Listen, I am proud to say I am an 81 Years old ARMY. I always feel like 18 years old when I watch them.🤣🤣 I purple each of them.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 By the way, Jimin is my bias. I could watch him dance 24/7 🥰
You just made my day Mrs Carlethia Street ( don’t know ya but I 💕 ya to pieces). I’m 49 and I totally agree with you BTS makes me feel like 21 all over again - JK is my bias and the rest are my bias wreckers. Take care 💜💜
This is why ARMY is so protective of BTS. They have been treated poorly both at home and abroad. Western music scene has been awful to them. They get denied radio play...they git none foe this last album even though they are the highest selling album so far this year. Their company refuses to play the payola game and they dont bundle sales. It's really sad. I think so many have a bad perception about kpop. And it's the edgy cool cancel culture to just hate on someone....fact it the joke is on them. People who really give BTS a chance end up respecting and loving them. It's never cool to hate. If more people gave them a chance they would get it. PS. I'm 52. I don't care what people think. They make great fusion music. I've been a fan for years. I've attended 3 concert. Worth every penny. I'm hoping to attend 2 more this summer when this virus ends and the tour gets rescheduled.
I read an article on "This Is Now" about US radio's treatment of BTS and I was so mad. Like, they're really trying to sell us the idea that BTS does not have hit songs when ON made it to #4 at the Hot 100 without radio support.
@@vickyharb7703 The problem is we can't maintain the ong in the top 10... It free falling the second week but it's bc of the lack radio and playlisting ! BTS, BigHit and US did our possible thi cb. They went the whole week of the cb on shows after show to promote the album and ON... And BH even gives us Vinyl and a reduction to buy the song digitally... But compared to BWL, ON got zero playlisting on Spotify and zero radio ! BWL and Make It Right got a fair amount of radio and I was so happy ! Finally they play BTS ! But now ? ZERO. Even Idol, Fak Love and Mic Drop got more radio... I really got the impression, they got blacklisted wtf...
@@drennae I agree with you, but US radio seems to only use the excuse that BTS do not have hit songs (it depends on how you define a hit song. BTS recently holds the record of the group with the most number of songs that has 100+ million streams on spotify. They beat twenty one pilots record. To me, that means they have a lot of hit songs). Radio, however, defines a hit song as a viral song. JB's yum yum was played on radio many times as soon as it was released. It was not a hit song (it performed poorly compared to JB's older songs) but radio still played it regardless of whether it was a hit or not. J. brothers recent song performed poorly in the hot 100 (their sales were way less than BTS's On but their song got massive support from radio.) Their song was not a hit, so radio's excuse of only playing hit songs is just a lie. BTS did a lot of interviews with radio and they attended Iheart radio events like the live concert in LA but they're still getting fewer spins compared to the jonas brothers who also did a live concert for IHeart radio and their US sales are much less than BTS but they don't get treated the same way that BTS gets treated.
I am one of the older BTS ARMY I won’t tell you my age😊 but my son doesn’t understand why I love BTS. I love their message of loving oneself and believing in the positive outlook for good mental health! People laugh or shake their head say I not a teenager I should not like BTS! I realized That Music is the universal language we all as humans can enjoy! Munfu Proffitt please react to BTS two first debut Live versions “ No More Dream” and “ Bulletproof Part 2” Thank you for your love And respect for BTS and Kpop 💜💕✌️
I am 48 yr old mom of 4 and I'm ARMY. I love that they are humble, make amazing music, and teach young adults to love themselves and have clean music that I don't mind my 13 yr old daughter listening to. I think you will definitely enjoy and understand RMs UN speech.
I've been with BTS since they debut, and I think they started blowing up and surpassing other artist since 2015, but they weren't acknowledge by the general public and the media during that time, they started getting the recognition they deserve when bbma, ama and american media started to observe rapid growth in the number of BTS Army and gave them the top social artist award. Believe it or not, they started getting big internationally, and when korean general public and media saw BTS' popularity, the number of K armys started to grow exponentially.
RM’s speech at the Love Yourself ending ment gets me everytime no matter how much I hear it and the music doesn’t help either. Bts makes me so happy and just talking about them makes me so happy. I’m happy to be an ARMY and after this whole virus thing is over I’ll finally get to see the 7 most precious angels for the first time after being a fan for 6 years. I remember having a conversation with someone a while back and they asked me what is love to me and I said BTS and they asked me why, I replied, “ They taught me how to love myself and that I don’t need to be perfect and to just be me, etc.” I can literally write an entire essay on what BTS means to me, but this already to long P.S I love the reaction 💜
Thank you for reacting to this!! You'd be surprised. Most of their fans are late twenties to forties. From my understanding. Edit: I forgot this info was in this video already! 💜😂
I am 46 and proud ARMY, BTS is just an amazing group of talented young men that reach many ages and races and genders. Their music is sincere, intelligent and poetic. Why wouldn't that appeal to so many? It's good music and it's music with meaning. Add that to the fact that they are humble, kind and generous of spirit and it's no wonder so many people identify with them and love them so much.
I am 46 and became an ARMY thanks to my 27 year old daughter. It is now something we share, which is great. Music does not know color, gender, or age. Those are all stipulations that individuals place on themselves. I was a band mom for my daughter's high school and now I am thrilled to be able to share in the joy of loving the same music as her. It gives us alot to discus and to research together.💜🤗💜
Born singer 🙏🏽 it also ties together what you just watched. It’s a rendition of J Cole - Born Sinner with their own stories tied into it on where they started and where they are now. It’s insanely powerful and moving
Army doing what they do best. Protect. And support. 48 million and counting. So many Haters but these boys are as their name states. BULLETPROOF. 💜💜💜💜 love ur reactions to them. U will be continuously impressed by these guys. Their resilience and still so humble.
