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omg idk if yall heard but south korea had a very busy and very productive night and early morning... tl;dr - the president declared martial law in the dead of night and it was overturned in like 2 hours because the people came together despite the freezing weather, blocked the military and helped lawmakers scale the walls so they could get into the national assembly and vote against martial law
it was WILD i am SLEEPLESS lmao
#and THAT is how you learn from your history and defend a democracy#their lawmakers were NOT playing around#sk politics#global politics
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if knets said jump sm would ask how high
#on one hand i get it bcs they’re a kcompany but u cant say u want ur groups to be global and expand internationally to not care about what#ifans say#like sm is always so quick to respond when things bother kfans but ignores what bothers ifans#like they immediately responded and took action and with the hc situation bcs in sk it’s very serious to smoke indoors#but for things like sasaengs and stalkers they never do anything bcs kfans don’t care about that#like u cant behave like that and then say u want global fanbases#who is working in their comms department really#they need me
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Israel's pr team is painfully stupid and really verifies what unchecked propaganda and racism does to the general intelligence & common sense after 3-4 generations have passed.
If you haven't heard about the English copy-paste death threat letters sent to members of the SK government (yes, English, not Hangul) and the follow up fake terrorist attack video to simulate Seoul getting fucked on Christmas posted to the Israel-SK embassy website- you need to go look into it because
And I am fully not kidding when I say it
South Korea's government majority would still be on board with the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian nation because they'd just be aggressively lied too or not given the full picture by the US intelligence partnership
Now the US is trying to act like that one pathetic girl we all knew in high-school who'd speak on behalf of the popular bully (Israel) to the patient but getting more and more pissed off yet popular nerd (SK)
If the US and Israel had funded good education systems instead of propaganda machine based educations, both governing bodies would know not to fuck around with the 1 nation who has a lot of very fresh & still healing wounds when it comes to occupations. Doubly on fucking Christmas
It's safe to say that when the time comes, SK will be a key player in dismantling the governing body of Israel after these last 2 horrible pr moves.
And, as a USnetizen, I hope Knetizens really join the global calls to boycott companies in support of Israel because both pr moves are gaslighting & manipulative af. I hate the fact my government's bs partially lead to all that fake terrorist attack footage shit on Christmas and the best way to punish my government is making the rich who puppet them cry.
#mun post#the fake terrorist attack being uploaded without context and without approval by the SK embassy on Christmas day is sooooo fucked up#palestine#yes knetizens - kpop idols have been permanently canceled for starbucks & army are not buying bts merch over a producer being a Zionist#i have stopped streaming people and I'm never going to stream them again#please join the global boycotts knetz i beg
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this has been sitting in my drafts as a response to some ideas that were circulating online a week or two ago due to that bang sihyuk interview, and it's clumsily worded but i still feel like it's a valid take so i'm just posting anyway. i'm not a music professional or connected to the industry, so if i'm far wrong just ignore this random post. i just get frustrated that for all the talk of strategy etc. everyone seems to act like bts (and by extension jk) are an established *western* act while either still promoting like a kpop act in sk schedule-wise or like a beyonce/tswift level act (which ... yeah duh) with vast u.s. name recognition (not so much) - and then wondering what's not clicking
idk about this "crisis" but i know one thing has struck me about the kpop and sk press and kpop stans in general
i touched on it back when i was talking in my tags about like crazy getting traction in the us
and what i meant was that those involved in kpop are too blinded by the industry cycle and too used to that cycle's accelerated evaluation by stans and press alike
like no one in the us who is not already a fan is waiting on the day of release to listen stream and buy. it is NOT like sk with weekly shows, several comebacks per year, etc etc
and most especially it's not this thing of: create song, choreo, mv, do a spate of music shows, see what hits if anything, maybe leverage concert dates if it does - but if not then done! next concept! move on and keep it moving - got to fill those music shows and if you don't constantly have new pieces to show you could lose attention and traction
but the general public in the u.s. is NOT socialized to all tune in to check out what's new at a certain time each week or whatever
only some check the charts and even that is mostly just to see where their personal fave is
what gp recognition goes by is repetition (that's one reason why radio is weighted so heavily in ratings- not fairly, but it's true): have we heard a song before? was it in the car on the way? was it in the club? was it in the music in the background at a store, at a party, on a friend's playlist?
