Entertainment x BTS x Politics x EXPOSED

first member to leave BTS (not military or health related)

  • Taehyung

  • Yoongi

  • Jin

  • Hoseok

  • Jimin

  • Namjoon

  • Jungkook


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OwlMoon

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Beyoncè ruined many careers, it makes me think of Keri Hilson too, she spoke badly or something like that about Beyoncè and then her career is ended
Yeah what happened to her? It’s like she disappeared to thin air
 
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I think it’s to for massive surveillance, I mean they’re already collecting data with the fake tests idk what’s gonna come next, I’m scared too
I agree, we already have the track and trace system here in the UK which controls our every move. The vaccine being mandatory is suspicious in itself. Aren’t we allowed any control as to what goes into our bodies? Why doesn’t bill gates or the government give their children the vaccines they create? So many questions but no answer
 

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Yes, exactly. Keri Hilson, I forgot about her. There were at least two other singers. If it wouldn't have been for Aaliyah to die, she (queen b) would have had no chance. And Aaliyah it is rumored to have been in a relation with Jay Z. Either way she married R Kelly when she was 16 and he must have abused her so badly that after she escaped him, she couldn't handle hearing his name.



just a normal day at work.

I've worked with actors, opera and ballet dancers. No where have I seen something like this. for men to undress in front of female staffers. it was always separated and men would get men to help them out, women would be taken care of by women.
around each member, there are always at least 3 girls constantly touching them , i never figure out why.
but then pictures are being leaked and people as well as members wonder who that was..

in order to avoid any troubles, the people helping with dressing and undressing, are always quite old.



be sure of that, their collaboration with WHO is meant to lead in this direction. Army, get the vaccines so we can MEET SOON.



whenever he gained weight, he gained because he's lazy, eats a lot and sits in front of the computer playing video games. that's his statement.
men in their 20s or 30s, they burn so much calories from moving even one feet. he's 25. within 4 months he is now next to almost overweight.
i.ve seen fans commenting on twitter and insta - how cute, chubby Tae.
nope.

either way, if he thinks he looks cute and his face is going to help him in his further life, with this attitude, he'll fall quicker than he gained the weight.

i can say this:
weed : rapid weight gain
cocaine : weight loss
antidepressants and alcohol : puffy face, weight gain

laziness: weight gain, depression, hormonal changes
lack of intellect : Bang Pedo taking away your billions and you still thanking him on stage
Woah, isn’t R Kelly a rapist or something? I’ve heard of Aaliyah but never her songs, I watched that vampire movie she was in. Poor girl :(

Yup, gotta stay with the agenda for the sake of “depressed” ARMYs lol

Him, JM and JK all have no education and kinda lacks common sense but still, JM and JK worked on something related to their work. JM=dancing (not singing obviously), JK=workout,endurance, some vocal practice(?), TH=........Part of me feels sorry for him but part of me doesn’t. Idk why he’s got this attitude, I think it’s like you said, he’s lazy. He never worked hard for something ever since he debuted. He got used to his “4D personality” and “visuals” that he thought it was enough. Very sad :(
 

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I agree, we already have the track and trace system here in the UK which controls our every move. The vaccine being mandatory is suspicious in itself. Aren’t we allowed any control as to what goes into our bodies? Why doesn’t bill gates or the government give their children the vaccines they create? So many questions but no answer
It’s like you said, the world is horrible and it’s going to get worse (maybe)
 

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@boti Is it possible that some of them think they’re in a relationship with ARMY? They all look upset and angry when he said ARMY is insane, especially Jin, JK and TH. They all look genuinely frustrated. Mark 2:42
 

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I personally stopped drinking cola/etc because they use fetuses from aborted children
What !!? excuse me I am gonna throw up.


Amerie was THE shit, she was the one who came up with the sound beyonce and amerie’s former producer stole.

Beyoncé simply hooked up with jay since the days of destinty’s child and secured herself her career as the only black women in the “biz”.
Jay z has connections all over the place which is why for ex no newspaper touches her, no article exposing her, nothing about every time she steels from others. I mean not the main media.

Ashanti and mya were also sacked.

But no one like Amerie. She had it all.
Have you heard Aaliyah ?

She was very very famous back then. She only had 3 albums in her limited life time but Beyonce was not that famous compared to her at that time.

