I'm not a jkk shipper, I just love all jm friendships and I acknowledge that jk is his closest friend. But I saw your question about FS and we know that the narrative came from tkkers who somehow forgot all about FS the moment tkk started feeding them so I don't understand your question? We've always known where it came from? These are narratives that have been pushed and used for 13 years. It all started with the jk hates jm, tkkers not understanding why tkk weren't super close at some point, jkk being in a sub unit (that was pushed by the company but doesn't disprove their closeness). Jkk seemingly not spending much time together during solo era, and jk saying that if it weren't for ays they wouldn't have spent time together. Again, jk saying ays2 was "business" , ending the show with "good job" .The lack of jkk also coincides with jk saying he wants to live his life on his own terms. Even when they do a vlive after almost a year, it happens in busan their hometown and it's seen as FS for the occasion. Like you said, when you have a narrative in mind anything can be interpreted to prove or disprove it.
What I do want to ask though (and I'm glad you're not the kind to call everyone a troll and you're willing to have tough conversations) is one thing I've always seen from jkkers, is this idea that jkk is "hiding in plane sight", that ppl should look at patterns not 1 moment, that the jkk rs is made of moments not theories etc But from what many have noticed, (& not ur typical insecure jkkers) they are being private, they don't really slip up and mention spending time together, they haven't been spotted by ppl whether in korea or overseas, they barely ever post about each other and the pattern has broken and now I've seen many more theories, grasping at straws about jm necklaces and some lgbt song on jk insta, from ppl trying to cope with the lack of moments. So isn't it easy to ask ppl to recognise patterns & the moment ppl see a genuine never seen before shift, say that patterns don't matter because ppl are cynical anyways?
It's interesting how your first paragraph actually proves the point about narratives. It doesn't really leave any room for discussion, and it doesn't give the impression that you're looking to have one either.
I never asked where the fan service narrative came from. We all know where it came from. My question was why Jimin and Jungkook would willingly continue doing fan service for over a decade when, from a practical perspective, it has never obviously benefited either of them. If anything, it has brought them years of scrutiny, harassment, accusations, and people questioning every interaction they have. That has always been the part that doesn't make much sense to me.
And let's not rewrite what actually happened during the solo era either. Jungkook talked about Jimin repeatedly on his lives. He mentioned him without being prompted, played around with comments about him, reacted to him, and then they chose to film and release Are You Sure?! together. Whether someone believes they're friends, a couple, or absolutely nothing beyond colleagues, those things still happened. Pretending they didn't because they don't fit a particular narrative isn't really productive.
The "business" comment is another example. You're completely ignoring the tone in which Jungkook said it. It was obviously sarcastic. Even Jimin's response made that clear. If someone genuinely can't recognise sarcasm, that's a different conversation, but I don't think it's reasonable to present that moment as serious evidence when both of them were clearly joking with each other.
And the Busan live? It was called fan service? Really? I genuinely didn't know that. I wonder who started those accusations. Because that's kind of my point. Whenever they interact, it's fan service. Whenever they don't interact, they're distant. Whatever they do somehow ends up proving exactly what people already believed before it even happened. That's confirmation bias.
As for your second paragraph, I honestly think you've answered your own question.
Yes, I absolutely believe you have to look at the whole picture instead of only the latest brushstrokes. Relationships don't suddenly become meaningless because there's a quieter period. Patterns are built over years, not over a few months. If someone spends years telling me that patterns matter, I'm not going to throw away thirteen years of observable behaviour because one period looks different.
I also think people misunderstand what Jikookers mean when they talk about patterns. Most aren't referring to counting selfies or public interactions. They're talking about the consistency in the way Jimin and Jungkook move around each other, the decisions they make together, the way they speak about one another, the level of comfort they have, and the fact that their relationship has always looked different from the others. Those are patterns too.
Do I agree with every theory Jikookers come up with? Absolutely not. I've disagreed with plenty of them because I think some people do reach too far when there isn't enough evidence. The necklace theories, Instagram song theories, secret code theories, a lot of those can absolutely be people trying to fill in gaps. I've said that before.
At the same time, I've also seen theories that were logical, based on previous behaviour, and eventually turned out to be either correct or at least very plausible. So I'm not going to dismiss every theory simply because some are bad ones.
The bigger point is that I don't think privacy automatically breaks the pattern. If anything, I think it reinforces something Jungkook himself has said more than once: that he wants to live on his own terms. If two people become more private, the obvious conclusion isn't automatically that they've drifted apart. Sometimes it simply means they've become more private.
That's why I still think they're living in what people call a glass closet. Enough is visible that these conversations keep happening, but not enough for anyone to definitively prove or disprove anything. So people end up interpreting the same events through whatever conclusion they had already reached.
In the end, that's exactly why I always try to look at the entire history rather than only the latest chapter.