#send YG some love on weverse!

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Some ARMYs seriously need to touch grass because their ability to make every situation so much worse because they're chronically online and incredibly reactive is genuinely astounding.

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How BTS and Its ARMY Could Change the Music Industry

By Rebecca Davis

It was just a year ago that BTS’ Love Yourself: Speak Yourself tour was selling out stadiums all over the world. Each night of the 20-date trek, which grossed $116 million, a total of nearly a million ticket buyers around the planet witnessed a thumping opening liturgy at the top of the K-pop band’s set in the form of the song “Dionysus.”

As flames shot up from the stage, seven figures emerged in supplicant white amid Greek columns and a long altar. Rapper RM (full name: Kim Nam-joon) led the way, twirling the staff of the titular mythical deity, as group mates Jin (Kim Seok-jin), SUGA (Min Yoon-gi), j-hope (Jung Ho-seok), Jimin (Park Ji-min), V (Kim Tae-hyung) and Jung Kook (Jeon Jung-kook) flanked him in a display of choreographed precision. The crowd, reaching peak pandemonium in a night full of deafening screams, made willing maenads and satyrs, transported by the band’s presence. An anthem about rebirth and self-discovery through the ecstatic collective experience of music was received as intended — as if from the gods.

Idol worship is by no means a new concept in pop music — remember John Lennon’s provocative statement in 1966 that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”? — but there’s something about BTS that turns fandom up to 11. The global brigade of BTS acolytes is collectively known by the acronym ARMY, short for Adorable Representative MC for Youth, a moniker chosen by Big Hit Entertainment, the company that launched the band. ARMY comprises the lion’s share of a Twitter audience that’s 29.2 million followers strong, more than triple that of any other K-pop group, and growing daily. BTS’ Instagram presence of 30.6 million followers (also rising rapidly), is trailed closely only by YG Entertainment’s Blackpink, at 29.3 million.

“It is because ARMY exists that we exist,” Jin says.

To understand the scope of BTS Inc.: An influential 2018 study by the Hyundai Research Institute estimated that the ripple effects from the boy band’s ecosystem contribute roughly $4.9 billion annually to South Korea’s GDP, on track to generate more value over 10 years than the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The study gauged that in 2017, one in 13 visitors to the country came for BTS-related pilgrimages. That ratio may soon be growing. Spotify has reported a 300% spike in new listeners to the group since the Aug. 21 release of “Dynamite,” BTS’ first all-English single.

The BTS boom has also driven Big Hit to launch an IPO in October projected to raise some $811 million. (Each BTS member will be awarded shares worth approximately $8 million.) Of Big Hit’s revenue in 2019, 97.4% was generated by BTS, including $130 million worth of T-shirts, cosmetics, dolls and other merchandise.

The numbers are no accident. The South Korean government began investing strategically in the arts and the digital economy to help steer the country out of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. On the heels of “Parasite” sweeping the Oscars, the worldwide success of BTS may be another sign to the West that Seoul might be the center of a new force in creative production.

Big Hit, and the K-pop music bus­iness in general, have proved just how much a band, and a company, can prosper through a direct-to-consumer relationship, driven by digital platforms and dedicated apps with lots of behind-the-scenes content that keeps fans emotionally involved. It’s engagement on a scale that no Western artist has ever achieved, despite decades of radio promotion and the best retail strategy.

For the global music industry, the band’s success has meant a serious rethink of how a record company — in BTS’ case, Sony Music’s Columbia Records, which distributes the group’s music in the U.S. (though the band is not signed to the label) — builds and maintains a fan base. You could almost look at it as a collaborative arrangement: As music is being made in real time, decision-makers and strategists at Big Hit and Columbia are taking in and processing the comments and views of ARMY and pivoting accordingly.

“It creates a self-sustaining engine that, eventually, becomes hits perpetuating more hits,” says Neil Jacobson, a former president of Geffen Records who runs Hallwood, a talent agency for producers and songwriters. “A label wants that fan connection happening all the time so that they can consistently release and promote music. But in the past, there had always been intermediaries that labels had to talk to in order to manifest exposure. Now, there is a mechanism for an artist to speak directly to their fans. That didn’t exist before, and it has turbocharged the process.”

It’s all led to this “Dynamite” mo­ment: The single has sold nearly 700,000 adjusted song units since its release — good for a gold record certification by the RIAA. The song is quickly becoming the band’s biggest radio hit to date (without a featured artist, it’s worth noting), and represents a significant breakout beyond its core audience. After that, will Grammys follow?

