The Desperation to "Debunk" Jikook
With the recent Dior event at PFW and tour getting back into gear, I’ve been on X a bit more than usual for the past few weeks.
Because ya’ll know I can’t stand X. In fact, I’m gonna make a list of all the things I hate about X one day. 😒
But today isn’t that day.
Today I want to talk about something I noticed recently. While engaging with Jimin posts for the Dior show, I noticed a post Black n White had made soon after she posted his pictures. It was a very long post where she spoke about why she does what she does, and I found out that the reason she made this post was because weirdos were accusing her of purchasing the photos she’d taken of Jimin and being a stalker.
Because God forbid a Jimin fansite go to one of his events???? 😑I’m unsure why they thought she would purchase someone else’s photos and put her own logo on them as if that benefits her in anyway. She’s been taking his photos for years and he is familiar with her. What reason would there be to do this? And why did people think this? Apparently the pictures were “too close” to Jimin, meaning it couldn’t have been her who took them????
Even though she and other fansites have taken photos close to Jimin and other members before. 🙄 In fact, many of the photos I saw from fansites on that day were taken at just as close of a distance, if not closer. Yet none of those people were accused of buying their pictures or being stalkers. 🤨
The only difference between BnW and those people is the fact that they are fansites for just Jimin, while she is a fansite for Jimin and Jungkook.
It’s not like BnW is the only KM focused fansite, but she IS the most active and therefore the most popular with a following of 300k people. Other accounts are far less active and have less than 20k followers, so they don’t get as much attention.
And I think THAT is what bothers people. She has a huge following and on X, followers = validation. The more followers someone has, the more people see them as bastions of legitimacy.
Legitimacy for what exactly? For Jikook being real. (Just hear me out)
And by the way, before we even get into the meat and potatoes of everything, I find it funny that to this day, BnW has never claimed to be a shipper/Jikook supporter. Even in that long post BnW made that day, she didn’t say one word about shipping Jimin and JK, yet I saw so many comments of people replying to her post saying, “I’m not a shipper, but I love your pictures and support you!”
But like, why even mention shipping at all when BnW isn’t a shipper as far as we know? 🤔You can be a fan of Jimin and JK and not think they are dating. I think they are dating 😏, but I know not everyone does, even people who bias them.
But like I said, I think that is what bothers the masses. They THINK she is a shipper, she has a huge following, and Jimin and JK recognize her.
Because these people are absolutely terrified of Jimin and Jungkook actually being a couple. I literally saw people arguing about BnW’s pictures, making insane posts like, “Buying pictures of Jimin doesn’t make ur ship real!!!!!!” “She bought those photos! #DebunkingJikookers”.
Like dude, who the hell said anything about a ship being real? 🤨 We’re talking about a photo of Jimin at an event, and antis turned it into some sort of ‘confirmation’ that Jimin and Jungkook are a couple.
Furthermore, why are these people spending so much effort on “debunking” Jikookers. I feel like these people seriously think they are dating more than we think they are dating at this point. 🤷🏾♀️ These folks could be minding their own business not even worrying about anything to do with Jikook but they are obsessed with trying to ‘debunk’ us.
It’s almost aggressive the way they will write thesis papers across 20 tweets explaining why “Jikook isn’t real because Jimin and Jungkook both have girlfriends and Jikookers are stupid to ship them and stop shipping them.......”
Bro, I’ve NEVER had any desire to go into shipper spaces to ‘debunk’ them. I am confident in Jimin and Jungkook’s relationship and I support them. Whether they consider each other as lovers or whatever else, I support what they have. I have no need to ‘debunk’ their relationship with anyone else, because I know what they have with anyone else isn’t even a fraction of what they have with each other.
But these people are literally camping in Jimin and Jungkook supporter spaces, ready with an essay and AI images to ‘prove us wrong’. Why?🤔 Why do they need us to be wrong? If they think we’re crazy and delusional and what we say is irrelevant, why don’t they just ignore us?
Why are they making up lies about Korean Jikook supporters claiming they hate other members even when they don’t even TALK about other members? They’re calling people saesangs, antis, boycotters, and everything under the sun with not one shred of evidence and it’s only ever KM accounts.
I know there is a popular joke in Jikook support spaces that certain K-fans might be ‘insiders’ and know more about Jimin and JK’s private lives than they let on. Personally, I have never found much reason to believe these rumors since there is no evidence to support it. 🤷🏾♀️ But regardless, these K-fans are constantly being accused of being antis and are always the target of smear campaigns with the majority of the fandom rushing to report them. People shading Jimin are allowed to do so infinitely and are always given grace, but when it’s a Jikook account, one small misstep and they are on everyone’s blocklist
Why? Because the mere thought that someone could have certain information on Jimin and Jungkook absolutely horrifies them. Even if the person themself has never even claimed to know anything more than any of the rest of us, the THOUGHT that they could sends fear into these peoples hearts. And they don’t even care if they’re wrong and they run an actual normal fan off any platform.
They want to rid the fandom of Jimin and Jungkook supporters more than they want to block actual antis. And they dedicate more time to hopping into Jikook spaces to ‘debunk’ us and get us banned, than to supporting the members they claim to actually like.
