it’s been around a week now and i usually don’t talk about things like this or bring this kind of stuff onto my account. but honestly, it’s gotten to a point where i’m starting to get tired of seeing it all over my timeline and trying to ignore it every time.
i’ve stayed quiet because i genuinely don’t have the energy to argue over this. if you’re disappointed, that is okay. if what happened changed the way you see someone, that is okay too. i am able to understand why some people reacted the way they did, even if i don’t personally feel the same way.
you are allowed to decide that something changed the way you see someone. i’m not going to tell anyone what they are or aren’t allowed to feel because it is not my place to do so, and neither is it anyone's.
but somewhere along the way, disappointment turned into something else entirely. what i don’t understand is how quickly it all has turned into this absolute hatred toward namjoon specifically. watching people who have spent years loving his music and talking about how much he has meant to them suddenly call him names and speak about him with so much contempt is honestly insane to me.
you can disagree with someone without deciding that everything they have ever said was fake. you can be disappointed without turning a person you’ve loved for years into a villain overnight. you can acknowledge that someone made a decision you don’t agree with while still remembering that they’re a human being whose entire life and personality cannot possibly be contained in one decision. especially someone you don't even know personally.
and with namjoon, some have spent years watching him grow, question himself, change, learn, make mistakes, create, reflect and constantly try to understand the world around him. we’ve heard him talk about his insecurities, his doubts, his relationship with fame, responsibility, art, music and overall the weight of being the person he is. we’ve watched him put so much of himself into the things he creates and shares with us that he never actually owed us in the first place.
those are actually one of the many things i’ve always admired about him. he has never seemed interested in presenting himself as some perfect person with all the answers. if anything, so much of his work comes from learning and trying to make sense of things.
and now i see people acting as though they have the complete picture of who he really is.
people are complicated. circumstances are complicated. growing up, different cultures, different generations and different experiences all shape how someone sees the world. not everything can be reduced to good person vs bad person, right vs wrong, or just "this proves everything about them." life is simply much more gray than just black and white.
he doesn’t stop being kim namjoon because the internet is angry with him. he doesn’t become a different person because people decided they no longer want to see him the way they did. and so many years of his life and the things he has shared with us don’t suddenly disappear because people are disappointed.
because behind all of it, he is still a person who is allowed to be imperfect. allowed to make decisions you wouldn’t make, allowed to have perspectives you don’t share and allowed to exist outside of what you expect from him.
you don’t have to forgive him. you don’t have to agree with him. you don’t even have to keep being his fan.
but you also don’t have to destroy him to prove that you’re disappointed.
i just hope that somewhere beneath all the noise he can always remember that there are still people who see him as a whole person and people who don’t expect him to be perfect, because no one could ever be.
i will always leave room for nuance. i will always leave room for things i don’t know. and most importantly, i will always remember that there is a human being behind all of this.
lmao the way y’all are acting like Namjoon and Hobi personally funded Chris Brown’s legal fees is insane.
They went to a concert. They enjoyed the music. That’s it. They’re not required to issue a 10-paragraph apology every time they breathe near someone with a messy past.
Pixel Project suspending him while still keeping other artists who’ve done the exact same thing (or worse) is peak performative nonsense. The bar is only this high when it’s Asian men, huh?
RM has spent years speaking on mental health, equality, and self-love. One concert photo doesn’t erase that. Y’all are exhausting. Let them live.
I wasn't gonna talk about this because the toxicity and unnecessary hate towards the tannies has been way too much for me, so I decided to stay out of this app. But this has gone way beyond what it should've.
I genuinely don't understand why listening to an artist's music is automatically being equated to endorsing everything that artist has ever done. Listening to an artist's music does NOT mean you support their actions. Not everyone Googles the history of every artist they listen to. Sometimes you simply hear a song, like it, add it to your playlist and move on. I used to listen to CB too before I knew about his past. That doesn't mean I supported his actions. Music and the person behind it can exist as two separate things for people. The same applies here. Tannies being music lovers and listening to an artist doesn't automatically mean they endorse that person's actions or history.
And yes, you're allowed to be disappointed or feel uncomfortable. You're allowed to criticise them and tell them when something doesn't align with your values. BTS has always been open to genuine, constructive criticism. But there's a massive difference between expressing disappointment and acting like you have the right to police their lives. And some of you have crossed that line today.
You don't know WHY they attended that concert. Until Hobi or Joon talk about it themselves, you're making assumptions. And the language some of you are using is doing nothing but giving BTS haters more ammunition.
How can you call yourself ARMY and forget that there are people waiting like fucking hyenas for any opportunity to drag these men? You can disagree with them without trying to control their lives. You can hold them accountable without tearing them down.
Criticise if you need to. Be disappointed if you are. But for fuck's sake, don't lose all sense of perspective and turn your criticism into something that ends up hurting the very people you're claiming to protect.
@MJRRORBVLL Just scroll at YouTube and find the most beautiful rendition of Fix You. Saw Tae and instantly in love with his voice and his face. Down the rabbit hole eversince and now my bias is Yoongiyaaa.... 😊
@uarmybrry Off course my bias Yoongi, but i can alternate between him and Joon. I love them both. And after watching Arirang tour in Goyang via live viewing maybe it will be interested in dating Jimin too....
They're back. My boys are back. They're seven and perfect. I love them with my whole heart. Too bad for the heavy rain, and the camera works make me dizzy. But overall they're perfect as usual. Welcome back tannies.... #arirangworldtour
@muncorner Hey, life is beautiful isn't it? But i still miss you now and then. I still think about our days together, think about things i've done with you & how i rlly miss talking about random things with u. Hope your life is beautiful as well, and hope you think of me too now and then.