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The last time I saw that fandom crash out this bad was when they all saw a certain couple going on holiday to Jeju or having midnight walks in Paris.

Threatening to leave, losing appetite, contract obligations, cosplayers, coke rants, mental breakdowns, all the excuses anyone could make.

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Jikookers need to stop with the performative concern, over-rational thinking and constantly policing of other people because they're under army's and taekooker's surveillance honestly armys and tkks can suck a dick ain't nobody in this entire world more delusional and less in touch with reality than them so I won't let any of them tell me shit for saying that jimin and jungkook are together when we literally had PICTURES OF THEM LEAVING TOGETHER

Omg, they pissed me off so bad for the past week. At least half of them should shut up and shouldn't get to enjoy a thing after their behavior. It's not enough that jikook antis were harrassing everyone who dared to say they saw KM in multiple locations, you'd also get some jokers either behaving high and mighty and calling all those people liars and clout chasers, or acting like some 12 year olds, desperate for evidence. Until they receive evidence and then they're faux outraged.

Why is there some consensus that we should pretend Jimin and Jungkook are not celebrities? Not just that, it looks like they went to Europe with staff and cameras after them. In public spaces. Do these people realize that by giving hints and then explicitly talking about where jikook were, that technically falls under privacy violation as well? Based on their logic. So, posting the photos or not is just the same, after the entire twitter knows already.

It gets to a really absurd point in which no one is actually making sense cause they live in this bubble in which they make their own rules and new guidelines for the social contract. Based on the reactions, you'd think tmz got up in a tree and took some shots of those two having sex in a hotel room. Get a grip, yk??

Just yesterday, someone was in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere and posted some photos of their partner and in the background at the other table it was Meryl Streep with her family. And I looked at the comment section and mostly everyone was sharing the excitement of seeing her out there in some unexpected place, but they were also asking if the chicken was good, lol. No threats, no performative concern, no weirdness. Just the usual "I saw a movie star out in the wild, this was amazing and everyone else is sharing my excitement". Of course things can get weird, no doubt about it, but we can't ignore the context and the specifics of each situation. We gotta use our head from time to time.

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Jungkook sitting on that floor, giggling and trying to find the best angles for his boyfriend's dance challenge

All that salt, all that engagement farming, all the cosplayers...

Jungkook recording his next hit in NY or was it LA? Our little Mary Poppins Jiminie flying over London for more than a week....

Meanwhile Koomi is just out there, having fun. Together, like we all knew from the start, it's just that some of us accepted it immediately.

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Just want to say I appreciate your presence on this site sm!!! <3

Thank you, anon! 😊

I don't usually post stuff like this because I can't take a compliment and it feels like bragging. But lately, everytime I post something, I expect either a threat or someone curssing me out in the inbox (apart from the more normal asks), that I decided to acknowledge this because it's a nice change.

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i feel like jimin and jungkook have lot in common in terms of their artistic vision, ambitions , goals , tastes, preferences, approach as a celebrity A LOT MORE than either pjms and jjks would be comfortable to admit

If only some of them had some common sense, particularly the loudest and the most chronically online.

It's not even about shipping. No one has to believe Jimin and Jungkook are together. It's not a prerogative and no one should inflitrate all fandom space to spread the propaganda (as opposed to the cult as we all know it). It's not even about having to like that person, even if their bias does. But it's about having a fact-based and realist understanding of that relationship. Be it of a working nature, friendship, romantic, all of the above or in various combinations. It's about being able to make a difference between our own feelings and something that has nothing to do with us as fans.

I was never shy in saying that I don't like Tedros. I don't like him as a person and I don't like him when he's anywhere near JM and JK. But at the same time, I also can't project my own feelings on other people. Koomi might find him annoying (see AYS Jeju), but I'm not gonna come here everyday and try to sell people the idea that they hate him. I have eyes. I see them together. Until something completely shifts that shows serious animosity, then I'll stick to my place.

I don't find being in this position difficult. Absolutely not. I can easily live with it. Which is why I find the solo stans constant wars so absurd in this case, particularly when the two idols that are the main topics, not only get along well, they have shown time and time again that they choose each other and that they like each other. Whatever that means for them. And there's so many similarities and easy to indentify. Watching AYS really solidified them through all their talks. Especially their approach as celebrities. They're bigger than their bandmates and yet, they're the ones not promoting themselves constantly. They have kept to themselves all throughout military service and came back stronger. Again, we know that based on their own words.

