#army thoughts

🧩 1. The Same Event. The Same Pattern. The Same Hate.

bts get hated just for existing. literally. The same event has been happening for years — same sponsors, same idols, same routine — but suddenly, this year, everyone’s “offended”? right when bts shows up? be serious. 💀Half the k-pop industry was there, but somehow the outrage only found seven faces. The selective outrage is so predictable it’s practically tradition at this point. 😭

💸 2. When Real Activism Speaks for Itself

Namjoon donated to a hospital research fund in september. Yoongi just opened a health center for children. Meanwhile, the so-called “boycotter armys” are doing the absolute most on twitter — moral lecturing between retweets — while real armys are actually donating, organizing, spreading awareness, and quietly doing good.

Performative activism looks loud until it’s placed next to real action. 🤭

🚫 3. The Moral Police Have Favorites (Shocking, I Know)

These “activists” never hold their own faves accountable. They don’t question other idols who attend the same events. They never look at the broader korean system behind it all. Because it’s not about justice — it’s about control. It’s about making bts small enough to fit inside their comfort zone. And when they can’t? they weaponize morality like a fashion trend. 💅

📸 4. The Double Standards Are Loud

k-celebrities have been attending this event for years — aespa, blackpink, stray kids, you name it. But the second bts walks in — the first time multiple members attend post-military — everyone acts like they personally invented cancer. 😭

Where was this energy before? oh right — it didn’t exist. Because outrage only “matters” when it’s bts.

💬 5. The Difference Between Caring and Clout

people love to say “we care about the cause,” but their actions scream “we just want engagement.” They’re not activists — they’re opportunists with wi-fi. Meanwhile, bts members are literally funding hospitals, rebuilding communities, and creating safe spaces for kids. And somehow they’re the villains? make it make sense. 💀

🔥 6. The Hypocrisy That Never Ends

bts breathe →“problematic.”

other idols attend →“they looked so pretty!”

The logic? missing. The consistency? nonexistent. The hypocrisy? absolutely thriving. They don’t want to hold people accountable — they just want to hate bts. And that’s why, no matter how loud the noise gets, the truth stays unshakable:

💜 7. The Reality They Can’t Cancel

bts do more good in silence than their haters ever will in noise. And that’s what really bothers them.

Hi anon! Oh really? I don't think he sounded depressed at all actually 💜 I think he sounded very much like himself, and also well 🥺 I'm ALWAYS worried about him too, so I totally understand. But Kook has been so happy the last year, I can really really feel a change. Actually these last two years he seemed to have found himself and found comfort in who he is much more. He has matured and grown up. (I could talk about this for hours, but no need to start a TED Talk). My worries has become so much less this year. 2019 and 2020 was really tough! With all the "scandals", corona, him even crying in front of us.

I think this quote is especially amazing, and shows how much he trust in himself and how high his self-worth is. This quote is very important to me, because it shows a very healthy state of mind for someone who has so much pressure and expectations from outside.

"“I don’t have clear answers like, ‘This is how I’ll live!’ But what’s clear is that I want to decide for myself how to live my life. (...) I’d never do something that everybody agrees is wrong, but where various ways are acceptable, I want to live on my own terms. I settled on this fairly early on.”

Yes Jungkook is a very emotional person, and he is a person with lots of feelings - I am the same, feelings things very strongly. But Jungkook is also mentally very very strong. If you see the way he handle and talk when he has been going through tough times, it's very clear. He works so much on himself and with himself, and I think that speaks to a very healthy and strong mental health. The only thing I can worry about is him not sharing his troubles enough with the other members.

Jungkook has always been VERY hard on himself, never satisfied with what he do. And I don't think that is ever gonna change. But, I think for him it works like a driving force and it's a way to keep him down to earth.

Look at these two quotes from the GQ interview (translated by Jungkook Times):

"I want to go further up. But then I don’t have worries. It’s not that life has always been how I wanted it to be, and I know that I’m lacking in many things but I have my confidence. I have the confidence, a vague one that ‘I can do it’" - He has the confidence and believes in himself!

"If I’m satisfied with everything about myself, then I’d have nothing to wish for. I wouldn’t aspire for going up. When that time comes that I don’t have anything in my mind to aspire for, then I might be at the top" - He is very self-reflected and understands the importance of wanting to be better and wanting to do better.

But especially this comment (from Vogue) showed me how much he changed lately: "“Nobody can be perfect, but I’ve been able to enjoy it because I do everything that’s required of me. That’s why I can accept an occasional poor result.” This seems to be Jung Kook’s attitude toward life. “I understand that hard work and the outcome are two separate things,” he explains. “I’ve learned how to accept the result. Of course, having the ambition to improve myself is another matter.”

Sorry the answer is SOO long! And I only feel like I talked about 5% of it all!! I could talk about Jungkook all day 🥺 But the point is, I actually think he is doing well, and also, Jungkook will ALWAYS be hard on himself and he will always have this very realistic, analytic and a bit cold look on himself and his life. He is an ordinary person like you and me, and life is never just happiness and a walk on roses. But lately I don’t worry about him, I think he is doing well, as well as an ordinary person in the middle of a pandemic can do. I hope this will make you feel a bit more at ease! 💜

One of the strong qualities about their use of SoMe was that they didn’t have individual accounts. On Weverse you can’t just follow one of them. This makes a very clear and united image and feeling of them being one and standing strong together as a team. It says “we are 7, love all of us or not at all”

Their new individual Instagram accounts are gonna create a huge gap in our fandom and is going to enable and enhance solo stan behavior. I can see how it works for other kpop groups. It makes the fandom more fragmented, it turns people into solo stans. It promotes the members as solo artists.

I have always praised Big Hit and the boys themselves for not having member individual accounts and for not promoting solo music in the same way as OT7 content and putting it out for free. Do we want what happenes in other fandoms and for other groups? Where a single member gets more attention, get more populair and reach bigger milestones than BTS as OT7?

It’s about ranking all the boys. From 1-7. You get two members and has to choose which one you like the best, and then it continues like that until you have a list with no. 1 to no.7 😫😫!!

This is SO fucked up!!!! It’s so childish. I can only imagine children doing this! No serious army would ever do this. Love all 7 or leave this fandom!!