when americans say they heard a song "everywhere" it means literally you could not escape it - and for that kind of feeling or environment to exist, it has to happen over *t i m e*
true, yes, sometimes a song takes off and gallops out of control like a wildfire catching but that is the exception not something that can be planned for or marketed into existence
and once you are a big enough name and have enough fans (us population @ 330 million so ... a lot more fans than it take to equal the same percentage of sales in sk ... so only a sliver of a percentage of that can mean a #1 bb hot 100) you CAN get that immediate-drop chart push
but most of the time, u.s. artists need to build up name recognition with the folks who wouldn't know a music chart if it popped up in their excel spreadsheets. that's why you get youtube reactors or even music business professionals months after release going oh i didn't know they even had an album/track/mv out
the larger a group, the longer it takes for things to disseminate past the early adopters and the media who watch them and the industry (nobody wants to be left behind, so journalists/talking heads are always like pets when you walk into the kitchen: heads on swivels in case it turns out relevant, and will write things just to be on top of a possible trend)
and this is where, i think, after watching hybe and its american arm try their push on jk, the kpop focalists are veering astray in their plans and projections: not seeing immediate huge success (or not *sustained* huge success) they think there is some kind of crisis rather than understanding that a u.s. or even just western gp fandom cannot be a top-down thing - it will take time
bts are huge (and yes a triumph for bts IS NOT and SHOULD not be lumped in as "a win" for kpop in general as has been pointed out is too often the case) but in the first days of jk's album release, *2 months* after seven had debuted, the huge nationwide retailer where i work couldn't even get his name spelled correctly in the point-of-sale database, so
the u.s. music industry is a big machine and busy on its own, many listeners only stay in their own bubbles and don't pay attention to anything outside that, because just keeping up with the output of one scene or genre can take as much effort as watching the kpop industry as a whole
to break wide you need to be either insanely ubiquitous and not just on social media (which runs the risk of people getting sick of you just as fast) or you need the slower groundswell of people going from "oh *that's* them? i heard of them but i didn't know that was their song" to "omg that's my song!! turn it up!"
there's just too much out there today to catch people's attention and the media cycle turns ever faster - used to, a song could be out and getting steady radio play and it still wouldn't hit the consciousness of the national public for like 3 or 4 months sometimes. sometimes it could take a year or more.
so this thing of short promotion periods for kpop acts - even bts! - is just not viable as a way to attract a wide gp following in the states. being on late night tv shows is a good step, but since the advent of streaming the influence of shows like that has waned considerably since the days of ed sullivan or johnny carson.
jk's run of promoting *was* the right kind of thing to do in fact - it simply should have been much more spread out over time. you can see all his album collab artists have things coming out *now* ... and there's no way to really take advantage of that with the curtailed promo.
and yes, obviously jk did get probably the second longest promo period of all of bts chapter 2 solos efforts (i think yg's tour ran longer?) and it was cut off for very valid reason! but!
i think bangpd et al. taking the fact that they couldn't make jk a household name in the u.s. nor nab him a grammy nom (nor any other kpop groups) within the 5-6 months of their fairly blatant push for us recognition as indicating a "crisis" is just not looking at the long game.
they didn't get all the accolades right away, so it seems they've decided 'that didn't work we need to make some big changes' instead of continuing what they'd been doing in support of the artists
it's this attitude of welp they didn't give us a grammy we were entitled to even though it's the first time we played ball in this particular way, so now we're worried bc we don't know how to shop kpop beyond people who aren't primed for it
like, they are looking at the business of it, and likely accurately, but not at the audience itself
it's not that the observations bang is making are wrong i just think he is basing them off premature information - songs in the u.s. DO benefit from purchase power, but they ALSO rely a lot on word of mouth. not for charts positions necessarily, but for longterm growth, support, and more importantly demand, you cannot beat a fandom that grows on its own.
the paid promotions at the end of the day serve the same purpose as bts's early days vlogs in the current western music climate - getting the artist and songs in front of as many eyes and ears as possible. but then you have to allow time for that wave to spread - and the bigger the pond, the more time it may take
#this is just me rambling#but the thought wouldn't leave me alone#it just seems too quick#kpop moves fast and on the surface it may seem like the american industry does too#but it is not the same at all and you can't expect the results to be in that fast#you'd think the man who rode the bts train would understand but i think he's looking at metrics not audiences#and expecting the kind of results he'd get in sk or the kind of results he's told american acts of similar stature to bts would get#either that or it's all a long game and he's going through steps in a script#which i would not put it past him to have some plan behind these moves#but really this post is me being a bit irtitated at the fact that they *coukd* have made jk or jm american household names#if they'd just *sustained* the promotions over time - i really believe this#and this seeming expectation that they can run a 'global popstar' campaign on an sk comeback timetable kinda bugs me
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19
2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19 Posted on 14 May 2023 by BaerbelW A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 7, 2023 thru Sat, May 13, 2023. This week, several shared articles did quite well on our Facebook page: Climate delay discourses present in global mainstream television…
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justice for the victim. justice for all of the women in south korea who are victims to egregious misogyny, cyber and non cyber sexual harassment, sexual molestation and sexual crimes.
as I am also part of the percentage of women who have experienced sexual assault before, i plead to all of my fellow female czennies to prioritize your identity as a woman first before being a fan.
this is not a kpop scandal, this is a sexual crime case. how can you defend a man who relies on your interest in him for his livelihood over a fellow woman who has experienced what you have experienced, whose nightmare experience is a gruesome reality for women all around the world?
you are a woman first before you are a fan.
