Today is 10yrs since Jung Hoseok, the popular BH trainee, moved into the BTS dorms to round out the RL. He was already an accomplished dancer having won several competitions including one at the Nat’l level. But he was determined to become a rapper (a thread)...
#10yearswithjhope
My ARMY Bomb is all ready for
#HOBIPALOOZA
!! And she gave me a silver cover to give to another ARMY at the show! She said a lot of people had purchased them…I think Hobi’s in for a beautiful ARMY Ocean! 🥺💜 (Link to Etsy shop below.)
A recent one is that moment of silence he took right before he got on stage at Hobipalooza. The 1000 yard stare and the fans chanting “j-hope j-hope j-hope” in the background…it makes me so emotional. Goosebumps.
One of the reasons you'll never catch me saying a bad word about TXT. Those kids our our boys' only juniors. BTS watch out for them and take pride in them and I refuse to undermine that good will. Especially since they've only ever been juniors worthy of BTS.
I’m so excited! I got a book (made by an ARMY) of BTS-inspired cocktails called Bring The Spirits and I cannot wait to bust these out at a BTS Concert night with my ARMY-IRLs!
@BTS_twt
Like I get it, Joon and Yoongi’s lyrics are more accessible for English speakers. Yoongi says exactly what he means very directly and Joon writes poetry so as long as you’ve spent some time in that world, his lyrics are really clear, too. Hobi, meanwhile, writes very abstractly.
UPDATE (long-ish thread abt my Ticketmaster situation). A couple of weeks ago my sister transferred my tickets to me. I put them in my Apple Wallet when they cleared. About 5 days after that, I received an email from TM that my “tickets were claimed by Your Recipient.” 😳 +
@kittytete
This has the same energy as that time that girl showed off her high kick and Koo was like "is that all you got??" and proceeded to shamelessly show her up with a whole flawless taekwondo performance. haha
@xciited
This is why I’ll never be anything but grateful that Coolio sat our boys down and said “this isn’t just about gold chains and bandana—this is political, this is cultural, this is the history of a people.” Some of them had no clue & I’m glad they were made to learn.
@etherealindigo
It's funny too because, yeah, BTS was the first to do this because they love us and they are SMART and have real careers to maintain, but literally every group is going to release content during service now. It's going to be a thing to all go together and have absentee comebacks
Anyone want to help make Hoseok a million seller too? Buy the Weverse album. If the format doesn’t matter, no reason we shouldn’t already be there for him too, right? Support the boys. Support their music. Buy the album. We can at least do 1M, yeah?
We didn't have the digitals to win any of these. That's on us (on k-ARMYs really) bc the streams and sales didn't measure up. We tried to warn everyone earlier but even getting big accts to put JITB on their playlists was a fight. And it's too late now.
@yeonjunize
@soobinswiii
I think it’s such a beautiful irony that the Baepsaes worked so hard they were able to provide their juniors with the biggest silver spoon in the business. That’s good karma. That’s reaping what you sow. And it’s poetic.
I hope it says something that when Bangtan was highlighting ARMY signals, they talked about our wholesome hashtag projects like the clouds for Joon and not $3M b-day billboard projects. They show us all the time what's actually important and meaningful to them. 🥺💜
Not a single track from JITB in our Top 20 despite the fact that it’s award season and j-hope is up for 6 AWARDS and we should be streaming his work like crazy to support his chances. What are we doing, ARMY?? Add MORE and Arson & JITB to your playlists. It’s a 20 min album ffs.
