I'll go first. I never that that profound moment where i went "i am in this shit for life" infact i remember sitting at math test and all i could remember was the dalbang moment where tae confessed to Yoongi that his toothbrush fell into the toilet pot!
All i remember was "well I'm gonna fail my math test but atleast i have bangtan"🤣🤣🤣
P.s Did not flunk that test, thankfully.
Black Swan
As a former dancer that song hit hard and I knew I had made the right decision in 2016 to stan these men,because they got me…it’s like they knew the pain of a dancers first death
When I listened to Answer: Love Myself for the first time 💜✨
When I caught myself watching 5 run bts episodes in a row!
I think it was after I realized the playlist I made had 4 hours worth of songs on it. It’s now 8+ hours and I also have solo albums in my music library that aren’t on the playlist.
I’ve always been a lover of music and their songs and vocals are AMAZING! I just wish I could sing along to the Korean.
When I binged watched all the RUN BTS episodes.
I can’t pinpoint a moment but I started to really admire them after watching “American Hustle Life” a few weeks after discovering them in Sept. 2019.
Black swan , on , fake love
I watched these songs when i was in 12th before my exams around 2019 decm – 2020 start
And started vibing then breakup happened the speech in un and cycle went on 😭😭🤌started making dance covers .. never danced in my life but after 2020 danggg big asss dancer i am now..gained confidence – improved looks fashion sense, makeup sense and what not ….
Hard to pinpoint – but there was definitely no going back once I watched a vid of Pied Piper with the English translations. I had heard and enjoyed the song already, but the lyrics melted my feminine soul.
Of course since then I have looked into the more significant meanings imbued in many of their other lyrics, and they have won my deep respect & affinity over and over and over.
Also also HOUSE OF ARMY WTFFF SO FUNNYY 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ,all run episodes 😭
for me it was prolly when i watched in the soop. i genuinely didn’t know a group of 7 men would provide me this comfort and peace. watching them relax and giggle and have fun somehow made my heart warm and I knew “I’m in this bangtan shit for life” lol
Wings was released the day I graduated from my post-grad. I didn’t have time to listen to it that day. The next morning I was leaving for a “no tech trek”, so I didn’t listen to it either because I was in the car with other people. I had left all my tech in the parked car for the week and only took my backpack. A week later, we’re finally road-tripping back from the trek and I tell them “I’ll sit at the back, I’ve waited so long for this album, I’m going to quietly listen to it in my own bubble, talk to me later”.
I have this incredibly vivid memory of driving over the [Millau Viaduct](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct) that was half trapped in fog while “Lie” playing in my ears. I had been an ARMY since 2014, this wasn’t how I became a fan of them. But it just spoke to my soul. I cried. I don’t know why I cried. It was just so beautiful.
I really hope that their comeback music will be amazing so I can cry again 😂
Maybe I’ll organize a road trip for the release !
When i stayed on a whole day mama 2020 live during covid 19 just to see Bts getting awards and their performances
In The Soop, bon voyage, all of their docu-series.
Not many kpop artists give you a single glimpse of what they do off the stage. Watching these from bangtan puts a smile on my face because we get to see it from our boys 💜
I flew to Vegas for their concert. It was my first ever concert and I didn’t plan much except to go to the concert lol.
Honestly? [This.](https://youtu.be/KpJJMtK1C1c?si=SWBXMA23FJNqCsVC) I already loved them for their personalities and their talents, but THIS video cemented how much I respect them and will forever be a fan. Their chemistry on the stage was amazing to see, I can’t even imagine what the energy was like in that dome. I’m not even hoping, I KNOW I’m going to their OT7 concert when they go on tour. I can’t wait to be part of that crowd. 🥹
When I watched that very long MMA 2019. No regrets. Then realized that Bangtan had all 40 mins just on their own. 🤯
I mean, I watched all the yearend shows, over crappy internet, for a group that I didn’t stan. Who was I kidding? 😆
When chapter 2 started. Like I was a fan before, but seeing all their solo stuff just made me like them way more and it’s got me really anticipating for their return now 🙂
watching bon voyage for the first time ages ago, seeing them run around all carefree and being their utmost true selves inspired me and at that moment i knew i had a significant connection to them and they weren’t just a kpop group i loved but a family to me 💜💫
lol pied piper was not made for you if you passed lol
The realisation that I’m in this for almost 10 years, dug my way through the web to find obscure sites just to watch (old) content I couldn’t access otherwise. And now, their time at military is almost over. Past years, my live changed a lot and I became a better version of myself. And BTS surely played a role in that
When I watched the video for On. That did it. The music, the dancing, the marching band, the whole vibe. I was hooked.
