About Taehyung:
There is quite a lot of people who believe that Taehyung has a bad attitude or is rude or something like that. I really don’t think that to be the case. What I think is going on, is that he pretty much doesn’t want to be an idol any longer, and that it has been like that for a long time now.
And that is a problem of cause as he has no way out. He is pretty much stuck. Unfortunately for Hybe Taehyung has a rebellious streak and that is what we see, when he acts out. The picture he uses right now on weverse is him showing his staff, that they cannot tell him what picture he should use. That he will decide that for himself. The funny thing is, that the staff have changed the picture back to Taehyung two times now and every time Taehyung has changed it back to his dog again. There is some infighting going on it looks like.
Then we have the infamous v-live he made on his birthday, where it couldn’t be more obvious, that he isn’t in a complete agreement with his company. He wants to do, what he wants to do. But of cause he can’t, so he finds small ways to give himself a little bit of freedom.
Jin does actually this too, but he has a much better grasp of what he can do before it become problematic. Taehyung doesn’t always seem to know when to stop, and therefore his managers seem to restrict him a lot more.
He is 25 years old now and can’t decide his own hair, the clothes he wears when he works, his weight, what to say, where to go or when to go… and which picture to use on weverse. And I know that this goes for all of them. But if he then also gets “scolded” because he doesn’t keep to the rules good enough or have more eyes on him simply because he has done something wrong too many times, then you have the perfect recipe to make anyone mad.
Yeah, I don’t think the situation with Taehyung will end well. I am just waiting for the first scandal to happen.
About Jungkook:
Well the situation with Jungkook – as I see it – is just bad, extremely bad really. I don’t think he is well at all, and that is why he has so many episodes where he zones out completely. For some time now, I have thought, that he maybe has a mental disability. Maybe autism – in the lighter end of the spectrum of cause. When he is stressed, you can often see him swing back and forth on the chair. He does this a lot when they get interviewed or when he seems nervous. And that is so typical for autism.
Then we have all the wounds he gets constantly. Some of them really don’t look like accidents to me. If he is not mentally well, that could explain why it looks like he may have done some of them to himself. If this is the case, then I actually think Jungkook is in great need of help. I do think though and hope, that he does get some kind of help from professionals, but it must be a hell for him to live the life he does if he actually has a mental disability to battle with at the same time.
And then the last thing I have to say about Jungkook is, that he too seems to be going through a rebellious phase, a phase that have been even longer than Taehyungs. That is why he today has quite a lot of tattoos. It is really not normal for an idol to get tattoos (though I do know about G-Dragon – it is still not normal). I believe that the tattoos were his way to show everyone that he could control what happened with his own body. Again, a way to secure some freedom. And of cause I think he likes them too.
And with Jungkook we already have the scandals. Hybe have just been incredibly good at protecting him from the media.
My conclusion is that I actually believe both Jungkook and Taehyung has the potential to become loose cannons in the future and maybe that is the reason for why they get my attention so much. Though I will say that some of the others doesn’t seem that well eighter. All of them would properly benefit from retirement really, but then I wouldn’t be able to study them so… that would be bad.