Thx 4 keeping it real.lAw a musucuan, jyself, I'm in awes of ALL the huge VOLUME/input they've had- since their teens (from 14-19, now 22-27) not counting hard work *b4* their June 13, 2013 TV debuf, they used not-just-hopeful-tv- appearances, but unlike other groups, used HUGE social media content to grow a global fan base with *they were given freedomvto create many albums/trilogies, often based on art/literature, w/ongoing storylines/re: socual issues (in conservative S.Korea), incl. Japanese albums, collabs, joined, singles, & many behind the scenes showing of EVERYTHING from all their hard work, concerts, constant vocal & dance practices, writing/producings self-produced mixtapes, covers, working w/their in-house writers/producers like family, local concerts w/hundreds, then thousands, then Asian, then global tours, fan tours, fan meets, tv/radio appearances/music shows, many interviews, many photo shoots, many of their own reality shows showing travels, cooking showz, sit-down-discussions, heartwarming letters to ach other, playing so many ganes/skits, with HILARIOUS personalities as gloval fansxwatched them blow up, dealing w/undersved hate/haters (incl. antii-fans of then the top group, who cyber-bullied them badly , trend in false accusations, even death threats-cuz they were surpassing their **fav.group**!!..They handled it in a classy way, thru clapback on cyphers), that global fans saw their struggles & hardships, along w/their great continued triumphs/breaking records..They're still 2gether, still humble, kind, thoughtful, caring & growing in talent/always pushing to do/be more, along w/their positive messages* ..Just saying😊
this made me cry iv been a fan of bts since the early 2015 and knowing everything they put out did the two years before hand and all the up to now makes me feel that i followed them all the way through especially before they were topping charts in Korea and deferentially before the made it big here the first time i noticed that they got big here on a popular media lvl i was extremely proud of them and even more so rn its been 5 years but in my first 4 months of getting into both bts and kpop in general my close connection to them in those 4 months already felt like years for me and ill never forget those earlier days way back then when i fist got into them they were the best of my days as a 15 year old im 20 now and looking back and knowing the history makes me feel so good inside and they make everyone know to always make ur self happy and be a better person no matter what its the charm of gratefulness and unrelenting motion that they have put into their work and the emotion we receive as is why they deserve to be protected hens why i think we're called the bts army.
In case no one has informed you yet, there is a fictional storyline running through a lot of BTS, in particular their music videos... the best theory I've seen is that it's a butterfly effect/time traveler narrative (see xCeleste videos regarding this, she puts all the pieces together beautifully from a variety of sources). The list of things to watch is long, but well worth it! - I Need U m/v (long ver) - Prologue - Run (long ver) - Epilogue: Young Forever - Wings short films (there are compilations out there or watch the 7 individually) - Blood Sweat Tears m/v - Blood Sweat Tears m/v (Japanese ver) - Highlight reels (full version) - Spring Day m/v - Euphoria m/v - Fake Love trailer #1 - Fake Love trailer #2 - Fake Love m/v (long ver) - Epiphany m/v Tip: You'll want to pay attention to the pairs and their respective imagery/symbols; Jungkook/Suga JHope/Jimin RM/V and Jin as the seer/traveler (and as always, look for versions with English subtitles...) Enjoy! 👍 (There may be some that I missed, and I think the official 'On' m/v might need to be on the list but since I'm not completely sure, I left it off...)
Believe it or not most of the hate they got was from the Asian population in their own country. There were a lot of people from European counties gave them the hardest time. American fans and some talk show host welcomed them. But they did have some ignorant people talking about BTS in a bad way and Army came for them and they wished they hadn’t done that.
The misconception about Army is huge... we have fans to 5-80 o more.. and the majority is in their 14-19 / 20's / 30's (just put a bts concert and see the crowd)... because of the message their send. They talk about problems that they and us face through this ages. Also the diversity in their music, they have so many different things that people can like, that are so versatile. Their songs are that unique that you have a song for every mood. People hate in them for 2 reasons 1-racism 2-fear and envy (of their talent) Thats why Army often gets rly protective over them.
You should react to Cameron Phillips if bts was dubbed that shit is comedy. You can be a fan of bts and still enjoy it. I think you'll like it also bts my time by Jungkook straight fire.
A huge proportion of the world listen to pop music not in their language. I grew up listening to music mostly in a foreign language to me (English), so for people from English speaking countries to expect every artist from non English speaking countries to sing in their language automatically is really arrogant imo.
The misconception about Army is that their biggest fan base are teenagers. That’s not true! Army is so huge because the ages range from 12-65! There are Facebook and Twitter groups for the older Army members from all over the world! That’s why BTS is so popular. People are taking their entire family to the concerts.
I agree with all of the statements below, I am 38 years old and my sister 34 and last year we were together at the London concert at Wembley Stadium, and there were people of all ages and nationalities , it was magic.
I’m an older ARMY of 51🤟🏻They say BTS find you when you need them most; true for me. Found them about 2 years ago. Had never been a fan of anyone before but they bring GENUINE and humble to the table and I live for their crackheads behaviour while still having the soul to bring such a powerful healing message... For April fool day, ARMY went back in time and charted their debut song No More Dream, which ties back to their latest album... Give that one a go? 🤟🏻💜🤟🏻
Pat Leclerc I am also 51, and a fan for a year. Last year I was depressed and suicidal, when I watched Fake Love. When I watched the first concert, I cried, because for the first time in a long time, I felt loved and accepted. I love them so much!
Hi I’m a 42 yr young army since feb 2014. Their largest part of their fans are NOT kids. As you see further in this video we are extremely diverse. We are all ages. They have well over 30 Million fans. Many fans are in college, grad school are doctors and lawyers.
