hot take but a lot of people are armys just for internet clout, that’s why they don’t leave the fandom because who’s going to give them likes and attention when they write their think pieces.
They don’t have any sense of being and identity without the army label and is sad.
I genuinely think my relationship with stanning BTS went through a change in 2023 where I was like okay they’re like legit just regular people. And sometimes regular people make you happy and disappoint you in equal measure. There is no grand emotional conspiracy behind this