Taekookers Won
I noticed that Jikookers, like Army, are quick to defend Tae against hate other jikookers try to bring against Tae, which I think is a good thing because none of them deserves to get hate just for existing. While I don't see that at all when it comes to Taekook shippers or Army when it comes to Jimin. This makes me realize this is why the hate against Jimin is so much worse, accepted, and viewed as such a norm in all spaces except in Jimin solo spaces. So much so that anything that has to do with Jimin, including his family member, specifically his Dad, get hated on for simply being connected to Jimin.
I wonder if it's because everyone, including jikookers/ Army, subconsciously believes Taekookers narratives about Jimin, like the fanservice narrative. This particular Taekook narratives is so prevalent in BTS fandom that even some Jimin solo fans parrot it as truth whenever Jimin interacts with Jungkook, which makes sense when you realize majority of Jimin's solo fans started as Army/OT7. It's so prevalent that Army/Taekookers/PJM bonded over not watching a simple reality show with Jimin/Jungkook, a reality show like all the others BTS has done and continues to do, claiming it was "fanservice". They openly believe and buy this narrative, which begs the question of what other Taekookers narratives about Jimin they're silently believing. Therefore, the instinct to defend Jimin is not there because they subconsciously believe that what Taekookers are saying about him are true. Even though they like/love Jimin, they can't bring themselves to defend him fully because they partially agree with Taekook narratives about him and his Dad.
Also because Army space seems to be so full of Taekookers who act like they are ot7 not shippers, people don't want to alienate the community they have with those people, therefore they try not to be too loud in their defense of Jimin. Because any time people defend Jimin, they are instantly isolated from the community because they're now "solo."
It just seems so weird to me that Army the biggest fandom, is unable to EVER shut down ( not even on big account) some of the overwhelming hate Jimin and those connected to him get. Any time someone defend Jimin, they become "solo" but when someone defend Tae, they're welcome into the Army community as "true" OT7. Jikookers/Jimin bias always feel the need to push their badge of honor as OT7 in order to not be push out of Army spaces, but other Army's who are not Jimin bias don't need to do that. They're just accepted in the community.
It maks me think the majority of people in the BTS fandom, at least on social media, drunk the Taekook kool-aid, some of them just didn't drink the full cup. But they are ready to push Jimin under the bus if it means people will keep seeing them as OT7.
Anyway, it's just an interesting dynamic I noticed, and I know people will be quick to dismiss and deny it. Taekook doesn't need to be real. People don't need to ship them. They won the BTS fandom because, on some level, their narratives about Jimin have become facts in the fandom. Therefore, Jimin lost while Taekook won when it came to BTS fandom on social media. But base on what I've seen so far, I predict Jimin might have lost the Army fandom in the sense that he will be part of it in name only but I predict that will make him gain a stronger fandom for himself.














