i just want to reiterate; do NOT donate to organizations who aren’t transparent on where their funding goes.
i am saying this as a gazan who knows what it’s like on the ground. many people do in fact make personal profit off these organizations, and gazans have to constantly run ragged from & to these organizations to get any sort of help.
so, if you are able to, please donate to verified fundraisers. you can find hundreds on @palestineasdiqa@ll4gaza_ofcl@gazafunds. you can also donate to @sameerproject to help the community as a whole!
Armys especially need to hear Macklemore's words. These celebrities aren't victims. Bts AREN'T victims. They're millionaires with emmense privilege. The real victims are ppl suffering from genocide, ppl suffering from domestic Violence and fans who are victims and hurt by silence
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
this “separation” is an insane ask for og ARMY. the major reasons bts had a breakthrough other than for their talent and performances was their emotional, political and socially conscious lyrics along with their fan content. vulnerability and connection was LITERALLY your brand.
RM says fans should separate learn to separate him as an artist and as person after a month of backlash for supporting Chris Brown
"RM and Kim Namjoon aren't the same person, music is music, and work is just work"
RIP to the 2,976 people that lost their lives on 9/11
And RIP to the 3.7 million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine,Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit
2 years ago today, 26-year-old American activist Ayşenur Eygi was killed by an Israeli sniper while serving as an international observer in Palestine.
To this day, no one has been held accountable for this attack. At least 9 other Americans have been killed by Israelis since October 2023.
Just in case you don't know Israel has finally admitted killing hind rajab her whole family and the 2 paramedics who were going to save her it took 933 days to confirm they shot 335 bullets in a 5 year old girl 335 bullets in a 5 year old girl