The craziest thing about this Easter egg to me is that the protagonist’s name in Fight Club is “Jack Moore.” Like JACK?? MORE?? Hoseok’s mind needs to be studied. It’s so sexy. 🤯🔥
I just think this is their fight. Like no one in kpop has ever lifted a finger to defend BTS who endured much worse than that for much much longer and they won’t in the future either. We talk generally about xenophobia all the time so everyone knows where we stand and until today
That's so fcked up. Buying HOTS and CANCELLING?? For Hobi?? With all the hell he was put through with his last album with people not being willing to buy and then doing a re-release?? Like this is just mean-spirited and cruel. Like he always talks abt feeling like he disappointed
Finished my shorts for
#Hobipalooza
!! I leave tomorrow so it was just in the knick of time! A true labor of love in support of Hoseok’s debut solo concert! 😍😍
There's this great book called "Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things." In it, you will read about all the things you do, consume, engage with every single day that somewhere down the line causes grievous harm to someone else or to the planet at large. You are typing about
STOP GOING TO HAWAII.
there is no ethical way to do so. people are calling out bts because they have the biggest platform of anyone that's traveled there recently. nobody is trying to "cancel" them. native hawaiians just want people to listen. and that includes celebrities.
We're trying to get the record of fastest Korean solo album to 200,000,000 and we're really close, we are! Please continue streaming Jack In The Box. We can for sure do better than 2M on the album. Put all the tracks on your Bad Decisions playlist!
It’s crazy to take a step back and realize that they’re demonizing ARMY—a group founded for the purpose of, and organized around the single mission of supporting BTS’s art and music—for streaming and supporting BTS. Like we’re a music fandom and they’re calling us terr0rists and
@NAN4MINCULT
Maybe it's the unwarranted hell every fandom put us and the boys through since 2017 about ms. You guys had to know it was going to come back and yet you still just talked and talked. It was always going to come back around to bite you. You never learn.
Had half the fandom thinking Jungkook was singing. Nope, that’s just Hoseok’s pitch perfect falsetto with his pretty, open vibrato. 😍😍 Give us a whole ballad, Hobi, I’m BEGGING.
Can you guys use this to make actual posters supporting Hobi and his work?? Like first you’re either not buying his album or you bought it just to cancel it and now you’re using his creative promotional tool for your activism too. Like can’t you just support him and not just
Hey ARMY, customize your version of j-hope's 'HOPE ON THE STREET VOL.1' album cover now and show us your creations using
#XXXX_ON_THE_STREET
!
@bts_bighit
Please understand that EVERYONE will gang up on us for this. They aways do. So all hands on deck and we're voting everyday on all accounts because we KNOW BTS is the only group that deserves this title. No one on that list has had a year like them.
I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen a bad live clip of Hoseok. Like that’s wild bc live vocals are so hard. Like even great singers can have a difficult time with it. But in over a decade of live shows, I’ve never seen Hoseok get dragged for a rough one. That’s so impressive.
Since BTS aren’t performing at the vm
@s
, no reason to tune in. We’ll see the results from our update accounts and they’ll see the ratings impact by our absence. Also remember, vm
@s
can pick whomever they want to win & attendance is a big factor so don’t expect a sweep.
@francesweetman
I think you're still operating under this ignorant assumption that we're teens mad someone doesn't worship our "idols" when in reality we're 20-50 y/o lawyers, profs, nurses, students, etc. who are upset that our role models can't breathe w/o white elitists patronizing them & us.
Seeing the clown w/his name next to it in the art for Blue Side made my heart stop. Hoseok has used clown imagery before even wearing it as his mask in a VCR. I’ve always thought that was his way of lamenting that his role as the happy guy sometimes obscures his other sides.
