Armys do buy bts albums in bulk ( if they can afford it). Esp for the love yourself series there is a theme connecting all the versions of all 3 albums. Some as you said maybe scammers but most of them do buy and keep it for themselves or they do giveaways for those who can't access them easily or they give it to other armys for free. If u go to a bts concert venue, you can see many ppl giving away albums and other merch to others

Suga has interviewed all his 6 members on his show SUCHWITA (Jungkook twice). And then RM did Sugas interview. They are really great to watch as they talk about their solos and the old days. He has also had other idols and artists on there.💜

16:48 "Is this scalping?" - to explain why they are buying a LOT of album is because number 1 we want to support and boost the sales of the album, 2 because most of us collect photocards, each album has a different version of concept photos, and 3, BTS and Big Hit Entertainment pledge 500 million KRW to the UNICEF campaign, and will also donate 3% of the Love Yourself series’ physical album sales income. All the income from sales of official goods related to the LOVE MYSELF campaign and additional donations to UNICEF will also be put towards #ENDViolence. Love Yourself: Her has 4 versions of album, so there's version L, O, V, E Love Yourself: Tear has 4 versions of album, so there's version Y, O, U, R Love Yourself: Answer has 4 versions of album, so there's version S, E, L, F Meaning for the LY Trilogy there's 12 versions and then multiply that to 7 members because each album has 1 member photocard only per version. I hope you learn from this fact, it's a culture in K-pop World. That's not even the extreme part, 1 photocard of a member can be sold in a huge amount especially if it's RARE photocard. 😊 I think you should react to Boracity Magazine's video about this to understand: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hN15nsd4scWshXk.htmlsi=enRiTLge96XcM5uJ

Buying albums in bulk is basically ARMY culture lol. ARMYs often do giveaways of the extra albums. I have seen ARMYs distributing free albums at concerts. It's basically a way to gift albums to the fans who aren't able to buy albums for whatever reason. I think it's the sweetest thing 😊

The reason why many bought that many albums because there's different versions of the album. Although the songs are the same but the content of the albums like the posters and photocards are different. For example, in this trilogy of love yourself, the last album was Love yourself: Her and the versions were L, O, V, E. and for this album Love Yourself: Tear the versions were Y, O, U, R. Their last album of the trilogy was Love Yourself: Answer and the version was S, E, L, F.

17:00 If I were to be completely honest, it wasn't scalping. They were probably trying to get all seven photocards lmao. Plus the Love Yourself Tear album had four versions. Personally, I know I bought four for myself to have each concept. Then I bought extras to donate and for friends. Also, I want to add that before BTS, it was HELLA HARD to get kpop albums in regular stores. I used to have to go on shady websites to get kpop albums and random korean grocery stores. When BTS and army came about and consistently asked, Target FINALLY got BTS albums. And with that, more kpop albums started becoming available in Targets. It was such an amazing change for me to see cuz teenager me could never imagine this happening ever. I used to search Sam Goodes or Tower for asian music and it'd only be classical, never current and popular music. BTS made such a change.

Anpanman translates to 'Bean bread man'. Anpan is kind of a Japanese bread/pastry that is filled with red bean paste. He is a very popular Japanese children's superhero who has an 'anpan' for a head. He can do some stuff but he also unhesitatingly tears a piece of his head when he comes across people who are hungry, making him weaker till his head needs to be replaced. He is a charitable superhero who fights for the good in the world and will always be there when you call for him. He may not have much to offer, but whatever he has - he offers it all.

The guy with the hearts shirt is Zach Sang. He has interviewed the member multiple times with very well thought questions. For his Album debut promotion RM chose him as the only interviewer in USA💜

for buying multiple album , many army buy more than one album so that they can do giveaway. many fans can't afford buying albums so usually working army buys more than 20 albums and do giveaways on twitter for those who can't afford them that way more and more army get to have bts album.