MUNFU Proffitt - sooo waiting on this one (previously requested, it’s one of my fav live video-cypher medley live is second). I know you will love it. I’m 49 and none of my friends understand why I like Kpop (they are close minded and not willing to step out of the box-their loss ). I just want to say thank you for your reactions and breakdowns. Take care and stay safe 💜
I'm glad this video show the Army age range. Most of the Army are not kids, I'm a 54 year old female Army and I have two daughters 22 & 30 that are Army as well. Keep em coming we love your honest reactions. Please react to Ma City & Hip Hop Phile both live performances. You will love them I promise! Both in one reaction would be lovely.💜
As a European I never thought that language barrier was a thing because in Europe we literally listen to songs all over Europe and they go viral in Europe so my whole life I’ve listened to songs in different languages, when I got into BTS I didn’t even question to why it’s not in English but when I was watching reaction videos they were always mentioning language and that’s literally how I found out that people especially Americans think that everything should be in English to enjoy it
Lol facts bro. That doesn’t really make sense to me either 🤣🤣 I’m like ummmmm you realize people loved michal Jackson and had no idea what he was saying!
Regarding your question of when BTS had their breakthrough: that never suddenly happened. They have been growing every year steadily from their debut, almost in twofold anually. Since they're still not fully recognized internationally the way they should be it's hard to pinpoint. In the Korea they started to make their mark in 2015, with their first #1 hitsingle of the weekcharts. This was their first win on a musicshow, where an award is handed out every week to the #1. The song was I NEED U, it meant a lot a lot to the members. In the american music market they started to get noticed in 2016 with their WINGS album on the BB charts, which led to them being recognized on more BB charts like the Social Chart. They attended the 2017 BBMAs for being nominated as Social Artist and won that award by far from Justin Bieber that had his name on it for 6 years. This caused the american music scene to be perplexed and more people were exposed to BTS on television that way. However, comparing 2020 vs. 2017 BTS results in a huge difference. In that time they have grown steadily, kept their head down and worked their asses off. Now, in 2019 they became undeniable. Korea started to fully recognize BTS after all their successes abroad (there are still some beefs but you know, haters) and in the Western world they started to be compared to the beatles with three Billboard album #1's and basically all other western countries had BTS up in their charts too. This is the year BTS also got their first break after 6 years with 7 EP's and 6 albums out, having worked their asses off non-stop. They didn't take holidays off, even during christmas they have performances or schedules. The vacation lasted just a month and the boys lived their best young lives, but this was enough for media to start talking crap about a break up smh. Three major musicindustries in the world; America, Korea and Japan. I can't tell you much detail about Japan, but they're the #1 there too and have several japanese albums.
I totally get why it would have bothered you. The biggest misconception about BTS ARMY are that they’re kids. Based on statistical data they’re fan base is over the age of 20 a good portion are over the age of 30. Mostly women but male fans are growing exponentially.
I understand exactly what your saying, people are jumping on the I hate bts bandwagon without really thinking about what their hating anymore. they don't do the research they only look at twitter and see fancams and be like all kpoopers suc then they stick with that rhetoric for life. I'm 27 years old, I'm Guyanese and my whole life I grew up listening to bollywood, reggae, soca and chutney. it's like the same thing if these music genres went viral in america they probably won't be saying that. I wonder how americans listen to spanish music without understanding the words that shit boggles my mind.
It took so long for them to blow up despite fan loyalty. It was 3 years into their debut before they got their first award. Their first song to get popular in Korea was Dope. RM said he thought Blood Sweat & Tears would be the peak of their success. He didn't think they would go farther. But they beat the odds and once they had a foot in the door, we never let them fall again. That is why we work SO hard to push them further and further. We won't accept the doors being shut in our faces. So many people don't understand that their fame in Korea was not easy. It was so hard with accusations against them and us. The largest % of ARMY are 18-50. So our fan base is definitely not mostly kids. We have the most diverse fandom out there. If people have BTS a decent chance, they would never go back. Because how can you not like them on some level? Whether it is their music or their message or their dance. You can find something to love in all 7 of them if people just walk into it without prejudice.
The hate, the death threats, all of that was jealousy. JEALOUSY!! Their was another group called EXO,that I truly love btw, that had debuted the year before BTS. People in the EXO fandom could see BTS as a threat. They saw their popularity growing. They won awards EXO-L thought EXO deserved more than BTS so the hate poured in. Death threats, claims of chart manipulation, etc. The thing of it is that BTS and EXO members are cool, they are friends. The fandoms are the problem, not the groups themselves but that doesn't stop the hate and the abuse. Now multiple fandoms generate hate for BTS because of their massive popularity. People think they are being cool or hip to hate on BTS and their fans. I could go on and on. Its nuts.
They've been on Billboard charts since 2015 but really started to gain attention (here in the US) and making moves on the billboards after their first appearance & win at the 2017 Billboards and first American tv performance at 2017 AMAs. Then they were invited not only as a nominee but also a performer for 2018 Billboards where they performed the world debut of Fake Love.
There are some people that are really obsessed with why people like BTS. Like it's music and people enjoy listening to it. What's so hard to understand? 🤷🏻♀️ I have people telling me that on multiple occasions and I'm like... Why? Why do you care that I enjoy their music and performance? Why do you care so much? I'm not forcing anyone to like them, it's okay to not like their music. I just don't get why people would always talk to me about that and hate on it when they just could go on with living their life in peace 🙈
Y'all sasaeng fans be saying that ARMYs are toxic, buhh the truth is we're just looking out for our boys because we know what they went through to get here.
Yeah, it always sucks seeing people dismissing the group, even though they're massive. I know they broke a record for the number of views on a video in 24 hours.
Thanks for the reaction. I like that too because It let's you see that they started with little money, at rock bottom and with hard work, talent and an ARMY, you can succeed. They haven't made it yet because the powers at be still won't play them on the radio but we will keep walking with them hand in hand and hopefully we will get to the top. What ever happened to scru. I haven't seen a video from him in weeks?