“They check all the boxes,” says Jenna Andrews, the vocal producer on “Dynamite” who also serves as an executive at Sony’s Records label. “I’ve never seen anything like BTS in terms of singing and dancing. This is just an indication of what’s yet to come. They’re going to take over the world.”

Kathryn Lofton, Yale University professor of religious and American studies and author of the book “Consuming Religion,” says that the bond BTS has with its ARMY is different from the typical singer-fan connection because “BTS’ driving commitment is to their relationship to the fan group, to the manufacturing of their communal joy for you to participate in.” It’s why she views BTS as “a religious project; they are seeking to make a togetherness that you can’t stop wanting to be a part of.”

Lofton also makes a point of distinguishing ARMY from the groupies associated with Beatlemania. Sure, BTS fans know the hagiography and backstory of each member, but everything about the band’s output prioritizes the collective over the individual.

The band itself has certainly leaned into the comparison with the Fab Four. For instance, it re-created the iconic moment of the Beatles’ 1964 debut at the Ed Sullivan Theater last May on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” — in a black-and-white segment that showed the K-pop band performing as mop tops in tailored suits.

But while John, Paul, George and Ringo had spotlight moments of their own, both within and outside the band — songs they wrote individually, causes they took up personally — with BTS, it’s all for one all the time. Unlike many other groups, the members share single, collective Twitter and Instagram accounts, and release even solo material through their shared channel. Accomplishments are never spoken of as belonging to any one group member but rather as the work of the team (and, of course, ARMY). In their videos, they often begin in solo shots but end up together.

This all strays from the typical tropes of Western boy bands including New Edition and ’N Sync, which have all proffered “star” frontmen. The thinking for decades had been that a record company would be lucky to have one breakout solo career among the bunch.

But BTS’ selfless approach didn’t happen randomly: The group was envisioned as a collective to heal the alienation that ails us in the digital age. Its name — “BTS” stands for Beyond the Scene — is an invitation to fans to join them offstage via almost daily video content featuring moments in their intimate if immaculately curated private lives on YouTube, Twitter and Big Hit app Weverse.

In 2011, Big Hit’s revenues from its then-main acts, Lim Jeong-hee and boy band 2AM, were plummeting. As the shadow of bankruptcy loomed, Bang Si-hyuk, now chairman, and Lenzo Yoon, global CEO, felt the company needed a total revamp. They stopped all normal work for months and called on employees to perform market research instead, seeking a new vision and formula.

Bang describes the conclusion they reached in a recent Harvard Business School case study of the firm written by Anita Elberse and Lizzy Woodham: “You would think that with the development of digital technology, people can come together more easily, but we found that it is actually more likely that people will feel more isolated. And so we need to find a way to help them, inspire them and heal them.”

Reflecting on the choice to develop a group that satiated this need, Yoon says in the study: “I think back then in 2011, with the conclusions we drew, we found the wild ginseng, as we say in Korea.”

On “Dynamite,” Big Hit worked with Columbia to further cultivate that ginseng. Pitched by Jacobson to label chairman Ron Perry, who guided and essentially A&R’d the song, worked to radio by Columbia executive VP and head of promotion Peter Gray (who has broken hits for Dua Lipa, Kelly Clarkson and Kings of Leon), and all overseen and informed by the years of management savvy of Big Hit, it’s the kind of artist development that was a music business calling card and that has lost its place in the fast-paced world of digital releases.

Radio exposure is not considered as impactful in Korea as it is in the U.S., notes RM, and so BTS — “maybe naively” — didn’t hit the ground in the U.S. thinking, ‘What can boost our airplay?’” the last time around. Still, RM notes that the band has “100% trust” in Columbia, Big Hit and the greater BTS community. “ARMY and the label are all trying their best,” he says, recounting how in the band’s early days, fans would send bouquets to radio DJs to get their songs on the air.

“Our goal is to try to show ourselves, expose ourselves to ARMY as much as possible,” adds Jin. “There are a lot of platforms now.”

In some ways, BTS’ ARMY has grown into its own force and brought the group along for the ride. In the world of K-pop, the expectation is that entertainers stay far away from politics, but as the genre has grown more global, it has begun to reach a transnational cohort to whom matters of social justice are top of mind.