BTS became the first Kpop group to enter the HOT100 top 10 in 2018 (they were the only kpop group to even enter the top 70 until then), and no other kpop act has entered the Top10 since (excluding bts solos), that's crazy. BTS are now the artist (not kpop artist, just artist) with the most billboard #1's this decade, Jimin and Jungkook also got #1's with their solo songs and all members have entered the chart as soloists

"we are history" that words really got me chills 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I don't know if you are going to read this, but I think you can complete the documentary by watching the (official) BTS documentary that recently premiered on Disney, there are even things that were not known, The documentary is called: BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star

The juniors being watched by J Hope while dancing was probably very intimidating! Our Sunshine is scary when he is in “Main Dancer” mode. Happy Birthday to our Hobi☀️💜🎉

ARMY buys many album and actually give it to armys all over the world who cant buy the album... I have won 2x already and i am sooooo happy ha0py to have eon bts albums 💜💜💜

there is so much thought and art concept put into their packaging. it blows away ANYTHING i've ever seen by a western artist. Not only do ARMY buy and give away to those who cant buy - and yes the photocards. But if you lay out all 12 of the LY series it is a lovely continuous design that flows thru and connects each version. Plus as you saw - ARMY had to push hard for a long time to even be "allowed" to purchase albums in the US - so it was a mad scramble to get them as there was no Kpop sections in mainstream stores. The money from physicals goes directly to the artist. And since western radio refuses to play BTS - and they keep 'changing the rules' of the charts to weigh radio play more heavily - the *ONLY* way ARMY can show support is through album purchases.

Fake Love at the Billboards was iconic! Also RM explaining lyrics and showing earlier versions of the songs is so thoughtful. They have been really transparent with Army and I think that’s the base of this deep relationship. Besides their talent we can see how sincere, funny, humble, fun and down to earth they all are! Doing Vlives instead partying with the other artists! Who does that? Only our members 💜APOBANGPO

Its a well known fact that in army community those who are rich and can afford to buy multiple albums do so in order to host giveaways for those armys who cant buy them. We also have free album giveaways outside touring venues when bts are preforming. LY series was also connected to the donation of end violence campaign. So we kind of went out. We still do actually So as long as scalping is considered. You wont see that in army community. But obviously there are greedy people outside our community who indulge in it.

16:46 A lot of K-pop fans will buy multiple albums in general (even if they’re the same version) to collect photo cards of a certain member or concept from that era. Kind of like baseball cards or Pokémon cards. The really rare or exclusive ones can go for a lot of money on independent seller sites (like eBay). I’ll be honest, I’ve bought a couple. Two were from an album that I had purchased, but wasn’t lucky enough to receive. My most expensive one is from an album that was exclusively sold at the showcase, so there’s only a couple copies of it in the world (luckily, my seller didn’t realize that, so I got it for cheap). Also, some fans like to buy one of each version so they can also have each set of photo books that come with the album. The BTS LOVE YOUR SELF series is very special, as when you collect each album version from the trilogy, it makes this beautiful winding picture of a budding flower turning into a full heart. Oh, and when you line each album together on a shelf, it spells the phrase “LOVE YOURSELF” in holographic ink.

also, Professor Lee Ji-young is a passionate ARMY too lol!

9:00 seriously what else anyone want when jhope complimented you for dance..

I don't know if you understood Anpanman completely, so let me give you a quick summary. Anpanman is a Japanese superhero. Anpan in Japanese means read bean bun. Anpanman doesn't have any special powers, but he is willing to literally tear a piece off himself to help hungry people. BTS is comparing themselves to anpanman by saying that they don't have special powers, so they are not superheroes, but they help people through their music & so they can be considered heroes in a way.

I REALLY REALLY LIKE HOW THE WAY JUSTIN SPEAKS AND EXPLAIN WHATS HIS OPINION AND REACTION TO EVERY EPISODE SO GENUINE AND POSITIVE AND ON POINT. AND HIS ALWAYS TAKING NOTES SINCE THE BEGINNING 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜.

this documentary was originally supposed to have more eps (as you'll see in the next ep there is a preview for ep22 at the end) but the editor took a break and couldn't complete it.

