I have been an ARMY for five years straight, and for the longest time, this fandom had been the strongest one out there. Very protective of the group and very determined. To be honest, I didn’t focus much on Park Jimin as my bias is Hoseok and once BTS went into Hiatus my whole energy was targeted towards Hoseok’s solo career while waiting for a group comeback. During this time I’ve noticed that Jimin’s solo fans (they call themselves Pjm apparently) were growing very loud on twitter . It was so damn annoying. The fandom couldn’t breathe without these people coming at them. Everything had to be about Jimin or else they would attack. They have this narrative that ARMY do not support Jimin. That most of them prefer Jungkook and Taehyung and Jimin is the punching bag.
In my opinion, the only reason why ARMY stopped prioritizing Jimin is because of those fans. They grew so toxic that they would literally attack other idols for just interacting with Jimin. Because of a simple Joke. Because of another member having a certain project etc… They would attack Hoseok for expressing his love for dance, claiming that he shouldn’t believe that he is the main dancer because Jimin is better..
I do understand that toxicity exists everywhere, so aside from that I want to talk about what they did for Jimin and I want to understand how they managed to do that. To be fair, Jimin’s solo career had been the most successful when looking at numbers despite people not knowing about it that much. It just shows how dedicated his fans are. They got him a freaking DAESANG despite being up against really strong fandoms. He was getting incredible streams that we all thought they were bots. He’s still topping korea’s Spotify for MONTHS . I just do not understand how?? He keeps topping brand reputation in Korea although he doesn’t trend much . His fans keep pushing this “Jimerica” brand on him, calling him the most famous in the US. They over exaggerate the hype over his events and appearances and it works bcuz western media start writing about it. They started competing with ARMY when it comes to snatching titles, awards and records for him and it’s working for some reason. What made me write this post is his latest achievement that truly made me wonder how come they grew this big. You’d think JK’s or Taehyung’s solo fandom is the strongest but for some reason Spotify had ranked Jimin’s “Who” amongst the highest earning artists alongside the weeknd, alan walker and freaking avicii. We are talking about songs that were released a decade ago and he made it to the list in one year with a song that nobody knows?? At this point they are a fandom of their own, and I just want to understand how did Jimin out of eveyone else got to have this dedicated fandom. I genuinely want to understand because I’m a little impressed. Who knows, maybe I will turn into a fan lol
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