When Variety broke the news on June 6 that BTS and Big Hit had donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter, BTS fans quickly flocked to #Match­AMillion through a link sent out by the fan charity Twitter account @OneInAnARMY. They hit the financial target in just 25 hours.

Erika Overton, a 40-year-old Georgia resident and one of the co-founders of the account, says of the experience: “It was one of the craziest nights I’ve ever seen. I was on Twitter all night. We were refreshing the page every couple of minutes, going, ‘Oh, my God …’” Witnessing ARMY’s U.S. battalion bring the message of Black Lives Matter to fans in other parts of the world who were unfamiliar with the movement was a “big educational moment that was really, really beautiful to see,” says Overton, who is African American.

What Overton saw was facilitated by networks of fan translators who also turn Big Hit’s Korean content into dozens of languages. Other ARMY groups provide counseling or tutoring services, invent themed recipes or write informational threads on everything from the history of the music industry and how charts work to Jungian philosophy, which deeply informs the BTS albums.

Some fan accounts have even become registered nonprofits, with dozens of administrators spread around the world putting in nearly full-time work on top of their day jobs.

In addition to Black Lives Matter, BTS this year donated $1 million to Crew Nation, a Live Nation campaign to support live entertainment personnel impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And it has continued its campaign with UNICEF to end child violence. But the band members are reticent to take on the role of global activists. “I don’t consider ourselves as political,” says Suga. “We aren’t trying to send out some grandiose message. We would never see ARMY as a conduit for our voice or our opinion. ARMY speaks their own initiatives, and we always respect their opinions, as we respect any other person’s.”

RM, on the other hand, keeps the door open for a kind of apolitical politics based more on actions than words: “We are not political figures, but as they say, everything is political eventually. Even a pebble can be political.”

The scale of its influence is not something that the group takes lightly. “Our [‘Dynamite’] video has seen 80 million, almost 90 million views in just a day. In a way, that’s very weighty — and almost frightening,” RM told Variety the day after its debut, explaining that the balancing act is often one of how to juggle the burdens of being both role models and artists.

Some Korean scholars feel that BTS’ statement in support of BLM shows how ARMY is actually out ahead of Big Hit, spontaneously enacting its own initiatives to which the company must then respond. “Big Hit thinks they can create a company-dominated [approach to] fandom, but fans are agents doing only what they want, not what they don’t want,” says ethnomusicologist Kim Jungwon of Yonsei University in Seoul. For Kim, the fluidity of ARMY’s unplanned, collective responses “is the possible answer to BTS’ success.”

Candace Epps-Robertson, an ARMY member and assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of North Carolina, says the affirmational content of the group’s lyrics and videos may sound simple, but lay the groundwork for millions of fans to learn to engage critically with each other and develop a transcultural sense of global citizenship. “The message of ‘you, yourself, are enough, and you should love who you are and start with that — I think people miss how radical that can actually be,” she says. “We can’t overlook the power of that as an invitation to people to be part of this community.”

The Grammys, where BTS is eligible for record of the year, among other categories (nomination ballots for the 2021 awards, slated to air Jan. 31, went out on Sept. 28), provide a chance for the group to gain industry recognition as a mainstream contender, not just a K-pop act.

Asked why the Grammys matter so much to them, Suga seems to bristle a bit at the question. “I grew up watching American award shows, so obviously we all know and I know the importance of the Grammys,” he says. “It’s a dream anyone working in music has.”

RM says having the goal of a Grammy, an industry-voted award, “motivates us to work harder. As Suga said, if you are in music, the Grammy Awards are something that you cannot help but to look toward and set as an eventual goal.”

BTS’ global influence will soon collide with national duty, and a Grammy Award or three could help maintain its momentum. The band members all have to participate in Korea’s mandatory military service by the age of 28 — and four of them are within two years of that threshold. “Big Hit really wants to target the Grammys before [the members] go into the army,” says an industry source privy to the company’s marketing plans, adding that, from Big Hit’s perspective, it would be best for business if the boys all perform their service at the same time.

The group renewed its contract with Big Hit in 2018, which commits the members to another seven years with the firm, but the army service issue could knock off two years within that time span. A company statement ahead of Big Hit’s IPO shows that Jin, the oldest group member (he’ll be 28 in December), must conscript by 2022 even if he gets an extension of the draft deadline. The statement discloses that plans to prerecord content to be released over the course of any army tenure are being discussed.

