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So going off on your response to that last ask (which i agree with btw)

Ive always thought something similar, at least it has become kind of increasingly obvious this year and that makes me think of how awkward that probably is? Like think about it, let’s assume jikook ARE a couple and obviously vmin always have stated and shown how much they love and care about each other as platonic soulmates. Doing these things to entertain a section of the fandom they know likes these interactions, doesn’t that make things awkward with vminkook? Like jimin’s boyfriend and his best friend in the world routinely entertain and subtly engage with a section of the fandom that is like 90% jimin antis, and that’s a generous estimate.

I know we can’t know for sure about anything here, we are just speculating on the observations we have on their behaviors and what they show us and none of us can claim to be 100% objective on these issues, since we will have our biases one way or another. But just thinking about the possibilities that this opens up kinda leaves me a little confused.

Then again i guess there’s no need for us to think about it too hard? Is not like we will know 100% one way or another about these things and they (vminkook) seem happy in their dynamic? At least i hope they are.

When it comes to this, I've always chosen to go with what I think is the simplest and most logical conclusion. They've talked about it, they know exactly what they're doing, and they don't have an issue with it. That's why they keep doing it.

If Jimin and Jungkook really are in a relationship, and if Taehyung genuinely cares about Jimin the way he's always said he does, then I find it very hard to believe that if Jimin was genuinely hurt by everything that happens online, they would knowingly continue doing things that made that worse. I just don't think that's a fair assessment of any of them. It doesn't fit with the people they've consistently shown themselves to be over the years.

At the same time, expecting Jungkook and Taehyung to simply stop interacting, stop posting photos together, or stop spending time together also feels incredibly unfair. They're friends. They've been friends for years. Why should they have to limit a perfectly normal friendship because other people choose to interpret it in a way that they probably never intended?

Because that's the thing for me. I don't know if everyone sees it this way, but when I watch the interactions between Jungkook and Taehyung, they feel... normal. There's never an implication. There's never this romantic or flirtatious undertone in what Taehyung and Jungkook post, the conversations they have, or the way they interact. I've genuinely never watched them and thought, "There's something going on here." That feeling has simply never been there for me.

That's also why I don't think they're the problem. The problem is the way some people consume that content. They already have a narrative in their heads, so everything gets filtered through that narrative. Every photo becomes proof. Every joke becomes evidence. Every interaction has to fit the conclusion they've already decided on. Once you approach things that way, there's almost nothing they could post that wouldn't be interpreted romantically.

So what would the alternative actually be? That Jimin, Jungkook, and Taehyung stop interacting publicly? That they stop posting pictures together? That they avoid being seen together just because some people are going to misinterpret it anyway? I don't think that's a reasonable expectation, and honestly, I don't think it would solve anything. If anything, people would probably start analysing the lack of interactions instead and build an entirely different narrative around that. We've seen that happen before. When they're together, it means something. When they're not together, that also means something. At that point, they're in a position where they literally can't win.

That's why I don't think the solution is for them to change their behaviour. I think the healthier conclusion is that they're simply living their lives, interacting the way they naturally would, and the rest is fandom projection.

So I'd like to believe that Jimin sees it that way too. I'd like to believe that's why he doesn't have a problem with Taehyung and Jungkook continuing to be themselves. I'd like to believe that's why Jungkook doesn't have a problem with it, and why Taehyung doesn't either. Maybe they've had those conversations that we'll obviously never know about. Maybe one day they sat down, talked about the fandom, talked about boundaries, and decided that they weren't going to let other people's interpretations dictate how they treated each other.

Or maybe they never even needed to have that conversation because, to them, there was never actually an issue to begin with. We don't know.

But personally, I'd rather believe they did have those conversations, or at the very least that they're all on the same page. That explanation feels far more consistent with the respect, trust, and affection they've consistently shown one another than the idea that they've silently allowed resentment or discomfort to build for years without ever addressing it.

[akookminsupporter]

After acknowledging the fact that it's not fine to share photos and videos of artists in real time. As it poses a security threat along with privacy issues.

Did you happen to see that video? That landed on my fyp. And I must say... I smiled looking at that unbothered JK. Not even wearing his mask. They are totally in idgaf era. And i am loving it for them.

Yeah, I saw it. They are the epitome of chill. Love that for them.

[akookminsupporter]

Hey Rosie, so i did a thing a decided to visit some taekook blogs to just read some of their theories to see if i could understand where they are coming from because no matter how hard i think about things, i just can’t for the life of me understand why someone will honestly still ship taekook in 2024 and even after watching everything Jikook have done for and to each other in years and when i tell you i lost braincells, believe me i did.

