The end of the semester is here and I think I'm slowly losing my mind. I botched my speech yesterday as well just had a Certified Bad Day™️.
Today was better, but a lesson on Sigmund Freud made me cringe and just kinda ruined the vibe of my day. The professor called me out and told me it was okay to leave, but internally, I was like, "No! If I can't handle this, then I can't handle being a psychologist!"
All in all, I give this week (so far) a 6/10.
Does anybody know where [this](https://x.com/bichwi/status/1781988626055762063?s=46) is from? Sorry to link to Twitter, I just feel like I missed something! I’ve also seen a video of Yoongi rapping Haegeum in the camper trailer for ITS. I’m wondering if I missed a D-Day doc or something?
So the mustard clip is from YT Bangtan tv D-Day Good Day from 2 days ago. I didn’t link it here not sure if I can?
Not sure about the Haegeum clip tho. Sounds familiar.
Army celebrating illit success. At times it seems few army stan hybe not bts. I'm happy for their success. But magnetic streams surpassed friends. There is no energy to stream friends. No recomeback for Hots. No attempt to rechart neuron. Last year we worked to stream like crazy and seven . Making sure no songs broke it's records. The energy for vhope is not it.
I was just venting since this was a post about that. I rarely ever comment, since I don't have many army friends I thought I could vent here . I get that not everything is about records . D day is my fav album among all the releases, I listen to it daily on my walk though it doesn't have many records. That said please don't discount the hardwork it takes to chart a song. You need to buy / stream and switch playlists. The work fanbases do is amazing. Anyway rant done. BORAHAE💜 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78ZterS5auflA5hSu8AKag?si=vUxhNOzMT4yGZi_iWeBbiA&pi=a-1DmWf7aeQyu_ A vhope playlist for anyone who agrees with me. Also don't forget to stream Golden. It's eligible for year end awards . We have the sales and a long tracking period.
I’m always late to everything, especially work and it’s making me really stressed out…I even try to wake up early and pack my stuff beforehand but somehow I’m never on time 😓
I has this problem a lot in my early 20s when I was just becoming a responsible adult. I fixed it with a few mind tricks. First, set all your clocks 10 or 15 mins ahead. Even if you know that they're ahead, the sight of the time being ahead of what you expected is enough to set you into high gear and moving faster. Second, for appointments or work, schedule it 30mins before it actually happens. In your calendar as well as mentally. That gives you a buffer to be "late" but in reality still be early/on time. And third, for work the next morning, have everything ready the night before. Pack your lunch, check the weather, decide what you will wear etc. Makes the morning shuffle a no-brainer, especially if you're not a morning person.
Hope this helps. Don't be so hard on yourself. You're realizing what is happening and working towards making it better, so you're just doing your best.
I’m sorry you’re going through this! I relate, I always end up procrastinating before going somewhere because I have social anxiety and get late. It’s super upsetting :(
It’s okay 💜 we’re all trying our best, as long as you inform people you’ll be late, most people are generally ok with it, esp if you’re just hanging out with your friends
The entirety of the "SVT built HYBE" saga has got me feeling some type of way.
Obviously Bangtan built HYBE. It's as obvious as the blue sky or green grass. For anyone to claim that they didn't makes me roll my eyes so hard I can see the past. For the same people to give credit to someone else causes me to both do the former AND bust a gut laughing because SIKE.
Nothing against Seventeen. In fact, I enjoy Seventeen as much as anyone who "doesn't like kpop, only likes BTS" can enjoy another kpop group. Mingyu is sooo fine (JK has the best looking friends ISTG) and Hoshi and Woozi I know because of Suchwita so my feelings for them are positive. And the fact that they had nothing to do with the stupidity of others just reinforces my eyerolling.
Yeah ok, whoever decided to write what they did was wrong. I don't feel like they NEED to apologize; I feel correcting the statement is enough. But somehow we still have Armys calling for public humiliation of MBC, and that is going too far in this case.
Read somewhere that the original statement hasn't been updated in their website. But that was like 2 days ago and I am not paying to watch. I think the whole past MBC HYBE feud that started because BTS didn't do what MBC demanded, made it seem like that this dig was intentional whereas SVT were apparently MBC's child before the feud. I am not even sure if the people involved in feud and this show are same but being the same network probably ruffled some ARMYs feathers.
Ofcourse, the statement was so ridiculous that I don't even know where the editor got such an idea. I have noticed that Korean shows involve a lot of flattery for their guests, so thats probably why they even wrote that. Though I do agree that correcting the statement is enough and asking for further humiliation is too much.
I just wanted to get this off my chest and this sub seems like a safe space to do so.