South Korea officially changed its rules in July to allow draftees access to once-banned cellphones on weeknights and weekends, meaning BTS could theoretically continue some interaction with fans. However, the taking of photos, video or audio recordings remains prohibited. (Historically, most Korean celebs have fallen silent during their service.)

Soldiering aside, with the push from Big Hit’s IPO, multiple TV appearances — including an ongoing weeklong takeover of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” — the chart success of “Dynamite” and growing Grammy buzz, BTS is poised to make some serious noise this fall, which is saying a lot for a group known to shake the decibel scale with a wave or a wink. But perhaps the most significant measure of its ascent is underscored by the frequent speculation of the band’s place in a new moment for the music industry.

“What would it mean not just to include the sound of Korea in the annals of world music, but to actually propose that the South Korean sound is the next chapter?” posits Yale’s Lofton. “What if BTS are actually the next Beatles?”

©variety.com

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Thoughts on Daechwita...

I’m answering this on my main blog so my fic rec blog remains pure lol so the content on there is just related to fanfic ^-^ thank you for sending me an ask baby anon I hope you’re ready for a rant (that may be filled with typos):

Okay not gonna lie I like agust d and give it to me more than daechwita but it’s still amazing and yoongi did not disappoint on that note my fav lines are probs “pathetic fucks putting on a talent show / not gonna lie what a shit-show”, “that’s your excuse for popping pills, cry me a river, you just got no skills”, and “yeah, what’s next? Here comes my reality check, there’s nowhere higher” although I found agust d to be more savage there were definitely some fire spitting raps throughout daechwita 

And on that note yoongi said that he wanted to use the word for one of his tracks bc daechwita is played for a king’s visit or an army visiting so obviously this was very applicable to bts and the fandom plus I think the the chorus is just really catchy and since daechwita means “great blowing/hitting” it might refer to how yoongi and the other members’ success blew up charts, their songs were hits, this track is a hard hit bc of them fire spitting raps, etc. the word can have many meanings that can all relate to bts and each member’s careers which I love

AND SPEAKING OF THE OTHER MEMBERS JIN AND JUNGKOOK PFFFFF THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED IT (I’ve only seen the mv once I’m busy with summer classes sue me I’m sorry 😭) I WAS LIKE WAIT THAT LOOKS LIKE JIN AND THAT OTHER GUY IS REALLY PRETTY BUT BRUSHED IT OFF THEN I SAW THE PICS AND GIFS ON TUMBLR AND I WAS LIKE 0.0 THAT SHIT IS GREAT AND I LOVE IT

Now as for the mv not gonna lie I was like awesome cool yg is a king okay let’s see where this goes then I was like ?? okay so he’s like a rebel too ?? agust d vs agust d??? But I went with it and I loved the story like the king is like I was born from nothing but I got here myself by working hard but then the power corrupted him I guess?? and had no tolerance for shit talking “all shit-talk they got no game / off with their heads” (I love that line too gaaah) but then rebel agust d is like yeah I worked hard and got what I wanted (clothes, money, goals) but he’s like but what now? I have things but I’m not grounded in my life (“I only looked up and now I want to look down and put my feet on the ground”) this is the part where the agust d’s confront each other and honestly it’s awesome bc the king loves him until he disses him (king’s thumbs up becomes thumbs down which I pff’d at lol)

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THIS PART yoongi’s comments about how the king is the previous blonde agust d (who talked about wanting fame, dissing shit talkers, rubbed his success in their face, “give it to me”) and the new agust d is the rebel so basically the old agust d got carried away with silencing shit talkers and got what he wanted (the fame and success and skills) but rebel agust d disses him when he says okay but now what I want is to be more grounded in my life and find more meaning and just live so the king didn’t like that bc the old agust d didn’t like shit talkers right but bc he’s corrupted he tells him to cut off his head (which is a great blow aka daechwita) but in the end the new agust d wins and kills his old self with a gun WHICH ALSO GOES BACK TO THE MEANING OF DAECHWITA SO MANY POSSIBILITIES WITH THIS WORD ABSOLUTE GENIUS 