I'm 61 and been on this roller coaster ride with BTS when it was just a concept with a couple of members who didn't quite fit and whom didn't make it in to the group and the new ones who finally became official members and debuted as the BTS you know today. I am to the point where we (ARMY) have promoted BTS since debut and through our passion for good music with lyrical relate able content from sincere members who have a genuine love for their fans with a power to move millions through song and dance unlike the world has seen in decades has proved we don't need radio but, it would be nice to feel equal to the artists in our arena as music has no borders nor language barriers and we have proved it over and over again with sales, stats and accomplishments in the music industry like no one has ever seen before on a global scale. BTS still the biggest band/group most have never heard before but, we will make them a household name, you can count on that, watch!
Thats why we are so protective of them but they are protective of us too u eont find that anywhere else from anybody else now ive been with them from debut i saw their debut stage but they didnt really blow up until around 2015 with i need u and dope and theyve always had alot of international fans at first they had more fans internationally but now its equal and america really took notice in general in 2017 when they won the first billboard
Thank you. I am a 48 year old ARMY (since 2014) but my family don't understand my love for BTS at all....but they accept it nonetheless and over the years have learned about as about them as I have.... Could you react to We Are Bulletproof, We Are Bulletproof pt. 2 and We Are Bulletproof Eternal? Thanks again.
Behind the scenes for MMA 2019 is out. You can see how hard they worked. When bts started growing? 2015 I guess, they won their first music show. But it was in 2016 that they really took off with WINGS & they won their first daesang (grand prize) for album of the year. Bighit started promoting bts globally. They had their big break to perform at billboard music awards in 2017. And started winning overseas awards.
I'm an older ARMY.. 43 here... My very first concert of any kind was BTS Speak Yourself 2019 Rose Bowl Day 2. I was lucky enough to have taken my 3 teenagers w me and we had a blast. These boys have been through so much. ARMY have been through so much. We went through it together and that's what makes our bond stronger. The boys read tweets I'm sure of it because when the timeline is filled with sadness they post a selfie or just a twee and we go crazy happyt. We are really, truly a family. I have been a fan since late 2016 and an ARMY since early 2017. I remember their 1st BBMA like it was yesterday. Loved your video. You should really check out their (RMs) speech at the UN. It will leave you speechless.
I'll say BTS started to get famous in Korea and parts of East Asia in 2015 (by the I Need U because of the song and storyline in the MV), and started to get famous internationally in around 2017 (got their first award in America)
The funny thing is their demographic spans all ages. I’m 37 and a single mom of 2. I’m in a group on Facebook that’s all BTS Army Moms and there’s 30k in there from all over the world.
😞☹️ Unfortunately the guy at 4:21 that said "he got worried", it was an Australian show 20 to 1.. Im Australian, n unfortunately even til this day BTS is not recognised for their Positivity.
The thing that really stands out about BTS is that usually in the kpop industry the most famous groups are from the "Big 3" but they are now the most famous group in the world coming from a small agency, they changed the way people see kpop, they did a miracle!
Majority of armys are between the ages 20-50 but people still tend to think were like 13 year old fangirls which is also not correct cos boys/men make up a quarter of the fandom.
Listen, I am proud to say I am an 81 Years old ARMY. I always feel like 18 years old when I watch them.🤣🤣 I purple each of them.💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 By the way, Jimin is my bias. I could watch him dance 24/7 🥰
You just made my day Mrs Carlethia Street ( don’t know ya but I 💕 ya to pieces). I’m 49 and I totally agree with you BTS makes me feel like 21 all over again - JK is my bias and the rest are my bias wreckers. Take care 💜💜
This is why ARMY is so protective of BTS. They have been treated poorly both at home and abroad. Western music scene has been awful to them. They get denied radio play...they git none foe this last album even though they are the highest selling album so far this year. Their company refuses to play the payola game and they dont bundle sales. It's really sad.
I think so many have a bad perception about kpop. And it's the edgy cool cancel culture to just hate on someone....fact it the joke is on them. People who really give BTS a chance end up respecting and loving them. It's never cool to hate. If more people gave them a chance they would get it.
PS. I'm 52. I don't care what people think. They make great fusion music. I've been a fan for years. I've attended 3 concert. Worth every penny. I'm hoping to attend 2 more this summer when this virus ends and the tour gets rescheduled.
I read an article on "This Is Now" about US radio's treatment of BTS and I was so mad. Like, they're really trying to sell us the idea that BTS does not have hit songs when ON made it to #4 at the Hot 100 without radio support.
@@vickyharb7703 The problem is we can't maintain the ong in the top 10... It free falling the second week but it's bc of the lack radio and playlisting ! BTS, BigHit and US did our possible thi cb. They went the whole week of the cb on shows after show to promote the album and ON... And BH even gives us Vinyl and a reduction to buy the song digitally... But compared to BWL, ON got zero playlisting on Spotify and zero radio ! BWL and Make It Right got a fair amount of radio and I was so happy ! Finally they play BTS ! But now ? ZERO. Even Idol, Fak Love and Mic Drop got more radio... I really got the impression, they got blacklisted wtf...
@@drennae I agree with you, but US radio seems to only use the excuse that BTS do not have hit songs (it depends on how you define a hit song. BTS recently holds the record of the group with the most number of songs that has 100+ million streams on spotify. They beat twenty one pilots record. To me, that means they have a lot of hit songs). Radio, however, defines a hit song as a viral song. JB's yum yum was played on radio many times as soon as it was released. It was not a hit song (it performed poorly compared to JB's older songs) but radio still played it regardless of whether it was a hit or not. J. brothers recent song performed poorly in the hot 100 (their sales were way less than BTS's On but their song got massive support from radio.) Their song was not a hit, so radio's excuse of only playing hit songs is just a lie. BTS did a lot of interviews with radio and they attended Iheart radio events like the live concert in LA but they're still getting fewer spins compared to the jonas brothers who also did a live concert for IHeart radio and their US sales are much less than BTS but they don't get treated the same way that BTS gets treated.
@@vickyharb7703 Yeah completely agree with you !
