#message from management

[akookminsupporter]

I’m going to say this one more time. I’ve said it before, more than once actually, but given everything that’s been happening lately, I feel like I need to say it again, especially because of the ASKS I’ve been getting over the past few days. So let’s clear this up once againg.

This is not a group project. It never has been. My blog is my own space. The things I write about here are the things I want to write about. The ASKS I post, the ones I respond to, the ones I decide to highlight, they’re entirely up to me. Nobody else. If you’ve got your own way of seeing things, fair enough, that’s your right. But equally, what I believe and what I choose to talk about is my right. That’s how it works.

Let me make this crystal clear: I am not shutting my blog down. My perspective hasn’t changed, and my feelings haven’t shifted. I’m still here, and I’m still supporting Jimin and Jungkook. Whatever relationship they have, whatever way they define it or choose not to define it, I’ll keep supporting them because that’s what I want to do. I’m here for BTS, I’m here for Jimin and Jungkook, and I’ll stay here for them. That’s not going to change because someone else has decided they see things differently.

I’ll carry on writing about them, I’ll keep getting excited over their moments, their words, their music, their energy. I’ll keep celebrating the things they share with us, big or small. I can’t wait for the second season of their show, and I can’t wait for the music they’ll be releasing in the future. These are the things that bring me joy, and this space is where I get to share that.

So if you’ve “stopped believing in jikook”, if you think you’ve suddenly ‘woken up’, if you’re convinced you’ve discovered some grand truth well, good for you, honestly. Congratulations. But it has nothing to do with me. I don’t care. The fact that you’ve changed your mind doesn’t mean I’m obliged to do the same. And the fact that I continue to believe what I believe doesn’t mean you need to follow me either. We are not tied to each other. We are independent people. I am an independent person. I make my own choices, and I trust myself enough to know what I want and what I don’t. Right now, what I want is to keep doing exactly this.

I don’t owe anyone an explanation for the way I run this blog, least of all strangers on the internet. I don’t need to justify myself to you, and I don’t need you coming in here trying to tell me I remind you of this person or that person, or comparing me to this group or that group. I’m not interested. I know who I am, I know what I stand for, and my feet are firmly on the ground. That’s the beginning and the end of it.

So please don’t come here acting like you can give me orders. Don’t show up telling me what I ‘must’ do, what we ‘shouldn’t’ do, or what ‘we’ should change. Because here’s the thing, there is no we. You and I are not a group. This is not a collective effort. This is my blog. You don’t get to tell me what to do, just like I don’t get to tell you how to run your space.

All I’m asking, really, is very simple: respect my blog, respect my decisions. That’s all. Nothing more, nothing less.

[innbetween]

Folks, our crowdfund reached 91%, against all odds.

I knew trying to crowdfund during a pandemic was going to be very tough. I decided beforehand that if we reached 1/3 of our goal, I would call the campaign a success. Then the BLM protests began in earnest the day after launch. And suddenly there were a million better things to spend money on than this show. (There still are, please don’t stop getting involved.) I had the responsibility to pay my cast, so I did not cancel the crowdfund, but I decided to make peace with whatever the Good Lord let happen.

Nevertheless, y’all came through. We fell a little short of our goal, but that was by no means a failure under the circumstances. You showed us such overwhelming support, and I am so grateful for it.

May we be worthy of it. Thank you, all of you, so much.

[akookminsupporter]

I honestly do not know who gave some people the impression that I would allow them to speak poorly about Jimin or Jungkook here, but let me clear it up once and for all.

This blog has always been about Jimin and Jungkook, and it will continue to be about them. This place was created for people who enjoy Jikook or Kookmin or whichever way you want to call it, and nothing about that has changed. That is the heart of this blog, and it will always stay that way.

So if anyone comes here thinking they can start criticising one of them while praising the other, or spreading negativity to try and stir things up, you should know straight away that you are in the wrong space. This blog is not the place for pointless arguments or for putting Jimin against Jungkook or Jungkook against Jimin. They are both equally important here and both are appreciated.

I welcome genuine fans who want to enjoy content, share love for both of them, and keep this space positive. What I will not do is allow people to come here and try to poison that atmosphere with unnecessary drama. If you cannot respect both of them, then this blog is not for you.

Any ask of that sort will be blocked straight away.

[akookminsupporter]

Honestly, I don’t think I’ll ever wrap my head around why certain people go out of their way to show up on blogs like this with a whole essay full of ‘evidence’ and reasons why Jimin and Jungkook aren’t a couple — and not just that, but why they’re supposedly the straightest men to ever walk the planet. I mean, what’s the point? What exactly are they trying to achieve? Do they really think we’re suddenly going to see the light and go, ‘Oh wow, thank you for enlightening us!’? It’s almost funny how desperate the whole thing feels. Either they need our approval to validate whatever narrative they’re clinging to, or the idea that someone out there sees things differently just rattles them to their core.

Either way, it’s exhausting. No one asked, and no one’s changing their mind because a stranger on the internet can’t stand the idea of Jikook possibly being real.

And just to be clear — I don’t need anyone to ‘open my eyes’, thank you very much. My vision’s fine, and you lot aren’t exactly drops of wisdom. But more importantly, this blog isn’t here to convince anyone to think like I do or see things the way I do. I created this space because I enjoy discussing something I love. And if someone else who thinks similarly wants to join the conversation, that’s great! If not, honestly, the noise in my own head and the twenty conversations I’m having with myself at any given moment are more than enough to keep me entertained.

