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BTS Army shuts down other K-pop fandoms over who 'paved the way' with #Bringthetea ahead of Grammys performance

Army is out to silence anyone who disagrees with how the K-pop boy band paved the way for other artistes

Twitter's Spaces on Tuesday, March 9, saw International K-pop fans get into an argument with the BTS Army over who really paved the way to make K-pop mainstream in the US. The debate became overheated when many disagreed with how BTS was not the first K-pop act to gain international acclaim. Of course, a fan came to her favorite K-pop band's defense and explained that while there are acts that might have won international awards (three of them), "BTS got a 100".

This fan was educating fellow members in the Spaces chatroom about how the other fandoms are making people "feel like s**t". The fan also added how K-pop fans had no idea how the Army was also supportive of other fandoms. She goes on to add, "There is other armies who support other groups as well, but you all just feel vendettas and you all just want to make people feel like s**t. Instead, just because they are armies. But you all don't know how many armies would support you all's groups, if you all wasn't so 'Oh my gosh. Armies are so corny' trying to act like Regina George and stuff like."

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Yes, this fan did make a comparison between K-pop fans and 'Mean Girls' main character Regina George. When the others disagree and say 'Not Regina George', she stresses how all of it very much gives her the 'Mean Girls' vibe.

This discussion resulted in many BTS fans coming forward to say how BTS might not be the first K-pop act to have gotten international awards but they definitely paved the way for other acts get more attention. BTS blew open the US mainstream by winning at multiple music awards including the Billboards, charting in the top internationally many times, and breaking multiple streaming records and the Army stressed on this part of the seven-member band's journey to support their claim that BTS did in fact pave the way.

RM, Suga, J-hope, Jin, Jimin, V, Jungkoook are the members of this much-adored band who are even confirmed to perform at Grammys 2021. One fan shared a screenshot of what the International music charts looked like before and after BTS and said, "This is how PAVING THE WAY looks like #bringthetea." Another fan asked, "#bringthetea why is it so hard for y’all to admit that bts is just the most successful group out there y’all fr setting your favs up."

Many fans had referred to Wonder Girls and how they had been one of the first K-pop acts to work in the US. However, fans of BTS quoted members of Wonder Girls giving the credit for the growth of K-pop to BTS. This one fan shared, "KPOP STAN SAYING WONDER GIRLS PAVED THE WAY QISGWKSGW THE MESS THAT IS THAT SPACE PLS SUNMI DISAGREES #bringthetea," along with a screenshot.

Another fan appreciated the one who spoke on Space and wrote, "it’s the way the #bringthetea space become real mute when an actual army with sense hopped on the chat. what happened to y’all mean girl narratives?" One Twitter user also shared a screen recording of fans talking over each other and taunting each other asking for Army to be taken out and how "they need to go" if they are going to be disrespectful. One fan asked, "So who’s going to tell and educate kpoppies that Paving the way means someone who made an impact not someone who did it first? be thankful BTS PAVED THE WAY go cry in the corner. #BringTheTea."

Since the discussion on Spaces, hashtag #Bringthetea has garnered a mention of over 30,000 times with fandoms going to war over who really paved the way.