Wikipedia;
"Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress and model. She has been credited for helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop and hip hop, earning her the nicknames the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", and influencing numerous artists of different music genres.
At the age of 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. The album sold three million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After facing allegations of an illegal marriage with Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed with Atlantic Records.

Aaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album, One in a Million, which sold three million copies in the United States and more than eight million copies worldwide.

In 2000, Aaliyah appeared in her first film, Romeo Must Die. She contributed to the film's soundtrack, which spawned the single "Try Again". The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on airplay, making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this goal. After completing Romeo Must Die, Aaliyah filmed her role in Queen of the Damned, and released, in 2001, her self-titled third and final studio album, which topped the Billboard 200."


She had a relationship with J@y z
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Then, suddenly she died in "airplane accident" at the age of 22. J@y z started to date with Bey0nce and bey0nce became much more famous.
 

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Some of the newest dangers coming ahead through the lockdowns and physical limitations.
Deepfake videos.


This thread is in German, but the important thing are the faked videos. An entire thread.
In the past year due to Corona limitations, many people have worked from home. Even concerts have been held online.
In a previous analysis I showed how BTS used many cheating techniques to make their dancing look better.

Very soon this artificial way of interacting will open the doors to a fake reality, in the hands of artificial intelligence.

This is like a scary sci fi movie, but it’s reality

It's a bit deeper and longer than a short answer, I'll try it.
You've seen some of my analysis regarding the psychological profile.
They made themselves depended on army not just professionally, but mentally as well. As one goes older, all mental issues and unsolved problems tend to worsen.
Their constant need for attention and lack of intellect, so basically an empty mind which is not preoccupied with issues such as literature, arts, politics, or even a profession which none of them have, cannot be satisfied by anything compared with the vision of 100,000 underage girls (which they don't have a problem with, neither a moral, nor a legal one) screaming your name in a arena. or reading millions of fans's comments of "love".
for them it's personal (relationship with "army" which is even by its definition an abstract notion) not just to defend their fans, but their mental issues.
it's virtual reality which is insane. that's pure insanity at their age to live on fake cheering, believing and expecting that people should love them unconditionally, nomatter what they do.
This concerns only TH, JK, and JM. the other 4 are much more smarter than that. Jin was trying to save face. I was aware about the video and the backlash of it.

I hope to have brought some clarity, if not you can be more specific and I'll answer to that, because I've done lots of analysis on psychological profile of the members and I was trying to sum it all up with my answer here.

I believe that only if one of them (3) has had it enough and heavily falls in love, that he might have a chance to escape, but with the lack of intelligence that the 3 younger ones present, they will never solve their problems, they would expect from whoever they're with together, to make up for millions of fans and allow any bullshit. that's not love. that's just unresolved psychological issues.
the 3 younger ones don't have a profession, imagine yourself at mid 25 - no school, no university, no qualification, no interest, no nothing. this will have a big backlash. They are subjecting themselves to a dependency on people like bang who will use their stupidity and weaknesses ad libitum.
he's probably happy to see Taehyung fat and JK looking better and better. Jimin mentally totally disturbed under his command. All of them 3 obsessing over their fans. That keeps also the members away from relationships up to a certain degree. They know better than anyone how it would destroy everything.
Wow, that is so deep and well put together. I’ve always had a feeling Jin is always acting in front of the camera, the other three actually couldn’t care less about what the guy said, they didn’t react that much and I’m probably sure they kinda agree. But the maknaes are always the ones who keep saying “we need you ARMY” and shit, that slowly they start believing it themselves. Scary! Also, why does Bang never liked TH? And what does he gain from confusing JM?

I’ve a question for you too, but I don’t know if it’s personal
 

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my personal opinion is that he always liked the "innocent" and scary Jungkook and Taehyung was the one getting all the attention. it has been obvious in the past years, that TH was put more and more in the back, often the last line/row, had the least amount of lines and moments on video (i've seen the lists done by some fans, the percentage was obvious) and Bang is using him only when he needs cash.

please, go ahead, can ask me.



the moment where beyonce fake cries, is one of the best in music history.
Like you said in another post you grew up surrounded by gay people, so did I. Growing up with them, I never did see a problem with being gay not until this thread at least. So I was wondering, how did you recognize that it was a problem. I’ve looked into gay and mental illness but couldn’t find much, I think the APA did a good job
 