Also, I just want to say I have always been against the idea of using the name ARMY for activism not directly supported by 875. If one ARMY can use our name in a partnership with PSL, another can do it in a partnership with the Proud Boys. It's just not okay for ARMYs to take it
@HeshComps
@PopBase
You know, I used to think that but then I saw a UFO and trying to get it on camera was ridiculous. It wouldn’t focus and then I walked under a streetlight which messed with the lighting and focus and then I lost it in my lens as I was following it…with my own eyes I saw
I had this idea bc some earlier era ARMYs and I were talking about how we all used to stay up all night the first 24 hours of a comeback and "power stream" and hype each up on the timeline and cheer numbers by the hour and pull out every detail of the project to praise...it would
umm....b0yc0tters are planning to be loud and trend # on the 29th when HOTS is being released so you better be here present and helping in trending our own # and words on the release day
I think people underestimate what goes into Hobi's role as dance leader. I think all the time about that clip where, they're not on camera but from off screen you can hear Mr. Son ask if Hobi's going to do one last run through to check the kids and Hobi's like "yes, after this"
I'm reading through the qrts on this and everyone is pointing out that boycotters are trying to lower the % coming from the k-side while the American side (skooter's side) is growing. And it took me out for a second realizing how fcked up it is to target a white American CEO by
Ent shares hitting rock bottom due to projected decline in operating profit in the 1H but analysts expect to see a resumption of overseas artists for Hybe such as Ariana Grande (honestly so amusing to read her name in these econ articles) and Seventeen and New Jeans CB in 2Q
@daesungwife
That's the father of kpop delivering a heartfelt indie track with meaningful lyrics in front of a crowd of music fans. I'm not surprised it doesn't resonate with kpoppies who only like a group for their shirtless stomping choreos and sound-effect "lyrics".
Hobi biases are down so bad for him. He has literally given us so much music this year & it keeps coming (NEW MUSIC TONIGHT!!) & he posts all the time on Instagram always letting us know what he's up to w/cute phots & videos and yet we still cry about missing him 24/7. 😅
So j-hope is nominated for the Fact Music Awards individual awards & btwn Jack in the Box & Hobipalooza, no one deserves it more. But you don’t get extra votes for each award & we’re voting in the grp category for BTS. And BTS has to win. But let’s try to do both. We can do both.
Only in America do you see a headline about children gunned down in an elementary school and think "again?" Politicians are more worried about forcing women to have babies than they are about protecting the ones we already have.
@cvntyv
You guys are the ones so pathologically obsessed you’ll show up here everyday dressed as an ARMY despite the fact you clearly no longer support them. You disagree with their actions and think they’re contributing to a genocide and yet you’re still here, BTS in your pfps,
Translators routinely say j-hope is the hardest to translate for. He writes abstractly with so much wordplay, obscure references, and high concepts that play across layers of artistry. Just bc you don’t want to take the time to really understand the genius in his bars, doesn’t
WOW WOW WOW. The STORYTELLING. No subtitles but you almost didn't need them. One room, changing but unchanging as the time went on because Life Goes On as it must. I'm emotional. That was so lovely and I bet everyone who watched it felt it.
#BTSxCorden
@BTS_twt
If BTS donates to an animal shelter, then "ARMY" can donate to animal shelters. If BTS donates to children with disabilities, then "ARMY" can donate to children with disabilities. If BTS openly supports BLM, then "ARMY" can organize to support BLM too. But for all of your other
@jnktoowell
Just on a human level, do you care at all that you're just lying and making stuff up to demonize a really great human because you're jealous they're more successful than your faves? Like you're actually just totally making stuff up. Siding with imperialists mocking the
John Cena, an adult, hyper-"traditionally masculine" male of unquestionable character vouching for BTS bc of their music, talent, impact & equally unquestionable character?? That's going to make some ppl question their preconceptions of BTS. Allies using their power. YES.
“Hi! We know Skooter B is highly controversial. However, BTS is not zi0nist at all and has been focused on spreading love and joy and tolerance. If you look through their discography and history, it’s very different than HYBE America & Skooter. So the boycott won’t be focused on
Not buying their music harms them. Attempting to financially damage their company harms them. Attempting to damage their name and reputation by holding them alone to standards far beyond what you demand of other artists harms them. And making them watch the one thing they’ve
@BeatlemaniaUK
I don’t know why you would tweet this and invite bullying of a kind, talented, group of artists who have overcome so many obstacles to get where they are. They write their own music, blazed a new trail for foreign artists, and have changed the lives of tens of millions of people.
Can we get some big accts to push JITB streaming? Hobi is attending & performing at MAMA & he’s the most nominated artist of the night. We HAVE to make sure he doesn’t go home empty handed. And not just w/a grp award. He deserves one of his own. Why is this not a priority for us?