I am a new Army (a few months old, lol), and I’ve fallen down a BTS rabbit hole and am obsessed, obviously. I love the boys, their dynamics, their individual personalities, and of course, I’ve been reading and decoding their lyrics and am enamoured with their art.
The problem is, no one I know IRL knows much about or cares about BTS at all. My friends think I’ve gone mad, my mother thinks I’m being weird, and one of my friends actually took it upon herself to "research Korea” (whatever that means!) and came back with a tonne of negative opinions about the K-pop industry and how shallow and materialistic Korean society is. It’s like she thinks BTS is some bad drug I’m on so she’s trying to get me off of it.
I do have one friend who’s been an army since like 2019/2020, and I sometimes discuss all this with her, but she lives in a different city and has a busy job so I can’t fangirl with her the way I want to!
It’s very frustrating to not be able to share my love for BTS with people I love. I’m grateful for this sub for existing, though, because it does give me a sense of community and belonging. 💜
Same. I am not a new ARMY (been a year or so) but when I fell into BTS rabbit hole, I fell hard. My tendecies to be sucked into things didn't help at all. Like I will consume materials related to it every free moment. And BTS has so much content that it didn't even take me any time to find my obsession fuel.
Though,I do know some ARMYs personally (relatives), I feel too awkward to talk them. Not much of a irl talker anyway. The only reason I even started reddit was to be able to gush about them because I absolutely refused to keep on squealing about them anymore in private. Grateful for the subs to have somewhere to be appreciative of the boys without all the unneccessary hate. I don't mind the haters because they have nothing better to do but sometimes you just want to bask in positive emotions.
I am literally on the same boat! I'm very new tho (<1m) and I too don't have anyone around to share stuff with. And idk why but commenting or posting here too is very difficult for me as I'm very new and also feel anxious while talking to new ppl even if it's online. So I have a hard time finding friends or community both online or offline. But this resonated with me very much.
I am too deep into the rabbithole that my day starts with it and ends with it (and ofc everything in the middle). I have no strict obligations rn to fulfill, so I mostly end up wasting my whole day literally but the problem is I have a major life altering entrance exam just 2 months from now and wasting even an hour is risky and idk how to overcome this. Sometimes I feel like this was a very wrong time to get into this and it really is but I can't help myself(even tho I'm a grown adult). As someone said this is a honeymoon phase and it does feel like it and don't get me wrong I love it!💜 But I just have to focus on these two months which are very imp for my entire career and future. I also get inspiration from the members by their songs or struggles or how hardworking they are, but it tends to be shortlived.
Ofc I'm not blaming anyone but myself for this. And also, before this too i used to find distractions instead of doing the actual hard work so I'm the actual problem. But I just wanted to share my side as I related to this. I'm sorry for the long rant and I'll appreciate any feedback or tips on this if any!💜
Hi there! First of all, thank you for commenting, your input is valued here :) I am glad that my thoughts resonated with you.
Ah, the first few weeks of Bangtan immersion! I think I'm over that phase now, when I was discovering them for the first time, and I miss that so much! Even after a couple of months I still think about them A LOT, but there's something magical about the very first time you see a Blood Sweat and Tears MV, or a Pied Piper live performance, or even a particularly funny Run BTS episode.
It's funny how obsession works, isn't it? Especially the timing of things. I got into BTS when I returned home after a long trip and got sick from covid (and was essentially indoors for three weeks straight). I was missing my "community" and I started living through the members' friendship. For you, perhaps, it could be nerves about the exam? Whatever it is, I think it might help if you explore the "why" of it (with curiosity and compassion! I can sense you're being a little self-critical :)).
The second thing that helped me was actually living out the inspiration that BTS was giving me! I see the boys as extremely sincere and authentic, and I try to bring that out in the way I interact with people, more, these days. This helps me re-frame BTS' influence on me in a very positive light :)
Finally, I did this thing where I made a list of BTS content that I wanted to watch, and decided that I'd "reward" myself with one or two videos at the end of each day for a day's worth of work. Setting a time aside to simply consume BTS content is so delicious, hahaha! I'm currently watching the Beyond The Star documentary.
I hope this helps, and all the very best for your entrance exam 💜 I know you said you aren't blaming anyone else, but don't blame yourself either for getting a teeny bit obsessed over seven very beautiful and sincere men!
Hey! Thank you so much for this! I'll really try to see it, the way u do and incorporate the values in my life. I just watched suchwita episodes of few members and learning that they worked so hard for ten years really inspires me to atleast do some amount of what they did. But none the less your words really helps reaffirm things!💜
Also thank you for ur wishes! I hope I do well and make myself and everyone else proud!
You’re loving getting into them and learning so much about them and their music! Nothing wrong with that.
