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Rumors of BTS' RM getting married sparks online frenzy, fans joke 'it's true I am the bride'

Fans join in as 'Namjoon's brides' after YouTuber Sojang posts a baseless rumor about BTS' RM getting married in the days to come

A lot of attention is being paid to what the BTS members are up to now that the boy group has announced a temporary suspension of group activities aka a hiatus from BTS in order to focus on their solo activities. While it is not true that BTS is disbanding, the members of the boy group will continue to appear together from time to time in the form of variety shows and more with the focus being on their solo activities, something that they have not paid any attention to over the last nine years. BTS' hiatus announcement was followed by a lot of chaos as some misunderstood the message to be disbandment news and BTS' leader RM (Kim Namjoon) had to take it upon himself to clarify the mistranslations.

RM shared a message with fans that BTS was not going anywhere and would continue their group activities in the future too reassuring fans that nothing was going to change. But it seems like Korean media is hell-bent on believing anything and everything that floats on the Internet. RM recently took a short trip to Switzerland with his friends and as of June 24, the rapper is safely back in South Korea as he shared a photo dump from his trip on Instagram. But little to his knowledge, a different claim is doing the rounds on Twitter claiming that the BTS leader was soon going to get married and chats from his alleged 'spouse' were leaked online. 

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Is BTS Namjoon getting married?

Over the last few years, there has been an ongoing inside joke in the BTS fandom that RM (Namjoon) is already a married man with kids on the down-low. However, fans always took this joke to be just that but Korean media does not think so. The YouTube channel Sojang, the Korean-American news portal that is infamous for creating baseless rumors reported that BTS' RM would soon be getting married. In a video that was released on June 23, the YouTuber claimed that chats from RM's alleged spouse had been leaked online where they were talking to one of their acquaintances about their 'upcoming wedding' with a famous K-pop idol. Sojang is the same YouTuber that had initially leaked the news that popular singer Seo Taiji had been married in secret before it was confirmed by local news.

The rumor about Seo Taiji which initially came from YouTuber Sojang was later revealed to be true but fans of BTS are taking the rumor with a grain of salt. Over the last few years, Sojang has reported a ton of baseless rumors about K-pop idols from popular groups in order to catch them in controversy but they were often proven incorrect. About the BTS RM dating news, YouTuber Sojang claimed that RM's rumored spouse had been a BTS fan since 2014 and came from a wealthy family and had also graduated from a prestigious Ivy League university. Moreover, the alleged KakaoTalk conversation revealed that the alleged spouse had texted their friend revealing that they were soon going to marry RM, the leader of BTS.

'It's disrespectful to Namjoon and myself'

Fans are now taking the rumor about RM's wedding and making it their own as they share who the real spouse of Kim Namjoon is. ARMYs allege that they themselves are getting married to RM playing along with the rumor. One fan said, "Kim namjoon’s getting married” the bride:" Another fan joked, "Too many "im the bride" in the comments when i am the only wife of namjoon. Pack it up." One fan joked, "I really don’t like this and it’s really disrespectful not just to Namjoon but to myself who is the bride to be. It’s supposed to be a private even with our family and few friends."

Another fan said, "Can y’all respect our privacy? Namjoon and I were not ready to share our wedding announcement. But now that it's out. IT'S ME, I'M THE BRIDE. HE IS MARRYING ME." One fan said, "I'm struggling to keep my mouth shut but urghhh i guess everybody has already known I'm the bride.. But my biggest hurdle is jk.. That guy would box me to snatch namjoon." One more fan said, "Namjoon and everyone in the qrts saying “omg how did u find out about us"