To Namjoon,
You had the clearest opportunity today to address the Chris Brown situation and you chose not to.
So I’m not going to keep asking you to talk about it. Your silence is an answer in itself even if it’s not the answer many of us wanted.
What I still find frustrating is the idea that we should simply “separate the art from the artist.” How are we supposed to do that when you spent years making your art so deeply connected to who you are, what you believe in, and the values you publicly shared with us?
You didn’t just give us music. You gave us your words, your beliefs, and your perspective. You asked us to listen to what you had to say about the world. That connection was part of what made your art meaningful to so many of us.
And if those messages were only something you used to sell records, while you privately believe something completely different, then that makes the situation even more absurd and sick. It would mean that the values people connected with were just a performance and that the person behind the art was never really present in it at all.
So when your actions contradict the values we associated with you, of course that changes how some of us experience your work. That isn’t hate. It isn’t “being an anti.” It’s a natural consequence of seeing the person behind the art contradict those values.
You are free to make your choices. But we are equally free to decide what those choices mean to us.
And honestly, telling people to separate the art from the artist feels less like maturity and more like avoiding an uncomfortable reality.
I’m not asking you for an apology anymore.
I just wonder whether the values you spent years talking about still mean what I thought they meant.
Today, you had the opportunity to tell us.
You chose silence.
@bts_bighit@BTS_twt #방탄소년단
Eu acho que uma coisa que tem que ser reforçado pra população é que esse dinheiro que o Vorcaro distribuía era dinheiro ROUBADO DO POVO BRASILEIRO. Do jeito que tá sendo colocado parece que o cara era apenas um rico pródigo benfeitor. O cara é um dos maiores criminosos do Brasil.
ela canta bem PRA CARAMBA, dança pra caramba, é bonita pra porra, tem um posicionamento político foda e ainda é super carismática, fico impressionada de verdade com tantas qualidades numa celebridade só
and this is why it’s so important for bts not to behave mindlessly. you can think they didn’t mean anything bad by going to chris brown’s concert, but their actions set an example for millions of people.
I don’t think the issue is that BTS is using red and black. An era should have its own identity, and Arirang absolutely deserves its own visual language. BE was black and white. Permission to Dance had yellow. BTS has never needed to use purple in every single campaign.
But there is a BIG difference between evolving a brand and erasing its identity.
Purple isn’t simply another colour BTS happened to use. Over the years, it has become part of BTS’s brand DNA and a symbol of the connection between BTS and ARMY. That doesn’t mean every future concept needs to be purple. It means that even as the visual identity evolves, there should still be foundational elements that create continuity and make the brand unmistakably BTS.
If “we’re evolving the brand” means Arirang is red and black, fine. But if it means purple is being deliberately removed from BTS’s foundational identity, then fans are absolutely justified in questioning that decision.
Strong brands evolve without erasing what made them recognisable in the first place. Longevity isn’t constant reinvention. It’s knowing what can change and what is worth preserving
Genteee, isso aqui vai ser épico! Conseguiram reunir quase tudo o que aterroriza o psicológico brasileiro: as Virgínias, as evangélicas e os coaches. 😂
Isso é verdade. A cada ano que passa o brasileiro fica mais burro, principalmente os adolescentes da nova geração. O emburrecimento do povo brasileiro é real. A maioria dos adultos e dos adolescentes perdeu a capacidade de interpretar textos simples, mesmo você falando o óbvio, eles não entendem. As redes sociais estão cheias de gente nova e burra que não consegue interpretar nada.
O seu décimo terceiro, suas férias, seu descanso remunerado, tudo isso não caiu do céu não, foi uma galera segurando cartaz em manifestação que conseguiu esses direitos pra você.
@rkivenineu Eu tô bem sim, obrigada ❤️. Na verdade eu já sabia que isso acontecia uma hora, até pq eles sempre falaram desses tipos de artistas, sempre esperei esse momento de comoção do fandom, pra eles mudarem de atitude quanto a isso e enxergar o problema, só não espera esse silêncio...
bicha a esse ponto oq me choca nem é eles terem ido na porra do show e batido foto, postado story etc foda-se
oq me choca de verdade é eles saberem que o MUNDO está associando a imagem deles com a de um abusador e não sentirem a necessidade de SE DEFENDER
RM Kim Namjoon has been indefinitely suspended from this list and the organisation has given their reason for this. Please read.
https://t.co/MnqoAOC72e