Alright so a lot of this stuff I still have if anyone is interested. The smaller things I’ll probably give for free and the bigger things like DVDs or big magazines will sell for what I paid or less. I’ve got pins I’ll post soon too. Help me clear up my space lol
Moots - want anything? I need to do major downsizing over the next couple months. Selling for what I paid for or less, and I’ll be posting pics of individual items probs this week. Will be selling the JK hoodie and Suga notebook too ✨
Coldplay literally planned their entire world tour to minimize air travel and optimize the shipping of their stage equipment to decrease their emissions. And they’re not even billionaires 😭
People keep saying "well, TS/Bey can't fly commercial!" And that's not necessarily the answer. These tours don't have to be so many dates so close together. Cities could be mapped out so they could use alternative modes of transportation. Hell, they could do a residency.
Y’all…it’s really clear the vids and pictures being circulated right now are from people who mobbed Tae. Please stop reposting them. Supposedly there’s a viewing area set up by Celine staff but you can CLEARLY see from these shaky videos that people are running up to and behind
@lsgrlr
I remember reading this article and being like wow he really nailed it. The ballet example is so good because most people understand/have noticed the work behind that art (black swan movie anyone??).
…still going! Ok! So we’re still in a pandemic and it’s cold and flu season so here’s a site with reputable mask sellers:
Wearing a mask indoors, on public transit, hospitals/clinics, or in any crowded area can reduce the spread of respiratory viruses 😊
HYBE/Big Hit used tipis and dreamcatchers for mvs, ITS, and now JK’s merch. They may seem like small things, but just like every microagression or racist comment that BTS receives, we need to care about Indigenous folk. This is the email I sent to globalpr
@hybecorp
.com
@Armyforever_25
Israel of the Bible and Israel the current state are two different entities. There’s a lot of politics on why the state of Israel exists today, and there are Palestinian Jews who have lived in that land (but were forcibly expelled) for centuries. I suggest doing some research 💜
Too many people see our numbers and immediately think we should be fixing the world instead of enjoying it.
As if there aren’t already so many armys working in healthcare, education, law, etc trying to make society better because WE are the ones who experience the bad of it
This tweet is so weird cuz
A) ARMYs have already been dabbling in philanthropy for years without the need for BTS to "summon" us.
B) we're still just a music fandom. There are plenty of other big fandoms (especially Western) that never have these expectations placed on them.
Tae to get those shots. And bogum too. This isn’t safe and we shouldn’t be sharing any content obtained this way. It’s also just extremely triggering to watch people being mobbed by their “fans”.
@Armyforever_25
Palestinians are Jews and Christian and Muslim. Gaza literally has some of the oldest Christian churches in the world and Israel bombed them in the last month. Please, I’m begging you to stop arguing and actually do some research on Palestine.
Ok like seriously how can anyone watch a 21 year old get designer shoes and meeting a chef at a fine dining restaurant on a FIRST DATE and think this is just bougie dating 😭
Omg this is such a good explanation! After listening to queer armys I had to take a step back from my knee jerk reaction to say “no they’re not [queer label here] just comfortable in their sexuality”…lol. A lot of it does come from the fact that many folks I’ve talked to about
there is nothing bad about femininity, queerness, anything related. there is NEVER anything bad about taking comfort in someone displaying those qualities. there are many things in the world that can be taken as insults when uttered by enemies and as praise coming from loved ones
Retweeting again because this deserves to be said again and again:
“The vision behind OIAA is driven by our belief that the comfort which we get from BTS can be given back to the world in abundance.”
So fucking beautiful. So fucking GOOD.
Recently, a comment was made in an article that made statements about the intentions behind charitable giving in fandoms.