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Many religious Eastern Europeans wear little crosses on their necks depending on the country of origin. We have been warned to not talk anything about Christianity and remove any traces of religion or affiliation with it when traveling to UAE.
did you know the UAE are the best place in middle east in terms of freedom lol and they often get a lots of backlash from other Arabs because of them lacking being a real muslim Arab as their country are more open then the other neighboring countries

and to get clear picture, here is the list of countries that have a law to kill former muslim and one of them is mine lol

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you can see the majority are in the middle east

the hypocrisy are huge when they can practice their religion everywhere as they like but they don't allow vise versa
 
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Almost every sentence of this article is dangerous, wrong, false and the entire subject should’ve been of criticizing what they’re doing, not glorifying their interference in the election just because Trump isn’t affiliated with the Elite.


Qanon has uncovered some of the worst crimes committed, following the shadow of the elite. For someone to act against them is to help the worst kind of agenda.


There is no shame left for the writer and Bloomberg. Well Bloomberg paid millions just to sabotage Trump and the republicans. They ain’t gonna five up but they teach and indoctrinate children, young people and everyone else as a matter of facts, with the worst and false information.


No One Fights QAnon Like the Global Army of K-Pop Superfans
BTS stans built the trolling blueprint for 4chan types, and they’ve proven they can disrupt it.
More stories by Olivia CarvilleOctober 28, 2020, 9:00 AM GMT+1
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Illustration: Miigo for Bloomberg Businessweek

Even by the standards of U.S. politics in the accursed year 2020, the wall of thrusting digital crotches was weird. One day in June, barely a week after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd and ignited nationwide protests, people started tweeting #WhiteLivesMatter so frequently that it became one of Twitter’s most popular hashtags worldwide. The white supremacist phrase is a call to arms within QAnon, the militant sect that believes God sent President Trumpto defeat a shadowy cabal of pedophiles and child traffickers. But the tweets weren’t what they seemed. Anyone who clicked the hashtag or typed it into Twitter’s search bar looking for fellow racists instead found a rolling stream of video clips featuring Korean boy bands, their pelvises gyrating below their smoldering eyes and perfect pastel hair.

More than 22,000 tweets bearing Korean pop stars flooded hashtags like #WhiteLivesMatter and #QAnon that evening, according to market researcher Zignal Labs. Some typical accompanying text: “Stan twitter RISE.” The barrage effectively commandeered the hashtag and rendered it all but unusable to white supremacists. QAnon devotees are familiar with this tactic, known as keyword squatting, because they use it all the time. “They got beaten at their own game by Korean pop fans,” says Mike Rothschild, a conspiracy theory researcher who’s writing a book about QAnon. “I’d never seen anything like it before.”

K-pop stans have. Stan culture takes its name from the titular character in an old Eminem songabout a psychotically obsessed fan. Often, stanning means pumping up YouTube view counts on new music videos or voting for a band in numbers high enough to crash whichever website is soliciting votes for an award. Other times, it can cross the line into group harassment of a preferred celeb’s perceived enemies.

When that happens, it can feel to targets like they’re being trolled by QAnon—ask anyone who’s crossed the Beyhive or the Swifties and lived to post about it. K-pop stans, in the years they’ve spent organizing online, have been known to swarm critics who’ve described their favorite genre’s deep debts to Black music as cultural appropriation. They’ve also relentlessly bullied anyone who’s criticized or made lewd comments about their idols online. More conventionally, they’ve overwhelmed the phone lines at hundreds of U.S. radio stations by calling en masse to demand airplay for the latest single by Blackpink or Monsta X.

In the past few months, Trump supporters have started to understand how those radio producers feel. K-pop stans have regularly hijacked QAnon and MAGA social media hashtags. They’ve led get-out-the-vote efforts against the president. And many were among the online pranksters who boasted about helping derail a Trump rally in Tulsa where he’d said 1 million people planned to show up, and barely 6,000 did. It’s tough to know how many of the 13,000 unused seats were meant for stans who’d asked for tickets with no intention of going, but the emptyish stadium infuriated Trump and came to be seen as a turning point in the presidential campaign. While K-pop stans probably won’t swing the election, their trolling is enough of a cultural force that political consultants have taken notice.

(From left) President Trump’s rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa on June 20; returning home after the campaign event.