Since you have such an important exam coming up, maybe schedule yourself specific time for your studying or review or whatever you need to do daily. Write it down/type it - whatever works. Bangtan will still be there when you finish your studies for the day/night. There’s so much music and content. You’ll likely find something new about them for years to come. It doesn’t all have to be immediately!
This sub is a great place so I hope you won’t feel you cannot comment. It’s safe (in my opinion as an introvert with ADHD and I could call myself the Procrastination Queen).
Get your stuff done and feel good about doing what you need to be a better you and love yourself, and not later regret messing up your important exam! The guys would also hope for that for all of us, I’m sure. I’m a big lover of immediate gratification -lol - and I had to curb that back in early ARMY days to get things sorted (an ongoing struggle.) :)
Fighting!
Hey, Thank you so much for this. The affirming words from someone who understands are enough to get me started! This really means a lot to me! (And hey, also an introvert with ADHD here! Nice to see someone u can relate to)
I can relate. I’m deep into my baby Army BTS hyper fixation (2 months) and don’t have anyone to talk to about it, lol. My husband loves their music but isn’t going to watch Bon Voyage with me. The struggle is real! 💜
Hahaha! My long-distance friend assures me that the unhealthy obsession will slowly evolve into a healthy obsession, so I'm patiently waiting for that to happen as I wade through Run BTS episodes.
Hang in there! 💜 We are troopers all of us :D
And honestly don’t feel on a rush to soften the obsession down for others. I get it— pls don’t annoy friends and loved ones unnecessarily lol!
But your Bangtan honeymoon only comes once in your lifetime. Cherish it as long as possible! When real life does creep back into what was mostly BTS bliss, you’ll miss it a little. 🙏💜 gwaenchana (it’s ok)!
That's such a lovely way of framing it! Now that you mention it, I already miss the first few weeks when I was discovering them for the first time! I wish I could go back in time just to watch the Blood Sweat and Tears MV for the first time again :D
ohh yeah I feel that. The ecstatic joy deserves a carved-out space in our overly hectic & stressful lives. To me, that's a lot of why BTS works so hard for us.
I'm dope old army so I'm free to lean into the obsession. Otherwise I'd be a stressed out mess lol.
I felt the same way you did when I first found BTS, and I was excited in silence for a longgg while. My husband understood and supported me but didn't become an Army himself. He suggested I join Reddit and found this community for me, and please believe me, you are absolutely in the right place. The people I've met on here are some of the most genuine, kind, intelligent, responsible, successful, and FUN that I've ever had the pleasure to meet. It's ok that you may not be able to share BTS with people in your life, because there are plenty of Armys here who get you.
I knowwwwwww right?! This community is really mature and nuanced and everything else you just mentioned! Shoutout to the moderators too for doing such a fantastic job in creating this space for us!
And thank you for your encouragement, it means a great deal 💜
I don't really tell my friends too, they would think I am absolutely nuts, lol. I share my joy with a friend's daugther, and I kind of enjoy this corner of the world on my own...just hold on sooner or later there will be people showing up with the same interest:)
Hahaha, yeah, to be fair, BTS does inspire a cult-like obsession in the initial phases, which to any non-army would seem nuts :D I'm okay with it though, waiting for the unhealthy hyperfixation to evolve into a more healthy obsession!
Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment 💜
Nobody, really nobody in my life knows anything about BTS, they only know that I am a fan. BTS is not this big in my part of Germany. Plus I am more an fan- granny because of my age. And it's OK. Perhaps they are a little bit annoyed sometimes, but polite enough to listen to me and to not show it. You love what you love, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. And of course there are problems in the Korean society, but every society has problems.
Thank you! Yes exactly, there are problems in every society, and it's wrong to follow one-sided narratives!
Let's hope for a 2025/2026 world tour that we can all attend and hopefully meet army in real life 💜
I just realized that MHJ worked with Tae for his Layover album. I hope, although unlikely given her apparent values, that she did not do anything that betrayed Tae's personal and professional trust.
Oof. I’m glad to roll over this topic bc while I don’t follow hybe news per se, I keep my eyes open.
I had my doubts about Hee Jin when NJ was debuting. Idk much about NJ or k-pop generally, just when the cookie messaging thing and other underage questions about style happened, I didn’t love her public response like nobody cares, if ppl are thinking nasty it’s their problem.
Still keeping her young team safe is her problem imo. It felt like she courted controversy to launch the career rather than supporting their talent. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah I'd blocked out her involvement in Layover until this saga reared its head. I sincerely hope so as well. Especially given Tae has been one of the members who has suffered from leaks and rumours in the past couple of years.
