#hypetrain rants

[jikookhypetrain]

I had no ill intentions. I said I'm one of those armys because I think I understood your post and I do find them curious, suspicious at times and stuff. But I also wanted to say what's stopping? me I guess from entirely seeing them as something more than bandmates/friends. But I understand if it sounded like just rambling to you.

You can see them however you want. That’s why we have so many opinions and stuff regarding ships. But when someone takes their time to write a post about a specific subject, in my understanding, if said topic does not directly affect or apply to you, then you’re doing a couple misguided things.

You’re unloading stuff that’s been heavy on your mind under a post that may loosely or not at all touch on what’s bothering you

You’re camped out under a tag you’re always on the ready to attack

You’re a naysayer hidden among believers...always waiting to tell people just how wrong you think they are

Or you’ve misunderstood someone’s intentions within their post. In which case, slide into my DMs if you want an honest explanation

This happens a lot with blogs that deal with ships. You think you’re writing for like minded individuals or people with receptive ears and BAM!!! Someone’s messin’ like that.  So Anon my question to you is; did you or did you not come under my VERY Jikook post and start to say how “Bleh...Jungkook touches everyone’s crotch and grinds on them” or some such garb? (Like I don’t already know this🙄) And did I, in my post try to convince you to see them as anything more than bandmates? 

I mean, we could have had an interesting conversation about Jungkook and his love for his hyung’s crotches... IF I had been talking about the relation between Jungkook’s touchiness and Jikook as a couple, for example. You came out of left field attacking my post with all this information about Jungkook and crotches...I...I was left flustered to be honest. But in the end, I was talking about how both shippers, non shippers and ship-suspicious fans consume material packaged under Jikook heavy advertisement. You, my love, were lost.

[jikookhypetrain]

The thing people don't understand about Jikook is that we don't "ship" them just because of the moments they have. Like, that is ridiculous. If I told you that I ship Jikook because Jimin hugged JK at that one time or that JK did this or that with Jimin, I mean– it holds no water.

Say you get excited about Jimin tightly hugging JK one day and we decide they're real based on that hug, then a week later he squishes Hobi in another hug? You'd be like 🤡

I don't ship Jikook solely based on things like that because the boys do things to each other all the time. They are very close and can sometimes get weird handsy. I literally cannot ship Jikook based on such moments because I know that any time after I've said they're real because of that action, these unpredictable touchy mfs may decide to go around doing just that for an entire week 🤪

This doesn't mean that I ship them based on just my gut feeling or because I crossed paths with a black cat one day. I can still ship them based on some of these very moments. Only, I can either say, "that's special" or "that's a normal thing" when I come across a Jikook moment.

JK carrying Jimin in those memories DVDs was a great Jikook moment. But JK carries other members too. Yes, but how? Jimin hugs every BTS member. Him hugging JK isn't that special if you don't see the difference in how he hugs him or the context leading up to the hug. The HOW matters. The WHY matters. The WAS IT NECESSARY matters too. Otherwise all moments between all members are the same.

Take this picture as an example of the point I'm trying to make.

If you can look at these pictures and tell me that the level of intimacy is the same, then...idk. I can't help you.

But what I'm trying to say is if you're getting ready to jump ship because Taekook have been "wilding" for you this season, by all means, jump. But we're keeping our life vest so you can go drown in that sea of pretty, but generic moments. You think a ship is real because in a rare moment your otp hugged or touched pinkies? You need a prayer circle.

Jikook is real tho. It's why we have four beautiful G.C.F films that still can't give anyone what G.C.F Tokyo did. Laugh all you want about how tightly we are holding onto that video but it's a Titan that's still standing like a dark cloud over the entire BTS shipping fandom almost three years after it happened .