Cause that's it, isn't it? All we have to do is listen because it's all out in the open. There is no need for conspiracy theories or whatever fanfics people write when they project in their idol.

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Miami Vice - 2.01–02 - The Prodigal Son

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Twiggy - photographed by Justin De Villeneuve, 1972.

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this heat is crazy

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I'm still here... 🫦 (cr. 0613data)

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Is Jungkook considered a curvy king?

100% ⌛

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I think we should take it easy on the salt, it's not that healthy in large quantities. It is essential in food and on a metaphorical level (for those of us familiar with the fairy tale genre). And when something starts to sound like a broken record, either out of fear of being disappointed or out of fear of being perceived in some type of way, then it can easily lead up to the point where it's just irritating and it has the opposite effect.

And if it look like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a Jiminie duck and Koomi are feeding the duck, then it's probably a duck.

And if it turns out that it was just an artificially created duck, then we move on. That's it.

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these gays are trying to murder us but fr i hope we don't have to wait so long to know what the hell is going on this time, im not going to make it, and it's so weird to me that they're revisiting locations they have been to less than two years ago, they live in a perpetual renewing vows status

Anon, you sent this a couple of days ago and now it's been six days and for now, there is no indication that they're back in Seoul! Like, what is going on at this point? Have they ever disappeared like that for so many days out of the country without fans knowing about it? My head is just full of questions.

Everyone is speculating about the purpose of their travel and many options are credible, but I'm still sort of inclined towards this just being some holiday, but perhaps mixed with some work (it would explain the managers, but without knowing if there was some additional staff team that we didn't see at the airport).

This is what happens when we like idols that are not big into posting their life on social media. Or if they do, it's one photo many months later and it's enough for all us to go crazy.

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I feel the need to share this:

This not only explains what functional illiteracy is, but also provides advice and tips in how to combat this issue.

It is a serious and real issue and because of that, I can be understanding. My advice is to read carefully, multiple times at least and check on your own if the message in the text is clear and obvious. I'm not even talking about subtext or identifying irony. I'm not even going that far.

Ask yourself: "what is this person trying to convey? What is the main message of the text?"

After you think you identified that and the person's position toward the issue they discuss about and you decide to share your own thoughts, make sure that your response is connected to the actual topic. It can even be in disagreement, that's perfectly fine. But try to stay on the topic.

Example:

Person A: "I think it's absurd to fight on the internet about whether covid vaccines have somehow led to people having a micro-chip installed in their bodies. There is no basis in reality and it's fear-mongering misinformation."

Person B: "I don't trust the scientists saying there is no evidence of micro chips in human bodies and that the vaccine is safe. I'll wait and see if it does any damage to my body".

This is an example of faulty communication. Person B has not engaged with what Person A was actually trying to discuss. Person A was not attempting at having a conversation on whether the microchips were real, but they'd already taken the discussion to the next level, pointing out the ridiculousness of the debates even existing.

I'm not trying to be condescending. I'm really not. I'm trying to help. For everyone's sake. I know this issue is a result of what society has led to and social media as well. But it is in all our benefit to try and learn to understand each other properly.

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Another one of those quick thoughts on Koomi land this week:

I've seen so many posts from people being surprised or actually shocked that somehow it is now acceptable to talk about koomi, that they're becoming mainstream, that others have seen the light, how this might be a new era. I personally see this as a false impression. That viral tweet about kpop ships got koomi in the center of attention, but it is very important to point out that it was not one made within the army fandom space. That's the reason why it's still up and people were able to talk about them without being harrassed immediately. Otherwise, the tweet had been already deleted. The way I see it, in larger, kpop fandom spaces, such talks can take place, while if it had happened within army space, there would have been DT in less than 24h. All the problems that we've all seen when it comes to merely mentioning koomi did and will not go away.

Kookoo and Mimi were seen at Incheon airport on Monday morning. It's been six days and so many people still haven't been able to decide what exactly is their position regarding privacy and their moral high horse. "Taking and spreading pictures and videos of them at the airport is wrong. Delete, delete, delete" (all while giving hints on twitter just 10 minutes before). There's some sightings of them in NY, everyone wants details, but "please respect their privacy, no photos" in the first couple of days. Good, no one has spread photos. Just for now to take some ridiculous stance in which everyone who supposedly saw Koomi is only doing engagement farming and no one should believe them without photos. So we want their privacy invaded with photos, is that it? Am I getting this right? I mean, this is what happens when so many are engaged in moral activism just through social media, without having any real basis for it, without having any set of values/knowledge of ethics when it comes to privacy and all its elements (online and in the physical world).

