joan.n

ONE YEAR LATER

Published: November 15th 2023, 7:33:02 am

I posted this earlier today on my Instagram and have already shared it with YouTube. So this is a public post. But I basically wanted to jump on here and kind of give it more space to breathe a little. 

I'm not sure if/how long some of y'all have been with our channel but you may have heard us reference Elaine a lot. She is one of my oldest friends and actually the original co-host of K-Pop Crash Course. This channel was never my idea - it was always Elaine's idea. Somehow I just got reeled into it. 

But she started the channel at first with Cheyenne. And then eventually Chey wanted to leave. Then I stepped in. And then KPCC was born with E + Jo. There's a bunch of videos on our channel that you can binge if you want. You can follow her down her entire k-pop journey. She definitely brought in more of the musical aspect to the reaction. I loved having her insight on that world that I had no clue about ... it was really cool. 

In short, Elaine was really sick. We announced it on the channel. She stepped away to focus on her health and Allison came on as temp-host. We had always hoped she'd get better enough and that we'd all get to go to Korea together. But that wasn't really in the cards and so she died one year ago today.

And as much as the days leading up to that were of her at her weakest, I want to remember her like this. Joyful and dancing. Very much into BTS. 

I know this video is a little random but I hope it brings you some joy. We keep this channel going in honor of Elaine. And I just thought it'd be nice to share a little bit about her here in case some of you didn't know who she was. 

She was an incredible singer/songwriter who got really into k-pop / k-dramas / k-culture type stuff during the pandemic. She somehow conned me into starting a reaction channel with her but I'm so happy she did because now I have all these memories with her on camera. And she was one of my closest friends.

We miss you, E! 

💜💜