This is a weird thing I’ve noticed in my time in the army fandom over the years that has honestly puzzled me to no end.
So many army’s (obligatory not all army’s of course the fandom is very big and diverse and this might have just been with the army spaces I’ve interacted with) seem so insistent on excluding bts from K-pop despite them being a K-pop group. Obviously bts are really popular and their success reaches far beyond that of every other K-pop group, but sound wise, I don’t think there’s anything really all that different about bts compared to other K-pop groups and other K-pop music. Is that a controversial thing to say? I’m not sure. That’s not to say they don’t stand out at all or don’t have their own musical identity, bts undoubtedly makes great music that appeals to a lot of people (there’s a reason they’re so successful, good music speaks for itself), I just think it’s strange how some army’s act like the stuff bts makes is wildly distinct from the rest of K-pop and deserves to be in a completely seperate category. To be clear I’m not talking about army’s that just listen to bts and just have no interest in other K-pop groups, that’s fine, we all have our own taste, but the extreme vitriol some armies have towards K-pop as a whole is honestly so bizarre to me and honestly one of the major reasons I distanced myself from the fandom.
As a fan of K-pop, army spaces just in general seem weirdly toxic towards K-pop as a whole and other K-pop musicians, which often makes the army fandom a pretty hostile environment to people who are K-pop fans. Which is so strange considering bts literally is K-pop, like they are a K-pop group, why are you stanning a K-pop group if you hate K-pop so much? I’ve just never been able to understand it.
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