I became army in January 2024 after watching in the soop s1 after learning their names in December 2023. Seeing one of the biggest stars of all time being such normal people pushed it over the edge for me. One of the most pivotal parts of the show for me was Jin and the pancake flip. I was like “wow, so this is how this group works. There’s a safe space to try and make mistakes because they all support each other. That’s why their bond is so strong.”
I had the moment when I watched d-day in theaters. Yoongi isn’t my bias. But when I watched his concert movie, I remember thinking “welp, I’m never leaving.” Then Jin was discharged and I was so happy. Then I waited for jhope’s discharge – one of the best feelings. I watched jungkook’s surprise live during work. I went to jhope’s tour knowing that there’s no going back. There’s no doubt in my mind. Now I’m waiting for the 7 to reunited.
I like so much about them that I don’t see how I can go back. Their music and work ethic are so good. They’re funny. They all have good personalities and stay humble. They’re all so different. So there’s something for everyone. There’s enough structure within the fandom that I never felt alienated when joining so late. There’s just no reason for me to leave. This is coming from someone who has been in the kpop space before bts even debuted.
When I figured that every little thing they do makes me smile.
After watching In The Soop. I fell in love with all of them, but mostly Yoongi 😊
Unserious reason would be when I saw Jimin in the BST music video 🤭
Serious reason would be watching the 2018 MAMA awards when it aired and seeing Taehyung break down as he said that they’d considered disbanding at the start of the year 😭
When I saw a CK poster of JK in a shopping mall and I got extremely happy. (Because of a poster!)
When I was watching Spring Day for the first time and it actually made me cry. No other song has had that power over me before.
That’s when I knew I was going to be loyal to these 7 for life!
I’m a trans man and being inspired by them has helped me understand myself better as a man.
They don’t even know me and they’ve helped me with my identity, one of the most important things for me nowadays. This shit is for life
great question! for me it was seeing OT7 in concert in 2021 in LA. The energy was incredible and they all bring such good vibes and immense talent. I walked away from that concert def thinking, “wow I love them even more now and I’m in this for life”! 🙌🏻
When I realised I am more kinder to myself. I started accepting myself and things around me. And when I felt sad all I could think was to keep going. Everything will work out in end. And I smiled looking at pictures of tannies.
It made me realise..I guess I found my home 💜
Honestly, any time I put on a BTS playlist, I have this moment. Their discography and their range blows me away every time.
Whatever it was now all I can think about is this moment, I’l never be the same after that eye contact and high five 🫠
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I knew I was here for life when I lost my Father and all I could hear or feel was Spring Day. When I felt Namjoon was speaking my pain in Reflections. When Not Today became my anthem literally to survive. I’m with them for life. 💜
When they walked through that door at the award show and performed Home. I became a lifer
My journey into this was so gradual but also so sudden that there is no specific moment I can pinpoint.
But one moment that made me go, “Huh, so I’m really *deep* in this bangtan business” was when some friends asked me to hang out on a particular day, and I was SO SURE I had something else scheduled already. Turns out it was BTS who had the schedule and not me 😭 so much of my routine I adjust to fit theirs, and it’s been years now and it looks like things aren’t changing ever. So yeah, in this for life <3
Carpool Karaoke had me wanting more, “ON 6 second interviews” locked me in. WHO ARE THEY AND HOW DID MY LOVE FOR THEM HIT 100 IMMEDIATELY??
Honestly? Run BTS. I love their music so much and their songs have hit me hard at different points for sure, but seeing them all interact and have fun and just be a family is what cemented them as a fixture in my life 💜💜
I think I knew I was going to have a fondness for them and keep up with their careers forever pretty early on while watching them be so funny and caring with each other. But my honest answer to the “for life” part is RPWP. Jin and Hobi’s work post military has confirmed that.
There was a VLive where Jin and Jimin were in a hotel room in America, eating hot dogs. I was making dinner and moving my phone around the kitchen to keep up with these men that I could not understand, but laughing as they literally held their hot dogs with chopsticks. My roommate walked in and was like, “What is this?” and I realized I was in deep, because it was too ridiculous to explain.
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This exact moment. They bought me with their sense of humor.
I can listen to only BTS all day. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this for another band before. Not into k-pop either.
When Namjoon said “please use me to love yourself” at Citifield and then I think the Wings concert, where Namjoon said if we could bring your pain down from 100 to 99 or 98, then we’ve done our job. This with hearing Answer Love Myself made me positive that I made the right choice to be an ARMY.