Photographers: Win McNamee/Getty Images; Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images

The stan activism has been dominated by fans of BTS, the kings of K-pop. The seven-member boy band, also known as Bangtan Sonyeondan (“Bulletproof Boy Scouts”), can cut slightly ridiculous figures with their double denims, platform sneakers, and cotton-candy pink hair. But they’re the first group since the Beatles to release three Billboard-chart-topping albums in a year, and they’re also the most tweeted-about band on Earth. Before Covid-19 hit, BTS was selling out U.S. stadiums faster than Taylor Swift. Big Hit Entertainment Co., the group’s management company, made $820 million in an initial public offering on Oct. 14 and is now valued at more than $4 billion. BTS fans call themselves ARMY, which stands for Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth. (Clearly, they really wanted to spell ARMY.)

Big Hit markets its straightedge Disney princes extremely carefully. Like most K-pop acts, the members of BTS find their lifestyles and freedom of expression tightly policed—no significant others, no tattoos, no divisive thoughts on politics. (The company also declined to make the band available for comment for this story.) So it was a big deal when, in June, BTS tweeted a brief statement of support for the Black Lives Matter movement to its 26 million followers and announced that it had donated $1 million to the cause. “We stand against racial discrimination,” the band said. “We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together. #BlackLivesMatter.”

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BTS on the set of their Dynamite music video.

Source: Big Hit Entertainment

To some extent, the band was following the lead of its fans, many of whom were already demanding that ARMY take a stand. Millions of BTS fans live in the U.S. and identify as people of color, according to researchers and surveys of popular fan accounts. Many are over the age of 30, repping Twitter handles like @KpopDad and @MomsNoonas (bio: “Never ever, ever too old to fan-girl”). But ARMY has its share of young people, too. Some professors attribute a recent spike in American college students studying Korean to K-pop fans who want to understand the lyrics of their favorite songs.

Daezy Agbakoba, a recent graduate of London’s Middlesex University who’s now back home in Maryland, has a K-pop conversion story that would sound familiar to a 4chan kid radicalized into QAnon. Four years ago, she stumbled onto her first BTS video while watching YouTube. Now, untold hours of algorithmic recommendations later, she’s studying Korean by day and binge-watching the band’s videos at night, her ARMY light stick—a vastly upgraded version of waving a phone flashlight during a concert—resting nearby. “When you get into them, it’s just this steep descent,” she says. “Kind of like how Alice falls down the rabbit hole.”

This spring, Agbakoba was the first to tweet the hashtag #MatchAMillion, imploring her fellow stans to add another $1 million to BTS’s Black Lives Matter donation. They did so in a little over 24 hours. “It shocked me, because I didn’t realize how much influence we actually had,” she says. Since then, she’s been applying to grad schools and working with other young American ARMY members to rally opposition to Trump and his QAnon adherents. “The state of our country is getting to a really dark place,” she says. “I think it would be important to try and help against that in any way we can.” Or, as a repeated meme posted during the #WhiteLivesMatter keyword squat asks, “Will #Kpop a day keep #QAnon at bay?”

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Fans cheer for a BTS performance in Central Park on May 15, 2019 (top left); waiting in line for a BTS concert in Los Angeles in 2018.

Photographers: Drew Angerer/Getty Images (top left); Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images

The business of K-pop is largely apolitical, but the genre’s origins are anything but. The modern South Korean mashup of American hip-hop and pop-rock can be traced to 1992. For decades, officials in South Korea had frequently banned new music, movies, books, and newspapers with messages deemed outrageous or overly political. Into the spotlight stepped Seo Taiji & Boys, a try-hard boy band with a punk-rock look. They auditioned for a talent show on one of South Korea’s major TV networks with Nan Arayo(“I Know”), a hip-hop-influenced song that mashed together rap verses, pop choruses, and catchy dance moves. Although the group received the lowest score of the night from the show’s horrified judges, they won the popular vote—the track topped the country’s music sales charts for 17 straight weeks. Seo Taiji & Boys followed up that hit with risqué songs about censorship and youth oppression. When officials threatened to ban their music, fans rioted in the streets.

A few years later, with South Korea in the grips of the Asian financial crisis, the government reversed tack and embraced pop culture as an economic lifeline, boosting its official culture budget. It began promoting K-pop, along with homegrown dramas and video games, as a core part of the nation’s identity. This was the start of what’s become known as the Hallyu (Korean wave) movement, which eventually swept the country’s pop culture westward.

