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Bangtan Sonyeondan or known as BTS is a Korean boy band which consists of 7 members: Jungkook, Jimin, RM, V, Suga, J-hope, and Jin. I will be working their Fandom called the ARMY which is one of the most known discourse communities around the globe. Since the debut of BTS in 2013, the number of armies is constantly growing which varies in culture, language, religion, nationality, and so on. The US BTS ARMYs started on April 28th, 2014 with a mission to inspire, celebrate, and spread BTS’ message of love and acceptance to the ARMYs or anyone who crosses their path. The group has been around for more than 5 years. The members of ARMY can be anyone who loves BTS and promotes or supports their work. AMRYs communicate with each other through most of the well known social media such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and so on. At the beginning of the journey, BTS wasn’t very well known worldwide, they were just a group of teenagers who danced, sang, and basically started as a rookie artist/band in their country ‘South Korea’. Recently due to ARMY’s support, BTS was able to win the Billboard music awards under the category of the Social Artist in which the most well-known artists such as Justin Beiber, Selena Gomez, etc were also nominated. As BTS ARMY began to grow in the US, BTS members were happy about the growth of support and love towards them. However, a member of BTS named ‘V’ was confronting ARMYs in a live video about how their love was immensely intense that the BTS wasn’t able to live like normal human beings outside their work as an artist. In some cases, BTS was followed by ARMYs into their boarding plane, or basically an ARMY bought a ticket for a seat that BTS was sitting alongside which is regarding stalking or exposing their privacy. Technically, this case brought many controversies about how BTS ARMYs should behave around BTS.