The writer of the article is Hugh McIntyre. Hilarious. I wrote about him a few times already because he’s gay and just constantly writing and wooing over BTS ever since they started appearing in the USA.
I haven’t followed the melon charts but it’s not just Jungkook with a bad charting. It’s BTS themselves.
I’ve read often comments, saying that BTS aren’t top one in SK, as they want to claim in the USA, which has become basically there only target for promotion.
They pushed so hard on the exemption, by claiming they are charting all over the place, but I don’t see those charts in South Korea.
They are for sure contributing and have contributed to South Korea’s revenue, but this happened mainly because of Jungkook and Taehyung, so any discussion regarding the exemption based on popularity or charting should be limited on those two and not the rest.
I am still baffled about the discrepancy between charting in the US, and not being able to land a top 10 in his own country. There is some things very worrisome about this issue and I’m speaking this from a professional point of view.
This shows how much they concentrated themselves on popularity in the USA, rather than their own home country, where they have to compete with EXO for ex, which has always been much better than BTS.
Regarding Jimin - I am not even following any Jimin accounts and I can tell you that not just on social media, but also comments on all the Korean English websites were dragging the performance down, especially since it ends with the female dancer, putting her head on his dick, so no, I don’t think that’s ok. Especially when done on purpose, which is why I have mentioned the fact that suddenly they all interact with females, after avoiding it for so long time in order to please the fans.
Going full porn though, is desperate.
In fact, Jimin was all about apologising in advance to the fans, which I found to be once again, one of their continuous hypocrisy, displaying the lies that they are feeding to the „army”.
If you know that something is bad or wouldn’t be appreciated by the people who have put you in that place, then don’t do it but you have to understand - I’m also talking about what’s behind it, the company made a point and they made their careers by claiming their fans a.k.a. army, are their girlfriends.
They made an entire career enslaving themselves little by little to this notion, which is why I have wrote in my previous message that they became over the time slaves to their own fans by pushing too much this notion of you are our girlfriends, the parasocial aspect, until it overcome them.
Other Korean bands boy bands do the same but not to do this extent.
They went from being respectful to the interaction with females by not touching in public, by living, or at least appearing to live according to their own values which are similar to those in my country the way they used to be, to purposely engaging in contacts such as hugging females, the extreme cringy flirting, even Taehyung or Jungkook posing with fans - the other day a video surfaced with Taheyung at the Bruno Mars concert getting touchy with a fan, who was resting her body against his to take a picture.
Of course this is being pushed by the company trying to reach the fans in America, as being normal. But it’s not.
As someone coming from the same upbringing like the Korean tradition, knowing korean and asian people, I can tell you that this is not right.
It is also not right to be categorically refusing taking pictures with random people or signing autographs but then every now and then, when it suits, yeah getting all touchy and flirty with others.
They wouldn’t take pictures or sign autographs of the people waiting in line for days to go to the concerts but they would get flirty and take pictures or sign things of those who don’t move a finger. Just use daddy’s money to be next to them, or when they find someone to be cute enough for them.
If Jungkook would be married, Taehyung, anyone from the band, that would be one thing.
But having a dancer putting her head on your dick, touching her in a dance, KNOWING it is the opposite of what you’ve preached for a decade in order to get your fans to do nothing but giving all they have in order to make you famous, that’s betrayal.
Of course you are theoretical correct about gaying around, but I would like to point out to something I’ve wrote to this exact issue, paraphrasing an article I’ve read about it- they and other Korean boy bands are pushing homosexuality and cheat their fans with this behaviour. Fans don’t want to see „shipping” content. They want to project themselves into the other one, like watching a movie - you cry, get mad, are happy when watching a movie, because unconsciously you become part of the story, sometimes associating, or wanting to associate with a certain character.
When the fans see Jiming flirting with Jungkook, they imagine themselves doing those things, which is why you see many posts like „imagine him doing this with you”, etc. You get to live your fantasies and desires without the threat of another woman.
Which is why they would support homosexuality and all those touching, they would even support them getting married to each other. Because in their minds, they think that this is no threat. As long as there is no other woman involved, they get to live their fantasies.
This doesn’t happen just with young girls. I’ve seen this behaviour every time - one example being Jared Leto. You have mid-life housewifes fantasizing over him and getting angry at all the …almost underage girls he is dating, like Leonardo DiCaprio, not just because it should actually be punishable by law, but because it destroys their fantasies. He is someone who made a career also based on a largely female base. And he played on that, he became famous because of that.
Same as BTS.
It is unknown if Taehyung is in a relationship with Jennie, but his flirtatious behaviour would be disrespectful towards her, if true.
A man doesn’t flirt, does not need a proof, not searching for a confirmation from every single female he’s interacting with, that he’s somehow interesting.
They are hugely famous, so obviously any female they interact with, is going to confirm that.
This is still desperation and insecurity. Someone like that, will always need to interact, flirt and seek approval of his appeal from strangers.
Another issue is their lack of sincerity and how much they played on this parasocial relation.
Such as videos of Jungkook portraying him as shy, running away from women, but there are tons of videos of him flirting and touching „staff members”. In fact he is the only one that I am aware of having such a large amount of heavily engaging in more than flirtatious behaviour with female porn”staffers”.
Going back to something I wrote previously, it’s not just having a female in a video, it’s having all of them suddenly interacting with females on a much to heavy level. At least Jimin and somehow Taheyung with either his interaction with other girls, then the sudden Jennie relation, now Jungkook with a possible female love interest.
The video isn’t out, so like I’ve said, I don’t know if he will directly interact with her, but, I repeat - Jimin had the female dancer putting her head on his DICK.
Remember also that Jungkook made that apology to the fans, forced by the company. It implied that he apologises for having a girlfriend, but also not directly saying that. It was cleverly orchestrated. He actually apologised for betraying the fans by having possibly a girlfriend, while not even once mentioning anything directly.
Looking back at that moment and comparing it with what’s going on now, it was such a big lie, that it throws another shade at the company and even him.
The company knows they can’t keep this parasocial no girlfriend forever. Not only because of the fans, but at some point, hopefully, they will get married, so they are trying to get rid of how they made their success and build a new platform, which works for the US public.
I don’t know how much of a good will do to the Korean public.
I would like to end up by repeating for the fourth time or so - they went from being respectful and interacting according to their values toward females, to Jimin having the female dancer putting her head on his dick. As a way to attract new fans and get rid of the psychopathic relation they built in order to get famous.
The worst part is - I believe that BigShit didn’t do this just to fool the fans into this idea that the members live only for the fans.
I believe that BigShit created this obsession also to keep them under control. Jungkook’s pretend-apology is the best example.
