This is gonna be a (hopefully small) rant that no one asked for, but maybe this will reach some people and open their eyes? Iâll start off by saying Iâm a huge fan of bts, and I have been for almost 5 years now. The music theyâve created and the accomplishments theyâve achieved have made me so incredibly happy and proud. But lately, I have pulled away from calling myself an army. Not because of bts, but because of the numerous fans who call themselves army, yet they either bash on other bands, disregard the fact that fans of other bands are human and deserve to be treated with at least a certain level of politeness, or hate on the members of bts, save for their bias and maybe 1 or 2 others. And in the last year or so, Iâve seen what used to be a moderately peaceful fandom turn into a large group of downright hateful people, that I frankly donât want to be a part of.Â
  PSA: If you are triggered easily, read this paragraph before you go and hate comment on this. If not, you can skip this Now, I know that not all fans are like this, Iâve seen living proof of this, not to mention the countless amazing fans that show their support in a calm but loving manner, but it just seems like more and more of these fans keep popping up and just making everyone sad. I understand that bts is becoming more popular, and like any popular group, not every fan is going to be the nicest person on this earth. I also understand that bts is not the first group to have fans like this, I know because I am a fan of those groups too, and Iâve seen those fans in action. What Iâm trying to say is I know that this stuff has happened before, and Iâm not trying to make this seem like itâs more important than the other groups' problems, and if I could I would make a similar rant about those groupsâ fans too, but I only really have enough energy for one, and most of my points in this rant would probably be repeated anyway. The reason I choose bts instead of, say, exo/got7/seventeen/etc., is just for the simple fact that I have been a fan of bts for longer than any of the other groups, and it saddens me the most to see this fandom go to complete horsesh*t.
  OK now onto the bulk of this. If you say you are a fan of bts, great! That means you love and appreciate Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, and Jeon Jungkook. Becuase all 7 of them make up bts, and it would not be bts without 1 of them. You canât say you are a fan of bts and then go make a whole twitter account dedicated to why you hate Taehyung, or why only Namjoon should be in the group because heâs your bias. Donât get me wrong, itâs perfectly fine to have a favorite among them, but if youâre going to claim to be a fan of bts, then that means you have to love all 7 of them. Now, say you heard the entire hixtape album and you really like it! Thatâs awesome! But then when you check out btsâs music as a whole, you find out youâre not really a fan. To me, thatâs perfectly fine, because you are allowed to have your likes and your dislikes. You could say something along the lines of âI really enjoy J-hopeâs music as a solo artist, but I really canât call myself a bts fan because I couldnât get into their music as a group. But I do love and support j-hopeâs individual worksâ. In my opinion, thatâs completely fine, because youâre not claiming to be a fan of bts, and then only supporting 1 member/hating on the other members. It just gets on my nerves when someone claims to be a fan of the whole group, and then only supports one or two members. If you only like (for example) Yoongi and Jungkook, thatâs completely fine. Say that you enjoy their solo works, but dont say youâre a fan of the whole group when you donât mean it.
