I will present my paper “The Exiting Deokhu: K-pop Fans’ Acts of Disengagement, Resistance, and Online Mobilization” at the 2023 Fan Studies Network North America (FSN-NA) conference. The research examines what happens when fans distance themselves from their idols or otherwise choose to stop performing the traditional deokhu role of supporting and promoting the K-pop industry. The deokhu exit from fandom can include a range of behaviors, from high-profile acts of collective mobilization against misbehaving idols, to forms of resistive activism performed within the fandom, to more gradual forms of disengagement from K-pop fandom. Yet it can also involve the mobilization of affective labor that fans have performed in their deokhu roles.