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heybaetae · 2 years ago

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hello kelli! such a big fan of your instagram gfx through the eras, i tried really hard not to screech too hard in my tags haha i did want to ask, since i am mostly on tumblr via mobile app, for whatever reason i am not able to read your detailed explanation :( is there another way to access it? i would love to read it during my work break tomorrow! ♡

thank you so much! so i made the post private and accessible via the link, which i recommend opening in a web browser on either your phone or a desktop, but i know some people might still run into problems, so i will copy and paste it under the cut on this post as well. 💜

Hello and thank you for clicking through to this post! I decided that if I was going to make a gif series this intricate and time consuming, I’d break it down for anyone who was interested in all the fine details. Please see further comments at the end!

School era

Icon: Dark & Wild (studio album cover) Posts: 45 unique tracks across era Followers: 51k - “It went on to sell 51,655 copies by the end of that month” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: Dark & Wild concept photos

First row:

1. No More Dream MV 2. 2 Cool 4 School (single album cover) ↳ Mouse hover effect: 612k likes - June 12th, 2013 760 comments - “2 Cool 4 Skool sold 760 copies in its release week” 3. We Are Bulletproof Pt. 2 MV

Second row:

4. O!RUL8,2? (mini album cover) / Swipe effect: N.O. MV 5. Boy in Luv MV 6. Skool Luv Affair (mini album cover) / Swipe effect: Skool Luv Affair special addition (repackage album cover)

Third row:

7. Just One Day MV 8. Danger MV 9. War of Hormone MV

Youth era

Icon: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever (compilation album cover) Posts: 21 unique tracks across era (excluding remixes) Followers: 164k - “164,868 copies were sold within the first week” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever concept photos

First row:

1. The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Part One (mini album cover) ↳ Mouse hover effect: 429k likes - April 29th, 2015 274k comments - “The EP ended 2015 as the sixth best-selling album of the year in South Korea, with 274,135 copies sold” 2. I Need U MV 3. Dope MV

Second row:

4. The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage: Prologue short film 5. Run MV 6. Swipe effect: The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Part Two mini album cover & concept photos

Third row:

7. Fire MV 8. Save Me MV 9. Epilogue: Young Forever MV

Wings era

Icon: Wings (studio album cover) Posts: 18 unique tracks across era Followers: 1.8m - “They [Wings/You Never Walk Alone] sold a combined 1.8 million physical copies worldwide” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: Wings concept photos

First row:

1. BEGIN short film 2. LIE short film 3. STIGMA short film / Swipe effect: FIRST LOVE short film

Second row:

4. REFLECTION short film / Swipe effect: MAMA short film 5. AWAKE short film 6. Intro: Boy Meets Evil comeback trailer Third row:

7. Blood Sweat & Tears MV 8. You Never Walk Alone (repackage album cover) / Swipe effect: Spring Day MV 9. Not Today MV

Love Yourself era

Icon: Love Yourself: Answer (compilation album cover) Posts: 30 unique tracks across era (excluding remixes) Followers: 1.51m - “the first six days of the pre-order period for Love Yourself: Answer, iriver Inc reported that the album had sold more than 1.51 million copies” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: Love Yourself: Answer concept photos

First row:

1. Serendipity comeback trailer 2. Love Yourself: Her (mini album cover) / Swipe effect: DNA MV 3. MIC Drop MV

Second row:

4. Euphoria short film 5. Singularity comeback trailer 6. Love Yourself: Tear (studio album cover) ↳ Mouse hover effect: 518k likes - May 18th, 2018 1.5m comments - “news media revealed updated numbers showing that pre-orders had actually crossed 1.5 million copies” Third row:

7. Fake Love MV 8. Epiphany comeback trailer 9. IDOL MV

Map of the Soul era

Icon: Map of the Soul: 7 (studio album cover) Posts: 21 unique tracks across era Followers: 4m - "On February 6, Forbes reported that the album had surpassed 4 million pre-orders worldwide.” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: Map of the Soul: 7 concept photos

First row:

1. Persona comeback trailer 2. Boy With Luv MV 3. Map of the Soul: PERSONA (mini album cover) ↳ Mouse hover effect: 412k likes - April 12th, 2019 3.07m comments - “According to iriver Inc, the distributor for the Map of the Soul: Persona, stock preorders for the EP surpassed 2.68 million copies over the first five days of the preorder period. The number was later updated to 3.07 million on April 11, the day before the EP's release.”