Look on the bright side ON hit number 4 on billboard charts
I am one of the older BTS ARMY I won’t tell you my age😊 but my son doesn’t understand why I love BTS. I love their message of loving oneself and believing in the positive outlook for good mental health! People laugh or shake their head say I not a teenager I should not like BTS! I realized That Music is the universal language we all as humans can enjoy! Munfu Proffitt please react to BTS two first debut Live versions “ No More Dream” and “ Bulletproof Part 2” Thank you for your love And respect for BTS and Kpop 💜💕✌️
Laura Hilliker I have two teenagers and I Love BTS
I am 48 yr old mom of 4 and I'm ARMY. I love that they are humble, make amazing music, and teach young adults to love themselves and have clean music that I don't mind my 13 yr old daughter listening to.
I think you will definitely enjoy and understand RMs UN speech.
I've been with BTS since they debut, and I think they started blowing up and surpassing other artist since 2015, but they weren't acknowledge by the general public and the media during that time, they started getting the recognition they deserve when bbma, ama and american media started to observe rapid growth in the number of BTS Army and gave them the top social artist award. Believe it or not, they started getting big internationally, and when korean general public and media saw BTS' popularity, the number of K armys started to grow exponentially.
RM’s speech at the Love Yourself ending ment gets me everytime no matter how much I hear it and the music doesn’t help either. Bts makes me so happy and just talking about them makes me so happy. I’m happy to be an ARMY and after this whole virus thing is over I’ll finally get to see the 7 most precious angels for the first time after being a fan for 6 years. I remember having a conversation with someone a while back and they asked me what is love to me and I said BTS and they asked me why, I replied, “ They taught me how to love myself and that I don’t need to be perfect and to just be me, etc.” I can literally write an entire essay on what BTS means to me, but this already to long
P.S I love the reaction 💜
Thank you for reacting to this!! You'd be surprised. Most of their fans are late twenties to forties. From my understanding.
Edit: I forgot this info was in this video already! 💜😂
I love your reactions, and am happy tbat you're going to be reacting to the 2019 MMA's! I'm a 49 yr old and proud Army!! BTS is the triple truth!
I am 46 and proud ARMY, BTS is just an amazing group of talented young men that reach many ages and races and genders. Their music is sincere, intelligent and poetic. Why wouldn't that appeal to so many? It's good music and it's music with meaning. Add that to the fact that they are humble, kind and generous of spirit and it's no wonder so many people identify with them and love them so much.
I am 46 and became an ARMY thanks to my 27 year old daughter. It is now something we share, which is great. Music does not know color, gender, or age. Those are all stipulations that individuals place on themselves. I was a band mom for my daughter's high school and now I am thrilled to be able to share in the joy of loving the same music as her. It gives us alot to discus and to research together.💜🤗💜
Born singer 🙏🏽 it also ties together what you just watched. It’s a rendition of J Cole - Born Sinner with their own stories tied into it on where they started and where they are now. It’s insanely powerful and moving
I think not until 2016, did they blow up.
Army doing what they do best. Protect. And support. 48 million and counting. So many Haters but these boys are as their name states. BULLETPROOF. 💜💜💜💜 love ur reactions to them. U will be continuously impressed by these guys. Their resilience and still so humble.
They started to blow up on 2016.
Thx 4 keeping it real.lAw a musucuan, jyself, I'm in awes of ALL the huge VOLUME/input they've had- since their teens (from 14-19, now 22-27) not counting hard work *b4* their June 13, 2013 TV debuf, they used not-just-hopeful-tv- appearances, but unlike other groups, used HUGE social media content to grow a global fan base with *they were given freedomvto create many albums/trilogies, often based on art/literature, w/ongoing storylines/re: socual issues (in conservative S.Korea), incl. Japanese albums, collabs, joined, singles, & many behind the scenes showing of EVERYTHING from all their hard work, concerts, constant vocal & dance practices, writing/producings self-produced mixtapes, covers, working w/their in-house writers/producers like family, local concerts w/hundreds, then thousands, then Asian, then global tours, fan tours, fan meets, tv/radio appearances/music shows, many interviews, many photo shoots, many of their own reality shows showing travels, cooking showz, sit-down-discussions, heartwarming letters to ach other, playing so many ganes/skits, with HILARIOUS personalities as gloval fansxwatched them blow up, dealing w/undersved hate/haters (incl. antii-fans of then the top group, who cyber-bullied them badly , trend in false accusations, even death threats-cuz they were surpassing their **fav.group**!!..They handled it in a classy way, thru clapback on cyphers), that global fans saw their struggles & hardships, along w/their great continued triumphs/breaking records..They're still 2gether, still humble, kind, thoughtful, caring & growing in talent/always pushing to do/be more, along w/their positive messages* ..Just saying😊
this made me cry iv been a fan of bts since the early 2015 and knowing everything they put out did the two years before hand and all the up to now makes me feel that i followed them all the way through especially before they were topping charts in Korea and deferentially before the made it big here the first time i noticed that they got big here on a popular media lvl i was extremely proud of them and even more so rn its been 5 years but in my first 4 months of getting into both bts and kpop in general my close connection to them in those 4 months already felt like years for me and ill never forget those earlier days way back then when i fist got into them they were the best of my days as a 15 year old im 20 now and looking back and knowing the history makes me feel so good inside and they make everyone know to always make ur self happy and be a better person no matter what its the charm of gratefulness and unrelenting motion that they have put into their work and the emotion we receive as is why they deserve to be protected hens why i think we're called the bts army.
I say i live for and because of BTS ...if there wouldnt be there i dont know what would have happen to me...
I'm 37 watching all the way from India
In case no one has informed you yet, there is a fictional storyline running through a lot of BTS, in particular their music videos... the best theory I've seen is that it's a butterfly effect/time traveler narrative (see xCeleste videos regarding this, she puts all the pieces together beautifully from a variety of sources). The list of things to watch is long, but well worth it!
