(Trumpet sound)
Both of You
Over a year in the making!
I don't know what else to say!
I've been waffling (the capital of Belgium) for days about whether or not to post. But here it is.
This is Act 1; Acts 2 and 3 coming soon! (Soon is measured in days.)
https://t.co/go4iH012Jv
@pjmrod1@JUNG_RIHOPE_RD@SugAquarius7 Any person who heard he's going to be in a specific location and goes there is a stalker. That's the definition of stalking.
A very long shot but: I lost the Arirang pouch (that I received for wearing a hanbok during Stanford soundcheck) on Las Vegas day 2 Sun night 5/24 at the Palms Casino or the Sonic across the street - if a kind army happened to pick it up and would be willing to return it to me?🥺
@Minieslilpinky@fox34@GrayMediaGTN@TTU_CoMC The fact that this douchebag teaches JOURNALISM to young people blows my mind. @TTU_CoMC is this who you want teaching young people about ETHICS??? A straight up, unapologetic (until he defames the wrong people) racist??? Gross.
So Mr. James Eppler, news anchor on @fox34@KCBD11 decided it was a great idea to make a horrible and xenophobic joke about BTS's message to their fans found on their new collaborative OREO Cookies;
“[...] the wafers are also engraved with one of 13 designs which spell out a message to fans when put together and that is 'death to America' which I think is really strange [...]”
James, you know, if you really feel this way towards BTS, best not to do the ad at all, saves you speaking absolutely nonsense. Just saying.
Oh and here is a song James and his colleagues who laughed can listen to.
Alexa play "ALIENS" by BTS!!
here’s the thing, “good pics” will never justify boosting stalker content.
constantly talking about respecting boundaries means nothing if accounts notorious for harassing members and invading their privacy are still being treated like harmless update accounts just because the content benefits people’s timelines. stop giving these people engagement like desperate hit tweet farmers.
The discourse around fansites lately has been fascinating because so much of it seems built on assumptions fandom has simply repeated for years until people accepted them as fact.
The biggest one being that HYBE and BTS somehow “need” fansites.
Need them for what exactly?
This is a company with access to some of the best cameras, production teams, photographers, videographers and audiovisual technology in the industry. If they wanted endless ultra-HD closeups from every angle, they could produce it themselves, distribute it themselves and monetise it themselves while maintaining control over quality, consent, security and artist wellbeing.
Instead, people are trying to convince themselves that smuggled cameras, hidden equipment, venue rule violations and removals from concerts are somehow evidence of endorsement.
If this behaviour was genuinely encouraged, there would be official accreditation, visible passes, designated media areas and transparent permissions. That’s how legitimate access works. Legitimate access is not granted through fandom theories, assumptions, rumours or people convincing themselves they have special insight into private relationships and company decisions.
And yes, I’ve seen the “not all fansites are bad” argument. I’m sure some are perfectly pleasant people who genuinely love BTS and enjoy sharing beautiful photos. That still does not change the reality that they are willing to smuggle equipment into venues where it is clearly not permitted.
Being nice does not magically make boundary-crossing ethical.
A lot of these arguments also rely on portraying grown men with immense global influence and professional teams behind them as helpless victims who require fandom to cross boundaries “for their own good”.
They do not.
People project their own frustrations and narratives onto the members and then use those assumptions to justify behaviour that would otherwise be questioned.
And before the “it’s the culture” argument appears, culture is not automatically ethical just because it has become normalised.
The bigger issue is the effect fandom encouragement has over time.
When fansites are hyped, rewarded and defended, people see that behaviour celebrated and decide they want a piece of it too. That creates emulation. More “fansites”. More competition for exclusive content. More people willing to push boundaries for attention and engagement.
Demand creates escalation.
And the people who ultimately lose freedom in that environment are the members themselves.
The more invasive fandom culture becomes, the harder it is for artists to exist comfortably as human beings. Airports become surveillance zones. Private schedules leak. Every appearance becomes a sea of lenses and entitlement.
You cannot continuously reward invasive access while acting shocked when invasive behaviour grows larger, riskier and more extreme.
Normalised does not automatically mean ethical.
#EthicalFan
The entitlement of these fansites and their followers are out of this world. Wdym you're defending someone breaking the rules, selling illegal photos, playing a victim if caught. You have zero impact to the tannies popularity or company sales unless you paid for the copyrights.
For those who don't know.
Fansites *are* stalkers. They pay for private info on the members, stalk them at airports and hotels, and make the concert experience miserable for ARMY attending by blocking views with giant cameras and often aggressively pushing in front of others.