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i also want to point out that there is currently a movement in south korea where south korean women are now refusing to marry and procreate with south korean men as a form of protest for the deeply rooted misogyny in sk culture, legal system and how it's all around them altogether (search : 4B movement in south korea) because of this misogyny, crimes against women (sexual crimes especially) are usually punished with a slap on the wrist. messed up, right?
if you've been on twt and your feed algo is anything like mine, you would know that south korean women are BEGGING the global audience to shed light on their fight because even their own media scarcely covers it.
just the other day a south korean woman made a thread of how she discovered her older brother had been secretly taking inappropriate pictures of her when she had been a minor and her brother a collegiate. the outcome of this being known by their parents is that;
1. no police reports were made even though her brother basically curated and DISTRIBUTED cp of her through telegram
2. the parents slapped her for retaliating against her brother by beating him with a baseball bat
3. the parents pressuring her to forgive him and get along like they used to
and even though it's an uncomfortable truth, these kinds of horrors are common in sk—and the legal system let these assholes slide. the government is responding to this nationwide issue that is currently crippling its birthrate by doing nothing—but instead try to give incentives for younger people to marry and procreate.
i know you're devastated by the news of taeil being dropped out of nct for being charged with such a heinous crime, i know you're worried that this might taint nct forever as a group and might cripple them in the long run. im worried for nct too, but i beg of you to see the bigger picture.
it is estimated that 70% of sk men are involved in these telegram gcs, in which they would share inappropriate pictures of women (strangers, friends, and even OWN FAMILY MEMBERS) around, and would even curate and distribute deepfake porn of MINORS.
your bg idols are still men. if even allegations of them are out, PLEASE side with the victims first because you do not know these men personally, and they're relying on you to earn money.
sk women are crying out for help and this is the fight that we should be focused on.
help them. all you have to do is just listen to them.
#im as shocked as you guys#but at the end of the day#i am a woman#and these men in their kpop grps are still men#nct taeil#moon taeil#give korean women guns
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I'm sure it was on ILA that I saw a guy who was super close to his fansite. He had video calls with her and his management team; be basically considered her a key player in his business and was on really good terms with her. I'm not suggesting that's the case here but my guess would be that these types of business relationships are normalized and for some the relationship is probably quite strong and involved a lot of trust.
B&W was also at fifa right? Is that different from them being at Dior?
Dior did open registrations, I don't know if that is how B&W was able to get in.
They weren't the only fansite that went to Dior. Jimin's 3 or 4 more fs also went there. There was also a vmin fs who went there. But all those were outside, only B&W could go inside looks like. A couple of Jimin focused accounts (like allforJimin) were also enquiring if there was a way to get in.
The other thing I noticed is, both Jimin and Jungkook seem to recognise B&W and seem comfortable posing for them. Which is interesting, cause i don't see them or any one being so comfortable with their fansites.
Yes, B&W was at the Fifa World Cup, but anyone was able to go. Entrance based on ticket purchase. She was on the stadium, not backstage with Jungkook.
I know other fansites were at the Dior show, which is to be expected. The major ones usually go wherever the idol has a schedule. It's a business for them too. But then again, only one actually got inside. How that happened, I do not know. In what I added to the reblogged post was merely speculation on my part, given what I know and have observed. I don't have access to other information. Maybe others do, or know a lot more details about this and perhaps I'm missing or overlooking something essential here that might explain everything, but for now, that's all I can say. Tbh, if I were B&W, I too wouldn't reveal much or nothing at all about this to anyone who is outside my own circle. So if it will remain a mystery, then so be it.
As to recognizing and being comfortable with fansites, I was actually curious and talked about this with other people because I was wondering if this is the case with other fansites, in particular ones directly connected to a ship/duo. Did Jungkook or Jimin recognize and acknowledge multiple times other similar fansites, say for example related to taekook, vmin, yoonmin and or any other combination out there? Because it's easy to imply there's some special ''relationship'' there if we have only one duo in mind which gets spoken about in a circle related to that duo. I'm not saying it's not true re B&W with Jimin and Jungkook. Not all that. I'm just curious if this happens or not in other situations.
