Reflections in a Critical Eye

Thoughts on pop culture/media/cinema she/her

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READ THIS before sending asks about JIKOOK

M's Reading Challenge

Read this before sending asks about Jimin's music

Blog rebranding. BMT > Reflections in a Critical Eye. Comeback post July 27th 2023

BTS/K-Pop Highlight Posts (2021-2023) - Former Bangtan Media Thoughts

Stop asking me about bts

The mystery of Tedros...

Read this before thinking of sending ask/links related to "tea"/predictions acc

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With all the bullshit going on this week, it’s so nice to see Jimin being such a sweet person and always paying attention to the kids coming to the concerts.

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Reading Challenge - Year 2/Week 1

August 8th - August 16th 2026

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I need to say one thing. Believe people when they show you who they are. Believe people when they:

- are complicit in Taylor Swift-level monetisation of content, merchandise and "art"

- change what they said and gaslight viewers because what they originally said affected stock prices ("we were never taking a hiatus" 🤡)

- encourage their fans to bully others on their behalf online repeatedly

- stay silent despite egregious violent language every day in their fandom

- appropriate from other cultures with no meaningful appreciation or collaboration

- continually promote unhealthy or no-food (anorexia) diets

- complicit in death threats sent to people they want to punish

- continually choose white women for collaboration or to put on a pedestal

- rarely/never collaborate with or uplift women from their own culture

- follow/spend time with abusers

- drink & drive and get charged for it

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What's the thing with rock honey? Anyone doing honey business in that group?

Anon, you don’t know?!?!?!

In every backstage content since they started touring, there’s lengthy dedicated time for talking about the honey influencer J-Hope is bringing. And everyone has a taste and they keep talking about it. Over and over again. Op here put it best though:

When people say that honey gets more screen time than Jimin, they’re really not exaggerating.

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That rock honey is so much more important than Jimin in bts content, bighit is ready to give it singing lessons.

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the most beautiful cr. movewithsope

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JIMIN ✦ Fake Love Arirang Tour in Munich D2 fancam by me (??!!)

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JIMIN & JUNGKOOK Arirang World Tour in North America

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demon jimin casually bewitching the entire stadium

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If any apology or message will ever be shared, my money is they’ll be using AI Gemini for it.

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If Jimin chooses to continue with group activities after the tour, will you still support him? Do you think they’ll shift back to solo careers after this, or will the group stuff drag out longer?

If Jimin goes solo again, I just hope it’s not like 2 years ago when they were barely exploring. I’d love to see him drop a true solo album, tour, and be himself without HYBE holding him back. Do you think that’s likely to happen?

These people can barely stick together backstage before a concert, what are the realistic chances of working more together after they fulfil the contractual obligations?

As for Jimin, let’s just manifest he is smart enough to look out for his best interests and not a group to which he dedicated 13 years of his life.

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Busan vlog without Jimin... hahaha.

No Jimin and they even sidelined Jungkook. At least compared to the amount of screentime he usually gets. But hey, Busan is Tedros city, right?

They showed a bit of Jimin in the beginning merely because they included the part of his father bringing them sweets. Otherwise you best believe he wouldn’t have been in any frame.

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That stupid honey got more screentime than jm

I wonder how long will it take until there’s some news about either that dude JHope or his family/friends are actually selling this honey. It gets to a point where it sounds like advertisement.

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They should have taken girlfriends to that concert. That way their k-cultmy would send protest trucks and funeral wreaths at hybe and make such noise that they would feel compelled to put out a statement asking forgiveness. We all know that dating rumors are taken more seriously by fans, idols and labels than supporting an abuser.

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Going to the gym all the time instead of to the therapist. Not just talking about Tedros either