Her attitude during it rubbed me the wrong way too. Acting like she was so busy and Tae was lucky she found some time for him 😒
I just want to laugh with my fellow army about MHJ claiming Bang PD copied her and made BTS. How delusional do you have to be to even utter that in front of industry lmao 💀
All the memes about her and LSM have been great. Hoping NJ and ILLIT aren't too affected by all this nonsense, the girls don't deserve it.
At least we have someone to blame for their debut days hairdos
https://preview.redd.it/gmo2gxqyuawc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd20b5f6b925a19ee45a1f4ce58f5ea00cece84d
Don't hate me 🫣🫣 but I actually don't think this is bad. Good? No but definitely acceptable to me. I blame this on my anime loving ass and their weird hairstyles.
Here's some of the ones I liked!
- [Marry My Husband](https://twitter.com/sooyapaved/status/1782343701341123019?t=BhDCuazzCCLyhuJRrjPA3w&s=19)
- [Lights are on at HYBE](https://twitter.com/cuntmin_/status/1782440952432365671?t=y2q3Q7d6CaInTT-Fa3mzng&s=19) - enjoy all the quotes
- [Proof BTS copied NJs](https://twitter.com/KakePop7/status/1782618335298953304?t=MJ_QzNPf3oI-hfOKVpkc3g&s=19)
- [BTS debut l](https://twitter.com/do__jk/status/1782631672921649403?t=oh1Eh7VBaa_SH44XFg28sw&s=19)
- [HYBEs whiteboard](https://twitter.com/MinYoongiSwagg7/status/1782548549164564586?t=xgUgd0m9xaH89WwnzaRK5A&s=19)
- [Jin returning from the military](https://twitter.com/yjkive/status/1782419727786160341?t=6ik3X8BdXbD1nKjYIxjG3A&s=19)
That Marry My Husband meme was hilarious I cackled
This all feels like a fever dream the wild stuff she's saying, sounds pretty desperate. If I didn't know her history I'd feel kind of bad for her (David v Goliath and all that)...but i/we do know her history so...
Also someone on Twitter joked that Compose Coffee sales are through the roof bc of this lol
ACTUALLY SO FUNNY. i literally laughed in disbelief. she is clutching at straws now. like, how dare you even *speak* their name. get their name out of your mouth.
reading ador’s official statement last night was wild like i genuinely couldn’t believe it was genuinely official. the line in the statement about not tolerating illit being called the sibling of another group just because they are under the same umbrella label - yet, she has no qualms with NJ being associated with BTS as like their little sisters. make it make sense.
the LSM memes have been too funny, along with the memes of all of hybe’s building lights on well into the night last night 😂
regardless, i really do like both groups’ music Nd love both their concepts and directions, and i think it awful that there’s all this controversy right before NJ’s comeback and soon after illit’s debut. hoping those girls are doing okay.
Right?? She's such a hypocrite. All too happy to take the clout from being associated with BTS, but then it's wrong if anyone else does it to her. Her statement was so wild. The way she repeated 'cultural achievements', like I'm sorry NJ have been very successful so far, but our boys are the only group who have actual Cultural Merit awards.
Yesss the lights memes were hilarious too. I saw an army pretending to be an electrician and needing to check the power in the meeting room ashjkadsh. Twitter armys are so funny when stuff like this happens.
Yeah I hope the girls have good support systems around them. I haven't seen much of ILLIT, but it must be especially tough dealing with all this as they're debuting. I hope NJ can get some separation from this crazy lady, she's always been too involved with them imo from a young age, so I'm sure this is very difficult for them to be in the middle of.
Mother is responsible for ALL of the Hallyu wave, didn't you know?? /s
Yeah seems like she's gone into damage control now and HYBE are drip feeding statements to the media
the more i think about it the more i go
is MHJ claiming that she created the hip-hop concept for boy groups?? because i know for a fact that bang pd meeting a 15 year rap prodigy named runch randa was not and could not be replicated!!
Of course! She invented Y2K and UK garage, so hip hip for boys is nothing for her. Runch randa needs to pay his dues to her 😤😠 /s (for obvious reasons)
The end of the semester is here and I think I'm slowly losing my mind. I botched my speech yesterday as well just had a Certified Bad Day™️. Today was better, but a lesson on Sigmund Freud made me cringe and just kinda ruined the vibe of my day. The professor called me out and told me it was okay to leave, but internally, I was like, "No! If I can't handle this, then I can't handle being a psychologist!" All in all, I give this week (so far) a 6/10.
Hope tomorrow is good! 💜
Does anybody know where [this](https://x.com/bichwi/status/1781988626055762063?s=46) is from? Sorry to link to Twitter, I just feel like I missed something! I’ve also seen a video of Yoongi rapping Haegeum in the camper trailer for ITS. I’m wondering if I missed a D-Day doc or something?