13:50 agreed. Thats why real ARMY(not multistans=kpopers) call it BTS genre😊

It's actually pretty common for some ARMY to buy multiple albums to get the different versions but when they buy in such large numbers, it's usually to do giveaways. You can often get free albums at concerts, ARMY events online, Twitter, Insta, etc. So in the end the music finds a home with ARMY who might not be able to afford the album or maybe the shipping (which can often be way more expensive than the album itself). Sometimes people organize groups to pool together money and have one person buy it for everyone. It's more affordable if you have to import it. It can be as expensive as 1/3 of my monthly mortgage payment to get BTS stuff shipped to me. Weverse is hella expensive especially.

The Love Yourself trilogy has 3 albums - Her, Tear & Answer. The albums talk about the start and decline of a romantic relationship through the lens of self-love. The overarching theme of the albums is, you need to love yourself before you can love someone else. The LY albums are beloved in the ARMY fandom and for good reason. Some of their best songs are from these albums.

13:30 totally agreed.. I've known K-pop from Gen 2 and listened all through genre korean songs like trot, ballad, indie, pop, etc.. korean artists solo or group produce nice music songs and have nice powerful vocals.. but BTS, the moment I heard their music in 2016, I know there are something different about this group. And my feeling that time are the proof of what they are now.

LOVE! Happy birthday Hobi, miss you hope your day was great for you. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Yes like Justin says, some armys do buy their albums in bulk and some do give them to armys all over the world for free to those who can’t afford to buy them💜💜💜💜

Thank you! They were putting out good music, great artists with amazing talents. It's not kpop. But BTS

BTS PAVED THE WAY

13:35 ikr😭😭 its like not even an insult to kpop mind you, its just acknowledging that BTS managed to do what they did BECAUSE theyre them and BECAUSE they veered off kpop norms😭 they'd still connect with fans the same without the dance/visual elements of kpop😭. kpop IS a highly corporate and not very artistic industry and ik a lot of kpop fans dont like to acknowledge it. tbh only their promotional methods and dances align with kpop, the rest of it is off the normal road which was a BIG lure for a lot of gp back then. for them the kpop elements are a plus, they inherently liked theur artistry ykwim? but saying the same on twt just gets ARMYs jumped by kpoppies hsgsgdhd they DO NOT like giving bts any credit shhddhdj

You guys are one of my favorite reactors to BTS. I hope to be with you as well if you start with music video reactions. All the best to you guys !

Yes, we do buy albums in bulk but not to keep it all but rather, share it with other Armys who can't find the album at their stores knowing how fast they get sold out. Just to let you know, ARMY has groups that talk, chat, meet and grt together. We are not just fans, we are friends and family. We do each other favors such as buying stuff for each other, sharing links to stores, booking tickets and shop BTS stuff when someone goes to Korea. This is just how ARMY exist... we exist for BTS and for our fellow ARMY.

I recommend watching episodes of the entertainment program "Run BTS"

Oh man when J-Hope acknowledges your dance you know you did well! RM was so happy to hear the great feedback from Hobi. The members have joking said that they're scared to look at J-Hope when they make mistakes in their choreo because you know the dance leader caught it. 😅 BigHit announced today J-Hope's docuseries and new album highlighting his roots and love for street dance will be out in March! Hope on the Street!! Awesome present from the birthday boy. 💜

i like how harris gets excited at the sight of mgm😂😂😂😂 its like a kid latching onto that one bit of familiarity jshsshdj

They broke in because of good music. THIS. Thank you.

many armys especially in other countries can't afford the albums so many other armys would buy in bulk and send other armys albums for free.

Thank you for your reaction! Some songs I would recommend from LY: TEAR for future reactions are "Paradise", "Outro: Tear" & "The Truth Untold". Also, about the albums, although you have been informed in some other comments, some ARMY buy more and do giveaways on social media. They keep at least 4 for themselves since there are 4 versions of this particular album with different concepts, photocards, etc. It is a common thing when it comes to K-pop albums.