K-pop stans are tightly linked to the bands and their success. Official fan clubs have long contributed directly to funds set up to support artists through their ramen days. They also coordinate online efforts to boost the acts’ profiles, both through word-of-mouth and by buying extra copies of albums to push them up the sales charts. The advent of social media and streaming made it possible for K-pop acts to turbocharge fan loyalty by producing intimate videos almost nonstop, from short clips of them goofing around backstage to livestreams where they open up about their daily foibles as well as more serious mental health struggles.

BTS, which made its debut in 2013, expertly synthesized these marketing strategies. ARMY began life as an official fan club, though it has grown much broader as it’s fought to penetrate America’s parochial music ecosystem. When U.S. fans began mass-calling hundreds of radio stations to play BTS, they came armed with prewritten scripts for any DJ who hadn’t heard of the band. Grassroots pressure from ARMY put BTS albums on the shelves of Walmart, Target, and Best Buy; landed BTS on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live!; and got them ringing in the New Year with Ryan Seacrest in Times Square. When Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.put seats for a BTS tour on sale last year, all 300,000 tickets sold out in minutes, then the website crashed from the overload. When band member Jungkook told fans online that he uses a Downy fabric softener scent branded Adorable, two months’ worth of the global supply sold out in a day. And when the band endorsed the Hyundai Palisade last year, the SUV was on back order for months.

Many ARMY members consider BTS their friends and revel in the band’s victories. These include the Big Hit IPO, which made the seven band members a combined $105 million, and this September’s chart-topping success of the band’s first English-language single, Dynamite, which also won four MTV video music awards. South Korea’s culture ministry estimates that the song will contribute $1.4 billion to the nation’s economy.

The 10-figure haul is a testament to fans like Vivian Herr, a 43-year-old C-suite executive in Silicon Valley who falls asleep with BTS booming through her AirPods. Herr estimates she spent more than $16,000 on copies of Dynamite to push it up the Billboard rankings, including by sending money to hundreds of people in her Venmocontact list and asking them to download it. When she learned the song had hit No. 1, she politely excused herself from a business meeting, darted into a nearby bathroom, and doubled over, screaming. Herr says her husband and kids don’t really get it.

The video for Dynamite might not make the band’s je ne sais quoiespecially obvious. You’ll see seven grown men jiving like it’s 1999 while they sing lyrics like “Dy-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na, life is dynamite.” Asked why they’re so devoted, ARMY members tend to say the same thing, often word for word: “I came for the music, but stayed for the message.” The members of BTS are Unicef ambassadors who support a wide range of charitable causes and stress the importance of self-acceptance. Despite Big Hit’s tight rein, the band also laces many of its lyrics and videos with imperatives to challenge the status quo. “Don’t get trapped in someone else’s dream,” BTS croons in the song N.O, a rejection of workaholic culture.

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Daezy Agbakoba and her ARMY light stick.

Photographer: Eva O’Leary for Bloomberg Businessweek

Two years ago, when arenas were still a thing, Erika Overton rented a car and drove 10 hours from Detroit to New York to see BTS play Citi Field. The then-38-year-old contract recruiter had never been to a live concert before; she brought her 63-year-old mom, who’s also ARMY. “This is not just hysterical girls screaming over guys and thinking of nothing else,” she thought while looking up at her idols, the beat pulsing through her sneakers.

Earlier that year, Overton co-founded One In An Army, which organizes monthly charitable-giving campaigns among its 150,000 Twitter followers. They’ve backed causes such as feeding starving children in Yemen and constructing water-treatment facilities in Tanzania. OIAA campaigns typically raised about $6,000 a month until this past June, when Agbakoba made #MatchAMillion trend.

Black Lives Matter posed some uncomfortable questions for the K-pop industry. K-pop idols borrow more than just the kinds of hip-hop beats that originated in the Bronx. They also copy Black artists’ hair and clothing styles, dance moves, even mannerisms like a distinctive wag of the finger. ARMY has lost more than a few members uncomfortable with the online backlash to criticism along these lines. “That’s definitely the dark side of the fandom,” says Brie Statham, a 37-year-old BTS fan from Maryland. “It becomes really hard to be a Black K-Pop fan when you disagree with something like cultural appropriation and you get attacked for it.”

