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tripleS Sells Voting Power, and the Fandom Starts Counting Whales

The spill: tripleS lets fans buy digital photocards that produce voting power. It is clever, profitable, participatory, and exactly the kind of sentence that makes me reach for both my lightstick and my calculator.
Group
tripleS
System
Objekt, COMO, Gravity
Status
Operating as designed

What actually happens

Fans buy or collect digital photocards called Objekts through the Cosmo app. An Objekt can generate COMO. Fans spend COMO in Gravity votes that can decide subunits, title tracks, names and other group business. One COMO equals one vote.

That is the clean explanation. The messy part is obvious. A fan who buys more Objekts can hold more votes. The system gives fandom real influence, but it does not give every fan equal influence.

Why people defend it

The strongest defense is not “crypto is cool.” It is that Objekt money reportedly reaches the artists without waiting for trainee debt to disappear. Fans also point out that free Objekts and attendance rewards exist, and that a person can enjoy the group without buying every card or joining every vote.

There is also a practical argument. K-pop companies make decisions constantly. Most fans get zero say. tripleS gives WAV a visible process and a receipt, even if the receipt comes from a checkout screen.

Why the whale problem is real

Voting power tied to purchases creates whales, meaning a small group of heavy spenders can carry far more influence than ordinary fans. The academic and fandom discussion around the model keeps returning to the same issue: participatory governance is not automatically democratic when participation can be purchased in bulk.

RaeRae take: I love the transparency. I do not love pretending a wallet is a ballot box. Let fans vote, absolutely. Put a ceiling on how much one account can swing a decision, and I will stop staring at the spreadsheet like it owes me money.

The part nobody can dismiss

The scale is not a cute side experiment anymore. Research published in 2025 reported millions of NFT-style photocards sold. The system is part of tripleS’s music, member economy and fandom culture. Ignoring it would make the group profile incomplete.

It also explains why lineup popularity discussions become so sensitive. A card sale can look like support, revenue and rank at the same time, even when the company says the official purpose is participation.

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