Something has been bothering me for some time. I'm posting this on reddit as well, but I have to wait a few hours before I can post on the community, so I though I could share here too.
For the past week, there has been an increase on hate posts on BTS. And I get that fan wars always happen, and armys have a reputation, but it got to a level that I had never seen before. For a while, there has been a number of set up accounts, with a considerable amount of followers, whose only goal is to get BTS dragged. I'm not gonna mention fandoms because at this point I think everyone is involved in this, but the ARE in group chats with accounts that frequently drag BTS and armys.
A few days ago one of these accounts made a set up tweet talking about a StrayKids member, and Stays started quoting it. I get it, they want to defend the member, fanwar, yadda yadda yadda, but they started that KNOWING it was a set up, and when it was pointed out, they still excused the hit tweets attacking Namjoon on his appearance. One of the tweets got 85k likes, and interactions from fans of literally every single group I can imagine. Yesterday another set up account did the same, because it was a small account armys got to suspend it, but the tweets dragging BTS are still there.
Today the same thing happened, and the tweet, with almost 30k likes dragging J-Hopes appearence.
There are other set up accounts being created RIGHT NOW and already fishing for the hate hit tweets, and one of them was posted here and the comments are already dragging both army and BTS, apparently not knowing that it's from a set up account armys are already working on reporting.
The amount of hate this group has been honestly inhumane. It's always been bad, but now even locals who know nothing about it have started to point it out.
The main culprits are Blinks, Mys, Tokkis, Exo-L, VIPS and Stays, but looking at the quotes and replys, every fandom seems to be envolved.
Again, I get fan wars, responding to the hate and all, but making set ups and sending the tweets on group chats to get these dragged for absolutely no reason seems like just mental illness at his point.
Anyway, just wanted to share what's happening. If those tweets start showing up here (they will), just know they're set ups.