Here’s the important part: the fraud rep told me that a group of people had been hacking into accts and transferring ppls tickets to burner emails (the email my tickets were transferred to were immediately recognized as one of these fraudulent accts) and the selling them. +
@hollywood26_
@Cut4
@BTS_twt
Hysterical bc the comment section is actually just full of obnoxious MLB stans who somehow think their fanaticism is any different than ours. (Tho, I guess technically, we do get a lot more personalized content which is a win for us.)
Hobi’s been a part of Bangtan for 10 years but it’s 8 years to the day that we met him in his first vlive. It will never not be just heartbreakingly perfect that our anniversary with Hobi is Valentine’s Day. 😍😍
#8YearsWithJhope
#HappyValentinesDay2021
#JhopeARMYsValentine
@myggenres
Citi Field didn't have seating in the pit and it was so dangerous. Namjoon even had to ask ARMYs not to push each other. And they limited the amount of people in the pit too. I'm all for keeping the seating.
I have to say, I don't disagree that j-hope adds a lot of texture, but I am getting really tired of people purporting to offer analyses of the rappers styles and reducing j-hope's efforts to just the auditory impact. No one ever talks about his creative, abstract, narrative heavy
@catkkyu
At the end of the day, everyone’s numbers turn out to be fake except for BTS who are filling up stadiums AND arenas four times in a row in one city every time they set foot in the states. 🔥
Also, being an incredible dancer & a great singer doesn't make Hoseok less of a rapper or writer. What a weird take. That's like saying Donald Glover isn't as legitimate a rapper/musician because he's also a brilliant actor. Stop using his versatility to discredit his other work.
If I hear one more reactor listen to JITB (two months late btw) and say "WOW! His lyricism has really improved," as if Hoseok's 127 other writing credits--including all of the masterpiece that is Hope World--aren't already proof of his lyrical excellence, I'm going to LOSE IT.
I’m sharing all this to encourage ARMYs to be vigilant, check your tickets frequently, put them in you wallet or print them just in case (bc TM said they should still work even if someone turns up w/the same seat—there just would be a fight at the venue), & secure your PW on TM!
BTS is the only Korean act to debut 3 songs on the Hot 100 this year. If we all buy and stream Rush Hour, we could make Hobi the second. We have a few more days. Let's work really hard and do this for him!!
Hoseok put out a ton of work in Ch. 2 (3 albums, 2 docs, several HUGE stages, lots of Insta content & interviews) & even from the military, he still just gives & gives. I hope everyone knows how lucky we are to have the love and attention of a man as special as Jung Hoseok.
So the rep escalated my situation to their Fraud department. I was told to wait 3 days and call back for an update but they actually called me about an hour later to tell me my tickets had been restored to me and were back safe and sound in my account! (Hallelujah!!! 😭😭) +
Kpop History: First Korean Group to have their Lightsticks was BIGBANG created by G Dragon before they used Glow sticks. First Group to have individual Mics Colors 2NE1. First Korean Group to have Bluetooth technology in their Lightsticks was EXO. First Group on V Live BIGBANG
I am OT7 first. But the FACT is that if we don't make a concerted effort to support Hobi in the vote, BTS & Jin will get bongsangs & Hobi won't. He doesn't have the sales or the solo stans. The solution can't be to throw up our hands & leave him behind. That's NOT what OT7 means.
If BTS win, all members will win. We are not going to let other members lose, all SEVEN of them will receive the thropy as a BTS. You can vote as your preference but BVB will stand on our ground to always support BTS as a group because we are mainly OT7 fanbase, thank you 💜.
The boys have always had credits on their albums. The RL especially. Idk if it's bc this album is being promoted as self-directed or what but I'm already seeing a lot of competition and funding parties for members based on their credits. Can we not? This is an OT7 cb.
@BTSareHumans
I think kpoppies don’t care bc K-pop has never been about music. It’s pageantry. The presentation matters. That’s what the talent they’re evaluating is. How good to they look? How’s the production? Are they in sync? Are they giving good face and fashion? Music is just the medium.