BUT ALSO REMINDS OF HIS OTHER TRACK BURN IT like “there’s someone in the mirror that you don’t know” agust d has lost himself to his previous ambitions and wants to “put his feet on the ground” and be more grounded and true to himself so when rebel agust d shoots king agust d it also reminds me of his lines in burn it “after tasting success / what has changed in me compared to then? / I don’t know, I’m not much different / let’s burn it, my past self”, “no matter what, yeah, set fire to it, you bastard / the past you, the present you / anything is fine, so, set fire to it, you bastard”

THAT WAS A WHOLE ASS RANT BUT YES AS A WHOLE I LOVE DAECHWITA AND THE MV IT WAS FUNNY AND CREATIVE I MEAN DID YOU SEE THE DRAWING OF BANG PD WHEN HE RAPPED ABOUT HIM XD also it killed me too especially when he gave us Yoonji on weverse he is just jinigniegjrgijenreh I love that he doesn’t care about his gender identity (fuck toxic masculinity) and low key does it bc he wants to but also bc he knows we love yoonji he gender bends playfully yet respectfully (like he took his role so seriously in that run bts ep we stan a good man but also let’s not forget the fact that he said that personality matters more than gender when asked about his ideal type hehehe) anyways

Thank you for coming to my ted talk I hope you’re doing well baby anon ^-^ 🖤 

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BTS vs Blackpink rant

oJust need to get my thoughts out! I’m not a Blink, but don’t get me wrong I like some other Kpop groups like Mamamoo and TXT and some songs from other groups but I don’t stan them. But BlackPink has never had that kind of music I like. I don’t like that their main songs these couple of years sounds the same, they don’t have a message there just like songs. I like some songs that don’t have messages but then they have to be really catchy for me to listen to them. But lately a lot of artists have started bringing a message into their songs a lot more, like Lady Gagas “Rain on me” its a bop and it also has a message behind the music. Mamamoo also stared to bring more story to their songs, like Hwasas “Maria” is about her telling her past self that she is beautiful despite what other says, and “Hip” was also a song about being yourself. Just like BTS always try to send a message with their songs. I can’t stand the fact that BTS got 69M views deleted by YT but Blackpink only got 4M views deleted, why? I do believe that BTS has a bigger following then Blackpink, a lot of people just listen to BTS and no other K-pop, so how can it be that Blinks broke the record? I know that BTS got over 100M views in less then a day but still it doesn’t show because of YT, if their next comeback will be the same as “ON” comeback with deleted views then YT is so fake and I hope BigHit stop posting the boys MVs on YT and then YT will see the power of ARMYs who wont stream and who wont “promot” BTS on YT and they will lose a lot of traffic becasue we will all be on Wewerse or Vlive to stream the MVs and break our own record on those platforms.

I also saw a clip of a girl who were a Blink but isn’t any more and one reason was because Blackpink doesn’t interact a lot with fans thru social media, they have their own twitter and instagram but all they post on insta is branddeals and nothing showing what their up to and also their “vlogs” aren’t vlogs its just behind the scene stuff. While BTS has their own platform like weverse and their twitter to communicate with their fans. On weverse they sometimes respond to fans and you can tell they do that because they want to not because they “have” to by their company. Like Tae that invites fans to play games with him and stuff. JK also wrote a song telling us how much he misses us and relesed it for free on soundcloud, does the memebers of Blackpink do that? No, I do think it’s because the company YG really control them a lot but hey, if they want to make money of the girls at least let them interact with their fans because as long as they don’t relese a song fans will stop carying for them I think just because they don’t get anything out of it, just a couple of songs here and there but not much else. BTS releses content every now and then and gives us things to watch and listen to and they do it because they love us not because they have to because the company tells them to. And another thing about BTS is the story how they got so big, its a beautiful story and no other k-pop band has gone thru that kind of journey and had so much hardships as them and they know a lot of their success is because of Army because they stood by them from the beginning. Blackpink was in a top agency and had the budget and the success from other groups like Bigbang to kinda rest on. They’ve been a group for 3 years and is the biggest girl group in the world BUT still they don’t have that much songs, BTS hade over 50 when they had been a group for 3 years, this is mainly because of YG BUT the girls should try a little harder to get more songs and get more involved because it’s getting boring I feel like. BTS has members who write their own lyrics and lyrics to their songs and the one that never dies “Spring day” was RMs first song that he wrote the whole chorus to and it’s still the most listened spring song in Korea and its 4 years old, HELLO! BTS sets records with their albums and their charting so I would just forget about the MV views because Blinks only have a couple of songs to stream on YT whiles Armys have a whole setlist for a concert to watch and thats why Blinks get the records for the MVs a lot faster then BTS because we have soooo many MVs to watch. I would say what matters is the sales of the albums and the songs and there Blinks can’t even start to compare because Blackpink doesn’t have that many albums and songs and BTS will always have the upper hand there. I don’t think Blackpink will ever perform at the BBMAs or Grammys because they doesn’t stand out as much as BTS because ARMYs around the world promote BTS so much more then Blinks. And for BLM BTS didn’t go out telling they donated 1M it was the media letting us know and what did ARMYs do? Yeah we raised 1M as well in less then 24h, did Blinks do that? Did Blackpink do that? No, you never hear about Blackpink donating to any charity while the members of BTS almost always donates on their birthday for some cause but they never tell us about it its always media snooping around and getting that information. BTS will remain the biggest k-pop band in the world while I feel like Blackpink will die out because their company doesn’t do as much for Blackpink as BigHit does for BTS and I think Blackpink will disband when their contract is over because they don’t want to be at YG anymore and I feel like some of the members want to do other things then being an Idol while BTS loves their fans and wants to do everything for them. MY rant is over.........