- I Need U m/v (long ver)
- Prologue
- Run (long ver)
- Epilogue: Young Forever
- Wings short films (there are compilations out there or watch the 7 individually)
- Blood Sweat Tears m/v
- Blood Sweat Tears m/v (Japanese ver)
- Highlight reels (full version)
- Spring Day m/v
- Euphoria m/v
- Fake Love trailer #1
- Fake Love trailer #2
- Fake Love m/v (long ver)
- Epiphany m/v
Tip: You'll want to pay attention to the pairs and their respective imagery/symbols;
Jungkook/Suga
JHope/Jimin
RM/V
and Jin as the seer/traveler
(and as always, look for versions with English subtitles...)
Enjoy! 👍
(There may be some that I missed, and I think the official 'On' m/v might need to be on the list but since I'm not completely sure, I left it off...)
They broke through in korea 2016 and in america and more international in 2017
PREACH
Believe it or not most of the hate they got was from the Asian population in their own country. There were a lot of people from European counties gave them the hardest time. American fans and some talk show host welcomed them. But they did have some ignorant people talking about BTS in a bad way and Army came for them and they wished they hadn’t done that.
Brother - great reaction.
Awesome react like always
Hon... The thing is that a big percent of us are NOT kids. I myself am in my forties.
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Our whole generation has grown up in a multicultural world, it's our parents and grandparents who control radiowaves, tho.
👑💜 KINGS 💜👑
Guys yall need to recomend b sides like Rain, HipHop file, whalien52 pleaseee
The misconception about Army is huge... we have fans to 5-80 o more.. and the majority is in their 14-19 / 20's / 30's (just put a bts concert and see the crowd)... because of the message their send. They talk about problems that they and us face through this ages. Also the diversity in their music, they have so many different things that people can like, that are so versatile. Their songs are that unique that you have a song for every mood.
People hate in them for 2 reasons 1-racism 2-fear and envy (of their talent)
Thats why Army often gets rly protective over them.
You should react to Cameron Phillips if bts was dubbed that shit is comedy. You can be a fan of bts and still enjoy it. I think you'll like it also bts my time by Jungkook straight fire.
A huge proportion of the world listen to pop music not in their language. I grew up listening to music mostly in a foreign language to me (English), so for people from English speaking countries to expect every artist from non English speaking countries to sing in their language automatically is really arrogant imo.
10:50 ok I like this dude
PREACH! Lol
Fortunately , that's not true... BTS largest fan base are people that are older. That's why they are mad as hell and jealous.
Munfu is attractive or naahh
Bro can u please react to blackpink -ddu du ddu du . This mv has over 1.1 billion views
I got you bro
That shit fire?
The misconception about Army is that their biggest fan base are teenagers. That’s not true! Army is so huge because the ages range from 12-65! There are Facebook and Twitter groups for the older Army members from all over the world! That’s why BTS is so popular. People are taking their entire family to the concerts.
killajaymilla26 yes! Even older than 65. I’ve talked to 80 yr old Army.
Mood. I love seeing whole ARMY families enjoying BTS concerts. The army dads are the cutest to me 😭
killajaymilla26 I just said the same thing. I’m a 37 year old Army in several Facebook groups for Army moms.
66 here. Only Army I'd ever join. BTS are unique. Folks should know why and how. They help you with their music. We could all use some help.
I agree with all of the statements below, I am 38 years old and my sister 34 and last year we were together at the London concert at Wembley Stadium, and there were people of all ages and nationalities , it was magic.
I’m an older ARMY of 51🤟🏻They say BTS find you when you need them most; true for me. Found them about 2 years ago. Had never been a fan of anyone before but they bring GENUINE and humble to the table and I live for their crackheads behaviour while still having the soul to bring such a powerful healing message... For April fool day, ARMY went back in time and charted their debut song No More Dream, which ties back to their latest album... Give that one a go? 🤟🏻💜🤟🏻
Pat Leclerc I am also 51, and a fan for a year. Last year I was depressed and suicidal, when I watched Fake Love. When I watched the first concert, I cried, because for the first time in a long time, I felt loved and accepted. I love them so much!
Hi I’m a 42 yr young army since feb 2014. Their largest part of their fans are NOT kids. As you see further in this video we are extremely diverse. We are all ages. They have well over 30 Million fans. Many fans are in college, grad school are doctors and lawyers.
We are young forever 💜💜💜💜🥺🥺
Don't worry army went through all the b.s with them😂people love to hate
Lmfaoo real shit I’m like man listen that shits weird like what’s the hate for
Come Back Home + No More Dream + Mic Drop Live performance pretty pretty please!!! It's an amazing performance!
Soon for sure for sure
@@MUNFUProffitt just so you know, during that performance there was a technical issue with Suga's in-ear piece during MicDrop.
Yes my favvv live performance!!! Mainly bc I’m a hip hop head😂😂but the swag in that live is fyeeeee🔥
MUNFU Proffitt - sooo waiting on this one (previously requested, it’s one of my fav live video-cypher medley live is second). I know you will love it.
I’m 49 and none of my friends understand why I like Kpop (they are close minded and not willing to step out of the box-their loss ). I just want to say thank you for your reactions and breakdowns. Take care and stay safe 💜
Dionysus as well :3
I'm glad this video show the Army age range. Most of the Army are not kids, I'm a 54 year old female Army and I have two daughters 22 & 30 that are Army as well. Keep em coming we love your honest reactions. Please react to Ma City & Hip Hop Phile both live performances. You will love them I promise! Both in one reaction would be lovely.💜
Mrs Tae BTS I’m a 42 yr young ARMY since 2014 with a 18 yr old ARMY daughter
As a European I never thought that language barrier was a thing because in Europe we literally listen to songs all over Europe and they go viral in Europe so my whole life I’ve listened to songs in different languages, when I got into BTS I didn’t even question to why it’s not in English but when I was watching reaction videos they were always mentioning language and that’s literally how I found out that people especially Americans think that everything should be in English to enjoy it
Lol facts bro. That doesn’t really make sense to me either 🤣🤣 I’m like ummmmm you realize people loved michal Jackson and had no idea what he was saying!