Lastly, dissappointment is a feeling. Just as valid as any others. It's ok to experience it. To sit with it and realize it's not the end of the world. If taking all those grains of salt and keeping yourself into some bubble that supposedly keeps you away from all "bad feelings" is your thing, then you deal with it (you'll see how impossible it is). Particularly in this current situation with Koomi alegedly being in NY, so what if it turns out it was all a big lie in which several people are trying to troll an entire subfandom and they're all doing engagement farming? (too bad they don't have the blue check marks, right?). Maybe Jimin is indeed in London and no one has come out to tell us about his whereabouts there because he's just flying around like Mary Poppins from one schedule to another to avoid the London traffic. Live a little and have fun within your community of friends. It will make that dissapointment be processed easier and then it can turn into a funny memory of a week-long descent into extreme delulu 😅.

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Hi! I appreciate you mentioning that the way jm and jk got their success is different. There is a lot of people from any side of the fandom that like to compare jm and jk success to the rest and to pretend they are both being pushed by the company when the way their career has been handled so far is not the same at all. I've seen this narrative going aroound a lot. I mean maybe it probably makes them feel better to think jimin success is due to him being the company fave.

The members success was not the same in chap1 so i don't know why armys thought it would suddenly change for solo era.

Thanks, I guess. Lol.

I was just pointing out the obvious and it's certainly not the first time I talked about this, but it has been a while since I mentioned anything on the topic.

Of course the solo career path has started differently and perhaps will continue that way as well. By that I mean, concepts, what each wanted out of their solo music, the specifics of album rollout, label involvement, fan and public perception/reception, press discourse, fandom narratives, etc.

Regardless on what side a person positions themselves on, they'll see things from their own perspective. And that usually is a mix of facts, heavily biased opinions and on a more extreme (and common) side, worship, victimization, projection. There's a whole mix of opinions out there regarding career trajectory and it's a discourse that gets tiring very easily because it has no end and it can go round in circles really fast.

I've often been critical of radicalism and worship in fandom spaces. Including when it is about idols that I like. Perhaps even more in that case. I don't feel the need to fight and work daily for Jimin and Jungkook to become more succesful. I don't perform fan labor for free just because a music company under a big corporation still relies on that.

I liked Face. I liked SMFPt2 but not the autotune. I think Like Crazy is Jimin's best song, but the music video was unimpressive and looked liked they ran out of budget for party scenes. I didn't like Seven and it still annoys me cause the chorus gets stuck in my head, but I really liked the music video. I had the same reaction to 3D, but damn I did fell for the choreo and the early 2000s-inspired sound. SNTY's mv concept was completely ridiculous, but it's a well produced song and it fitted Jungkook. Golden was a bad album overall and the negative reviews from music critics really showed why. I like Who in a way I like 90s Eurodance. I still listen to it. On repeat. Looping because I don't care about streaming rules. I thought SGMB was a fun concept but I haven't listened to that song since its release. I think Muse was a mediocre album and at its basics, with no real cohesive concept and too generic in a way that makes it closer to whatever they tried to frame Golden as. I think Who should have been a single and that's it.

Why have I listed all that? Because I will never get to the point where I will believe that everything my favorite idol does and the music he puts out is some masterpiece and how I should work tiredlessly for him to reach unimaginable levels of success.

There is nothing unusual in me pointing out that Jimin and Jungkook have reached success in different ways because that is a fact. I don't have any agenda that would make me lie about it or to try and equate it for some ridiculous reason. Yes, they are highly succesful compared to the other people in bts and compared to other idols in the industry. But that success can be measured differently depending on a variety of elements, situations that took place, fan filtered theories and overall context.

Lastly, what I do want to point out is that first and foremost I'm a fan. In the simple, classic understanding of the term. Not a worker, not a worshipper. When I like an artist/group/band/idol, I like them for their music and for them as people. Their level of success (whatever that means to them and to the overall fanbase) is way less relevant than any other thing that is to be appreciated or given too much importance. That's my position and not a way in which I'm preaching what the acceptable one should be.

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KATSEYE Gabriela (2025)