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ARMYpedia be like...

(Left the sub name out so the mods don't lock this for rule breaks).

Imagine calling basic mandatory civic duty "going to war." BTS never went to war,enlistment is literally just standard civic duty for ablebodied South Korean men, not an active battlefield.

If BTS actually performed well live without a backtrack, then sure, maybe they’d deserve to criticize Justin. But between the heavy backtrack, the lip syncing where their mouth movements don't even sync up, and the fact that non fans in the crowd literally give zero reaction, BTS is no better. They're both delivering nothinggggg

It takes zero effort to screenshot an articles thread and highlight a few dramatic sentences, but it takes basic reading comprehension to realize that a global tech surge and routine stock profit taking aren't proof of BTS supremacy. Pushing a narrative that completely ignores a 73% drop in HYBE's operating profit just to claim 'the industry is dying without us' isn't just dishonest,it's just a plain financial illiteracy girls

If you needed another example of how fan sentiment routinely twists financial data into a delusional narrative, look no further than how that recent article on entertainment market capitalization was spun.

​They took standard macroeconomic stock movements, profit taking cycles, and sector shifts, completely ignored basic corporate accounting, and turned it into "proof that the entire industry only lives because of BTS."

​Here is the actual breakdown of the claims versus basic financial reality.

First of all,

What the reporter wrote: A "wave" of financial price cuts by stock market analysts.

​What the ARMY claimed it was: A "BTS wave" holding up the entire industry.

​Claim 1: "The entire market cap crash across the Big 4 is because BTS isn't active."

​What ARMY claimed: The entire Kpop industry lost 8 trillion won in market value because the market depends solely on BTS, and no other group or company can hold up the industry.

​The Reality:

1.​ Institutional investors heavily rotated funds out of entertainment and retail sectors globally to pour capital into the massive AI and semiconductor boom (like Samsung and SK Hynix). Entertainment stocks dropped as a whole because of broader economic shifts, not because the entire world stopped caring about every other group.

2.​SM dropped 48.8% and YG dropped 42.1%, while HYBE dropped 36.0%. SM and YG's share drops were driven by their own internal board issues, earnings forecasts, and artist timelines. Pinning competitor stock fluctuations strictly on another agency's artist is complete economic fiction.

​Claim 2: "The stock price drop after their concert proves everything else is irrelevant."

​What ARMY claimed: The fading momentum right after the event proves that the rest of Kpop has zero demand once BTS steps off stage.

​The Reality:

1.​This is standard stock trading 101 known as "Buy the rumor, sell the news."​Investors routinely buy up shares in anticipation of a major announced milestone or event to ride the hype up. The second the event finishes, daytraders and institutional funds immediately dump their shares to lock in profits. This exact "profit taking" pattern happens daily in tech, gaming, automotive, and finance. Framing routine post event profit taking as "the collapse of Kpop" is embarrassing.

​Claim 3: Hiding HYBE’s real profit crash behind SM's stock valuation drop.

​What ARMY claimed: They point at SM's steep stock percentage drop to claim other agencies are failing while HYBE is the sole driver of stability.

​The Reality:

1.​They purposefully blur the difference between Stock Valuation (Market Cap) and Actual Operating Profit.

​While SM's share price took a steeper percentage fall because it started at an inflated evaluation, SM actually maintained strong operating profits.

​Meanwhile, HYBE's actual operating profit cratered by nearly 73% due to massive overhead, aggressive international spending, and restructuring costs.

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​Imagine looking at global institutional investors moving capital into semiconductor and AI stocks, completely missing standard trading cycles, ignoring HYBE’s own tanking cash margins, and somehow thinking, 'Yes, this proves my faves own the economy'. BTS fans will manipulate literally anything even basic accounting just to satisfy their endless delulu

(Ps to the mod,this is abt the fandom not WC.)

For context,the army said this:

"Justin bieber do u know u have until the end of the game to take a picture wt jungkook.if I don't see a picture between jungkook and justin bieber by the end of the game,you will be dealt with.

Justin, that boy loves you so much that if he don't get a picture wt you by the end of the game,they're out,.If on social media,if jungkook don't come on his instagram wt a fucking photo of justin bieber...hahaha...fact!

we need a photo of them,all of them specifically jungkook being right next to justin bieber.

if that's not on my timeline by 12.00am,there will be an unfathomable consequences to the lack of action and priority.

Take my boys serious, do you understand justin bieber?Justin Drew Biber(this is how she said it) Do not play with me."

Imagine threatening other artist with "unfathomable consequences" by midnight just because he didn't take a photo with Bts especially JK.

Why do army always treat adult,tone deaf idols like helpless children who need them to harass other celebrities on their behalf?

Another new narrative ...