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Jikook Week 38 Complete (27/08 - 03/09/2024)
Their 38th week in the military is now complete and it's time to celebrate this milestone with a look back at this week in 2019.
BTS were on an extended break which was announced by Big Hit on the 11th August and lasted until 16th September 2019 when BTS headed to New Zealand to film Bon Voyage 4.
This week Jimin was in Paris on holiday with his mate from W Korea.
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But that didn't stop him leaving a birthday message for JK from the streets of Paris.....
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....and then travelling back to South Korea to shower him with gifts and celebrate his birthday with him......before flying out to Hawaii with Ha Sung Woon the next day.
Yep sorry, I buried the lead, the really big news this week was JK's birthday. He was 22 in global terms, 23 in SK terms and Big Hit released some fab photos to celebrate the day. Duality thy name is Jungkook.
In addition to Jimin's greetings, J-Hope, Tae, Suga and RM all left on-line birthday messages for JK. BTS always pushing for humour in their birthday tweets and in that way always giving a little bit more insight into their own and the birthday boy's personality. Shame they aren't doing that so much these days but it has been a while since they were all together and able to catch such candid moments.
By the time this goes up, JK's 2024 birthday will be over but I hope that he has the chance to take some time off and enjoy the day. At least he will have someone who loves him there to celebrate with him.
Post Date: 03/09/2024
#park jimin#jimin#jungkook#jeon jungkook#bts in the military#jikook#jikook in 2019#happy birthday JK
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I’ve seen some grumbling that the ORV anime would further censor the gayness surrounding joongdok. And while I get that with it following the webtoon which is already toned down, I trust a Japanese animated studio to lure in the masses with yaoi.
Whether it’s official art, interviews, the voice acting, the songs. Like don’t worry guys, the OPs and EDs are gonna be gay as hell. Especially the further we go in the story and it becomes more introspective/personal than action-focused.
While lgbt marriage is still illegal in Japan and censoring in its media obviously still occurs, many hurdles remain for creators to represent what they truly want or to simply leave in subtext. But compared to SK and especially China, I feel like Japan is less strict with this sort of thing. Plus they also know and will hone on the fact that orv is a project meant for a global audience.
#like there’s no government laws that I know that bans implying bl/gl subject matter f#like a BL movie like Classmates where two boys kiss multiple times can be screened#because that’s legal#a lot of queer teasing goes down in anime drama CDs#a lot of voice actors know of these ships and may even do asmr gay podcasts as a side hustle#most censoring in Japan I think is from executives (who decided to interfere) and company policies#anime#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#manhwa#webtoon#lgbt#joongdok
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someone in your last post commented on 7 saying that it’s a “monster global hit” but i don’t see it that way bc it literally was only used on tiktok bc a lot of ppl got paid to promote it and bc jk was on tiktok liking/commenting on every video which lead to make those videos popular by armys but other than that no one genuinely likes that song or thinks it’s a hit apart from armys or kpoptw (only bcs koreans “idols” eat the most basic pop songs 🥴). 7 sounds exactly that same way as yummy from jb sounds to me, so basically, pretty shitty lmao
idk i feel like the hype only lasted for like 3/5 months? and it was mainly bc he got time to promote it in US/UK/SK. meanwhile LC, even tho was practically BANNED from tiktok, got way more hype on twitter than any other solo song on 2023 (and this year as well) hit tweet after hit tweet about how good of a song it is 🙂↕️🙂↕️ and it was the first and only solo song IN KOREAN to reach 1B streams on spotify sooo…… 🤭
People just call seven a hit because it did well, but nobody can honestly say that song holds any real reverence. When armys talk about seven, they purely mention its achievements not the quality of the song itself. For Like Crazy it’s the complete opposite. I don’t think LC was some crazy huge hit either. For one like you said it was suppressed from even having hopes of being that. But for the reach that it did have, everyone generally agrees that it’s a very good song.
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[ID :A screenshot of a tweet by sk / kirkxxs that reads: "No offense but many of you are just not equipped to talk politics with me when your worldview is decidedly American and driven by an overarching singular issue of 'protecting home' without realizing what that costs globally and how many at home also lose because of it.". It was posted on July 21st, 2024, at 2:31 PM. End ID.]
#genocide apologism#white supremacy#racism#vote blue no matter who#genocide joe biden#blue maga#blue fascism#blue fashism#butcher biden#the leopards eating peoples faces party#pinkwashing#Kamala Harris#homonationalism#Copmala
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came across this thread today, the op was saying how Army don’t stream for the members equally, and that we all should love all their music.
I’m lucky I do, and I don’t agree necessarily with the thread, but is there some truth to it? Have the company sabotaged the members? Do they care about their solo careers?
