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Anonymous said: I saw the tweet too and I was like that in the beginning when the news broke out but then I got over it. However I was reading comments on the tweet and saw some things about new fans. I do not agree with the gaining new people into the fandom because of BBMA. last time we gained fake toxic fans who jumped onto the bandwagon and only joined because they thought the boys were good looking. I am afraid that new people are going to claim ARMY meanwhile they couldn’t give two shits about kpop before

1. New fans aren’t all bandwagon fans. WE WERE ALL new fans before too, you gotta start somewhere that’s not a bad thing. Any new fans gained will eventually like bangtan for their music because honestly, how can you not?

2. Even old fans can be toxic?! Gaining new fans is always encouraged, how did you think bangtan got this popular without gaining new fans I don’t get it. A fandom as big as ARMYs, it’s not our job to police people tbh. Not only is it impossible but it’s pointless. But we can always encourage more fans what they should do and what’s the best way to support bangtan.

3. ARMY fandom isn’t “ruined.”

4. Top Social Artist isn’t just about being popular on social media. It does focus on social media engagement as a whole but to be a nominee on there, you also have to ACTUALLY be charting on Billboard Charts. And Billboard charts is all about music and sales and totally not about JUST being popular online. 

3. A lot of ARMYs had no interest in kpop before but they started to because of bangtan, that’s a good thing. If they only like bangtan and not other kpop groups that’s ok too.

4. What is even a “real” fan?!

5. Even if bangtan doesn’t perform in BBMAs they will STILL gain new fans, that’s inevitable and no one can ever control the “quality” of fans we gain. We should always welcome new fans. What we can control is what influences them on ways how to really support bangtan effectively.

6. I just want to emphasize that any huge fandoms in kpop suffer from all these things you don’t like. it’s not only us and it has nothing to do with bangtan and where they’re performing. They’re gaining a lot of popularity, that’s just how it is. And I refuse to accept that I should hinder bangtan’s success just because we don’t like the “quality” of fans we gain.

The thing here is that I’m coming from a place where I was in the fandom wherein we can BARELY get 1 Million Youtube views in 24 hours, we get mocked by other fandoms without any means to defend bangtan from the likes of stupid plagiarism of hair color controversies because there wasn’t a lot of ARMYs then. We can’t even win music show voting online then. It was such a struggle and from then it’s always been my goal to support bangtan and show what they can do so that other people will take interest and hopefully become a fan. 

oh, the struggles

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