u/Tough_Walrus_7497

It feels like we haven't actually learned anything new about BTS in a while now. Even the Hot Ones interview, which was heavily praised by both the fandom and the guys themselves, didn't really reveal anything new about the members. RM and Suga's old stage names are certainly not information earlier American interviewers were aware of, but it's not like this was some great piece of journalism. Look up BTS' pre debut history on the main subreddit and you'll get deeper cuts than that. The Rolling Stone interviews were kind of a nothing burger too.

I'm honestly surprised there hasn't yet been any real investigative journalism on BTS. I'm not looking for an exposé or a takedown, but it's objectively very frustrating that any and all interesting information about BTS is probably permanently on lockdown behind a million ironclad NDAs.

I personally find it alienating that the members are kept on such a tight PR leash that they can't even really be asked questions about their process or inspiration. I understand why it's done, and I know the guys have had to deal with intrusive, rude and inappropriate interviewers when they were still up and coming. But I don't think any artist worth their salt should be made comfortable to the point where any interview with them feels like a fluff piece.

TLDR: Hey guys, anything new you'd like to share maybe? The first album V ever bought? What music Suga's parents used to play? Any interesting dreams lately?

In general it just feels very tone deaf and disrespectful to position BTS or any kpop group for that matter as the antithesis to Kim Jong Un?

My friend made a ton and I'm trying to see if anyone on this sub got em!

This post is mostly a joke but seriously guys stop calling these guys grandpa or ahjumma every time they post!!! They're hot 30 somethings not middle aged men!!! If I see one more “oh the maknaes are gonna make fun of them for this later” comment whenever the rapline does something badass on stage, I'm gonna go crazy. Said with peace and love lol

So many new fics across completely unrelated fandoms all sound the same now.

“Her voice was liquid, resonant. Not the dramatic kind. Not the kind that demanded attention, but something quieter. More intentional.”

“Not x, not exactly. But x.” “Not x, not yet, but x.”

Everything is puffed up. Everything sounds like an ad for the new state-of-the-art loudspeaker. I don't need to hear about every setting or every action “somehow” being sleek, quiet, resilient, personal, calm, familiar, deliberate as opposed to some other vague adjective that doesn't even make sense within the context. I read some of these paragraphs genuinely wondering what the hell that even meant.

I love metaphors and allegories and flowery, poetic writing that doesn't always sound perfectly straightforward!! But when you need to mentally reconstruct the author's thought process for 90% of their similes, and all you can logically come up with is “they want to sell me a product”, it stops being fun.

I'm never gonna accuse anyone directly of using AI. But this is honestly making me quite sad and it kills my desire to read new fics.

I was thinking about the terms Army, Sope, Borahae, etc and how they were all coined by BTS themselves.

Can you think of instances where the opposite happened, and the fandom coined a specific phrase, concept or meme and BTS acknowledged it, or even started using it?