well i liked bts when they debuted, but they weren't my bias group. so it just felt normal??? they were just another boy group that i liked.

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well i liked bts when they debuted, but they weren't my bias group. so it just felt normal??? they were just another boy group that i liked.

I am starting wonder how old you all are...................

it feels much better. kpop fans were always annoying af towards BTS & ARMY, trying to downplay their intl achievements. Now they are getting a taste of their own medicine

It was great I was so proud when they made it into the main stage of MAMA (they performed run)

I thought to myself they finally made it, I didn't know that it was only the beginning

Also since I didn't really care much about the fan culture I remained totally oblivious about the fanwars ....so it was peacfull

They got attention from the i-community when they debuted and many started supporting from the beginning (me included).

Their debut was one of the best on that year (the most memorable imo) and many considered them as a promising groups, but never on the level we see these days - think about reaching a midtier level max, since the Big 3 mentality was huge back then.

Since they were from a small agency, many would call them flops/nugus and many belittled their achievements for a very long time.

Army is a very hardworking fandom since day 1. They'd talk about BTS with their friends, family, people on the internet to promote their music.

"Any ARMY here?" on random YT videos started to become a "meme" on the Army community, that was a lowkey way to promote them, as well as asking for countless YT reacting channels to check their music (now see how much that worked!).

Long story short, they were considered a small group who would never reach a #1 level, but ARMY believed on their dreams and made that happen with appreciation and effort.

For me it was peaceful. I joined during Run, they were already bigger but i dill had no clue. I wasn’t using Twitter or forums much so I never had any anti pissing me off. It was pretty chill. My phone full with BTS song I listen back to front that’s it.

bts was officially teased to be a hip hop group so i kept up with the company statements

It mostly was a hip hop group in the beginning so i enjoyed this very much

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I am starting wonder how old you all are...................

i'm 24

K-Pop fans were brutal back then. Accusing them of things like plagiarism because they wore school uniforms - like come on. Also I felt that the fanwars were worse than they are now. These days you have safe spaces but back then this whole thing with the petition happened and my whole timeline was on fire

I can still remember their first daesang. I was so surprised that they won it and everyone didn’t expect that plus their performances of that year were phenomenal

It was baaad - Blue House petition, Western validation, Paper Award, Nazi thing etc among the many things

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i'm 24

I think I underestimated the ages of some people on this website.

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I think I underestimated the ages of some people on this website.

i'm not even old. i know many kpop fans in their 30s irl. one of my friends have liked kpop since 2007

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i'm not even old. i know many kpop fans in their 30s irl. one of my friends have liked kpop since 2007

Does that mean I am really young?

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It was baaad - Blue House petition, Western validation, Paper Award, Nazi thing etc among the many things

I love it how some people acted like those things never existed. I remember how hard we armys had to work to make things less tough for BTS.

I also love it when random Kpop stan(s) tell us that BTS/Army are being arrogant for saying BTS is not Kpop without knowing the background stories ....just love it

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I love it how some people acted like those things never existed. I remember how hard we armys had to work to make things less tough for BTS.

I also love it when random Kpop stan(s) tell us that BTS/Army are being arrogant for saying BTS is not Kpop without knowing the background stories ....just love it

Yup, The "BTS is not Kpop thing"... Ikr?

I particularly remember fans of 3 groups, or in particular, 2 of the big 3 company stans. Their nastiness and toxicness still gives me the shivers until today. Outright attacking BTS, the defamation, lies etc..

Nowadays, BTS is too big for them to tackle and ARMY always uses facts against them, so they can only "shade" BTS.

Oh, but there are still some few brave ones left.

At the time I didn't even know anything about rankings or any other kpop group so they were always #1 to me. I was a casual and didn't know anything about kpop. I just listened to them casually and minded my own business. I wish I had know there was all this drama and sabotaging going on