BTS’ RM hosted a live broadcast on April 1, 2023, through Weverse to update fans about his current activities. He mentioned that he has been working tirelessly, making music for five days a week, and hinted towards enlistment. In addition to this, certain fan interactions with RM during the live left ARMYs concerned about spam comments.
BTS RM also reacted to the recent activities of other BTS members during his Weverse live. He mentioned keeping up with their activities as they are winning first place with their comebacks and doing well. He also mentioned feeling motivated to do well after seeing other members flourish with their solo activities.
However, ARMYs couldn’t help but feel sad about the approaching enlistment and concerned regarding the spam comment issue following this Weverse live. Fans took the initiative of contacting Weverse and generating awareness to protect K-pop idols. They mass e-mailed the app to help filter certain spam comments.
I had written Weverse and asked them to work on making Lives safer for the artists. I’ve received a reply which actually refers to the situation, so I’m hopeful that the relevant department will take the matter seriously. The answer also encourages us to report spam. + pic.twitter.com/IdV48po1l5
— 🐳Organic Cookie⁷💜 (@CookieOrganic) April 2, 2023
RM mentions the ongoing trends and spam comments in his recent Weverse live
During his live, Namjoon asked why people are commenting weird things and said that would be better if he could not see the chat. Please, stop spamming him and you can always report users who make inappropriate comments by clicking on their username.pic.twitter.com/x61KX9Nm4B
— (SLOW) Kim Namjoon Source (@KNJsSource) April 1, 2023
BTS is known for its strong bond with its fandom as much as for its music and performance. The members of Grammy acknowledged K-pop group have never been shy to comment about the interactions they share with ARMYs which are mostly sweet and on rare occasions a little offputting.
The group’s leader RM recently hinted towards something similar in his Weverse live that raised concerns among his fans. The fandom’s live translators mentioned RM saying, he doesn’t understand the weird comments. Some translations also mention the probability of the artist closing the comments next time during his live.
These comments raised concerns of ARMYs regarding the approach towards artists during their lives. They soon contacted the Weverse helpline to filter the spam and inappropriate comments during a live broadcast as means to provide better interactions for fans and artists alike.
ARMYs also shared a list of probable comments such as how are you, thank you for being born, what have you been up to lately, etc that an ARMY can use to talk with their favorite K-pop group. They also encouraged fans to not simply spam the comments section by copy-pasting things to get noticed.
#RM reading comments on Weverse Live:
“You guys say 'i'm the wife of him and this’. Anyway I support you, I guess it's a trending meme these days that I’m not aware of but I support you. Marriage is a good thing so I hope many of you will be a 'wife' (marriage)” pic.twitter.com/7wilzWzv5V
— (SLOW) Kim Namjoon Source (@KNJsSource) April 1, 2023
The initiative of ARMYs regarding spam comments is bound to favor fan interactions in the future. Apart from this RM also commented on seeing many comments stating ‘I am a wife,’ which he jokingly encouraged saying he supports the ARMYs as marriage is a good thing although he doesn’t understand the meme.
In addition to the spam comment controversy ARMYs experienced a shock after listening to RM hint towards his future mandatory military enlistment.
RM shares the reason behind his hard work stating he doesn’t have much time
💜 Don’t work too hard?
Namjoon: Don't work too hard, I don't got a time. Im out of time okay pic.twitter.com/7fXefVUmNq— hope⁷ (@winnttaebear) April 1, 2023
During his conversation with ARMYs, RM reacted to J-hope’s military enlistment notice revealing that he initially planned to enlist along with him. However, his work responsibilities and other commitments delayed his plans.
During the live BTS’ RM shared his progress on current projects with his fans. One of the fans chipped in with a comment stating, “Don’t work too hard.” The Indigo artist paused to read out the comment on the live broadcast.
After thinking about it for a second, the beloved artist explained that he has no choice regarding the workload. He must work tirelessly hard as he will probably be next to enlist in the military after J-hope and Jin. Therefore, he needs to complete all his pending work and commitments before that. Meanwhile, Suga will be enlisting for public service due to his previous shoulder injury.
“I’m working on new music. I don’t know when it’s gonna come out. I think maybe next year or when I’m gone. I planned to go around the same time as Hobi but I postponed when the current project came up so I think that I will go when this project is done” RM’s Weverse Live 230401. pic.twitter.com/8SpxQW6UNz
— (SLOW) Kim Namjoon Source (@KNJsSource) April 1, 2023
RM continued his update regarding his new songs stating they won’t be released this year hence, ARMYs will have to wait a while longer to listen to the songs after his military enlistment. Additionally, BTS’ leader also confessed that he would like to perform a concert before leaving and sing tracks from his unnamed project. However, it doesn’t seem possible at the moment.
ARMYs were shocked by the revelation and expressed their sadness at the thought of watching another BTS member enlist in the military following Jin and J-hope’s military enlistment. However, BTS members’ promised and much-awaited reunion in 2025, as per their managing label BIG HIT MUSIC is keeping fans hopeful.
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