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SilverHC⁷⁼¹

@silverhc.bsky.social

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Feral GenX BTS sanity space.💜
Only following other OT⁷ ARMY.
🍉•✊🏿✊🏻✊🏼•🌊•🏳️‍🌈• INTP⚗️

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SilverHC⁷⁼¹ @silverhc.bsky.social · Nov 21

For ARMY interested in the virtual photocard thing:

mariajin @ytteeb.bsky.social · Nov 21

Ahaha it’s through bcd app b-cd.app
Go there and create ur acc.
Go to lastfm & connect it to ur streaming service (even free Spotify works) and then connect ur lastfm acc on the bcd app. If everything works correctly you’ll see ur last streams on the bcd app.
1)Everyday we all have missions

b-cd.app

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laur ♡⁷

@joonlens.bsky.social

January 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM

SilverHC⁷⁼¹

@silverhc.bsky.social

Known Meaning; Best breakdown. 🥰💜 #ARIRANG #BTS
www.instagram.com/p/DTneZw-iZmh/

Jinwoo Park on Instagram: "BTS's fifth album is called Arirang. So here's some context on what Arirang really means to the Korean people, and why it's so meaningful that Bangtan has named their upcomi...

9,461 likes, 279 comments - jinwoopark0721 on January 17, 2026: "BTS's fifth album is called Arirang. So here's some context on what Arirang really means to the Korean people, and why it's so meaningf...

www.instagram.com

January 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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Samaya

@samayabangtangirl.bsky.social

#BTS website cover has been updated

*When you click on each member's face, you get a voice message from them.

2026BTS.COM

January 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM

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yrrweg⁷🦢

@yrrweg.bsky.social

They all speak when you hover your cursor over them! I recorded them here (from 2026bts.com )

#BTS

January 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM

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Alice⁷࣪ ִֶָ☾.

@m00nchilld.bsky.social

Wildest shit discovering the first recording of a Korean Arirang was made by SEVEN Koreans 😃
#bts
Link: boundarystones.weta.org/2020/02/12/k...

Today, the K-Pop phenomenon has taken the world by storm; but it seems that American fascination with Korean music goes all the way back to the late 1800s, 1896 to be exact. Long before bands like BTS sold out stadiums, there were seven Korean (then called Chosun) students whose singing captured the attention of “dozens of damsels” at Howard University.[1]

But how did Koreans end up at Howard? That’s quite a story in its own right. According to newspaper records, Im Byung Goo (19), Lee Bum Su (24), Kim Hun Sik (27), Ahn Jung Sik (23), Eyo Byung Hyun (26), and an unnamed student stole 400 won from a Korean bank in spring of 1896 and fled to Vancouver.[2] Having spent all their stolen money travelling, they found themselves in a web of their own making. Their lack of knowledge of English certainly didn’t help the situation either. In a panic, the runaways visited the Japanese Consulate and asked them to telegraph Suh Kwang Bum, the Korean Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U.S.[2] Lucky for the runaways, Suh likely empathized with their story. He himself, in a sense, also once fled to the States out of necessity.

January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM

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laur ♡⁷

@joonlens.bsky.social

they’re everything to me

ot7 live, cropped photo focused on jin with his head in his cheek, jungkook looking at him, his hand/arm on jin’s knee

January 17, 2026 at 4:01 AM

SilverHC⁷⁼¹

@silverhc.bsky.social

Between modes of fashionista Tiger V and unsure Tata Mic is the fusion that is gentle Winter Bear. Winter Bear Tae will always be my favorite. ✨💜💜Borahae💜💜

Samaya @samayabangtangirl.bsky.social · 2d

Taehyung via GQ KOREA

What does love mean to V? The full heart to heart conversation with V that touches hearts in a romantic way will be released tomorrow on GQ Korea YouTube channel. Please expect this precious video soon.

#TaehyungxGQKorea

www.instagram.com/reel/DTmIaKk...

January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM

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Daily BTS⁷ 💜

@dailybts.bsky.social

[ARTICLE] WHAT IS SO STRIKING ABOUT THEIR CHOICE?

BTS named their new album Arirang. What is so striking about their choice?

The title is loaded with meaning for all Koreans, and will give fans globally an insight into the folksong culture that shaped the world’s biggest K-pop group

www.theguardian.com

January 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM

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Musings⁷ ♥️ 𝔹𝕋𝕊 𝕐𝔼𝔸ℝ

@musingsbangtan.bsky.social

“The melody is simple and flexible, easy to learn and easy to adapt. Anyone can sing Arirang, and anyone can add verses to reflect their own experiences.”

I’m curious: ARMY, do you know of songs in your or other cultures which serve this purpose?

BTS

Photo of 7 men in black suits over a newspaper headline reading, “BTS names their new album Arirang. What is so striking about their choice?”

January 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM

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Daily BTS⁷ 💜

@dailybts.bsky.social

A beautiful breakdown of Arirang & ARMYrang by user zarahgeeh— Filipino librarian, folklorist, writer & ARMY. Sharing this here for those not on Threads because this love, history, and meaning deserves to be heard. 💜

(🔗: www.threads.com/@zarahgeeh/p...)