I’m one person who believes that people should be free to believe in what they want to as long as they are not being dismissive of other members bonds but i realized that, that is literally the only way taekookers cope. They are blatantly dismissive of Jk’s bond with Jimin and only acknowledge it when it comes to moments they cannot argue and then the want to play the “they are bestfriends so it’s normal” card even though just right before that, they were claiming how Jk arrived Yoongi’s concert and ignored Jimin. How can u say this and then when someone brings something which obviously shows how Jk cares about Jimin you are back to claiming that they are bestfriends even though you think Jk will arrive a concert and ignore his bestfriend just because he wants to cling to his “boyfriend”? Make it make sense.

I know that in the last years, jikook spaces have gotten really toxic and some jikookers are becoming as delulu as tkkrs but i will always thank God for the handful of sane jikookers we still have because trust me when i tell you that there is not a SINGLE sane taekooker in this world. All of them have either been brainwashed or are plain stupid. For the most part, most jikookers pay attention to facts to try to make sense of jikook. Yes we do have our theories but you don’t see Jikookers sticking to their theories as proof of the damn ship but this is the opposite for taekookers. They actually don’t care about the facts. They don’t care about what the boys have to say or what has actually happened all these years. They only care about their own interpretation of the boys actions and words.

You wouldn’t hear them bringing up tangible reasons as to why they think their ship is real. They will bring up reasons like the fact that taekook wore the same shirt on the same day and same time even though they were in different continents💀. They will bring up things like hearing taekook’s voices in each other’s Lives and the only proof they have for this are the voices in their heads.

I am one of those who believes that Jikook sometimes hide in each other’s Lives but i don’t believe this just because i see them look to a certain direction for 3 seconds or because i hear a random sound. My belief is backed up by the fact that we literally have evidence which has been consistent for over a decade which points to the fact that Jimin and Jk are the two who spend the most of their nigts together. I didn’t come to this conclusion by imagining that they do, i came to this conclusion because they have literally told us this so many damn times. So if i hear a voice or feel like someone else is in Jimin or Jk’s room at some odd hour, i am more inclined to think it is Jimin or Jk rather than anyone else because those two have a history of being in each other’s rooms the most, you get? It is the same as, if someone has a reputation of being a theif, if something gets missing everyone will most likely look to them first before anyone else.

Another thing that is really weird to me about taekookers is how they blatantly ignore everything we have witnessed Jikook do for years and then they hype up taekook doing some of those things for a 6 months period. This entire fandom has seen Jikook arrive and leave so many places together for years with or without tae present. We know that Jk has hung out with Jimin and his friends for years. Infact we saw Jk with Jm’s friends way b4 anyone ever dreamed of Jk hanging out with Tae’s wooga but when Jk did all these things with Jimin, it didn’t matter and it meant nothing but now, some of them consider it irrefutable proof that taekook is real because Taekook arrived and left a concert together ONCE in 10 years and because for the first time in a decade, Jk was seen hanging out with Tae and his friends for a period of time. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Do you remember those days when taekookers used to swear that Jikook hanging out alot outside of work was proof that they weren’t real because according to them, no closeted couple in a homophobic country will expose themselves so much? Remember when JM and Jk sharing cars was fanservice? Remember how they downplayed Jk’s lives about JM in chapter two because it was “official content” but were praying Jk did the same for tae and when that didn’t happen, they switched their narrative to “Jk was forced” or “Jm needed promotion while tae didn’t”. I honestly don’t understand how they even make sense to themselves. Ask them why they think Jk and tae are a couple when there is literally evidence Jk spending birthdays and couple holidays with Jimin and not seeing Tae some times at all and they tell you, Jk and tae have to protect themselves by lying that they don’t. So you mean to tell me that Jk and Tae don’t feel the need to “protect” themselves when they are attending premiers or when tae is namedropping Jk 1783787 times or when Tae is coming to announce that Jk sings him a song but they only feel the need to “protect” themselves when it comes to admitting that they go to greet each other on birthdays?

You see that their entire premise of belief in their ship is making other people the villains in taekook’s lives. The big bad company who constantly separates the boys in camera, constantly forces Jk to do fanservice with Jimin, constantly cuts their moments, Jimin who constantly forces himself on Jk, who doesn’t respect his friends relationships, Jk who is lilly livered and cannot stand up and say no to the money hungry company, Jk who sometimes hurts tae by playing along with the “fanservice” and poor tae tae who has to sit there and take all of this. Poor tae tae who has a terrible soulmate and a boyfriend who cannot fight for him. He is the real victim in all of this. I honestly don’t know how they don’t see how incredibly stupid they sound.

Sorry for the rant.

Anon, thanks for the TED TALK.

Honestly, there is not much I can add. Thanks for taking one for the team and read what las vecinas are saying, you are a stronger person than me because I have never been able to do that. I think two of the key things for that group to stay afloat for so long are:

Not seeing original content.

Living in denial.

And that's why they will always be around, no matter what.