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BLACKPINK's Jennie makes her first post on Weverse, sends fans into frenzy

BLACKPINK's global reach doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon, with the creation of a community on the popular fan-artist-interaction platform Weverse, with Jennie commemorating the event!Weverse is an online platform used by fans to officially communicate with artists who have an official community on the platform. The app was developed by HYBE Corporation (previously known as BigHit Entertainment). A few of the artists currently on the forum are BTS, TXT, Treasure, CL, and NU'EST.After Jennie's post, it seemed to have rubbed some people the wrong way due to what is being referred to as a "glitch" on Weverse's part.

BLACKPINK makes their official entrance to Weverse, and Jennie starts the train

Midway through July, BLACKPINK's entertainment label YG announced that the girls would be joining Weverse on August 2nd.Today, a special video was posted featuring all the BLACKPINK members, announcing that they'd officially be using the platform from now on.BLACKPINK fans were happy to see the news and even happier after Jennie put up a couple of posts on the platform, talking with other fans and sharing a few pictures of herself. Immediately, Jennie began trending on Twitter, and fans flooded the site with messages of encouragement and excitement after seeing her posts. Soon after, however, trouble began to stir in paradise. Supposedly, Weverse sent out notifications of Jennie's posts to those who hadn't joined the BLACKPINK community within the application yet, creating mixed reactions.While many were simply confused, some fans began to express anger at the "glitch" (as some referred to it). Others directed anger towards Jennie, and a few were happy to see another artist join the ever-growing platform.Blinks (fans of BLACKPINK) did not skip a beat and immediately stepped up to defend Jennie from the negative attention she was inadvertently receiving. i get that a lot of us didn’t sign up for bp weverse notifs but some of y’all are being mad disrespectful towards jennie… she literally didn’t do anything??? there’s no reason for yall to be sending her hate damn— cynthia ⁷ ☆ (@jinkookswrld) August 2, 2021jennie is being so active try to connect with fans and chat with them more lately so don't try to changes and destroy that beautiful moments at all. Jennie we love you so much— 🌼 (@Jenniestan_lov2) August 2, 2021 jennie is now trending no.1 worldwide and got the bitches so mad just for posting on weverse, she's the main character and the main event indeed— ً (@bitchrubyjane) August 2, 2021leave jennie alone pls🙏🏽 just bc u got an unexpected notif doesn’t warrant you to go and be rude to her… just be respectful so weverse can stay peaceful— erica is on a date with yeji (@ericaluvsjoon) August 2, 2021“blackpink invaded our safe space” “terrorizing the app” girl shut up you got three notifications from jennie she didnt do anything to yall 😴— ً (@LEGENDHARMONY) August 2, 2021 "our homes" "my safe place" jennie is not gonna come through the screen and haunt you calm DOWN— ala (@BPlNKS) August 2, 2021BLACKPINK is also present on the fan interaction platform Daum Cafe, as well as Weibo. They have their Instagram accounts as well and a joint Twitter account.Following Jennie's post, Blinks are hoping to see the rest of the BLACKPINK members join her in posting on the platform as well.Also read: What happened to Kris Wu? Former EXO member arrested on suspicion of rape Edited by Ravi Iyer Login to reply Read the full article