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minnie82 said:
there's nothing heartbreaking in that story :

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Lol, BTS didn't start with nothing.

J!n was wealthy.
J!min's family and Namjoon's family could afford to send them to some high class schools.
The rest of the guys had normal lives, except for YG who had a rough start. But even with YG, his parents somehow could afford to send him to a high school in Seoul. BTS themselves have even said they saw decent success as soon as they debuted, especially in 2014.
 
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theartbook35 said:
Lol, BTS didn't start with nothing.

J!n was wealthy.
J!min's family and Namjoon's family could afford to send them to some high class schools.
The rest of the guys had normal lives, except for YG who had a rough start. But even with YG, his parents somehow could afford to send him to a high school in Seoul. BTS themselves have even said they saw decent success as soon as they debuted, especially in 2014.
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I heard from a former ex-worker of a kpop company that the company often lies about the pre-debut of their idols, including whether they were poor, to give an appearance that they came "from the bottom", when they had good economic support. I think he also talked about BTS, and that it served to give the public an image of "Humility".
 
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pan con queso said:
I heard from a former ex-worker of a kpop company that the company often lies about the pre-debut of their idols, including whether they were poor, to give an appearance that they came "from the bottom", when they had good economic support. I think he also talked about BTS, and that it served to give the public an image of "Humility".
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yes, they also lied about bighit being a very poor company
they were not on the big 3 but Bang Pedo worked for JYP and he already had a lot of conections

and they also filmed variety shows like "american hustle life" that was filmed in the USA with a bunch of famous rappers. so they invested a lot of money on it. Even before BT5 became big
 
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theartbook35 said:
Lol, BTS didn't start with nothing.

J!n was wealthy.
J!min's family and Namjoon's family could afford to send them to some high class schools.
The rest of the guys had normal lives, except for YG who had a rough start. But even with YG, his parents somehow could afford to send him to a high school in Seoul. BTS themselves have even said they saw decent success as soon as they debuted, especially in 2014.
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Rm and Jn went overseas as foreign exchange students. Jm was into dance and Kendo. Only Sg and Tae were poor in the way you think of poverty. The rest were middle class to rich.
 
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theartbook35 said:
Lol, BTS didn't start with nothing.

J!n was wealthy.
J!min's family and Namjoon's family could afford to send them to some high class schools.
The rest of the guys had normal lives, except for YG who had a rough start. But even with YG, his parents somehow could afford to send him to a high school in Seoul. BTS themselves have even said they saw decent success as soon as they debuted, especially in 2014.
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Jimin also went in some ballet dancer school,his parents have money to afford that
 
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cadiz said:
yes, they also lied about bighit being a very poor company
they were not on the big 3 but Bang Pedo worked for JYP and he already had a lot of conections

and they also filmed variety shows like "american hustle life" that was filmed in the USA with a bunch of famous rappers. so they invested a lot of money on it. Even before BT5 became big
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I think it was a medium company
 
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cadiz said:
yes, they also lied about bighit being a very poor company
they were not on the big 3 but Bang Pedo worked for JYP and he already had a lot of conections

and they also filmed variety shows like "american hustle life" that was filmed in the USA with a bunch of famous rappers. so they invested a lot of money on it. Even before BT5 became big
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Their early clothing was poor but the production value of their music and the show they made weren't. Compare them to SHINe3. They had nicer clothes but the places they were filmed in weren't expensive. Btees was taking trips to Thailand, Dubai, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other places as nugus. Shine3's show pairing them with noonas was different. Taemin was walking around places that looked less like Seoul and more like a third world country. Contrast that to fourth gen groups and the shows they film.

They weaponized poverty to make fans take their underdog image and eat it up. Handmade clothes. Kidnapped by black people. Oh no. Fed chicken breasts and no rice while their surrounded by men who were missing no meals? They wanted to make sure sasaengs didn't get too close
oppar doesn't escape.
I'm glad the fans have dropped this underdog image, but it still comes back up like a broken game of hungry hungry hippos.
 
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Strawberrypie said:
They all want out, but the hyungs are going the back way. Selling stock and preparing for a life after btees. The maknaes tried to get out the front door. They weren't signing and screws were applied until they signed.
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If they were a western boy bands,i'm sure they would disbanded long time ago..but there's also kpop boy group That disbanded with no problem
 
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cadiz said:
yes, they also lied about bighit being a very poor company
they were not on the big 3 but Bang Pedo worked for JYP and he already had a lot of conections

and they also filmed variety shows like "american hustle life" that was filmed in the USA with a bunch of famous rappers. so they invested a lot of money on it. Even before BT5 became big
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Yep, and all the expensive clothes and high production of their music videos when they debuted. Not to mention all the times they could be on stage back in 2014 and 2015 with some very big artists. Like, YG and NJ were on stage with Drunken Tiger, DRUNKEN EFFING TIGER many, many years ago. (Just as an aside, that whole performance with DT was amazing). They had plenty of good things going for them.
 
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