I have been sitting with this for hours now, trying to steady myself because, my goodness, BTS has done something sublime, yet again.
Because, to name the comeback album, “Arirang” is not just an album title. And for them to send ARMY a message on Apple Music, calling us ARMYrang is not just a message.
As a librarian, as a folklorist, as a writer of folk tales, and as ARMY, this moment reaches far deeper than fandom. It touches the part of me that understands how culture survives;
how stories of ordinary people make the fabric of sovereignty and nationhood.
Arirang comes from folk tradition. It is not a song you own. It is a song you carry. It is a story you offer.
It has no single author. It belongs to farmers and migrants, to those who labored and waited, to people who crossed mountains and borders with grief in their pockets and hope folded carefully into song. Arirang has always been sung at thresholds, when leaving, when returning, when words are not enough.
So when BTS name their comeback album, Arirang, this is not nostalgia.
This is not branding. This is not a trend.
This is inheritance. This is heritage. A cultural artifact brought back to consciousness.

BTS is not saying we are back. They are saying we endured. They are saying we crossed. They are saying we remember who we are and where we come from.
And then, ARMYrang.
That word undid me.
In folk traditions, the refrain of song and story exists so others can join in.
The song lives because someone answers back. To be named inside a song and story is to be acknowledged as part of its survival.
ARMYrang is not a term of endearment. By using folk literature, BTS is addressing us as kin and community.
BTS says: you are not the audience.
You are not just a market. You are not merely a number.
You are part of the refrain.
As a librarian, I know this as second skin: for culture to survive it needs to be remembered and to be lived.
Because someone must keep on singing, retelling, passing it on with care.

As a folklorist, I know what it means to step into collective authorship; to speak with humility, to carry a story without flattening it, to trust the people who receive it to hold it well.
As ARMY, I know what it has meant to wait. As a mother, I learned how to hold joy and sorrow together. Being a woman, I know how to sing quietly when shouting would break us.
And now, ARMYrang. It feels like love eternal not
because it promises forever but because it promises continuance.
Eternity, in folk culture, is not endless time. It is unbroken transmission.
A song passed hand to hand.
A name spoken with care.
A people who show up, again and again, to sing. To tell stories.
This comeback does not ask us to scream. It asks us to listen.
It does not demand attention.
It asks for reverence.
Putang ina. Paiiyakin tayo ng Bangtan. (Fuck, Bangtan will make us cry!)

Not because this is dramatic.
But because this is true.
This is what it looks like when artists return not as products, but as people. And when they call their listeners not fans, but kin.
I am still gathering my wits. Really. I think I will be for a while.
But I know this much:
To be ARMY in this moment, to be called ARMYrang, is to stand inside a very old song to be held and to belong there.
Apobangpo! Purple and true! 💜

January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM

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adrian⁷🦋⊙⊝⊜

@smeraldojmn.bsky.social

BITCH WHAT THE FUCK

FUCKKK black and white photo of jimin for vogue. he looks into the mirror with siren eyes and a floral embroidered vest.

January 15, 2026 at 2:04 AM

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BipolarChef⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ 💜 🐳

@bipolarchef.bsky.social

"BTS holds the longest-running K-pop world tour in history, with 79 performances in 34 cities."

And more records are coming. 😎

💜 #BTS ⊙⊝⊜

🔗 m.entertain.naver.com/home/article...

방탄소년단, K-팝 사상 최다 회차 월드투어 개최…34개 도시 79회 공연

m.entertain.naver.com

January 14, 2026 at 1:39 AM

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Kaelie⁷

@niightngale.bsky.social

Some of the rarer BTS items in my collection, I can do some proper photos tomorrow

January 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM

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Kaelie⁷

@niightngale.bsky.social

Looking for #btsarmy, especially if you are from the UK - I'm new to bluesky so lets be friends 💜

January 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM

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Daily Seokjin⁷ 🐹

@dailyseokjin.bsky.social

🎶 Bringing sexy back~

#DailySeokjin #진 #JIN #Seokjin #KimSeokjin #BTS #BTS_Jin #WorldwideHandsome

Seokjin’s back adorned with FRED long necklace.

January 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM

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hayley⁷ ⟭⟬ ⊙⊝⊜ 𝓐𝓻𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰

@b8ngt8n.bsky.social

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡
ﾟ。 my everything
　ﾟ･｡･ﾟ

January 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM

SilverHC⁷⁼¹

@silverhc.bsky.social

GOOD Question!! Anyone? I'm starting out as well, so this may be a hiccup with many. 😬

SugaKooky ⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ @sugakooky.bsky.social · 7d

BCD QUESTION:

So last.fm is not tracking like half of the streams from my Apple account. Spotify tracks fine, but I need both. Have any of you used stats.fm? Does it work better?

January 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM

SilverHC⁷⁼¹

@silverhc.bsky.social

Which is why I'll always reblog an ARMY mutual before an account trying to gain more followers than following-backs. With exception to 'Daily' accounts, 'cause they work hard. 🫂

Tree🌳 @unnecessary.bsky.social · 7d

I love it when I reblog a post and then I see it floating around in my circles because of ME. I brought enrichment into our collective enclosure :) I found a good shiny rock :)

January 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM

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@tkinsights.bsky.social

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

January 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM

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Musings⁷ ♥️ 𝔹𝕋𝕊 𝕐𝔼𝔸ℝ

@musingsbangtan.bsky.social

I've streamed Indigo every day since the BCD album missions began, and today was finally my 7%

This one means so much because it was part of RM to 1B💜