MUNFU Proffitt exactly
Regarding your question of when BTS had their breakthrough: that never suddenly happened. They have been growing every year steadily from their debut, almost in twofold anually. Since they're still not fully recognized internationally the way they should be it's hard to pinpoint.
In the Korea they started to make their mark in 2015, with their first #1 hitsingle of the weekcharts. This was their first win on a musicshow, where an award is handed out every week to the #1. The song was I NEED U, it meant a lot a lot to the members.
In the american music market they started to get noticed in 2016 with their WINGS album on the BB charts, which led to them being recognized on more BB charts like the Social Chart. They attended the 2017 BBMAs for being nominated as Social Artist and won that award by far from Justin Bieber that had his name on it for 6 years. This caused the american music scene to be perplexed and more people were exposed to BTS on television that way. However, comparing 2020 vs. 2017 BTS results in a huge difference. In that time they have grown steadily, kept their head down and worked their asses off.
Now, in 2019 they became undeniable. Korea started to fully recognize BTS after all their successes abroad (there are still some beefs but you know, haters) and in the Western world they started to be compared to the beatles with three Billboard album #1's and basically all other western countries had BTS up in their charts too. This is the year BTS also got their first break after 6 years with 7 EP's and 6 albums out, having worked their asses off non-stop. They didn't take holidays off, even during christmas they have performances or schedules. The vacation lasted just a month and the boys lived their best young lives, but this was enough for media to start talking crap about a break up smh.
Three major musicindustries in the world; America, Korea and Japan. I can't tell you much detail about Japan, but they're the #1 there too and have several japanese albums.
Lol😂 you know you are a Army when you get pissed about peoples rude comments about them.
Yup 💜💜💜
I totally get why it would have bothered you. The biggest misconception about BTS ARMY are that they’re kids. Based on statistical data they’re fan base is over the age of 20 a good portion are over the age of 30. Mostly women but male fans are growing exponentially.
I understand exactly what your saying, people are jumping on the I hate bts bandwagon without really thinking about what their hating anymore. they don't do the research they only look at twitter and see fancams and be like all kpoopers suc then they stick with that rhetoric for life. I'm 27 years old, I'm Guyanese and my whole life I grew up listening to bollywood, reggae, soca and chutney. it's like the same thing if these music genres went viral in america they probably won't be saying that. I wonder how americans listen to spanish music without understanding the words that shit boggles my mind.
It took so long for them to blow up despite fan loyalty. It was 3 years into their debut before they got their first award. Their first song to get popular in Korea was Dope. RM said he thought Blood Sweat & Tears would be the peak of their success. He didn't think they would go farther. But they beat the odds and once they had a foot in the door, we never let them fall again. That is why we work SO hard to push them further and further. We won't accept the doors being shut in our faces. So many people don't understand that their fame in Korea was not easy. It was so hard with accusations against them and us.
The largest % of ARMY are 18-50. So our fan base is definitely not mostly kids. We have the most diverse fandom out there.
If people have BTS a decent chance, they would never go back. Because how can you not like them on some level? Whether it is their music or their message or their dance. You can find something to love in all 7 of them if people just walk into it without prejudice.
React to RM's speech at the U.N.
YAS
And his 'Joke' mv.
The cypher medley 2017 please
Definitely their old songs 🥺🙏 No More Dream, bulletproof pt 1 and 2, Boy in Love, War of Hormone, Danger? Hopefully
Funny fact:
While watching this, I got 3 adds from BTS ( DNA Japanese vers, Idol and Pied Piper)
Guess what, I didn t skip😂😂😂
The hate, the death threats, all of that was jealousy. JEALOUSY!! Their was another group called EXO,that I truly love btw, that had debuted the year before BTS. People in the EXO fandom could see BTS as a threat. They saw their popularity growing. They won awards EXO-L thought EXO deserved more than BTS so the hate poured in. Death threats, claims of chart manipulation, etc.
The thing of it is that BTS and EXO members are cool, they are friends. The fandoms are the problem, not the groups themselves but that doesn't stop the hate and the abuse.
Now multiple fandoms generate hate for BTS because of their massive popularity. People think they are being cool or hip to hate on BTS and their fans. I could go on and on. Its nuts.
33 year old ARMY here. 💜💜💜
In America they have fans over every age segment...Their biggest segment is 40 to 49
please react to bts memories 2017 cypher medley live performance/ jhope baseline/ bts dimple/ bts love maze
Listen to fake love next bro, one of their best songs and mv
2013 when they debuted and 2015 or 2016 is when they "blew up" and started to gain lots of fans outside of Korea with the song Blood, Sweat and Tears.
yeah in 2017 actually is when they got even more fans
@@Adiitahyaoi ..and 2018 is the unexpected year for BTS 😂💜
Please react to We are Bulletproof pt 2. It’s one of their oldest videos but it still slaps.
Please react to outro: tear its a pretty dope song!
They've been on Billboard charts since 2015 but really started to gain attention (here in the US) and making moves on the billboards after their first appearance & win at the 2017 Billboards and first American tv performance at 2017 AMAs. Then they were invited not only as a nominee but also a performer for 2018 Billboards where they performed the world debut of Fake Love.
React to the MMA 2019💜
I went to burn the stage the movie and I met an army who was 67 years old and we enjoyed the movie together!
11:55 PREACH 🙌
They built their fanbase slowly, but things took off really in 2017 when a group of us US ARMY decided to make a push to get BTS on Billboard & radio.
There are some people that are really obsessed with why people like BTS. Like it's music and people enjoy listening to it. What's so hard to understand? 🤷🏻♀️
I have people telling me that on multiple occasions and I'm like... Why? Why do you care that I enjoy their music and performance? Why do you care so much? I'm not forcing anyone to like them, it's okay to not like their music. I just don't get why people would always talk to me about that and hate on it when they just could go on with living their life in peace 🙈
The biggest fan base of BTS are women and men 30-50 years!!! Yhere are more grown up men then little girls..That is a fact!