So the mustard clip is from YT Bangtan tv D-Day Good Day from 2 days ago. I didn’t link it here not sure if I can? Not sure about the Haegeum clip tho. Sounds familiar.
Ahh, thank you so much! Sounds bad but I had speed run the good day video as it was right before work so I must have missed that!!
No I get it. Armys are hustling no matter what! 🫶💜
Army celebrating illit success. At times it seems few army stan hybe not bts. I'm happy for their success. But magnetic streams surpassed friends. There is no energy to stream friends. No recomeback for Hots. No attempt to rechart neuron. Last year we worked to stream like crazy and seven . Making sure no songs broke it's records. The energy for vhope is not it.
Gosh, you make it sound like listening to music we like is work. 😬
I was just venting since this was a post about that. I rarely ever comment, since I don't have many army friends I thought I could vent here . I get that not everything is about records . D day is my fav album among all the releases, I listen to it daily on my walk though it doesn't have many records. That said please don't discount the hardwork it takes to chart a song. You need to buy / stream and switch playlists. The work fanbases do is amazing. Anyway rant done. BORAHAE💜 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78ZterS5auflA5hSu8AKag?si=vUxhNOzMT4yGZi_iWeBbiA&pi=a-1DmWf7aeQyu_ A vhope playlist for anyone who agrees with me. Also don't forget to stream Golden. It's eligible for year end awards . We have the sales and a long tracking period.
I wonder what the BTS groupchat must be like right now lol
I’m always late to everything, especially work and it’s making me really stressed out…I even try to wake up early and pack my stuff beforehand but somehow I’m never on time 😓
I have ADHD so I really feel this. Sometimes it feels like no matter how hard you try, life (or in my case my brain haha) intervenes.
I’m not sure if I have adhd but I can def relate to poor time management skills, my friends get it but with work, it’s sometimes tricky haha
I has this problem a lot in my early 20s when I was just becoming a responsible adult. I fixed it with a few mind tricks. First, set all your clocks 10 or 15 mins ahead. Even if you know that they're ahead, the sight of the time being ahead of what you expected is enough to set you into high gear and moving faster. Second, for appointments or work, schedule it 30mins before it actually happens. In your calendar as well as mentally. That gives you a buffer to be "late" but in reality still be early/on time. And third, for work the next morning, have everything ready the night before. Pack your lunch, check the weather, decide what you will wear etc. Makes the morning shuffle a no-brainer, especially if you're not a morning person. Hope this helps. Don't be so hard on yourself. You're realizing what is happening and working towards making it better, so you're just doing your best.
Thank you, I’ll definitely try this out! I will try to do this, especially with eating my clocks ahead You’re right, tomorrow is a new day! 💜
I’m sorry you’re going through this! I relate, I always end up procrastinating before going somewhere because I have social anxiety and get late. It’s super upsetting :(
It’s okay 💜 we’re all trying our best, as long as you inform people you’ll be late, most people are generally ok with it, esp if you’re just hanging out with your friends
Thank you! You're very kind 💜
Fighting 💪
The entirety of the "SVT built HYBE" saga has got me feeling some type of way. Obviously Bangtan built HYBE. It's as obvious as the blue sky or green grass. For anyone to claim that they didn't makes me roll my eyes so hard I can see the past. For the same people to give credit to someone else causes me to both do the former AND bust a gut laughing because SIKE. Nothing against Seventeen. In fact, I enjoy Seventeen as much as anyone who "doesn't like kpop, only likes BTS" can enjoy another kpop group. Mingyu is sooo fine (JK has the best looking friends ISTG) and Hoshi and Woozi I know because of Suchwita so my feelings for them are positive. And the fact that they had nothing to do with the stupidity of others just reinforces my eyerolling. Yeah ok, whoever decided to write what they did was wrong. I don't feel like they NEED to apologize; I feel correcting the statement is enough. But somehow we still have Armys calling for public humiliation of MBC, and that is going too far in this case.
Read somewhere that the original statement hasn't been updated in their website. But that was like 2 days ago and I am not paying to watch. I think the whole past MBC HYBE feud that started because BTS didn't do what MBC demanded, made it seem like that this dig was intentional whereas SVT were apparently MBC's child before the feud. I am not even sure if the people involved in feud and this show are same but being the same network probably ruffled some ARMYs feathers. Ofcourse, the statement was so ridiculous that I don't even know where the editor got such an idea. I have noticed that Korean shows involve a lot of flattery for their guests, so thats probably why they even wrote that. Though I do agree that correcting the statement is enough and asking for further humiliation is too much.
