please i wanna know all about the rise of bangtan drama 👀😂

LMAOOOOO ok twitter follower

let me preface this by saying i did not know this youtube series existed before i started seeing tweets about it, so clearly the “documentary” in question is simply NOT apart of the universal army experience that a lot of people are making it out to be. i have never even seen these videos pop up in my recommended on youtube…so there’s that 🥴

BUT ANYWAY, i guess after bts announced they’d be coming out with a new docuseries with disney+ about their career, the editor of this completely FAN MADE youtube series made these really odd tweets implying that their work felt threatened by the prospect of a new official documentary from bts

come to find out that their series is literally made by compiling clips of official bts content including their ALREADY EXISTING docs, movies, youtube content, interviews, etc.

….so as delicately as possible and without trying to dismiss her work (because content creating as a FAN is very time consuming), the amount of views and acclaim she’s received on these “episodes” she’s made have clearly gone to her head. even more bizzare, a lot of people who like her videos are behaving as though hybe and bts owe her some kind of recognition or credit because she “did it first” …but she owns literally none of the footage she uses, so they’re completely forgetting that if none of the content she recycles clips of in her series existed, she wouldn’t have a series at all because that’s literally all her source material lmao. all it would take is a couple copyright strikes on her videos to get it all taken down, that’s what’s so baffling to me.

she deleted those tweets and made a couple threads on her personal account trying to explain that she thought she was helping bts with her series because it’s “from an army perspective” but like…they certainly didn’t ask her to do that, so her place as a fan needs to be clearer. she essentially makes long fan edits and calls it a documentary series (someone even made an IMDB page for it and this thing is listed under all of the members’ individual profiles…i cannot) and people are praising her a little too much imo. i guess her series pushes some narratives that are questionable and her editing puts them in a kpop box and glosses over a lot of important issues surrounding bts in that industry, so i’m very confused why people are calling it a staple for new armys and how it helped them learn about bts when they could have just watched all the official content bts put out themselves if they needed a proper introduction. it makes no sense to me and it’s very alarming and also just. hilariously bizarre. i don’t condone the bullying but girl, respectfully, what the fuck. 😂