Yet ARMY has also pushed its avatars to take a more active role in the U.S. protest movement. The day after Floyd died under a police officer’s knee in Minneapolis, Jiye Kim, a 26-year-old high school teacher in Sydney who runs one of the world’s biggest BTS fan accounts, woke to a relentless buzzing on her phone. Dozens of her quarter-million followers were demanding that she speak out against Floyd’s murder.

Kim felt more than a little out of her element, not least because she couldn’t point to Minnesota on a map. Her claim to fame is speedy translation of BTS lyrics. When a new album drops, she’ll spend 14 hours translating the songs into English, even if it takes her until 4 a.m. on a school night. Soon, though, she was posting educational articles about police brutality in the U.S. “Not only is there an expectation that K-pop artists speak up in regards to social issues,” she says, “there’s now an expectation that fan accounts do, too.”

A few days before ARMY hijacked #WhiteLivesMatter on Twitter, the Dallas Police Department unveiled a surveillance app called iWatch and asked citizens to send it videos of illegal activity during city protests against police brutality. Instead, stans crashed the app by flooding it with close-up clips of K-pop idols winking at the camera, a flex the cops attributed to “technical difficulties.” And ARMY members who took credit online for ruining Trump’s Tulsa rally posted videos of themselves doing the Macarena in front of their tickets or joking that they couldn’t go because they were walking their plants or feeding their pet rocks.

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Jiye Kim felt pressure from fellow stans to speak out against George Floyd’s murder.

Photographer: Isabella Moore for Bloomberg Businessweek

On the surface, ARMY’s signal-jamming and GIF warfare might seem to echo the unsavory viral memes that helped drive support for Trump four years ago and lay the groundwork for QAnon. But K-pop stans came first, says Wasim Khaled. He’s chief executive officer of Blackbird.AI, a company governments and corporations hire to analyze digital disinformation campaigns and other forms of social media manipulation. He had to learn how to account for ARMY when developing Blackbird’s algorithms years ago, because the sheer volume of K-pop-related material was throwing off every large data analysis he tried to do. Once he learned what BTS was, it took a while to find a way to filter out the stans’ noise. The ripple effects of QAnon look much the same, he says: “Consider QAnon like conspiracy stans.”

ARMY has been somewhat quieter in the presidential race’s waning months than they were this summer. Partly, that’s because the fandom has resisted co-option attempts by the Democratic Party mainstream. After Trump’s disastrous Tulsa rally, the Biden War Room, a grassroots outfit seeking to elect the ex-vice president, began tweeting lame “K-pop for Biden” memes and seeking stans’ support, only to earn replies such as “We don’t like you, either” and “hell to the no.”

The fandom isn’t a monolith—it’s leaderless, hard to harness, and divided on the question of what to do next. Overton says ARMY should steer clear of politics to make sure the actions of some overzealous fan don’t backfire on BTS. Herr, in Silicon Valley, says getting involved is a credit to BTS and a part of ARMY’s civic duty. “The Trump administration’s message is racist, and it’s not what we believe or stand for,” she says. With like-minded stans, she’s talked younger and non-English-speaking ARMY members through voter registrations and helped organize get-out-the-vote efforts across California.

Of course, QAnon and similar groups aren’t about to disappear after Nov. 3. If Joe Biden wins the presidency, ARMY’s political engagement could be all the more valuable in countering a fresh wave of revanchist conspiracy theorists, including Trump. If Trump wins reelection, his more paranoid supporters will likely plow additional resources into the strategies that have put QAnon followers on the ballot in several states. Either way, K-pop stans are “the only other online crowdsourced group that has the same kind of amplification power across social media networks,” Khaled says. “There’s definitely no other group that can go up against QAnon.”
those here as will have no right to pretend to represent every Kpop fan out there...its like they want to say every Kpop fan must be a leftist that support BLM and other BS out there

EXO even have met trump, did these Kpop fans knows that lol...not saying trump is good, but those Kpop fans shouldn't try to clime to represent all the fans into communist lefties...Kpop at the end of the day is a music genre, not a political affiliation as what they want to do

Those armies think they are doing something revolutionary...what they are doing is waste of time and have no significant what so ever and trump any way are going to win the election, because thats what the elite are planning...those president are selected not elected
 
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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/2016/01/western-attempts-moderate-islam-dangerous-160118081456021.html - As a sociology and politics student, this was so interesting to read, highlighting internal bias, false consciousness, self - fulfilling prophecy, moral panic etc.

Are there any Muslims here who are a minority in the west?
 
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