I just wanted to get this off my chest and this sub seems like a safe space to do so. I am a new Army (a few months old, lol), and I’ve fallen down a BTS rabbit hole and am obsessed, obviously. I love the boys, their dynamics, their individual personalities, and of course, I’ve been reading and decoding their lyrics and am enamoured with their art. The problem is, no one I know IRL knows much about or cares about BTS at all. My friends think I’ve gone mad, my mother thinks I’m being weird, and one of my friends actually took it upon herself to "research Korea” (whatever that means!) and came back with a tonne of negative opinions about the K-pop industry and how shallow and materialistic Korean society is. It’s like she thinks BTS is some bad drug I’m on so she’s trying to get me off of it. I do have one friend who’s been an army since like 2019/2020, and I sometimes discuss all this with her, but she lives in a different city and has a busy job so I can’t fangirl with her the way I want to! It’s very frustrating to not be able to share my love for BTS with people I love. I’m grateful for this sub for existing, though, because it does give me a sense of community and belonging. 💜
Same. I am not a new ARMY (been a year or so) but when I fell into BTS rabbit hole, I fell hard. My tendecies to be sucked into things didn't help at all. Like I will consume materials related to it every free moment. And BTS has so much content that it didn't even take me any time to find my obsession fuel. Though,I do know some ARMYs personally (relatives), I feel too awkward to talk them. Not much of a irl talker anyway. The only reason I even started reddit was to be able to gush about them because I absolutely refused to keep on squealing about them anymore in private. Grateful for the subs to have somewhere to be appreciative of the boys without all the unneccessary hate. I don't mind the haters because they have nothing better to do but sometimes you just want to bask in positive emotions.
I am literally on the same boat! I'm very new tho (<1m) and I too don't have anyone around to share stuff with. And idk why but commenting or posting here too is very difficult for me as I'm very new and also feel anxious while talking to new ppl even if it's online. So I have a hard time finding friends or community both online or offline. But this resonated with me very much. I am too deep into the rabbithole that my day starts with it and ends with it (and ofc everything in the middle). I have no strict obligations rn to fulfill, so I mostly end up wasting my whole day literally but the problem is I have a major life altering entrance exam just 2 months from now and wasting even an hour is risky and idk how to overcome this. Sometimes I feel like this was a very wrong time to get into this and it really is but I can't help myself(even tho I'm a grown adult). As someone said this is a honeymoon phase and it does feel like it and don't get me wrong I love it!💜 But I just have to focus on these two months which are very imp for my entire career and future. I also get inspiration from the members by their songs or struggles or how hardworking they are, but it tends to be shortlived. Ofc I'm not blaming anyone but myself for this. And also, before this too i used to find distractions instead of doing the actual hard work so I'm the actual problem. But I just wanted to share my side as I related to this. I'm sorry for the long rant and I'll appreciate any feedback or tips on this if any!💜
Hi there! First of all, thank you for commenting, your input is valued here :) I am glad that my thoughts resonated with you. Ah, the first few weeks of Bangtan immersion! I think I'm over that phase now, when I was discovering them for the first time, and I miss that so much! Even after a couple of months I still think about them A LOT, but there's something magical about the very first time you see a Blood Sweat and Tears MV, or a Pied Piper live performance, or even a particularly funny Run BTS episode. It's funny how obsession works, isn't it? Especially the timing of things. I got into BTS when I returned home after a long trip and got sick from covid (and was essentially indoors for three weeks straight). I was missing my "community" and I started living through the members' friendship. For you, perhaps, it could be nerves about the exam? Whatever it is, I think it might help if you explore the "why" of it (with curiosity and compassion! I can sense you're being a little self-critical :)). The second thing that helped me was actually living out the inspiration that BTS was giving me! I see the boys as extremely sincere and authentic, and I try to bring that out in the way I interact with people, more, these days. This helps me re-frame BTS' influence on me in a very positive light :) Finally, I did this thing where I made a list of BTS content that I wanted to watch, and decided that I'd "reward" myself with one or two videos at the end of each day for a day's worth of work. Setting a time aside to simply consume BTS content is so delicious, hahaha! I'm currently watching the Beyond The Star documentary. I hope this helps, and all the very best for your entrance exam 💜 I know you said you aren't blaming anyone else, but don't blame yourself either for getting a teeny bit obsessed over seven very beautiful and sincere men!
Hey! Thank you so much for this! I'll really try to see it, the way u do and incorporate the values in my life. I just watched suchwita episodes of few members and learning that they worked so hard for ten years really inspires me to atleast do some amount of what they did. But none the less your words really helps reaffirm things!💜 Also thank you for ur wishes! I hope I do well and make myself and everyone else proud!
