K-Pop stan Twitter has always been eventful. Like, there’s honestly no such thing as a quiet “news day” whenever K-Pop fandoms are involved.
There’s always just something to write about, most especially about fan behavior—good or bad. Well, mostly bad because we, as a community, have to talk about it. There are things that we have to address as a whole, because bad behavior makes normies hate us even more.
Okay, so the topic in question: remember that whole fight NCTzens and ARMYs were on during the past weekend? Where ARMYs said that NCT’s going to court for defamation and impersonation? Yeah, that whole thing was a funny thing to watch from the sidelines.
But, let’s take a whole recap of the events that had transpired.
First, NCT 127 went on live the other day on their Instagram and talked about their experience in Mexico. On their live, the members mentioned how they were mistaken for another boy group (we obviously don’t have to mention it anymore) and were offered drinks afterwards. One member said that the two situations were different from one another and had to clarify that as their IG live went on.
NCTzens were having a party when the news hit the timeline, making memes and all that. Then, ARMYs went on their case, saying that NCT 127 accepting drinks for free under the name of BTS was wrong. Which, to be honest, looking at it at an outside perspective, does sound a little wrong because why would you impersonate someone right?
However, NCT 127 talking about that whole situation while on live does mean something. They were, in a way, addressing the racism they experienced while abroad. How was it racism, you might ask. Well, first of all, how is it not racism?
As everyone knows, BTS isn’t the only K-Pop boy group around that has made a name for themselves overseas. Though, it has indeed come to a point that whenever someone that isn’t Korean (or Asian) just talks about liking K-Pop, the immediate association is of course, BTS. Pair it with a kind of disgusted look on their faces, and yeah that’s the rest of the Western world that hasn’t totally embraced K-Pop or is still quite racist about it.
Despite how big the influence of K-Pop has become all around the world, there are still those people who look down and laugh about it. Some still even hold the belief that all Asian people are the same, when clearly, they’re not.
NCTzens and ARMYs did have a big fight on the Internet because of the whole situation though. ARMYs were taking the “impersonation” thing seriously, while NCTzens were having a laugh at the “BTS accusations” received by NCT 127. Here are some of it, with both fandoms ending up doxing each other at some point:
when i log on and see the aftermath of stays fighting with moas, atinys, nctzens, onces, or armys
https://t.co/12IeymUWKW https://t.co/LDCZpIr3m5
— al 🇵🇸 (@jijify) January 31, 2023
its so crazy how nctzens were kekeing up and down about this and as soon as armys said shit they start with a whole new narrative pic.twitter.com/PCA6xLNcgp
— bts🐼 (@attackonhobi) January 28, 2023
Tengene dahil sa away ng armys at nctzens, naalala ko bigla tong kay Tao 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/OUjc06SksY
— ‼️FOLLOW AT YOUR OWN RISK‼️ (@TVSJEXONCTee_) January 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/yeow19999/status/1620532677802872833?s=20&t=9vXxjEUJ92IIxQU5cIVBtw
https://twitter.com/usersaint1999/status/1619753398353657856?s=20&t=9vXxjEUJ92IIxQU5cIVBtw
"nct apologize to bts"
nctzens to armys: pic.twitter.com/0aQAZlWQAF— ncity🤍 (@wayvshotsauce) January 29, 2023
nctzens acting like they weren’t laughing at that video until armys found it and now they’re pulling the victim card while rewriting the narrative 😭 shut the entire hell up
— lily (@songyeondan) January 30, 2023
People acting like it’s nct 127’s fault for racist ass people to be mistaking them as bts is so weird to me. If you’re so worried about other groups “using bts’ fame” then actually go educate people about how assuming a group of Asian people is bts is racist.
— s✩ (@HAECHAN_LVR) January 28, 2023
armys and nctzens are fighting again pic.twitter.com/wvOZLFkO7L
— Saf⁷ (@muzziemulti) January 28, 2023
https://twitter.com/vhopejins/status/1619472647620009989?s=20&t=9vXxjEUJ92IIxQU5cIVBtw
"nct apologize to bts"
nctzens to armys rn: pic.twitter.com/uMQJVngKi2— ncity🤍 (@wayvshotsauce) January 29, 2023
https://twitter.com/luvbvgz/status/1619801913423450113?s=20&t=9vXxjEUJ92IIxQU5cIVBtw
nct went live giggling about one of the biggest, most common, asian stereotypes that racists use against the community and nctzens started laughing with them until armys called u out for that weird ass behavior. yall just don't like people remind u how braindead yall are https://t.co/ym8v970TSD
— mas (@yoongovrt) January 29, 2023
jungkook and jaehyun always giggling together everytime armys and nctzens fight
— 😭 (@gunuwk) January 28, 2023
yall are more worried about how these men reacted to a racist experience than you are about the fact that they experienced racism and i think that says a lot about who you are as people
— le FAT bastard (@oluwatoge) January 29, 2023
Because of the whole fight that the two fandoms had, everyone kind of missed the point of why they brought up the whole “waitress mistaking them for BTS” sitch. No, NCT 127 didn’t mention them for clout, and yes maybe they were being disrespectful because they didn’t include the “-sunbaenim” suffix afterwards, but still.
They were subtly calling out the racism that the Western world still has—just because they were famous Korean artists doesn’t mean they’re BTS. And they weren’t “riding on BTS’ name” either. So, this whole fight was just a big circus.
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