It’s not just the album we are after but also the photo cards in them. And also each album has different letters on them that will spell LOVE YOURSELF on it plus the design in front of the album is art in itself that when placed side by side will connect all four albums. That is why we buy them in bulks like that in order to have all this features together. And yes I bought several of them until I completed my Bangtan 7 photocards on each album they released. That’s the genius of their marketing strategy. And now a lot of kpop artist are doing the same. As a true ARMY that is also our small way of supporting them (BTS). This 7 guys that probably will never know me or know my name but that’s okay has helped me this past 7-8 years since I discovered them in 2015 and became a full pledged ARMY in 2016. And I am 50+ years young same age as Jungkook’s mom. So I see these guys like my own kids and will love them and protect like my own. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

we do buy albums in bulk specially if we collect photo cards and help with sales of physical album. Thats how we roll for the chart. we gave out unsealed albums to other armys who cant afford to buy or have it as give aways or prizes for streaming battles💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Hmm Love Yourself series are 3 albums Love Yourself Her (blind love, sweet) Love Yourself Tear (sad, fake love) Love Yourself Answer (finding self love)

Actually buying a lot of albums is a common thing among kpop fans who can afford it. Some even bought more than you see in the video

There are some army who buy albums in bulk cause they open Pre Orders for other ARMY who don't have access tp weverse shop or are in other country. Also many ARMY do giveaway at concert. Just cause we love it when we can have as many Photocard as we can aslong as we can afford it.

Besides of the photocards and extras an album may have there's a fact until these days...people living far from where the albums are selled can wait months for the 'delivery' but in ARMY'S community even in Korea one or two ARMY go to the store buy in bulks for when they go back to town they can "deliver" themselves to other Army-townies and keep the pace with the releases and what comes after.

16:46 ARMY are real people buying a lot of albums because the have the means and they want to support BTS. Every ARMY knows how to support BTS by buying, voting and streaming. And that is something that not many artists receive from their fandom.

Her we go again my day is complete again ❤❤❤❤❤thanx thanks

I would like to recommend the video "The Most Beautiful Life Goes On: A Story of BTS 2023 update " by Rice Squad, it help learn more, fills in some blanks and also takes you though more current information of BTS. 💜🤞💜

Omg i CANT wait for the next one, its one of my favest in the later set of eps. also kinda sad that this will end soonish😞 its been fun to rewatch this with yall😅 id totally be fine with music and/or run bts eps or suchwita or whatever yall are up for! just ask for recs and we'll provide sidhdndj take your time, no rush tho🫂

24:38 REALLY random but this reminds me of when Enhypen had their show called "Into the I-Land" when they were still trainees competing to form their group. They had a challenge to do BTS songs. There were quite a few BTS covers actually now that I think of it. There was Fire, Fake Love, Butterfly, Save Me, and others. And BTS showed up once and half a time too. As did some members from Seventeen and TXT. It was fun. I should go rewatch lol

I can’t wait and hope you guys start reacting to their live performances especially at award shows they always turn into their own mini concert they really put on a show each and every time I really adore them they helped me save my life and still help me to this day I’m so happy y’all started to react to them and hope they the boys are also helping you guys in their own way whether you guys realize it or not 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Many Army buy more than one album in order to give them away to other Army. They do 1) free giveaways if they are a KZfaqr, 2) free gifts or exchanges at concerts, 3) collect the different photo cards or versions of the album.

So along with multiple versions of albums and giveaways as other people mentioned, some people will buy multiple albums for the photocards. There are only usually 1or2 per album, have multiple versions per member, and they are randomized so people will buy many albums to get a wide variety of phtocards or get the member's card they want

I always buy as many albums as I can afford and send them to ARMYS who can't afford them. I don't buy them by the armful, I buy them one at a time with cash. It's just a normal part of being ARMY I think. 💜

There are people who give their extra albums to people who can't buy them themselves. I've seen many giveaways on Twitter etc.

lmao at the "don't do a drunken tweet/post" (there's also don't drink during live) I think they all have broken that rule 😅

👏 BTS PAVED THE WAY 👏 APOBANGPO 💜

Thanks a lot for reacting !

