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spir-13437	Kim, Do Own	REAL BUT FAKE, REAL BECAUSE FAKE: TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED K-POP IDOLS AND META-AUTHENTICITY	2023.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1547	78	41	TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED K-POP IDOLS AND META-AUTHENTICITY Do Own (Donna) Kim University of Illinois at Chicago Introduction “Hi, H. I.,” greets the two heavily filtered faces of JHo and Tan, the duo from the K-pop idol group “Mad Monster”. According to the self-claimed fans in YouTube comments, Mad Monster is the most authentic K-pop idol group there is despite their “natural” autotune singing voice, highly curated “genuine” fan interactions—such as their “cool” signature move to spell out all (but only if it is easy) English words like “Hi, H. I.”, and their “born beautiful” heavily filtered faces that occasionally morph back into the original whenever the members “mistakenly” disturb the AR filter sync.	cache/spir-13437.pdf	txt/spir-13437.txt