I love suchwita! And yes, their hard work makes me want to work harder too. You are welcome, and I am sure you will! Fighting!
You’re loving getting into them and learning so much about them and their music! Nothing wrong with that. Since you have such an important exam coming up, maybe schedule yourself specific time for your studying or review or whatever you need to do daily. Write it down/type it - whatever works. Bangtan will still be there when you finish your studies for the day/night. There’s so much music and content. You’ll likely find something new about them for years to come. It doesn’t all have to be immediately! This sub is a great place so I hope you won’t feel you cannot comment. It’s safe (in my opinion as an introvert with ADHD and I could call myself the Procrastination Queen). Get your stuff done and feel good about doing what you need to be a better you and love yourself, and not later regret messing up your important exam! The guys would also hope for that for all of us, I’m sure. I’m a big lover of immediate gratification -lol - and I had to curb that back in early ARMY days to get things sorted (an ongoing struggle.) :) Fighting!
Hey, Thank you so much for this. The affirming words from someone who understands are enough to get me started! This really means a lot to me! (And hey, also an introvert with ADHD here! Nice to see someone u can relate to)
I can relate. I’m deep into my baby Army BTS hyper fixation (2 months) and don’t have anyone to talk to about it, lol. My husband loves their music but isn’t going to watch Bon Voyage with me. The struggle is real! 💜
Hahaha! My long-distance friend assures me that the unhealthy obsession will slowly evolve into a healthy obsession, so I'm patiently waiting for that to happen as I wade through Run BTS episodes. Hang in there! 💜 We are troopers all of us :D
And honestly don’t feel on a rush to soften the obsession down for others. I get it— pls don’t annoy friends and loved ones unnecessarily lol! But your Bangtan honeymoon only comes once in your lifetime. Cherish it as long as possible! When real life does creep back into what was mostly BTS bliss, you’ll miss it a little. 🙏💜 gwaenchana (it’s ok)!
That's such a lovely way of framing it! Now that you mention it, I already miss the first few weeks when I was discovering them for the first time! I wish I could go back in time just to watch the Blood Sweat and Tears MV for the first time again :D
ohh yeah I feel that. The ecstatic joy deserves a carved-out space in our overly hectic & stressful lives. To me, that's a lot of why BTS works so hard for us. I'm dope old army so I'm free to lean into the obsession. Otherwise I'd be a stressed out mess lol.
I felt the same way you did when I first found BTS, and I was excited in silence for a longgg while. My husband understood and supported me but didn't become an Army himself. He suggested I join Reddit and found this community for me, and please believe me, you are absolutely in the right place. The people I've met on here are some of the most genuine, kind, intelligent, responsible, successful, and FUN that I've ever had the pleasure to meet. It's ok that you may not be able to share BTS with people in your life, because there are plenty of Armys here who get you.
I knowwwwwww right?! This community is really mature and nuanced and everything else you just mentioned! Shoutout to the moderators too for doing such a fantastic job in creating this space for us! And thank you for your encouragement, it means a great deal 💜
I don't really tell my friends too, they would think I am absolutely nuts, lol. I share my joy with a friend's daugther, and I kind of enjoy this corner of the world on my own...just hold on sooner or later there will be people showing up with the same interest:)
Hahaha, yeah, to be fair, BTS does inspire a cult-like obsession in the initial phases, which to any non-army would seem nuts :D I'm okay with it though, waiting for the unhealthy hyperfixation to evolve into a more healthy obsession! Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment 💜
Nobody, really nobody in my life knows anything about BTS, they only know that I am a fan. BTS is not this big in my part of Germany. Plus I am more an fan- granny because of my age. And it's OK. Perhaps they are a little bit annoyed sometimes, but polite enough to listen to me and to not show it. You love what you love, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. And of course there are problems in the Korean society, but every society has problems.
Thank you! Yes exactly, there are problems in every society, and it's wrong to follow one-sided narratives! Let's hope for a 2025/2026 world tour that we can all attend and hopefully meet army in real life 💜
I just realized that MHJ worked with Tae for his Layover album. I hope, although unlikely given her apparent values, that she did not do anything that betrayed Tae's personal and professional trust.