I get the feeling they do and don’t. As in, they respected the decision for them to go solo but only to a degree, bc I can see there was some errors, or fumbles along the way, and each solo fan base that’s come along be it Army or vile solos, has a gripe.
Is it bc the members just want to be in the group? To me they keep saying it, Jimin said it to Yoongi, so you have him being so successful in his solo debut, and gaining awards and records left and right, but to Yoongi he says the group comes first. Obviously solos ignore this, are demanding pjm 3 already, think he’s going to act next, and want a world tour next year. Are they going to be disappointed? Or will Army?
How do you think this will look next year and beyond?
The one thing I do agree with the person about it getting them to do weird things when the come back, maybe not Run but kinda, the childish things surely should be left at the door? Not bc they weren’t good, but they are all nearly 30 plus.
Dear Anon,
Thank you for stopping by with this Ask 🙏🏾. There’s actually been many, very interesting Asks that have been sent, which deserve an answer but this one has topics I’ve been meaning to talk about since June but business and laziness have been reigning supreme in my neck of the woods so … with regards to; How I view Chapter 1.5. Cause you see, we call it Chapter 2, for obvious reasons, but I am almost certain that on an episode of Suchwita one of the boys mentioned how their coming back together as a band would be what they consider Chapter 2, which you could be thinking “Tomatoh, Tomahto”, but I think it is a very distinctive chapter in the story of their lives, which deserves its proper nomenclature.
So, thanks to you, I am basically going to be ranting, educatedly as always, and because I have been seriously frustrated about many points within your Ask, I will be probably be at an all time sarcasm, but I want to say this now, please rest assured, it is not directed at you at all mainly at majority of the people on the blue Bird App 🤡. I will do my best to obviously answer all your questions in the process, however, if I were to fail in doing so, please feel free to write back and say “Yo, you pansy-ass Marengo, you did everything but answer my questions, where my answers at?!” 🫰🏾💜.
And that’s it for my preface disclaimer, now, may the rant commence!
CHAPTER 1.5 WAS MEANT FOR ARMY
There is a disconnect.
There is a massive disconnect between the Tannies and many ARMY, which was created due to our future’s uncertainty, mixed with dreadful tales from the past. One thing we tend to forget, sometimes, is that these boys are de facto from South Korea. In the past couple of years, no matter how global they get, the way the Western Music Industry has been “dealing” with them nominating them for grammys, but never winning, not wanting them to be on radio, etc, added to the way they are treated in their very own home worse than criminals upon making mistakes, only good for trophies and tourism, etc has heavily emphasised this fact for me.
And then the biggest one of all; SK’s Conscription aka Compulsory Military Service. Few have been given exemptions, based on having done waaaay less than our boys many a politician son is within this as well …, and there was a period between 2020 and 2021 where I wished they could be exempted. My opinion changed since then, but in all honesty, regardless of what the government would decide, or what Koreans felt about it, deep down, both them, as well as ourselves, knew that they would be going. That being understood, it was now a case to be confronted with the sad history that idols who go for their service tend to be forgotten and can never really make a successful comeback. Hence, as Korean men, they must have worried about this like crazy, 18 months are, after all, a lot of days to ask for someone to wait in their case it was a total of almost 3 years.
Blue Bird ARMY: B1tch! I’d wait even 10 years for the boys, what the hell are you on about?! … Yeah well, it wasn’t just waiting for us though, was it? hyb3 is going through its fair amount of sh1t, and random nugus and their mamas keep trying to smear the boys’ name every other business day. It’s been hard AF for us going through it, and I am sure for them as well, not being able to be here with us while we go through it. Missing each other has been a major issue as well, but, speaking about missing, let’s go back to the disconnect I was talking about. Here is the situation:
Tannies - “I don’t want to leave ARMY, I’m so scared they will forget me, but at the same time, I need some time alone, so perhaps this is a good time as any to wander alone, for a bit, while providing ARMY with something they can remember me by, hopefully appreciate, and mostly enjoying, just while we are apart for a while. Basically, I get to explore and have new goals, before having to serve but all the while I’ll keep my lovely ARMY entertained: WIN-WIN!”.
ARMY - “I don’t want the Tannies to leave but they have to, so, somehow, I have to show how much I appreciate them and how there is no way in hell I could ever forget them- BUT HOLD ON … he got a concert, but my bias didn’t … global superstar? What is my fav then? Chopped liver? … Jazz?? Why the hell should I listen to that, when we have a great pop song … The company doesn’t care about my fav, why are they even here, they should leave! … Family? What family, they never wanted to be together to begin with, as soon as the military is over, each one will go their separate way, mark my words … 🤡.
