BTS Tutorial: CHOEAEDOL
CHOEAEDOL is basically an abbreviation that stands for 'My Favorite Idol'. It’s your standard voting app that relies on engagement from users.
It’s best to login at certain “hot times” (between 8pm-11:30pm KST – or 6am to 9:30am EST). You get 30 extra hearts just for doing that.
After you login with your email to set up your account, you can go to your profile and fill that out. Then you're just logging in all the time.
You can then click the options on the bottom ribbon to watch ads, do missions, click on the hearts of certain pictures, upload content, join communities, and exchange hearts with friends.
Always go into the forum boards for Jimin and use your hearts to vote on posts there; don't vote on the homepage or fellow Jimin fans to get the extra 10 hearts from your vote.
If you’re voting on a post, you’ll want to vote during “hot time” which is basically 10:45pm to 11pm KST (or 8:45am to 9am—best to set an alarm as a reminder).
You’ll want to drop a minimum of 100 hearts in voting every day so you get 10% of hearts back as a reward.
If you upload an image during hot time, you get another 100 hearts.
The rest of your hearts you save for when it’s time to mass vote for a big milestone, like there was a mass voting for 10,000 days with Jimin, which donated money to a charity in his name, or his birthday, where screen ads in Korea were purchased.
There are some rules, like you can watch up to 5 ads within a limited timeframe, you can only click the heart of an image 5 times every hour, for votes to count you’ll want to vote on the community page and not the homepage, and it’s a good idea to save your Ever Hearts for mass voting, stuff like that.
Follow this account and see their fantastic voting tutorial with tips on how to prioritize Jimin in this app:
Updated voting lists and guides of Jimin.
The point of these popularity contests is to help your idol or group win at the Soribada Best K-Music Awards (previously abbreviated as SOKA and currently abbreviated as SOBA). Otherwise, it’s mostly just for clout / reputation and a few cute side projects, so spend your time and energy wisely. Collect your hearts, save your Ever Hearts, follow your voting accounts on Twitter, and vote when they tell you to.
Here’s a tutorial video for how to vote for BTS:
One thing I like about this app is that the Jimin forum has thousands of amazing high-quality pics of Jimin. Huge bonus for me, because I download these photos to my phone and share them all with you!
DISCLAIMER:
I am a Dope Old Person and have been ARMY since January 2022. So I still have a lot to learn.
I’m making mini-tutorials for people like me who are comfy with technology but totally new to voting, streaming, and buying Kpop stuff.
If you know of better, more up-to-date information, please comment or DM me so I can make sure I’m not spreading misinfo. Please be polite about it, though—we are on the same team!
Feel free to apply whatever you learn here to other BTS members and other artists; I’m Jimin-biased so I am focused on helping Jimin at this moment in time, but I’m OT7 so rest assured I’ll put my shoulder to the wheel for all our members!
