On November 12, the music group BTS Suddenly, a few groups of netizens pushed the hashtags “Boycott BTS” (Boycott BTS) and “BTS disband” (BTS disbanded) on platform X.

Concerned about the negative impact of these hashtags, Army – the BTS fan community – joined forces to push positive hashtags about the group to X’s trending top, such as “BTS is 7 people”, “BTS forever” .

What is the reason behind the above negative wave?

With his first solo album Golden, Jungkook broke most records of a K-pop solo artist – Photo: Big Hit

Jungkook’s solo was successful, BTS was called… to disband

On November 12, Billboard announced Golden ‘s  debut solo albumJungkook – the youngest member and main vocalist of BTS – debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart with record sales.

Specifically,  Golden sold 210,000 units, while the number one album was  1989 (Taylor’s Version) with 245,000 units.

Fancam of Jungkook performing Standing Next to You in Times Square – Video: HEADLINER

With this result, Golden still set the record for the album with the highest sales by a K-pop solo artist on the Billboard 200. And the album’s sales number has surpassed many albums leading the Billboard 200 at times. other.

Some Korean newspapers expressed regret for lacking a little bit of luck. If Jungkook hadn’t released an album near the same time as “currently America’s number one music superstar” Taylor Swift, Jungkook might have reached number one.

Despite missing the top spot on the Billboard 200, Jungkook’s solo album is still considered a great success as he broke many different records for a K-pop solo artist.

Some netizens on X suddenly called for BTS to disband or be boycotted, making the group’s fan community angry – Photo: Screenshot

He was commented by The Atlantic as “chasing his own pop star dream”, predicted by NME as the “king of pop” of the future.

His performance at Times square (New York, USA) on November 9 attracted 10,000 on-site viewers, causing a fever on social networks.

Since then, some of Jungkook’s extreme fans believe that he should go solo instead of continuing to work with BTS.

“He’s so talented, I was a new fan before Golden debuted but he should go solo, please don’t waste this talent” is a top comment in the hashtag “BTS disbanded”. Accompanying it is the hashtag “JK go solo”.

Besides, the hashtag “Boycott BTS” is related to the fact that some extremists believe that Army – the group’s common fan community – did not enthusiastically support the album Golden.

To repel these calls and negative information, the Army community has brought positive hashtags to the trending top of X with hundreds of thousands of posts, such as: “BTS is 7 people”, “BTS forever” “, “BTS paved the way”…

BTS fans pushed positive messages for the group to X’s trending top on November 12 – Photo: Screenshot