We are on completely different mental and emotional planes.
I am sure the boys are super happy with all the goals and achievements they made while being away, and I am positive they didn’t think any of this was possible while they were not around, but if even it were to happen, they probably thought ARMY would do it like they always have, together. Instead, forget about antis and boycotters for a second, we presently have to deal with solos and shippers within our fandoms, who have taken it into their own hands to redefine this chapter as a time of belligerent independence, instead of creative, and peaceful, waiting.
I think the boys didn’t want us to try and free them from the very environment they are basically responsible for creating, I think they wanted us to still be here united in said environment, while enjoying 7 different trips along the way, but yeah, some of us completely misread the map, some of us are lost as hell within one of the 7 trips, and some other just didn’t go on the journey waiting for the boys to be back on the “initial” path.
IT’S NOT ABOUT LIKING, IT’S ABOUT SUPPORTING
If rap is not your cup of tea, it would be ludicrous to ask you to suddenly become an aficionado. Nobody is asking that. Take for example a close friend of mine. They are an OT7 who didn’t like one of the solo albums that were released this year, regardless, they streamed it so hard you’d think the person was their fav. They might have put extra emphasis on their bias, but they were never below par when it came to all other 6 members, because they understood the assignment, and they respected the “teachers”.
875 is a group composed of 3 rappers and 4 vocalists. Within this subdivision there are pop lovers, jazz lovers, dance lovers, alternative & indie lovers and epic production lovers. This isn’t a novelty, it’s always been like this. They’ve never hid it, it was always all out in the open, so what’s different now? Why are people acting surprised at Jin choosing the happy route or Hobi focusing on dancing? Blue Bird ARMY: “But they are also individuals, they deserve to shine in their individuality” Well, yes. But if all we do is being too busy fvcking up the only environment that allows them to freely be said individuals, where the fvck else are they going to do that?! I mean HYB3 may be the devil incarnate, but it is always better the devil you know the world out there is seriously fvcked up; SERIOUSLY FVCKED UP.
Furthermore, let me tell you another giant problem about being a solo, shipper, or one eyed fan; you can’t see the bigger picture. The bigger picture is not important because just because it is pretty, like sure, trophies and accolades are great and all, but we are here supposedly for the music, but also because we think these 7 young men are just exquisite. Blue Bird ARMY: “And what if you think that only 1 is and the others should disappear?” And this is the part I’m gonna "spell out":
That 👏🏾, my blue birded ARMY friend, is 👏🏾 exclusively 👏🏾 your 👏🏾own 👏🏾 fvcking 👏🏾 problem 👏🏾.
Not everything is a fvcking conspiracy, the Tannies have said time and time and time again how they want to be together on stage, so what’s with all the forced narratives, uh? And you see, people who didn’t watch Suchwita wouldn’t know it, people who didn’t watch Are You Sure wouldn’t know it, people who don’t watch Run Jin wouldn’t know it, heck people who only watch their fave WEVERSE live wouldn’t know it. No matter how much you want to surround yourself of just your fave, it is fundamental to understand that this boys are surrounded by each other, because in reality, they can truly only trust the 7 of them. Period.
So when you are blocking out Tae, because you are a jkker, know that you are also blocking out a part of jkk. When you are ignoring the rapline, because you like the maknae line only, know that you are also ignoring a part of the maknae line. When you are disrespecting 6 members because you are just a JK solo, know that you are also disrespecting JK. This is a paramount concept to understand, for real, we should never be forced to like, but we need to learn to respect and properly support, because supporting each member makes it easier to help each of them reach their goals, as they won’t have to worry about one another.
OF BEERS, LEGOS AND WHATEVER TF YOU WANT!
Now, I'm not sure what Era ARMY people are nowadays, I was today years old when I found out that there are Yoongi Incident Era ARMY like damn fam! But if you were a 2022 Festa ARMY you probably watched a WEVERSE live or two. The most memorable, to me, are probably Jungkook basically staycationing, with drinks at all, and Jimin making things out of LEGO.
JK is the type who has nothing to hide, but at the same time will not tell you things he doesn’t want to talk about. Period. He drank in his house in front of us, did laundry in his house in front of us, watched movies in his house, cooked in his house, had guests in his house, showed us said house itself, but you know one thing he’s never shown us? Jimin in his house, yet we know for a fact JM was in his house at least twice. And it definitely wasn’t for lack of trying! The hyung line, minus Joonie, also did several lives, all very informative, some playful and carefree and then there is Joonie. His were emotionally all over the place, and we couldn’t quite understand, at the time.