As ARMY projects were mentioned alongside that statement, implying correlation, we decided to clear up any misleading information.🙂
Just gotta say Mariam’s chocolate chip cookie recipe is amazing and I’ve made it like 6 times (I LOVE chocolate chip cookies like I eat them like tortilla chips 🤣). And I’ve gotten compliments from family whenever I bring it to fam parties 🥰
I don’t wanna get too into the drama but this makes me laugh when Joon had a rolling stone interview with Pharrell and had MASSIVE collabs and Jin debuted his song with Coldplay and Hobi debuted his album at lolla like they’re all highly promoted 😂
Ok but this is the question we should be asking about every system. We keep saying we need to make things fair and progress towards a better future but we really need to acknowledge it never should have been like this EVER.
@BangtanAcademy_
Because it seems nothing has improved here, folks should go back and look at the previous tweets from BA and the replies/quotes from staff and students. BA is not an inclusive space and a the volunteers that made this place great all left.
Literally staying in your seats means EVERYONE gets a good view. How do we get these people to understand that concerts are for everyone to have their moment, not for just a few fans.
If you continue to crowd aisles and not stay in your seat where you belong, I am telling u the boys are never gonna do carts again. And it’ll be your fault.
Saw a Korean American woman on Tiktok saying how koreaboos have warped the meaning of oppa so much that she uses hyung to refer to her older brothers/friends/etc 😐 so yeah hella awkward ppl have taken a language they don’t understand and made it uncomfortable for native speakers
@ERCOT_ISO
Can you please divert energy from empty office buildings to residential buildings and homes during this storm?
I have so many friends without power right now and it’s really clear that downtown buildings still have it.
Ok the worst part of the acct that op quoted is that acct is a minor 😭 talking about manwha! like child, that’s another reason to NOT be looking for this stuff…or reposting it on your tl oh my god 😭
this is the equivalent of some crazy person entering your house unannounced and saying they hate your dog bc they thought it was a cat, like who even are you why did u say that why u in my house rn.🗿
Seeing armys saying jacks rap is just like regular rap and I’m like y’all we can have standards it is okay 😂 come on now. That was bad and it was lazy 😭 Latto’s verse on seven was explicit but it was well written and catchy “7 different sheets 7 different angles” “come on hit
So I definitely was warned not to click the Bloomberg article but still managed to mindlessly click it and I’m just...what the fuck. It’s al over the place but more importantly for anyone remotely acquainted with BTS, Big Hit, and kpop groups in general it’s obviously not well
Having basic needs comfortably met (food, home, medical care) is like the baseline of good mental health. Focusing on affordable living for all would alleviate a lot f anxiety and depression.
this is not to dismiss the real genetics and other factors that contribute to either
@gogoKZgo
@BTS_twt
I both feel for them and am also really inspired by it?? Like they’re showing us that you can do it which means a lot to me as a fellow introvert but we all know it’s just *so hard* on top of their work already being demanding
Perfectionism is always always the enemy of progress. It’s so frustrating. “Masks aren’t 100% effective so what’s the point of wearing them” sound familiar 😪
"make sure everything else in your life is also morally correct then" yeah actually we're trying to. That's why we follow news, keep informed. And then we Try to organize around it as best we can. But what else have you lot done except be defeatist and spineless?
In all seriousness I feel like this has to do with his homophobic comments that have surfaced from an interview. The way he talks about making the sport like more masculine or legitimate and not “guys dancing” seems like he disregards the artistry on purpose.
Since we're chatting figure skating, can I mention my opinion on Nathan Chen. Idk if this is an unpopular view, but while I think he is, in the technical sense, one of the absolute best (I mean god have you seen his quads) I actually don't enjoy watching him all that much :'D
isn’t the default same with gender identities etc. It does take intention and effort to unlearn these things but this thread is such a good explanation of why seeing queerness in the boys is never an insult.
It’s very clear he doubled down on his comparison of BTS to covid instead of apologizing. He’s well aware of what he’s saying and he actually think it’s funny. Absolute racist power trip because he knows he can get away with it, cuz he has in the past.
