Enough with the policing and scrutiny already. These guys can't even share a single thing without you guys breathing down their necks trying to dictate their actions. They are their own person with their own opinions, capable of making their own decisions.
They should not be expected to tiptoe around their personal lives just because they are global artists. Need I remind you that these guys have been sharing what they want to share, what they have allowed us to see. If you guys keep acting like this they might just close that door
I don't think people fully understand the magnitude of this decision.
Some of the music industry's most respected producers, writers, engineers, and creatives worked on ARIRANG. A project built to the highest artistic standard. One producer even spoke publicly about hoping the album would receive Grammy recognition.
Then the Recording Academy introduced a category specifically for Asian pop.
And BTS chose not to submit.
Think about that. The biggest musical project of the year. One of the strongest commercial and artistic contenders. A project that could have competed across multiple major categories. It simply won't be in the race because the artists chose principle over prestige.
Moves like this don't happen often. When artists at BTS' level willingly walk away from the biggest stage in music, the conversation shifts because of what they refused to endorse.
🐰 Taking pictures together isn't a problem, but I went in to get some bread and there was someone who shoved a camera in my face. That's not good manners. Whatever your age may be or wherever you be from, it doesn't matter. Right in front of my eyes, [holding a camera] like this, I thought it was too much. In case this reaches that person, I hope you can understand.
Filming the members when they are on their personal and private time never sat right with me. It feels like an invasion of privacy. Yes they are in public space but does that mean they should have your phones aimed at them/in their faces? Absolutely not. Please leave them alone.
You claim to love your idols yet you choose to not support when a member choose to leave on his own volition. You also chose to rally behind OT7, ignoring your idols' wishes, ignoring the leader and that member's explanation. Yeah you guys are a joke.
And fuck your reasons. You. Do. Not. Crowd. Them. Outside. Their. Hotels.
If you do, it means you don't love them as much as you say you do cause clearly you don't respect their rights to have privacy.
If you have been an ARMY long enough, you should already know that waiting/camping/STALKING the members outside of their hotel is a BIG NO. They have their own right to their privacy and private time. LEAVE THEM TF ALONE.
tbh acting like this makes you no better than sasaengs.