What I’m trying to say here is that in everything, from their lives, to their private time, to their projects, the boys seemed to have absolute freedom in the actions and choices they made: THEY ARE BTS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! If they can’t, in SK’s entertainment who can? You see, hyb3/BH/g3ffen etc all messed up, a lot, for all of the members and that’s a fact. Some g3ffen really have no clue what the fvck they are doing, some others hyb3/BH have had a lot of other fish to fry mhj, k-media, and company, but I do believe that there never was any real malicious intent why shit where you eat??? I do think though that there was real disorganization. Why? because our boys are unprecedented.
The steps they take, the records they break, the achievements they make are all unprecedented in their environment. There is no blueprint as to how to handle a band like 875, because they are the blueprint. Hyb3 artists have much more freedom than any of the artists in the big 3 could ever wish for, or even comprehend, and this notion is completely lost with the likes of a certain girl group 🙄, like, the very fact that they can go around blabbering the way they are, is a result of the fact that they are part of a company whose environment was mostly moulded by our boys and hence allows that.
All of this is to say that if JK was drinking live, it isn’t because the managers told him to, it is because he wanted to. If JM was building lego live, it isn’t because the managers told him to, it is because he wanted to. If Jin started asking ARMY directly what they wanted him to do, it isn’t because the managers told him to, but it is because he wanted to. The most managers can currently ever wish to obtain from these boys is to please please please not spoil sh1t 🥹even that, some of our boys, struggle with, sometimes … okay, many a time 😬.
ARMY have certain expectations from the Tannies. Some Tannies do as well, and some others have no idea what to think and, once again, here is indeed where the problem lies. For example, Blue Bird ARMY: “Jin, I want you to be an actor” but Jin doesn’t want to, he’s said it so many times; so where do we go from there? You think doing PG-13 rated things is not good for JM’s image but he was comfortable only doing that at the time, because maybe he was going through he’s own private issues; so where do we go from there? And by all means I would like him to feel comfortable to express mature concept in ways other than dancing, but that would depend on him or us asking in a no-pressure, mature, manner.
I think there has to be a conversation between ARMY and the Tannies, kinda like what Jin suggested when he asked us what we wanted from us, and then it was up to him to decide, because, as the own person that he is, there are some things he doesn’t want to do acting in a k-drama and sometimes he was very happy to do participate in variety shows. It has always been about the two of us, Tannies & ARMY. It was always a love and respectful bond between the 7 of them and our fandom. But now it feels like solos and shippers are about to run a platform we never subscribed to.
I know that Red is such a passionate color and Orange is playful as hell, Yellow is such a happy colour to me like it can do no harm! Green is so calming and pretty, Blue has depth and can be a bit scary at times, Indigo is dreamy and promising, and Violet, well violet is sexy AF. But aren’t Rainbows simply amazing? I think they are, and you can only have rainbows with all 7 colours.
Each color can exist on its own in nature, but rainbows need a space and light to be reflected on, the sky's the biggest area where you can reflect a rainbow, and just because we know the sky is not a limit for us, it doesn’t mean we are okay to ruin it. Let’s have a perfect sky ready for the boys when they come back. ARMY is the name they gave us to support and protect all 7 of them, let's find a way to unite each other again and find a new plane where we can both, Tannies & ARMY, meet once again 🙏🏾.
Always respectfully yours 💜,
Marengo.
PS - I apologies to all the other great asks as well, the cold weather makes me lazier than usual 🙇🏾♀️
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Is it normal for a singer to only listen to his own songs? Over and over again? How is a singer going to grow if he only listens to himself?
Oh, wait. Come to think of it, that explains a lot.
Jungkook: Me, me, me, me...but enough about me. Let's talk about YOU. What do you think of me?
Jimin, listen to me, please. YOU can do better.
weren't the are you sure episodes recorded over like 3 days or something? we know they started during the seven gma performance, which was was during seven's promo period. what we saw of jungkook singing seven over and over and doing the choreo and etc is just because it was seven's promotional period. jungkook had probably been listening to seven hundreds of times in a short period of time and had it stuck in his head at least half the time. and even then, he was probably just practicing for whatever performances come next.
i know when new releases come out from any artist i like, the first few weeks is just me singing along randomly, learning the dance and then dancing along randomly, etc so i wouldnt be surprised if it was just jk having the song stuck on loop in his head and needing to sing to get it out, or even him just being excited that he released a new song. if this show was filmed months after seven...then i would be concerned.
and yeah, he does talk a lot about himself. even when he's giving advice to jimin, it's unsolicited and from a place of "i can do better than that and in my opinion what you're doing doesn't sound good."
i really admire jimin for being so humble. he is a global popstar with tens of millions of fans, big award nominations, songs with billions of streams, and he acts like none of that is relevant to how he lives. he heard like crazy was in top 5 for top 50 sk and looked actually surprised by it. (little did he know lc would overtake seven again and be no 1 for months on end). jimin always has the mentality that he can do better, no matter what, and its honestly so admirable and i strive to be like that in life
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Reading Daomu Biji as a non mainland Chinese would make you feel like, "Why so racist?"
