#lol i know this is a very disjointed explanation but like yeah uh that’s how i can answer you. feel free to ask follow up questions if you

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Genuine question so please don’t be mad. When the ragin anon mentioned bts yesterday many of you guys where like “ah, makes sense”?

I’m new into kpop and I really love bts and many other groups. But I never got the immense hate a lot of kpop fans have for bts? Like they will stan every group but them. I know the fandom can be crazy, but so is every other fandom. There’s good and there’s the bad.

So why is bts so hated just for being them?

I mean first of all there’s a stark difference between the way armies act versus nearly every other fandom, because there’s some sort of weird superiority complex that gets mixed with an underdog complex left over from when bts WERE ostensibly underdogs (a LONG ass time ago) in many armies and leads them to act as if bts are superior in every fucking way and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to be harrassed for it, and that’s where much of the distaste stems for. Like, many armies just have a love of harrassing people and that’s a fact. I also used to be a fan of bts until like idk early 2018? And it was largely the fandom becoming more and more disagreeable that made me stop. And part of what makes armies as a group (although of course not every single individual within that group) insufferable is that they do not allow for any criticism of bts’ repeated fucked up actions re for example racism and antisemitism (I really do not feel like getting into bangtan lore right now but plenty of people have documented their shit you can google it) whereas many of us actually want to hold people (including our own faves) accountable when they fuck up. Then there’s also the issue of bts’ music becoming unlistenable in the past few years and their obvious sense of entitlement in engaging with the rest of the industry that just makes them unlikeable now but you know. anyways i do have plenty of mutuals who are also still bts fans and i just scroll past their blacklisted posts on my dash and move on bc they’re normal about it.