Thread by @gmcantave1

To anyone who needs to know this. This lack of respect and acknowledgement is nothing new. I've been here since pre-debut days and there have been multiple occasions where I got so angry to the point of tears because of the way the media and so called "netizens" spoke and+

https://twitter.com/HappiNoona/status/1332896872399319044

Approached BTS. A lot of their earlier achievements were ghosted over. There are many many things that BTS was the first to achieve early on in their career as Korean Artists and im talking before the wings era. If some of these achievements had been been done by so+

Some other Big Three idols from which the media profits from and deals with I betcha they wouldn't shut up about thats sh*t. Guys can you imagine winning rookie of the year and having to perform outside on the red carpet and not on stage? Can you imagine having the #1 song+

And being put as some kind of background dancer on some modeling event. Can you imagine being invited to variety shows only to be humiliated by the way they treat you as a guest? Can you imagine having to change in the hallways when groups who dont senority are +

Given a proper waiting room? I'm sorry but the entire industry banded against them and to this day, they are all salty AF that BTS has reached heights that they themselves with their millions of investments in media play never even dreamed of achieving. And the Korean media is +

Salty that they didn't participate in making BTS happen. They continue and will continue to downplay their success because they didn't help make it and they're not the real ones profiting from it. On the contrary their instinct is to attack that success, they use any minor +

Incident to put the boys down. The boys have to bear so much more pressure than any other successful artists because they are aware of it. These vultures are always looking for the smallest flaw to get on and wreck havoc. They are not afraid to make up stories like what happened+

With the whole breaking into big hit thing so they could find "information" to twist and report. So as a fandom, our protectiveness and our constant distrust of the media and industry both in korea and the states is justified (each for different reasons) because we're +

Literally surrounded on all sides. BTS and ARMY are an isolated island and we have no one but each other. We may have grown in power and size but we're still in a situation where its us against the world under constant attacks. Its not a myth and it not some story that we +

Make up as fans to garner other people's sympathy. I lived through this reality and although we're in a position where we can rise above the BS it doesn't mean that the BS has stopped to exist. Its still there and we get smacked in the face with it every now and then+

And we're constantly smelling it because it's right there all the time. So to all the people who call ARMYA achievement obsessed and number obsessed, id like to tell you that those achievements and those numbers earned us notoriety and status and gave us the power to face these+

Wolves around us. They are our shield and our weapons that we can use to protect ourselves and the our boys and its sad and unfair that this is the only way they could get acknowledgement for their unbelievable talents and their amazing selves as human beings but its the truth. +

This applies to us as a fandom. We always have to be the best, achieve the best, act the best because just like BTS the media, other fandoms, and the entirety of the industry is always looking for ways to discredit and put us down. Thats why K-armys had the etiquette project+

Thats why we always strive to not get into fanwars which are not something we invented or even something we start in general but somehow we're alway blamed for them.
What im saying is we will always need to work harder and do more than other fandoms to be seen and BTS+

Is the same. It hurts, it sucks but its the truth. We really, truly, only have each other. So we need to be stronger and more together because we still haven't earned the respect that we deserve. So when you see us criticizing and calling out BS, just know we're in our rights.

End of rant