[akookminsupporter]

I haven’t had much time to check social media today, but I did catch what’s going on. If you’ve been on my blog for more than five minutes, you’ll know I don’t talk about this kind of stuff unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s a rule I made years ago, and it’s written in the guidelines of this blog. So, this is the only time I’m going to mention it, unless something genuinely relevant comes up later on.

If your very first thought or reaction was to celebrate that “Jimin has a girlfriend” instead of being upset or thinking about how his privacy was violated by someone who was supposedly close to him, which makes it even worse, then you really need to reevaluate yourself as a person.

If your first or second reaction was to mock jikook or jikookers online instead of being upset or thinking about how his privacy was violated by someone supposedly close to him, which makes it even worse, then you need to reevaluate yourself as a person.

If your first or third reaction when seeing all this was to run to blogs or accounts about jikook just to laugh or brag about it instead of being upset or thinking about how his privacy was violated by someone supposedly close to him, which makes it even worse, then you need to reevaluate yourself as a person.

If your first or fourth reaction was literally anything other than being upset or realising that Jimin’s privacy was violated by someone supposedly close to him, which makes it even worse, you really, really need to reevaluate yourself as a person.

The person who uploaded those so-called videos is clearly unstable. First, she denied the relationship, then she bragged about it, and now this. This is not something to celebrate; it’s not a “gotcha moment” for anyone, because JIMIN’S PRIVACY WAS VIOLATED. It doesn’t matter if the videos are from years ago or from yesterday.

Now, let’s also talk about what haters and jikookphobics are foaming at the mouth over: I don’t care. Don’t come to my blog telling me what I should or shouldn’t do. You’ve got your opinion, I’ve got mine. And mine is very clear. If tomorrow Jimin comes out and confirms something, then fine. Until then, this is a jikook blog that supports Jimin and Jungkook's relationship, no matter what label it has. That’s it. That’s all. I don’t care what you think, I don’t care about your opinion, your analysis, or your links to other people’s takes. I’ve got here by believing only what I think, and I’ll leave when I decide to think differently. Simple as that.

So again: don’t waste your time, and don’t waste mine. If you can’t handle the fact that this is a jikook-supportive space, move along. I’d rather block a hundred people in one day than let this blog become a playground for haters, gossip-hunters, or anyone who doesn’t get the very simple point: respect Jimin, respect jikook, and respect the privacy of the people you claim to support. If that’s too much to ask, then honestly, you shouldn’t even be here in the first place.

So do me a favour and save me the time of blocking your ASKS, because trust me, that’s exactly what I’ll do.

And last but by far the most important: REPORT WHAT’S HAPPENING TO HYBE/BIGHIT.

HERE IS HOW TO DO IT:

[akookminsupporter]

The way so many of you are clinging on, practically hanging off a supposed tattoo that hasn’t even been confirmed to exist, and then assuming it’s connected to the weather girl, is honestly pathetic. No matter how many ASKs you send about it, I am not going to post them, so how about we all save ourselves the waste of time? Thanks.

And no, if you send a reply to this post, I won’t be posting that either. Don’t be daft.

[akookminsupporter]

I had completely forgotten that I reset my ASK count every year. Well, I say every year as if I have been doing this for ages. This is actually my second year posting the tally and my third year keeping track of how many ASKS I post on this blog. It suddenly hit me that I had already answered a few ASKS and had continued the count from last year, which I was not supposed to do. I have fixed that now.

This year, well, in 2025, I posted 435 ASKS. That is quite a lot, but it is very little compared to what I posted in 2024, which was over 1,000 ASKS. And I think it was actually even more than that. I realised last year that there were ASKS where I repeated the number or did not count them at all. So in 2024 I ended up posting more ASKS than I initially thought. In 2025, the number was much lower, less than 50 per cent of the previous year. That is interesting, but it does not really surprise me.

It is also true that I delete a lot of ASKS every day, and many others never get posted at all. Either because they talk about things I have already covered, things I am no longer interested in discussing, or simply things I do not feel like posting. All of that contributed to the number of direct conversations I had with you, or with people on this blog, being much lower.

We will see how things go this year. I think this year is going to be quite busy, or at least I hope so. We are definitely going to see a lot happening and there will be a lot of information. I genuinely hope we get to have nice, enjoyable debates here. Sometimes I really miss the blog I started with, but obviously everything changes, and people change too. I think my posts have changed as well. All of that played a part, and I also understand that people are not always that interested in my opinion, or in sharing theirs with me.

But anyway, those were the numbers for last year. So here is to wishing everyone the best year. 2026 is going to be the year of BTS and their fans, right? Or at least that is what we are all hoping for.

[akookminsupporter]

Keeping track of the asks I post has turned out to be a great idea for lots of reasons. One of them is that, because I restarted the count this year, when I click on the hashtag with the number of the ask I’m posting, I can see what I was asked last year under that exact same number. And it’s actually quite funny, because ask 412 from last year was a conversation about a post where I mentioned that by July I had already posted 412 asks. And now here we are, November this year, and I’ve only just reached that number. Which basically means I’ve posted fewer asks this year than I did last year.

Maybe that’ll change once the show comes out, but I think I’m still going to end up with fewer asks overall. And I find that interesting because, considering the guys came back from military service this year, I genuinely thought I’d get more asks or that we’d have more conversations than last year. But that didn’t happen. Maybe people just aren’t that interested in talking to me anymore😂. That could be another possibility🤨🤨.