Not forgetting how when MAMA was a doggy of **, in 2013 didn’t invite bts despite them being 1/5 ROTY nominee, in 2014 they made them perform on red carpet - in complete silence bc cheers were forbidden, and in 2015 finally allowed them 1 song while ** barely debuted rookie got 3
Not forgetting either that MAMA 2017 moved the announcement of Artist Of The Year from the last one to before the last one, BTS was panting and barely standing after the performance and had to run up to the stage to get whats their. When MAMA was a doggie of another big3 company.
Ain’t no forgetting that BTS in 2016 on TV didn’t get a changing room, so they had to change practice and prepare for performance on a corridor in front of bathrooms, when they already had #1 bestselling album of the year - the changing room was given a rookie instead.
Never forget that MBC Gayo 2018 split BTS performance into two parts just for viewership, didn’t even let them sit together, and still didn’t let the perform the last despite them being the Order recipients. Because they made it a party for - PLOT TWIST ALERT - a big3 company.
And don’t forget neither that BTS used to practice from the literal dawn to late night, they still had to fit in their already exhausting schedule recording variety shows, and yet the shows mostly cut them out because “lack of interest” so their hard work was for nothing.
And you are absolutely FORBIDDEN to forget that BTS has been outselling since 2015 but korean general public learned about their achievements only when they hit #1 on billboard THREE YEARS later, and still people said mostly from SNS, because K-media have 💵 ties with S’M and Y’G
And also how BTS in 2018 been dragged to the hell and back by knetz solely because all media had been putting them as the cover photo for enl*stment lobby excercised by other companies feeding off their achievements, even despite that they said over and over again they would go.
You remember also how in 2019 naver - website bigger than google in korea and yg huge business partner, pinned on their main page a fake ass plagiarism accusation against BT5 made by ANOTHER PLOTTWIST - yg photographer, the same day news about seu*gri started rolling in.
And guess what - the news about him from the same day never made it to the naver main page, even though it had 20x higher engagement than the article about BT5, and the reactions under BT5 were mostly laugh because the accusation was over a FUCKING TABLE
Or that every tiniest “scandal” coming from BT5 doing what 90% of their fellow koreans do too, always make it to main pages of nearly all the biggest korean news websites, getting far bigger coverage than literal celebrity criminals involved in accidents with d3ath victims
Baby, I can go on like this for a day and I still wouldn’t be able to cover a quarter of the mistreatment and hardships bts has faced from the korean industry - for nothing but being endangering other companies. Another chapter for awards shows. And k-fandoms a whole another book
Multiply this x10 because of other things we know about and those we don’t even know.

And atop of that remember - this is just one country 🙃🙃
Like I said, this was just bits. You want more? About the no changing room, insider said some artists there poked fun at 875 for changing on the corridor and having to bow to everyone going to the bathroom to take piss.
Or how that certain music show couldn’t provide them with 7 chairs in waiting room during promotion... for THREE WEEKS. That was the same time, Wings promos, few days afterwards they won daesang on the domestic award show. Both are actually visible on for example bangtan bombs
And do you remember how when BTS was having a groundbreaking achievement performing at AMAs as the first Korean group in 2017, the mnet transmission presenters were talking about another group who never achieved sht in the US. They did again in 2019, when BTS presented at gr*mmy
Oh wait, since we are at the gr*mmys - worth to bring back the recent events how k-media completely dismissed their nomination as the first Korean artist in history in a highlight category and had literal KMAs committee going around media and having to explain how it’s important?
But when they didn’t win, it made to headlines of several websites - no, not only dickspatch. Someone here on twitter made a beautiful screen recording of all articles under search result “gr*mmy failure” that morning.

And guess what SM achievement made ALL headlines in 2019.
Are we still rolling? Nor do I forget how MBC produced award show MGMAs 2018 played wrong backing track for their fake love performance, at the same time gave them spoiled in-ears causing 🐥 a whole counter-tenor hit a wrong note that he is still hunted for years later.
MGMAs never issued any apology for that.

On the other hand, Gaon Awards 2017 issued an apology - after setting up the boys for plag*arism scandal and putting them through mini hell. Because apparently they couldn’t deserve their professionalism.
And I can even believe that their whack asses didn’t aim this issue at the boys in particular, I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist. Though they should have hurried with the apology

But what they did in 2018, completely disrespecting their awards with 4 second announcement, DID https://twitter.com/taesoothe/status/1349012413379653632
And not forgetting how when BTS won at BBMAs the biggest duo/group of the biggest music market in the world, korean official media barely spoke about it, meanwhile Naver main page was loaded with articles about clothes or views of a big3 group that they financed by the way.
Remember how shocked we were BTS’ legendary Saturday Night Live performance was pinned on naver in entertainment section and immediately there was raised a discussion about what ** wants to cover that day because BTS had been rarely ever making it to top even in SECTIONS
Let’s leave for a second the c🅰️r scratch issue that has been reported by kmedia like a chase after a serial murderer. Let’s talk about how a member going out when there was no lockdown in SK made a massive scandal, but 5 celebrities throwing a covid party with a MF ALPACA didn’t
Can you imagine how tired I am after years of explaining why I do not tolerate any apologists and I never will
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