I think it’s because deep down, they know we aren’t wrong. 🤷🏾♀️ At the very least, they see what we see and they are terrified that we are correct. So in order to combat their worst nightmare, they rant “Jikook is fake and Jikookers are dumb!1!!11” 24/7 so they can get to sleep at night.
In a similar vein, I’ve noticed that posting footage of members at hotels, on leisure time between concerts, getting into cars....all of that is fine so long as it isn’t Jimin and Jungkook. If it’s them, then it’s STALKER FOOTAGE and you should ban and block anyone spreading it! But if it’s Jimin with a bunch of other members not named Jungkook or vice versa then it’s fine. Granted, I don’t like people filming and harassing the members during their off time at all, but it’s the hypocrisy that irks me. They only hate when footage of Jimin and Jungkook gets spread, but it’s free real estate for anyone else.
Let’s be real for one second, seeing Jimin and Jungkook out together doesn’t necessarily mean anything. It’s two people who’ve known each other for 13 years hanging out and on the surface it shouldn’t be different than any other pairing. But it’s only them that incites rage. Because seeing them alone on outings feels like the confirmation they fear. So of course, they leap to the comments to rage about it. To tell the person to delete the video. To insist that “it doesn’t mean they’re dating!!!!!!” even if no one said anything about dating. 🫠
The same thing happened after Jungkook reposted the fanart of himself and Jimin a few months back. People were leaping up to shout from the rooftops, “Him sharing that artwork doesn’t mean Jikook is real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was an accident! His dog posted it!!!! They aren’t dating!!!!!”. And of course they went on a rampage bullying ONLY the artists who drew him with just Jimin. Even though no one said him sharing the artwork was a confirmation of anything. Clearly the Jikook debunkers are the ones who believe that with how adamant they were to report, harass, and threaten only the KM artists. 😵💫
And speaking of art, I'm sure by now everyone is aware of what happened at Madrid D-1. A little girl drew a picture of herself with Jimin and Jungkook and people got mad and started attacking her. This is madness! I don't know what else I could tell you to emphasize how unhinged these people are. That child has no clue what shipping is. She just drew her favorite members, as she wrote on the picture.
Why on earth would seeing a little girl drawing two members be that triggering for so many people? 🤨 A child who has no concept of shipping. Because that's what their issue was, btw. They see a child drawing Jimin and JK as 'shipping' them, aka thinking they are dating. Had she drawn any other two members, I can't imagine there would have been any backlash. There is no reason this should have bothered anyone, it was a completely normal picture of a little girl's favorite singers....and yet people were infuriated by it. Because in their minds, it means something is real that they don't want to be.
After the Busan Livestream, apparently there was a comment going around where someone had posted in the chat “Jimin and Jungkook are closer to *insert other members here* by the way!!!!”. Literally posted in the chat of the livestream where they were acting boyfriend af because I guess seeing Jimin and JK together just triggered them and they had to 'remind us' that 'um actually they're much closer to other people guys!!!!!!'.
Ya’ll , this is not normal behavior. Who the heck watches a livestream with 2 members and their first thought is to comment that they are closer to other people (which isn't even true because Jimin and JK are THE CLOSEST), totally unprompted. I have never seen people go into the chat when other members are streaming to talk about who they are closer to.
People who genuinely don’t think Jimin and JK are dating don’t do stuff like this. They don’t feel the need to downplay Jimin and Jungkook being together at every instance. They don't attack children for drawing a picture of their favorite members. They don’t spend all their time arguing with Jikook supporters. They just ignore them. I don’t give more than .0001% of my attention to people claiming Jimin and JK are straight men with secret girlfriends because I think it’s BS and I’m not gonna waste my time on them. But the masses on social media who claim to think Jikookers are delusional are the main ones spending every day arguing about it.
When I see people making 20 tweets in a row with the goal to convince their followers that Jimin and Jungkook aren’t dating, I feel like they are trying to convince THEMSELVES more than anything. Ain’t no one doing all this for something they feel has no validity.
There are way more people who think Jimin and JK are a couple than will ever admit it. These folks are losing their mind over a longtime fan taking photos of Jimin and Jungkook despite that fact that others are doing the same thing. The only reason why it bothers them when she does it is because it deep down validates something they don’t want to be true, even if the person herself doesn’t even ship them.
There are fans of other BTS duos, of BTS trios, of the rap line, the vocal line, and every other line all over social media. None of them get criticized or accused of being antis. None of them get a fraction of the hate and scrutiny that Jimin and Jungkook supporters get. And most importantly, no one else has their closeness downplayed like Jimin and Jungkook do and that tells me everything I need to know.
And the fact that this is going on just makes what bighit is doing with the recent behind the scenes videos that much more sick to me.
That’s why I want to encourage everyone who loves Jimin and Jungkook to not only love and support them, but support their supporters as well! 💛💜 No matter where you are, online or in-person, be loud in your support for them. Don’t let antis bully us into silence or removing our support for them. Antis want that more than anything, so lets not give it to them.
Sorry for two big downer posts in the past few days, but don't worry, we'll get back to our regularly scheduled concert celebrations soon. I just had to get all of that out of my system.