These responses from BTS got a lot of backlash from Kpop twt and I think I know why now. All this time, the Kpop community made them out to be political figures when they're not. So now that BTS are voicing it, they can no longer project onto them, which is why they're mad.

That could also explain why Kpop twt holds BTS to impossibly high standards that they don't even hold their own faves to. They expect BTS to give away all their money to charity, to not make mistakes, to speak up against every global issue. But their faves are not expected to.

At the end of the day, they're musicians, like every other person in their industry. Them having opinions on social/political issues doesn't make them political figures. And it doesn't make them obligated to talk about these issues every day.

Even other groups that people hype up for being "woke" aren't expected to talk about issues the way BTS are. Instead, they're infantilized. Because "what would other groups know about these issues? Korea's a pretty closed-off country!"

Long story short, people need to cool it with the hate towards their answers. Y'all were the ones who gave them the label of politicians, not BTS. Don't get mad at them when they denounce it.