#JimmyKimmelRacist
875 have to mention feminine/girly/queer labels while chuckling or downright scoffing. They use queer labels and femininity as insults so I thought that saying “don’t assume” was kinder…instead of just saying queerness isn’t an insult. But it’s also me unlearning that straight
ARMY! Can you believe we're so close to hitting 50k on
#theeARMYFund
?
Hotties
@StallionStats
+
@megandoirr
have reached out asking if we'd be open to adding a Houston based charity to the fundraiser.
Our team has vetted the wonderful folks at
@HoustonFoodBank
Shall we?
We should all mask for the Las Vegas concerts. Even if you’re not worried, it’ll just be a great and easy way to prevent this from becoming a superspreader. Unfortunately we have to protect ourselves because who knows what the venue will require.
The posts going around gaslighting people that no one was wearing masks in LA are not great.
Just as a friendly note to ARMY: just because there is no mandate to mask up in place, doesn't mean we can't mask up. We could decide as a whole community to be safe for all
#BTSARMY
.💜
@rosiesrambles
Reading the replies here and happy to know we’re all upset about Gwen. Yknow what really got me was how Gwen and Merlin were so close in the beginning (and it was lovely) and then they just like killed their friendship. Never made sense to me.
Every woman I know is the Admin/House Manager of their families and it kills me, because we aren’t naturally better at these things, we’re genuinely just expected to do them
Non Palestinians speaking out against the boycott (and barely apologizing) are so annoying lol. Like they have nothing to lose but still have time to criticize. I also think everyone gets so perfectionist about activism instead of acknowledging big problems require tactics from
I never understand people wanting us to laugh with them…like??? I obviously really like BTS so I’m not gonna shit talk them with you??? People are so weird
Newer coworker just came into my office. Made the standard ignorant comments about my BTS posters, how they look so young, teenyboppers, so feminine, etc. Laughed as if I would be in on the joke.
I leveled him with such a withering look of unamusement, his balls shriveled.
Here’s the thing, gather round friends- our golden boy turned 25 today and here he is basically stone cold sober, visibly endeared by his eldest, 30yo hyung being a silly drunk in front of all their fans.
I just can’t with how extremely precious this is 😭
Coming from a fairly “accepting” family in California, I can tell you most of them are probs not that concerned over what Abbot just ordered in Texas. It’s not a Texas problem, it’s a transphobia problem. It’s literally everywhere and those of us who care have to do what we can
ALSO to any person, ESPECIALLY cis individuals, making jokes about how removing texas would solve everything; you are missing the damn point
it was never only texas; there are people like the governor in every damn state, and no state is as actually as liberal as you think
1st thing out of oncologists mouth entering the room was “why the mask?”. I said that she should mask to protect cancer patients, she got defensive, put in my chart I was “emotional” during the visit, and noted my capacity as more than it was (knowing i’m applying for disability)
I feel like folks don’t understand what literal life or death stress does to the human body and mind. Demanding anything more than survival from Motaz and other journalists is ridiculous and just completely disconnected from the situation
I will link some other sources under here, but know that templates especially with the same subject line are easy to filter out. I recommend hitting a few points in your own emails: indigenous cultures are not to be used for marketing (tipis/dreamcatchers specifically as they
People saying this is better because you can pay this person in the Philippines less, they’re more grateful, and more pleasant…
Absolutely kills me as a diaspora Filipina who regularly sends money to my family back home precisely because of this: they are always underpaid
I pay for both Spotify and YouTube premium and the fact I still have to “act” like I’m not a bot and so many of us got our streams filtered out from Spotify when I KNOW a lot of armys have premium...what a slap in the face to your customer what the fuck.
I’m so thankful to have found adult army friends who are really kind and fun to talk to on this app. Every time I see an army bullied by fake fans I cry too because I cannot understand taking something beautiful and then hurting people in its name?
