First off, I would like for you to know that Taeyeon is my favorite member in Girls' Generation. So my opinions reflect this fact. Because she's my favorite, I want her to be happy. So no, I was not one of those fans who head-butted her comment feed on her Instagram posts criticizing their relationship. Heck, three other members have revealed that they're dating before Taeyeon did, so it'd be weird if I freaked out about Taeyeon dating.
But here's the thing, with the other members, I can at least see them getting married to their boyfriends. I take their relationships seriously. Baekhyun and Taeyeon? Not so much. First off, Baekhyun is younger than Taeyeon. Actually from the time the news of their relationship first broke out until now, my thoughts on the fact that the guy must be older in a relationship has changed a bit. Before you judge me, let me break it to you that it's a traditional Korean thought process - the guy should be older. But of course, times have changed so the girl being older is common. I've become more lenient about the guy being like a year younger, but not three years, as in the case of Taeyeon and Baekhyun. Although it's easy to think members of GG are old since they debuted at young ages, and their Korean name uses the word for a teenage girl, so they're supposed to have this young image, but they've shed a lot of that with the years passing. So we look at Taeyeon's Korean age, 26, and think she's old, especially since she's a girl group member. But that's actually not an old age. So that makes Baekhyun 23 years old in Korean. I just don't see their relationship as something serious.
There was that whole scandal about Taeyeon and Baekhyun sending secret love codes through Instagram, mocking their clueless fans. Some of their posts make me consider this possibility, but more with Baekhyun and not so much with Taeyeon. Taeyeon made an Instagram account way before Baekhyun did and her posts really were all for the fans. While I was starting to doubt her love for her fans with all this scandal, news broke out that she went around the airport crying and apologizing to fans. I was certain again that she does still care for her fans and honestly, I just mixed thoughts. Fans (mostly Korean fans) seem to be taking this all too seriously but at the same time, Taeyeon and Baekhyun shouldn't have posted some things (탱큥베리마치 typed as a caption for one of Taeyeon's posts is still suspicious...) on Instagram. So this all sucks and I hope to see Taeyeon on Instagram again.