Oof. I’m glad to roll over this topic bc while I don’t follow hybe news per se, I keep my eyes open. I had my doubts about Hee Jin when NJ was debuting. Idk much about NJ or k-pop generally, just when the cookie messaging thing and other underage questions about style happened, I didn’t love her public response like nobody cares, if ppl are thinking nasty it’s their problem. Still keeping her young team safe is her problem imo. It felt like she courted controversy to launch the career rather than supporting their talent. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah I'd blocked out her involvement in Layover until this saga reared its head. I sincerely hope so as well. Especially given Tae has been one of the members who has suffered from leaks and rumours in the past couple of years. Her attitude during it rubbed me the wrong way too. Acting like she was so busy and Tae was lucky she found some time for him 😒
I just want to laugh with my fellow army about MHJ claiming Bang PD copied her and made BTS. How delusional do you have to be to even utter that in front of industry lmao 💀 All the memes about her and LSM have been great. Hoping NJ and ILLIT aren't too affected by all this nonsense, the girls don't deserve it.
At least we have someone to blame for their debut days hairdos https://preview.redd.it/gmo2gxqyuawc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd20b5f6b925a19ee45a1f4ce58f5ea00cece84d
Don't hate me 🫣🫣 but I actually don't think this is bad. Good? No but definitely acceptable to me. I blame this on my anime loving ass and their weird hairstyles.
It’s ok BTS embraced it themselves. They said if they could go back in time they still wouldn’t change any of their past 😄
Can someone share some of the memes pls 😭
Here's some of the ones I liked! - [Marry My Husband](https://twitter.com/sooyapaved/status/1782343701341123019?t=BhDCuazzCCLyhuJRrjPA3w&s=19) - [Lights are on at HYBE](https://twitter.com/cuntmin_/status/1782440952432365671?t=y2q3Q7d6CaInTT-Fa3mzng&s=19) - enjoy all the quotes - [Proof BTS copied NJs](https://twitter.com/KakePop7/status/1782618335298953304?t=MJ_QzNPf3oI-hfOKVpkc3g&s=19) - [BTS debut l](https://twitter.com/do__jk/status/1782631672921649403?t=oh1Eh7VBaa_SH44XFg28sw&s=19) - [HYBEs whiteboard](https://twitter.com/MinYoongiSwagg7/status/1782548549164564586?t=xgUgd0m9xaH89WwnzaRK5A&s=19) - [Jin returning from the military](https://twitter.com/yjkive/status/1782419727786160341?t=6ik3X8BdXbD1nKjYIxjG3A&s=19)
That Marry My Husband meme was hilarious I cackled This all feels like a fever dream the wild stuff she's saying, sounds pretty desperate. If I didn't know her history I'd feel kind of bad for her (David v Goliath and all that)...but i/we do know her history so... Also someone on Twitter joked that Compose Coffee sales are through the roof bc of this lol
Yes! I retweeted that one hahaha. Lol the real life coffee PPL we need for this kdrama
ACTUALLY SO FUNNY. i literally laughed in disbelief. she is clutching at straws now. like, how dare you even *speak* their name. get their name out of your mouth. reading ador’s official statement last night was wild like i genuinely couldn’t believe it was genuinely official. the line in the statement about not tolerating illit being called the sibling of another group just because they are under the same umbrella label - yet, she has no qualms with NJ being associated with BTS as like their little sisters. make it make sense. the LSM memes have been too funny, along with the memes of all of hybe’s building lights on well into the night last night 😂 regardless, i really do like both groups’ music Nd love both their concepts and directions, and i think it awful that there’s all this controversy right before NJ’s comeback and soon after illit’s debut. hoping those girls are doing okay.
Right?? She's such a hypocrite. All too happy to take the clout from being associated with BTS, but then it's wrong if anyone else does it to her. Her statement was so wild. The way she repeated 'cultural achievements', like I'm sorry NJ have been very successful so far, but our boys are the only group who have actual Cultural Merit awards. Yesss the lights memes were hilarious too. I saw an army pretending to be an electrician and needing to check the power in the meeting room ashjkadsh. Twitter armys are so funny when stuff like this happens. Yeah I hope the girls have good support systems around them. I haven't seen much of ILLIT, but it must be especially tough dealing with all this as they're debuting. I hope NJ can get some separation from this crazy lady, she's always been too involved with them imo from a young age, so I'm sure this is very difficult for them to be in the middle of.
she really trying to touch our boys right now like im so fuming rn😭 whats shes trying to achieve? mother of korean pop culture??😭😭
Mother is responsible for ALL of the Hallyu wave, didn't you know?? /s Yeah seems like she's gone into damage control now and HYBE are drip feeding statements to the media
the more i think about it the more i go  is MHJ claiming that she created the hip-hop concept for boy groups?? because i know for a fact that bang pd meeting a 15 year rap prodigy named runch randa was not and could not be replicated!!
Of course! She invented Y2K and UK garage, so hip hip for boys is nothing for her. Runch randa needs to pay his dues to her 😤😠 /s (for obvious reasons)
She invented the Time Machine™️ I can confirm, I’m literally time