Anyways appreciate you moots 💜
Moots - want anything? I need to do major downsizing over the next couple months. Selling for what I paid for or less, and I’ll be posting pics of individual items probs this week. Will be selling the JK hoodie and Suga notebook too ✨
It’s sad to see how people immediately say that calling the boys queer is “crossing a line” or something especially when it’s obvious they’re okay with people calling them straight 😂 like you cannot be serious rn
at the end of the day whether bts themselves are queer or not - they love queer people. they consume queer art and have queer friends. they love queer armys and would side with queer armys every time.
It is actually *wild* how little airlines do for mobility accessibility especially for those people using wheelchairs. Having accompanied my grandparents who need them to travel, it was a very sad and eye opening experience. There’s a desperate need for proper training for
This is a social issue that everyone, not just disabled people, need to be concerned about.
Too many disabled people have their mobility aids destroyed by airlines almost every other week. Yet, nothing is being done and abled bodied people excuse it by saying 1/
I liked this guy when he’s talked about Bangtan before but this is so frustrating. Like if he stopped for a second and listened to himself, the implied part is that the legitimacy he’s talking about is for /men’s/ approval. Like they needed a hip hop legend and more male fans
So for our 100 mill view videos BTS only gets 69k? How much do you think production costs on one of their mvs?
For their billion view mvs, they get a little under 7 million bucks. I guess that’s not terrible because BTS has done that but thinking of other artists…
Holy shit. Am watching this ep on music & I learned artists earn money at different rates bw streaming platforms. Did you all know this?
▶️For song streams: YT Music/Spotify pay the least, Apple Music pays more, Tidal pays most.
▶️For MVs: Youtube pays $690 every 1M views.
I wonder if any of the money from the book or this upcoming film adaption are actually going to any indigenous tribes in Oklahoma. Like I really do love when folks learn the truth behind our history but then it’s always the white guy telling it that gets the money lol
keep being used), being a global company calls for cultural
sensitivity,cultural appropriation hurts these cultures, BTS stands for respect for ALL people, and actions on these (apology, changes to collateral, and cultural review to prevent appropriation going forward).
Not because vaccines cause autism. Not because more kids are being made autistic.
But because more autistic kids are surviving long enough to be identified.
I’m genuinely so upset at everyone ruining telepathy and ments with throwing things and their big signs and people coming down to other sections like wtf??? People doing this truly taints what should be a really happy experience for everyone
CONCERT ETIQUETTE 101
- do not hold signs, army bombs, pickets, etc above chest level; it blocks the view for others
- do not throw things at the artists
- do not sit in a seat that doesn’t belong to you, nor stand on your seat, nor bum rush to areas to get closer to the artist
I have serious respect for John Cena because he doesn’t get anything from talking about his love for BTS, he doesn’t have them on his show or promote his books or anything. And he talked about how he listened to their music first and loved the rap styles rap line incorporated
If there are other emails we should be sending to, let me know! I feel like PR is a good place to start, but if someone has HYBE Merch direct contact plz drop it here.
The boys are nice even when they’re swarmed, so praising Japan armys when they’d have to track his flight to show up there or bought the info is misplaced. It also creates this country vs country narrative which is silly because the guys are swarmed and stalked in EVERY place
My commissioned wootteo brooch from
@BroochByMar
arrived this week!! 🥹 he’s adorable and lovely, thank you so much Mar! His pink heart eyes 💕
I couldn’t get a good pic of me wearing it but will post if I ever do 😂
Yeah I actually disagree with this person. Yeah the person they’re quoting had attitude but that was their service dog. If the kid ran up to someone who had a disability aid like a walking stick and tried to take it, would they just say, oh she’s three? Like, we can be upset
No mention of the reason why fans had to ask radio stations to play BTS is because despite their success in the US, stations refused to play them. They were selling out shows since 2017 and yet are only mentioned selling stadiums out last year. Ugh. Ok I’m done.
Ok I’m happy I preordered but also everyone buying their albums today in store and I’m like 😀 Weverse shipping 😀 when does it ship 😀 it is release day 😀 album ship when 😀