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happy one year to the beginning of months of vitriol & hate being sent towards Black armys like myself for daring to be mad & critical of hoseok’s hair & almost completely ruining anything good that i associated with bts bc of this insidious fandom (ok to rt). 
#1YearWithCNS
#1YearWithCNS
happy one year to the beginning of me blocking hundreds of thousands of armys who harassed my friends and i for being upset that we wanted a simple acknowledgement and apology for hoseok’s idiotic choice of hairstyle that he chose himself 
#1YearWithCNS
#1YearWithCNS
happy one year to me becoming so traumatized by the anti-blackness that my body changed, i nearly flunked out of school, i had to start taking depression meds, & had to go to therapy ALL bc this fandom wanted to “protect” a millionaire that wasn’t effected at all. #1YearWithCNS
happy one year to bts showing me that the “meaningful” messages in their songs & becoming LITERAL UN AMBASSADORS AGAINST BULLYING were all talk bc they have almost never acknowledged their mistakes & refuse to do something this gross fandom they’ve helped nurture. #1YearWithCNS
happy one year to this fandom being so concerned over an idol group’s reputation being “ruined” because one of their members was racist all because this fandom is only concerned with perpetuating fake wokeness for a group that they claim can “take criticism”. #1YearWithCNS
happy one year to this fandom only proving again and again that the only thing that they can unify together in is breaking records and perpetuating anti-Blackness and only listening to black fans that don’t care in order to further their agenda. #1YearWithCNS
happy one year to a song about respecting people’s roots being filled with disgusting gel twists and fake blaccents from two non-Black people whose roots have nothing to do with nor have been affected by the origins of this song and the people that it’s made for. #1YearWithCNS
happy one year to this fandom thinking that hoseok’s “intentions” matter just because he cashed out $2+ million for this song when intentions have never mattered and “wanting” to “appreciate” something is not the same as ACTUALLY DOING IT. #1YearWithCNS
happy one year to my life being completely ruined just because of my Blackness and wanting to protect myself and my people from more of the anti-Blackness that we have experienced before we were even born. #1YearWithCNS
it doesn’t matter that hoseok’s hair was only twisted. what matters is that he was trying to impersonate Blackness in a way that didn’t “cross a line”. but if i have to zoom in and inspect whether a person’s hair is appropriative, the line has already been crossed. #1YearWithCNS
i’m not even mad about what hoseok did anymore because ALL idols do it. the world in its entirety is anti-Black. what i’m mad about is that it was ME being humiliated, not the person whose fault it was. #1YearWithCNS
a year ago i was triggered into the worst depressive mode i’ve had since i was 16 all in the name of “protection”. i am still feeling the effects of what happened even now. what was the best period of my life before this day was cruelly taken from myself & others. #1YearWithCNS
it doesn’t matter that bts donated $1M to BLM or that yoongi apologized for his use of that jim jones sample earlier this year because that is stuff they SHOULD do anyways. & even then this fandom didn’t want them to do anything because they would feel “forced” to. #1YearWithCNS
it doesn’t matter because bts have not unlearned the ways that they have been anti-Black and still choose not to educate themselves. Black people have every right to be angry towards people who disrespect us and that includes bts. #1YearWithCNS
i have always been critical towards bts and this fandom while still loving them, but any semblance of rose-coloured glasses that i still had on have come off and shown me the ways in which bts have stopped being who they used to be because of their success. #1YearWithCNS
i’m tired of armys who romanticize bts’ past struggles & baby them whenever they make a mistake. bts were already quite rich and successful before even around 85% of bts’ current followers even KNEW WHO THEY WERE. you didn’t experience firsthand how they’ve changed. #1YearWithCNS
bts are grown ass millionaires who have ALWAYS had access to freely learn for themselves what they have done wrong, even BEFORE their success, but have always chosen not to. and this fandom is a reflection of their lack of action, albeit a rancid version of it. #1YearWithCNS
if there is anything that i have learned, it is that you have to mentally k*ll the ideal images of your idols and k*ll their fandoms because they will inevitably always disappoint you. read this article and internalize it because it is SO important. #1YearWithCNS https://twitter.com/garnetmorgue/status/1191394746733740032
FANDOM IS NOT FAMILY. yes we may have an interest that we all share, but a family can’t be made with tens of millions of strangers on the internet. they will mass harass you one day and then sing kumbaya the next. anti-Blackness is everywhere and that includes here. #1YearWithCNS
this fandom doesn’t care about black people because EVERYONE is taught in life to not care about Black people anyways. but it’s not black peoples’ job to educate others on issues we have exhaustively explained over and over again. learn this shit by yourselves. #1YearWithCNS
it doesn’t matter how many charities that this fandom donates to & it doesn’t matter that the media glorifies how “good” armys are. i am an activist because i actually care & it’s infuriating that our hard work is associated with the very people that mass-harass us. #1YearWithCNS
i wrote this thread in response to the vitriol and disgusting harassment towards Black armys who were validly upset by the jim jones sample in AD2, but everything i say here is still just as relevant for this song and any other moment of anti-Blackness anywhere. #1YearWithCNS https://twitter.com/chyubs/status/1267580763215626241
i don’t know who i’m making this thread for, especially since most people who should be reading this are blocked, but i still want everyone to know the ways in which experiencing racism and anti-Blackness is a continuous experience of trauma in my and other’s lives. #1YearWithCNS
so yeah, happy one year to a truly traumatic year in my life all thanks to an ignorant hairstyle & wanting an acknowledgement of that mistake. i still tentatively love bts, but this fandom can go rot in hellfire. fuck armys, fuck anti-blackness, & FUCK this song. #1YearWithCNS
