To the exhausted HYBE or BigHit Intern who visits our humble sub, thanks so much for being part of our warm little community! We’re so happy that you visit us and keep an eye on things. You love our little “You’ve taken over HYBE for a day” wishlist posts, don’t you? But…it feels like…maybe your bosses think these are just light-hearted ramblings instead of a list of demands * ahem * I mean a legitimate wish list.
So I thought maybe we could help clear things up. In a totally non-threatening-but-serious-because-the-fans-genuinely-want-these-things sort of way. All that preamble out of the way, here goes a list of things that fans (at least here) have voiced, as well as a few things I’ve thought about personally. (psst!!! r/bts7! Put your gentle/genuine/feasible suggestions below!)
- Bring back fan chants!!! We all love singing along, but let’s be realistic. Most of us were too busy scrambling over solo releases during this "hiatus" and only added a few Korean words and phrases to our vocabulary. Personally, my ADHD made consistent learning nearly impossible. And you know what that means??? It means it’s tough to sing along to the music the guys are putting out. Especially with this volume of work. It’s like drinking water from a fire hose. If you put out fan chants for the songs, it would be so much easier for more of us to sing along. Especially since we’ve had so many newcomers over the last five years. The new songs don’t have fan chants 🙁 We are sad. Please make more. Pretty please?
- Lyric videos. How many streams are you all losing because people go to the color-coded lyric videos to understand the songs? I saw a girl group put out their own video with translations and colors to match the singer and it was brilliant! The fans were so happy not to look up another channel for the translations or to see which performer sang which part. And the company got all of the streams! I think that would benefit your company if this was standard practice.
- Physicals! Thank you for the cds, cassettes, and albums! We love them! Do you know what else we would love? DVDs for VOD content. Internet connections aren’t always reliable. Casting doesn’t always work. Do you know how much fans would love to have DVD copies of In the Soop, Bon Voyage, or omg Run BTS! I’m hyperventilating just thinking about it!
Weverse. This is a multi-parter. There are so many things that could be added or changed in Weverse that would help the company, the artists, and the fans:
- Awareness of your reporting system. People may not remember to report bad stuff they see around the internet. If they do see something, they may not know where to report it. What if, for HYBE artists, each of their pages had a tab or link that gave easy access for fans who want to report videos, articles, or posts that violate artist rights.
- Voting links. Speaking of awareness…When artists are nominated for fan-voted awards, could you link it as an announcement? For example, Jin and J-Hope are nominated for MAMA, but voting efforts are scattered and not everyone knows about it. Weverse is one place where most fans meet, so wouldn’t it help if we could see reminders/announcements there? I don’t even think that would require a structural change to the site. It could get announced and added to the calendar. Just a thought.
- Along those lines, ARMY works hard to support the same philanthropy projects the members support. Personally, I think it would be awesome if somewhere, among the artist tabs, there was a place where special projects were linked so we could directly donate to those charities. Plus, as an added corporate bonus, you could at least show how many you are connecting directly to charity organizations. If those organizations know those donations were linked to you (sort of like affiliate marketing, I guess?) it would be easier to see just how great an impact our donations are having…just make sure you credit those to us, okay?
- Weverse moderation: For the love of all that is good and pure, can we please moderate member lives? It’s tough. It’s near impossible. But what if you just automatically muted certain phrases? “Speak (insert language)” Blocked! “_, my love” Blocked! “Where’s (insert member)” Blocked! “(insert country flag spam)” Blocked! Maybe the feed will slow down enough for the members to read interesting comments. Also, people with thoughtful or at least kind things to say might actually be seen.
- Comment Section: This place is just a large internet cave where people scream, hear echoes of themselves, and almost never actually connect to another human. ARMY likes to organize! We like to plot and plan. But with Twitter being hot garbage and other platforms having very little reach, it’s hard for us to organize around a single cause or at the very least, talk to each other. What if there were spaces structured similar to old-school forums? What if you created a few rooms for different types of discussions? There are definitely limitations, and certain things are necessary to ban, but at least it would actually become a real “community”.
Miscellaneous:
- Boycott Jeff Benjamin, please. I mean really what does he even do except aggravate everyone? And his writing ability is mid.
- Better yet, please boycott anyone in the media who hasn’t been in your corner for the past two years. You know exactly what I’m talking about. Did you all keep a Burn Book? Please tell me you kept a Burn Book. I genuinely don’t want to see anything from you via JTBC. No clicks. I am so serious.
And now a word from us poors.
- Do you know what sucks? The economy! It’s awful! My grocery bill has doubled, but the food I can purchase with that money has been cut by 75%. Do you know what hurts? Merch prices! International shipping! CONCERTS! Surely you could have some mercy on us. Waive shipping every once in a while? Offer merch that doesn’t cost the same as 2.5 weeks of food? Ban surge pricing on ticketmaster? Knee cap scalpers? (That is only slightly a joke. Seriously, other artist companies have canceled shows and refunded tickets just to make sure scalpers didn’t benefit. Couldn’t you? Pretty please???)
Most importantly, (please understand that I am 100%, ten toes down, ot7. But this must be said) Please tell Min Yoongi, aka BTS’s Suga, that he is deeply loved, sorely missed, and radically accepted by ARMY. This sub in particular will absolutely gather up and make a trip to S. Korea just to gently scold (that’s right. We would never ever consider any action stronger than gentle verbal correction, please don’t check our history) anyone who wants to say something bad about him. Please ask each of the members to give him a hug directly from r/bts7. (And then give them hugs, too because they all deserve all the hugs😭
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