A graphite and ink painting of Min Yoongi looking to the side with a spatter and wash of purple&blue ink behind him
Happy Birthday Min Yoongi
Talented, beautiful, caring, deep, exquisitely precise and hardworking.
You inspire me every single day and I cannot wait to see you on stage in July.
#btsfanart #SUGA #HappySUGADay
This is so crazy. In 10 (!!) days we will have new music (!!!!) by BTS (!!!!!!!!!!!) 😱🤯😱🤯😱🤯😱💜
“We promised our fans that we’d be back” & fans chanting “BTS” & Mikrokosmos playing in the background & it’s just GOOSEBUMPS all over omg
💜😭🥹🔥
#BTSLive #BTSLiveonNetflix
youtu.be/X6EHtzcmiPw?...
Hobi including A$AP in his Hip Hop Phile lyrics & now A$AP reposting his stories feels like yet another full circle moment…
What a year this week has been.
Jin on Run BTS saying, "The only frames I know of are bed frames"
I really need the weekend to recuperate from this week 😴
BTS in hanbok in front of the Gyeongbokgung Palace
Gwanghwamun Square
Steps of the Sejong Center for performing arts with BTS installation
Gwanghwamun Square
BTS to have their first full-group comeback stage on March 21 at Gwanghwamun Square; Global live streaming expected to bring in millions of views from ARMY.
(Sources at the end of the thread.)
BTS World Tour ARIRANG poster with yhe newly added date in Las Vegas, May 28th. ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE Date: From 5pm to 9:59 pm, Friday, January 23, 2026 (Local Time)
ARMY was ARMYing so hard they had to add another concert in Las Vegas. Pre-sale already today!
🔗 weverse.io/bts/notice/3...
#BTS j-hope & "baby1"
😭💜🫰🏻
Good luck!!! 🍀💜
And I’m happy for you!!! 💜💜💜🥳
Congrats!! 💜
I will be there too 🥹💜
Congratulations to everyone who got tickets & best of luck to everyone still trying 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Seeing people who didn’t get lucky today on the tl and all my fingers will be crossed for you for Saturday. You deserve tickets so much. 🙏🍀💜🕯️
My brain is mush, I’m broke, and I’m seeing Bangtan this summer. Still cannot believe. I think I’m too shocked.
This ticketing thing was quite the experience. I feel like I’ve aged a few years but simultaneously, now, with the results being more than I’d hoped for, I’m just over the moon. And overwhelmed. Wow.
I’m loving the mystery of it all 😃
They all speak when you hover your cursor over them! I recorded them here (from 2026bts.com )
#BTS
Since the origin of ARIRANG’s logo is ㅇㄹㄹ … in case you want to use this in your display name: ㉧㉣㉣
(found on twt @/livheartt)
A gray image that says ARIRANG in bold white letters at the bottom. In the gray image we can just so make out 7 figures that are wearing dark suits, white dress shirts, and dark ties. We can't see the faces or any other details
We're starting to see something 👀 (an image appeared on 2026bts.com )
#BTS
For anyone who could use it, especially this week, I made a “Soothing BTS” playlist to help ease anxiety in stressful moments 😌
open.spotify.com/playlist/401...
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! 💜
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...)
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it just occurred some ppl don't know this
🔴🔴🔴
ARMYRANG ARIRANG
is not just a random rhyme smashing ARMY in front of a bad rhyme lol
ARMY랑 아리랑
ARIRANG with ARMY
+랑 =with
친구랑 공부 하러 갔어
chingooRANG gongbu haro gassuh
I went to study WITH my chingoo (friend)
just "ARMYRANG" = ARMY랑 =
"with ARMY"
Counting down to release day and tour 😌💜 #ARIRANG #BTS
Art used as lock screen by
@/ryooo__yun__7 on twt
Several years ago I decided to figure out where the studio version of Arirang by BTS came from. Was it an edit from the kcon performance? Released somewhere?
With the help of ARMY lore keepers, we found the answer. +
youtu.be/kWvo8-PJcOc?...
#bts
#BTS_ARIRANG
And it’s such a perfect title 🥹