Second row:

4. Make It Right MV 5. Interlude: Shadow comeback trailer 6. Outro: Ego comeback trailer Third row:

7. ON Kinetic Manifesto Film 8. ON MV 9. Black Swan MV

BE era

Icon: BE (mini album cover) Posts: 8 unique tracks across era + 7 members = 15 (to max out the grid) Followers: 2.2m - “Be debuted at number one on South Korea's Gaon Album Chart with over 2.2 million copies sold in its first week.” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: BE concept photos

First row:

1. Dynamite (digital single cover) / Swipe effect: Dynamite MV 2. BE Jacket Shoot Sketch 3. BE Comeback Countdown

Second row:

4. Life Goes On MV 5. Grammy Nomination Night Bangtan Bomb 6. MTV Unplugged Presents BTS ad / Swipe effect: Telepathy MTV Unplugged performance Third row:

7. Blue & Grey MTV Unplugged performance 8. BE-hind ‘Full’ Story 9. Dynamite Grammy performance

Butter era

Icon: Butter (digital single cover) Posts: 2 unique tracks across era (excluding remixes/instrumentals) + 7 members = 9 (to max out the grid) Followers: 2.5m - “The single album version of the song, sold nearly 2.5 million physical copies in South Korea in July” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: Butter single album concept photos

First row:

1. Butter MV 2. Butter (Hotter Remix) MV 3. Butter (Cooler Remix) MV

Second row:

4. Permission to Dance (digital single cover) ↳ Mouse hover effect: 709k likes - July 9th, 2021 140k comments - “Permission to Dance" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, on the issue dated July 24, 2021, earning 15.9 million streams, 1.1 million radio airplay impressions, and selling 140,000 copies in its first week of release.” 5. Permission to Dance MV 6. Butter single album Jacket Shoot Sketch Third row:

7. Butter feat. Megan Thee Stallion (digital single cover) / Swipe effect: Special Performance Video 8. Permission to Dance: On Stage poster / Swipe effect: Permission to Dance: On Stage opening VCR 9. Butter Grammy performance

Proof era

Icon: Proof (anthology album cover) Posts: 48 unique tracks across era Followers: 2.7m - “On its release day alone, Proof sold over two million copies worldwide. By the end of its first week, it sold a total of 2,752,496 copies.” Following: 7 members

Story Highlights: Proof concept photos

First row:

1. Swipe effect: Proof concept photos 2. Yet To Come MV 3. Proof LIVE

Second row:

4. 2022 BTS Festa Dinner 5. Proof Music Show Promotions Sketch 6. For Youth Inkigayo performance Third row:

7. BTS @ The Fact Music Awards Episode 8. Run BTS @ BTS ‘Yet to Come’ in BUSAN performance 9. Run BTS Dance Practice

Credits/Disclaimers:

BTS Chronicle - You may have noticed I took some creative liberties regarding what is listed as the “Dynamite Trilogy” on this website. Though I acknowledge that the three English singles served a purpose across the pandemic in 2020-2021—for the sake of this set and per my own understanding of these releases—I personally chose not to lump them all together as its own era/trilogy considering Dynamite was, in fact, an introduction to the BE era (and included on said album) while Butter and Permission to Dance were sold together on its own separate physical mini album the following year. I hope you’ll understand my thought process behind this and my decision to include Dynamite with the BE era, in addition to considering Butter/PTD its own era in and of itself.

BTS Discography - for all album imagery

BTS Wikipedia - for album sale statistics

Hybe Labels - for music videos

BANGTANTV - for Episodes, Bangtan Bombs, and live performances

namuspromised - for Permission to Dance: On Stage opening VCR

Instagram Template

From School era—MOTS era, I hope the way I’ve curated each panel makes sense in that the profile photo and story highlights of each “account” correlates to the final studio/compilation album within its era. Instead of having its own “post”, the top of the page represents the last release and overall profile. Eras with more than one mini/studio album are mentioned as a bullet point list in the “description”, while eras with one studio album have a lyric from one of its title tracks. Although real Instagram posts are shown in reverse order from newest to oldest as you scroll down, each release here is shown in chronological order from top to bottom to make it easier to understand and with the intention of the eye circling back up to the profile photo for the final release.

From BE—Proof, with fewer music videos and mini albums to include, some improvisation was necessary to encapsulate those eras during the pandemic. For example, BE and Butter each have less than nine songs, so their “post count” being 8 and 2 respectively wouldn’t have made sense with a visibly nine post grid. So I simply added seven to those numbers to max it out. The “posts” themselves consist of the corresponding music videos of each album, big career moments, behind the scenes footage, promotional TV appearances, or concerts.

Furthermore, I made the extremely difficult decision to exclude BTS’ Japanese releases from this set due to lack of room and not wanting to gloss over their incredible Japanese music by trying to shove them all into one panel or awkwardly squeeze them into their respective eras. I thought about making individual panels for their Japanese compilation albums, but I wanted the concept of this set to stick to era-per-panel as opposed to specific albums. I mean no disrespect to that body of work as some of my favorite songs by BTS are from their Japanese discography. For this reason, please look forward to a separate set entirely dedicated to BTS’ Japanese work in the future!

Comments:

Thank you if you’ve read this far! This project gave me an even better understanding of BTS’ work during Chapter 1 of their career and I hope this Instagram inspired layout helps put it into perspective for anyone else who might be new to their music. However you categorize their eras is completely up to your own interpretation and this set is simply a reflection of how I see it in my head, not a definitive way of looking at it. You are not obligated to agree with the way I arranged this set, that’s okay! Any mistakes are entirely my own. I have plans to continue this series as Chapter 2 proceeds to roll out with the members’ respective collabs and solo albums, so stay tuned!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out. <3

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