But actually, NPSS might not be as racist or eccentric but in fact, truly a good writer who understood the way his characters and their setting would think.
The somehow racist part of Daomu Biji, perhaps is the subtle prejudice about their own Ethnic Minorities and the subtle Han Chinese supremacy, and unsavory comments about their bordering countries.
But If you're looking at it from the characters' POV, meaning, from a (somewhat average) mainland Chinese dude, it's actually quite natural. That's what they get from their history and the information from their media.
The way Daomu Biji put any extreme culture, such as sacrifices etc, to Ethnic minorities is actually quite justified, since in other countries too, that's what happened. And it's also quite logical or accurate, historically. Even today, some ethnic minorities are still continuing their "strange" customs. So it's not entirely racist.
In fact, Daomu Biji also wasn't merciful to their own Han Chinese ancestor's past incident. For example, by telling that King Mu of Zhou was fabricating history. Instead of being warmly welcomed by XiWangMu, he's actually there to invade but failed. In embarrassment, he fabricated history about him being entertained in XiWangMu's territory.
Next, the beef with other countries.
But in reality, it's not just Chinese, but other countries' citizens too, in Asia, particularly, would have beef with their bordering countries. And some (rather uncultured) people would also call them using nicknames. For example, in JP media, we often see how the Yakuza are always either connected or having dispute with Chinese Mafia. In SK media, we often see their Mafia connected or in a hostile relationship with Yakuza. In China too, their Mafia/other underground forces would often either connected or have enmity with Vietnamese Gangster.
In Daomu Biji, we can see that Wu Xie 's perspectives would always go neutral. Either citing the history or telling the informaiton that was told in China to general public like Wu Xie.
Pangzi or Pan Zi, on the other hand, are characters who aren't as "cultured" as Wu Xie. So their POV would often be quite racist. And that's actually rather in character and accurate, considering their background and character setting.
This, also applied to XiaoGe or Men You Ping. We can see that someone like him who cares a shit about the world, will turn out to never give zealous Han Chinese supremacy or racist comment about anything or anyone.
Surprisingly, Daomu Biji actually also isn't subtle to the actions of their Han Chinese or the past action of their government. For example, whenever the book was discussing about various people who smuggled Tombs goods overseas, the book didn't try to gloss that even among Han Chinese there were people like that. There's also when the book was describing the cruel reality during the purge of Superstitious and Religious forces in China, to strengthen their government's influence. At that time, people didn't even dare to say they know a little about Chinese ancient divination technique (Qimen Dunjia) for fear of being arrested or worse, eliminated. But most of all, Daomu Biji too, isn't merciful when it came to the protagonist's perspectives. The book isn't trying to beutify or justify Wu Xie's actions as a grave robber throughout.
But what I want to say is that, Daomu Biji is a series written from the perspective of (quite) average Chinese citizens, who aren't Overseas returnee (to be able to see more perspectives from the global history or information other than their government propaganda). While some topics were probably quite sensitive, but if you stop for a second and consider where they're taken at, you will understand why the Author wrote it that way.
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Jikooks love for their Hobi Hyung: saying goodbye to their protector and bestie 😭
Hobi came live today, as promised, before he enrolls for his MS.
He came to say his goodbye to ARMY 😢
Jimin commented on Hobi's live and dropped off some love
And Hobi tells us how Jungkook rearranged his schedule so he could be back in SK to say his goodbyes and see Hobi off for his MS
He raised him well 🥰
Being the good president of the Jikook supporters club that he is, he couldn't leave us without telling us how when he and Tae went to JK's, JK was singing Jimin's songs 🥰
We know how much JK loves to sing Jimin's songs
Hobi is such a sweetheart, I wish for him to stay safe and well during his time in MS and to never lose his sunshine ☀️
💜💜♥️
#hobi#j hope#hoseok#hobi military service#jimin#jungkook#jikook#kookmin#3j#hobi is like sunshine on this rainy day
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2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10
Latest Posts Archives 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10 Posted on 11 March 2023 by John Hartz Story of the Week The Paris Agreement Will Fail Without Slashing Methane Emissions From Dairy and Meat, Researchers Say A new study projects the Earth will warm by nearly 1 degree Celsius by 2100 from agricultural emissions alone, even if fossil fuel use is drastically…
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