Luv you’re reaction 👍 True music is music with good lyrics if you’re ear like the melody or beat than it’s good music. 💜✌️
42 here and new to the army
Y'all sasaeng fans be saying that ARMYs are toxic, buhh the truth is we're just looking out for our boys because we know what they went through to get here.
Everyone needs to go to a BTS concert then they will understand what makes them the greatest band(Artist) in the world.
What you said about h3h3, thats exactly how i feel!!! Why does he care so much about us, like stfu
They started getting big 2016
Yeah, it always sucks seeing people dismissing the group, even though they're massive. I know they broke a record for the number of views on a video in 24 hours.
Thanks for the reaction. I like that too because It let's you see that they started with little money, at rock bottom and with hard work, talent and an ARMY, you can succeed. They haven't made it yet because the powers at be still won't play them on the radio but we will keep walking with them hand in hand and hopefully we will get to the top. What ever happened to scru. I haven't seen a video from him in weeks?
love that video - really shows a good look at some of their ups and downs. next suggestion: Ateez - Wave / illusion (for fun summer vibes ✌🏻)
Bts😭🔥💜
Thank you so much! BTS deserves everything they achieve. They work so incredibly hard.
STRAIGHT FAX!!! No one should feel weird for liking anything!! Preach!! 🙌🏼💜
I'm 61 and been on this roller coaster ride with BTS when it was just a concept with a couple of members who didn't quite fit and whom didn't make it in to the group and the new ones who finally became official members and debuted as the BTS you know today. I am to the point where we (ARMY) have promoted BTS since debut and through our passion for good music with lyrical relate able content from sincere members who have a genuine love for their fans with a power to move millions through song and dance unlike the world has seen in decades has proved we don't need radio but, it would be nice to feel equal to the artists in our arena as music has no borders nor language barriers and we have proved it over and over again with sales, stats and accomplishments in the music industry like no one has ever seen before on a global scale. BTS still the biggest band/group most have never heard before but, we will make them a household name, you can count on that, watch!
Damn...thank you!! I love and appreciate everything you said. I love your videos.. can’t wait for more..💜💜
I'm 57 and I love BTS and I don't care who knows.....PERIOD.
BTS thanks Army first before anything, like some people thank God first, BTS says Armyyyyy!!!🙋♀️🤗😍💜💕✌🙏
Thats why we are so protective of them but they are protective of us too u eont find that anywhere else from anybody else now ive been with them from debut i saw their debut stage but they didnt really blow up until around 2015 with i need u and dope and theyve always had alot of international fans at first they had more fans internationally but now its equal and america really took notice in general in 2017 when they won the first billboard
They started blow up in American music award show in I think 2016. Became first Korean group to performance.
For BTS- maybe Run, Boy in Luv, Baepsae with the explanation too. Other groups- Stray Kids- Double Knot and Side Effects.
Thank you. I am a 48 year old ARMY (since 2014) but my family don't understand my love for BTS at all....but they accept it nonetheless and over the years have learned about as about them as I have.... Could you react to We Are Bulletproof, We Are Bulletproof pt. 2 and We Are Bulletproof Eternal? Thanks again.
Also...you know only 15% of this fandom is under 18...most of us are 25+! I'm 43, my husband, who is also an ARMY is 40.
Behind the scenes for MMA 2019 is out. You can see how hard they worked. When bts started growing? 2015 I guess, they won their first music show. But it was in 2016 that they really took off with WINGS & they won their first daesang (grand prize) for album of the year. Bighit started promoting bts globally. They had their big break to perform at billboard music awards in 2017. And started winning overseas awards.
I'm an older ARMY..
43 here...
My very first concert of any kind was BTS Speak Yourself 2019 Rose Bowl Day 2.
I was lucky enough to have taken my 3 teenagers w me and we had a blast. These boys have been through so much. ARMY have been through so much.
We went through it together and that's what makes our bond stronger.
The boys read tweets I'm sure of it because when the timeline is filled with sadness they post a selfie or just a twee and we go crazy happyt. We are really, truly a family.
I have been a fan since late 2016 and an ARMY since early 2017. I remember their 1st BBMA like it was yesterday.
Loved your video.
You should really check out their (RMs) speech at the UN. It will leave you speechless.
Actually the largest demographic for BTS is 30-40 year old women.. no joke. We make up 27% of the fan base on average.
Pls watch BTS HARDSHIPS too,,,, I love ur reaction
I'll say BTS started to get famous in Korea and parts of East Asia in 2015 (by the I Need U because of the song and storyline in the MV), and started to get famous internationally in around 2017 (got their first award in America)
subs now. 😊 Glad u have bts reaction vids now. Thank you. -PH Army 💜🇵🇭
The funny thing is their demographic spans all ages. I’m 37 and a single mom of 2. I’m in a group on Facebook that’s all BTS Army Moms and there’s 30k in there from all over the world.
Although it's not a music video, I would love for you to check out BTS' UN Speech. It's what finally Spartan kicked me down the rabbit hole :)
😞☹️ Unfortunately the guy at 4:21 that said "he got worried", it was an Australian show 20 to 1.. Im Australian, n unfortunately even til this day BTS is not recognised for their Positivity.
Actually their fan base is spread almost evenly in every age segment in America...24% men 76% female..Largest segment is 40 to 49 at 27%
The won Artist off the year and Album off the year in the end off 2016, first group from a small agaency that won that. So 2017 the blow up
The thing that really stands out about BTS is that usually in the kpop industry the most famous groups are from the "Big 3" but they are now the most famous group in the world coming from a small agency, they changed the way people see kpop, they did a miracle!
Majority of armys are between the ages 20-50 but people still tend to think were like 13 year old fangirls which is also not correct cos boys/men make up a quarter of the fandom.