that year I discovered twice (I wasn’t really stanning the groups at that time but I was listening almost only to their music) and I started like properly stanning them and getting even more into kpop like 2 years later because the first two years I was like only caring about the songs and not rlly about the artists so I didn’t even rlly know about the concept of K-pop