#taj asks

I agree. To that end, he’s not obtuse; he knows what the question was actually asking but that he chose to respond to it and in a clever way so as not to alienate anyone?

Beautiful, no notes.

BTS ships, including Jkk, are not real. It’s 2026, and everyone needs to yank their head out of their asses.

JK grimacing at fans’ mishearing TH should be telling and doesn’t excuse other ships from that reaction either were they to be brought up similarly in that context. (By the way, shame on Tkks for being weird on national television. Bring back shame because all of you need to suffocate on it.)

I don’t think any member of BTS would appreciate how many “fans” fantasize about them kissing or fucking each other, so cut it out.

I’ve not lost my interest in Jkk as individuals and friends, but I’ve certainly grown impatient with the fantasy that plagues sub-fandoms where delusional shipping is still fervently prevalent. That’s been obvious for a while now, but I’ve developed a particular vitriol towards the kind of shippers who really push those boundaries.

Jkks will deny it with their whole chest, but some of them are no more different than Tkks anymore.

Received plenty of asks along the same vein as this one (specific to JK’s story).

My take on this is that if anyone has to analyze JK’s (or anyone’s) words in excruciating detail and creating nuance where there is none, you’re already on the losing side.

He’s sharing something that happened to him, period. The immediate takeaways that don’t require needling over and beyond every detail is that he had a crush on a girl, and that if he had the opportunity and ability to do it again in the present, he’d just come out and tell her he liked her. That last bit was clearly said playfully, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was truth to it. JK is, after all, a more confident adult than his younger self.

And really, my opinion goes for any overly analytical takes, which is mostly all of them. If you have to reach beyond what’s given to you on the surface just to make a point related to your agenda, you no longer care about them as individual human beings; what matters to you is what you’re able to thread together to prove you’re right about what you think of them.

It’s definitely not good that Daeun seems to be escalating her approach to get back at him—for what, I don’t know.

Is she a stalker or is she an unhinged ex? Is she both? I’ve read various accounts, and I’ve also read interesting debates that she can’t possibly be his then-girlfriend because he walks past her and is overall surprised that she knew when he arrived, etc.

But, well…

Ultimately, my stance remains unchanged: we don’t know Jimin or the rest of BTS, and I think everyone is foolish to think that these adult males with access to anyone have not already dated or fooled around with other people. Whether Daeun is/was one of those people, I can’t say.

Even so, others have also said that Jimin isn’t the only person she’s done this to, and while she hasn’t posted anything with her and Jimin in the same frame to clinch whatever relationship she alleges they had, I don’t think anyone thought she’d have that kind of video where it’s clear that she had access to him either, however free or limited that access may be. It begs the question what other media does she have that she’s only so far been breadcrumbing? I think it’s a detriment to undermine people who are this manipulative and calculative, even if it all amounts to nothing.

It’s worth noting—though this is just my opinion—that Jimin, based on what he’s shared through his music and his own words via context clues, doesn’t appear to have a keen sense for people who are not good for/to him. It speaks to his trusting and open nature, and his desire to connect with others, but that repeated naïveté can only backfire, especially someone with his status. I wouldn’t be surprised anyway if he allowed her in his life at some point, but I’m not saying that definitively.

I agree. I do think it’s difficult for shippers to parse out nuance in behaviors like that, though, but this is similar to his “I’ll keep holding on to Jimin” taunt.

That’s all it is—good-natured, goofy taunting. Reading too much into things like this is generally what I find problematic.

But if anyone else wants to interpret it differently, that’s their prerogative. Just don’t act surprised or try to spin fancy narratives later if things don’t end up the way you were expecting.

It’s cute that you think Jungkook and Jimin dating or being interested in other people (or, god forbid, women) would ever deter unhinged shippers from continuing their own narrative in spite of what reality might be.

Already I’ve seen shippers say JM wasn’t actually happy with JK’s story, or it’s something that happened in the past and JK’s present is JM—and, in theory, these are valid but they refuse to also acknowledge that JM could legitimately be entertained by said story because it’s a universal phenomenon when people have crushes they can’t approach, or that JK and JM might actually be into other people rather than each other. Or they might not be into anyone at all.

They’re people first, not your dolls to play house with and assume things because you’re too busy projecting your own experiences onto them.

It should come as no surprise that I’m over Jkks (and all shippers who are pushing past their boundaries as a fan). No one can convince me that they’re not morphing into their worst enemies and exhibiting similar delusional behavior.

While I would usually—and fairly, I should think—argue that JM doesn’t need to make a public spectacle for JK’s birthday (because he doesn’t), I would agree based on the fact that for years Jkks have used his consistency to be “loud” as proof.

There’s no way of confirming that the JM-DE scandal is the reason he’s gone MIA for JK’s birthday, but it is a reasonable conclusion nonetheless.

It’s a rather comical coincidence that no one has yet seen a full view of that part of his arm—everything is angled or filmed for post-editing—especially this far into the tour where they’re not confined to specific costumes.

I’ve seen more of Yoongi and Jin’s arms than I have of Jungkook’s.

What’s funny to me is that I’m positive the tattoo rumor circulating is known to him. If there was no truth to it, it’d be so easy to squash it all by baring that arm to the world. Why prolong the elephant in the room?