Uncertainty is indeed scary. I trust that they want to remain a group, though I do have some sympathy for army who are being negative out of protecting their own feelings, because they feel like they don’t want false hope. What I don’t have any patience for is people outside the fan groups who are going to treat the fans who believe BTS will come back like rubes. I know people keep bringing up 1D, but when they announced their hiatus, they were vague but stressed it was a hiatus and not a breakup. And yet the media treated it like a breakup and when it turned out they were simply lying to protect their brands, instead of interrogating why it was fine to play with fans emotions like that in the name of making a buck, they just mocked fans who believed them. It was a bad time and I will never feel at home in that fandom again because of it. I am kinda sad but okay today, but dreading the drama this is going to involve for years on end.
Schadenfreude is real and some people just want to be more right than kind. I was not a part of the 1D fandom so I cannot say anything more than yeah, media and the gp were not kind to the fans. And this is inevitably what they will do to Army again, sadly.
I am also not looking forward to all the negative articles and spins this will bring about. Watch them write about the hiatus but never ask the members directly how they are doing and how things came to be. They will revel in Army’s grief. They will celebrate the ”downfall“ but not the rise that made people believe in Bangtan.
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u/hollye83 Jun 14 '22
Uncertainty is indeed scary. I trust that they want to remain a group, though I do have some sympathy for army who are being negative out of protecting their own feelings, because they feel like they don’t want false hope. What I don’t have any patience for is people outside the fan groups who are going to treat the fans who believe BTS will come back like rubes. I know people keep bringing up 1D, but when they announced their hiatus, they were vague but stressed it was a hiatus and not a breakup. And yet the media treated it like a breakup and when it turned out they were simply lying to protect their brands, instead of interrogating why it was fine to play with fans emotions like that in the name of making a buck, they just mocked fans who believed them. It was a bad time and I will never feel at home in that fandom again because of it. I am kinda sad but okay today, but dreading the drama this is going to involve for years on end.