u/kchanidol

I don't mean for this to be another complaint post, I genuinely want to know if anybody has any ideas.

It's obvious every year we get more and more visitors all within the same timeframe. Every year it becomes less sustainable. People who don't do their research either culturally or on anything to do with trip planning come down in October and proceed to complain about lines, wait times, the homeless, pride flags, locals being mean, etc.

Where do we go from here? What do we do? How do other major tourist destinations manage their influx of visitors? Every year since the pandemic I've noticed more and more disrespectful, rude, uneducated people here. People demanding businesses remove pride flags or signage, demanding locals cater to their needs, demand that the "noisy" homeless be removed so they don't have to see them. It's incredibly frustrating and makes me so sad.

This isn't even getting into the sheer volume of people all coming at the same time to the same place. The MBTA is overworked, businesses are far over capacity both in and out of doors. I love the visitors. I love this city and I love being able to share how nice it is with others, but there has to be something to help, right? When do we say it's too much? How do we say it?

I know it's probably a lot, but it's hard catching up. I see there's a new building under construction in DDL?

I'd like to see another indie music venue pop up. I saw someone mention throwing Moon Base One in there. Any suggestions?

Here's a portion of my performance of From Me To U by BABYMETAL at Salem Porchfest 2026!! 🧡✨

I was so unsure if I was going to be able to sing this the way I wanted to, doing both vocals as well as screams, but I bit the bullet and put it at the end of my set to make sure I'd be ready for it. I'm so immensely proud of this performance, and the unexpected call&mix was such an insane experience.

I saw it recently at the store and was curious. Usually I eat
the Rose or Carbonara, I'm not as big on the classic Buldak as it's a little too spicy for me. I've been on a yakisoba kick lately though and was wondering if I should grab the Buldak one.

I know there's a billion places to get coffee, but I was wondering if anyone around had really, actually good black coffee? No sugar, no cream, nothing. Just good coffee.

I'm on day 3 of this ~$150 pending charge sitting on my bank account. I'm not well off financially, all I did was buy groceries for half the month. Literally bought the necessities. I know sometimes there will be two separate pending charges but usually the old placeholder charge drops off after delivery. It's been 3 days and this charge is STILL stuck on my account and is basically imaginary overdrafting me. I'm so pissed. All Instacart support said was that it should go away in 7 business days. Who right now can handle having almost 200 bucks being held from their bank for a week? Because I bought groceries? I've used this for years and even have Instacart+, but why would I ever risk this happening again?

For reference, my PC is hooked up to the gateway via Ethernet. My upload is 5-10mbs and download is around 15-30mbs on my PC, meanwhile my phone is running a solid 150-300mbs.
I just got the most recent internet gateway (apparently my old equipment was ~5yrs out of date lol).
Anything I can do besides call support again?

Hey guys! To start I had fixed my latency issues already, so it's not an issue anymore. However every time I start recording, the recording is "late", so I have to move everything over a little. Previously, it was recording slightly slower than usual (it wasn't a channel issue but was fixed by the latency issue fix). Any idea what setting I borked up?

It drives me absolutely crazy. I hit every note perfectly when I'm at my job or closing up or walking back home, but when I dedicate genuine time to recording I always sound mid.
Is this just me being hard on myself? I drink the throat coat, I drink the water, I warm up. What gives?

Hey everyone! I'm K-chan, a kaigai idol based out of Salem Masschusetts! I am the new head mod of r/KaigaiIdols

"What happened?"

Nothing really. The old mod was inactive for several months and was removed from the team as per reddit moderation guidelines and standards. After noticing there was no moderation, I went through the official process to request the sub and was granted ownership.

"What changes?"

Nothing, except now the sub is actually being moderated. There wasn't much that needed to be moderated to be fair, but it was needed enough that the lack of mods was annoying and impacting other idols in the community.

"Who are you?!"

I'm K-chan, I've been performing idol acts since 2022 at Anime Boston and debuted as a kaigai idol back in 2025. I'm local to the New England area, particularly out of the historical city of Salem, MA. I specialize in J-metal, but love to perform all sorts of genres! My main inspirations are Zombieland SAGA, Babymetal, and other kaigai idols!

Anyways it's wonderful to be of service to you all! I'll be honest and say I dunno what I'll be doing other than moderating here, but I might do a few cute little community posts here and there. Thanks so much for having me!! 🧡✨