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[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

Las Vegas Welcomes BTS | THE CITY ARIRANG LAS VEGAS
(https://t.co/dhVGhSMOIx)

#방탄소년단 #BTS #BTS_THECITY_ARIRANG
#BTS_THECITY_ARIRANG_LASVEGAS

[American Music Awards @AMAs]

"SWIM" is our anthem for Summer 2026 😎☀️

Congratulations on the #AMAs Song of the Summer win, @bts_bighit!

[American Music Awards @AMAs]

📢 WATCH THIS WATCH THIS 📢 @bts_bighit goin' hooligan at the #AMAs

Tune in NOW on @cbs and @paramountplus!

[Variety @Variety]

KATSEYE shouts out BTS for "inspiring us to represent our culture on a global scale" after winning Best New Artist at the #AMAs.

(via CBS)

[American Music Awards @AMAs]

You voted and ARTIST OF THE YEAR at the #AMAs is... @bts_bighit! 🌟👏

[Sara 2.0 @SaraBangtan07]

ARMY is a fandom, but our role in BTS’s story goes beyond typical fan action. I would call what we do as collective stewardship: a form of support that becomes part of the ongoing care of artists & their art

Kpop had already made fan participation part of idol culture. Fans were invited to show support in ways that could be quantified: album sales, music show votes, streaming numbers, fan projects, memberships & public displays of support. Earlier idol fandoms had their own forms of organisation. In the 1990s, official fan clubs often elected representatives who helped coordinate fan collective action. Later, companies took a larger role in managing fan clubs through official staff & fan managers

BTS entered through that lineage, while also unsettling some of its precedents. Much of their fan support developed through decentralised fan labour: translation accounts, voting guides, chart education, archives, explainers, donation projects & local fanbases. This gave ARMY a different shape from earlier idol fandoms

BTS also differed from earlier idols. They were disciplined performers, but also clearly young people still becoming themselves: uncertain, funny, tired, ambitious, self-conscious & unusually open about failure. ARMY mirrored this. We were not only coordinated or goal-driven, but also ever-learning & hungry. Both artist & fandom grew up together in public

Without the backing of a major agency, they depended on fans who could circulate clips, translate lyrics & interviews, explain context, organise voting, teach chart rules, counter hostile narratives & keep the work moving across languages & platforms. ARMY inherited the competitive & devotional practices of Kpop fandoms, but did not stop there

This is why patronage is too narrow as the main term. It captures the money involved: albums, tickets, merchandise, streaming, fan projects & other forms of material support. But ARMY’s role cannot be reduced to economic contribution alone. Stewardship captures the wider care: helping BTS’s music travel & resist distortion

Collective stewardship names the point at which fan action becomes a sustaining practice. It is the collective care of the conditions that allow BTS’ music to endure across borders, cultures & generations

[Tia⁷ 🪭 seeing BTS in D1 D2 🇨🇦⦿ ☰ ☲ ⟭⟬💜⟬⟭ @MrsTOH2O]

BTS like MJ is once in a generation artist. There'll never be another Michael nor another BTS. Anyone who even tries is just setting themselves up. I was not lucky enough to see MJ in person. I'm thankful I got to experience BTS. 🥹💜👇 #BTSARMY #TheLegendisCalledBTS @BTS_twt

[French Army_C | ⊙⊝⊜ @CCjo7949]

Instead of turning cities into rivals maybe we can do what BTS has always taught us to do:

Encourage each other.
Uplift each other.
Carry the light forward.

Not as a competition. As a relay.

One city passes the flame to the next. One crowd sings, another answers. One purple ocean rises then another follows.

Every city will have its own voice.
Its own energy.
Its own chaos, tenderness, screams, tears, banners, accents, weather, inside jokes, and little miracles.

And that is beautiful.

Because the point was never to be identical.

The point is that, wherever BTS goes, love is waiting for them in a different language.

No city needs to become another one to be unforgettable.

We all bring something different to the table.

But we have one thing in common:

Our love for BTS.

That is the thread.
That is the bridge.
That is the family.

So let’s not declare little wars between ourselves. There is already enough of that outside.

Let’s make this tour feel like what it should be:

A chain of cities handing each other the light and saying:

“Your turn. Make them feel loved.”

City by city.
Light by light.
Song by song.

For BTS. Always.

[Rize⁷ @rize07addict]

#BTS's "Crystal Snow" hits #1 on the ORICON JAPAN Weekly Streaming Surge Chart with an increase of 102.6% in domestic streaming!!

"Crystal Snow" was the special surprise old track sang by BTS during their ARIRANG TOUR — Tokyo Dome Concert last week!!

[International Sleep⁷ 시차 @SleepDeez]

@RollingStone A lot of people don’t deserve information.. yall twist everything to be negative.

When artists just stop doing interviews altogether, they’ll probably be much happier.

[isa @solmerv]

We don’t brag about this enough.

[Bangtan Greenhouse⁷ 🌷 @BTSgreenhouse]

My Namkook: ‘RM Babygirl’ Dahlia/Dahlia Pinnata ‘RM Babygirl’

I found this one a few years ago and I’m bringing it back. YES it’s actually called RM Babygirl and YES it’s the best flower ever.

[French Army_C | ⊙⊝⊜ @CCjo7949]

Tokyo crowd really came in like they had one job: be loud, be locked in and shake the building with precision 😱

The energy was insane.
So coordinated. So passionate.
So alive.🔥

And before anybody starts, yes, every crowd has been amazing.

But J-ARMY tonight? Whew. That was stunning.💜

[t⁷ @taesoothe]

The worldplay about "hooligan" being "wholeagain" is so fucking good... First of all it turns Hooligan into such a clever threat. Effortless, funny, sassy threat that BTS return and is about to beat up the industry

If you look at the lyrics this way, look what picture we are getting

"Watch this, watch this beat goin wholeagain
We pop out, we actin a fool again"
"Me everywhere, ursso"
"Smash it up like hooligan
Time’s up, get out of the way, out"
"Take you out
Take you out
What’s the future?
Where’s the now?
This is international
Make it unforgettable"
"We the mess, gonna get a bigger mop here
This that K, gotta get a better pop here
You gon hear this one playin round the clock, yeah
Round the clock clock clock clock"

Like??

And the choreo?? The longer we look, the more there is to unpack. Especially this part, aren't these people imitating an audience reacting???

BTS coded their song titles many times before, for many reasons. 134340, No More Dream N.O and Boy in luv mirrored into Boy with luv and ON and Dream closing first chapter, Save me and I'm fine where the songs are anagramatic lyrically. The list goes on. In fact, coding Hooligan would be very on brand for BTS

Not to mention, they chose THIS song to have MV references to so many chapter 1 music videos. The strongest references to Not Today, and the antis turned followers ninjas, the final chorus scene.

Or how this theory dabs to how Namjoon talked about antis prayers in Rolling Stone interview.

Hooligan as Whole Again is like a herald of BTS coming back

And the fact they chose it for tour opening song? Absolute chef's kiss

[Meike⁷ | borahae arts @BorahaeArts]

HOOLIGAN - BTS ARTIST EDITION

✏️ ✏️

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit

[Carpe Diem @QueenLizzy73]

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[Carpe Diem @QueenLizzy73]

Spring Day 😭

[BTS JAPAN OFFICIAL @BTS_jp_official]

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