Halsey is their best friend in the music industry. She is particularly close to Suga, and he has spent Christmas at her house before. She is the only artist friend they gifted one of their iconic sparkly mics in her own color (orange) and who danced the choreo with them in their collab song. She calls them "The Uncle Gang" to her son. 13:30 Justin is absolutely correct. In a lot of ways, BTS breaks the mold for KPop and a majority of BTS fans are not fans of other KPop. They didn't draw their fans from a KPop fanbase pool. You have to ask why that is. It's precisely because they are different, and their music has messages that are so universal, heartfelt, deep and meaningful that it resonates with people from all walks of life and age groups in counties all over the world. Not to mention that their music it technically and artistically just damned high quality, and spans so many genres. Their unique social media presence and ways of interacting with fans that was novel and allowed us to really get to know them helped people get acquainted with them and care about them, particularly because they were so stunningly candid and honest and open. But fans would not have stayed if the music had not also been so good, and so impactful and meaningful. They just are on a whole other level.

'scalping' - have not heard a reactor refer to that before, really interesting comment that has sparked a lot of responses :)

I can't wait to start album and performance reactions!

Hi, is almost ending watching this again with you guys! Don’t forget the bonus content please! 💜💜💜🇲🇽🇲🇽💜💜💜

I educate, learn, inspired, proud, happy,❤❤❤

If i have a lot of money I would buy 4 albums. 1 for the record 1 for listening 1 for the backup 1 for gift. 😢

27:07 ngl what he said might seem so generic but he's so REAL. a lottttttt of people in the idol scene DO go into the industry as a stepping stone and easy fame instead of actually liking music😭 ik a lot of fans like to blame the contracts and the agency not allowing them creative freedom yada yada....but the truth is a LOT of them ARE comfortable as is😭 they dont WANT to make music when it can be handed to them and thats ok to admit fr😭 although there are a few who still did their own music after their restrictive contracts end, most simply go act/model/influencer cos music isnt what they truly love anyways. So when artists who truly love it perform, it SHOWS. its such a shame tbh. i remember when i first found out how the kpop training setup worked, it reminded me of medieval europe where artists had patrons and they'd just work on their art in their studios etc. obvs had a shock when i realised its NOT like that and very corporate instead jsjsjs but there's still chances and means to work on their art, which i feel most idols dont capitalise on tbh. my artist fren would LOVE a socially acceptable art pursuing route like this in our country tbh.

Armys buy multiple albums mainly for 2 reasons: there are various versions of each album with different concepts photos and photo books and second reason: to give away to other armys that can't afford.Maybe because they don't have the means or maybe they live in a country/city where don't sell them. We ship the albums to them.

We buy albums in bulk due to different photo cards/etc being collected in there. There’s also different versions 🙄🤣

Thank you, guys! ❤ Happy Birthday, Hobi 🎉🎂🎈🥂🥳💜

2018 was only a beginning. I wish 2020 era series come out for the rise of Bangtan. I am guessing next song is 'idol'. Please watch their performance for MMA 2018. I am OT7 but I fell in love real hard for Jimin at that performance.

Thankyou for learn alot 😊💜

A lot of fans actually give away albums. At concerts you'll see a lot of people just giving their excess albums away for free

I got friends who used to buy albums in bulk for people who couldn't afford it or the didn't had it on their state

The next episode is my favorite. ❤

Huh? That word is associated with selling fakes for profit. That is not Army’s purpose, they do not need to do that. They are helping to grab albums for armys who want them or can’t easily get them but want to support BTS. No profit, more like losing on gas money and time spent lol. As that Korean philosophy professor said, it’s army work for US armys when facing barriers. It’s a win for only not BTS, but open doors later for kpop to have albums at stores like Target when they didn’t have before. I’ve been to Target where their new album get sold out already, so I had to check different Targets and Walmarts to help buy them for myself and my friends (they pay me back) because they’re unable to due to work schedules and distance. Other armys buy them for those who couldn’t afford to get the album but want to support BTS, so some army would go out of that way to pay out of their pockets to help those armys. Just in case you forgot from those guides, army are charitable/give. I have bought few copies of big magazines at Barnes & Noble‘s when BTS were on the front cover, because they get sold out fast and so I help to grab them for me and few of my friends before they’re gone (they pay me back, bc I don’t have that much). When they are featured/on the cover of major magazine sold in the US, especially at the time when they were the only Asian artists making huge wave/splash in the US/Western world, it’s like collecting something historical.

Modifying their language to not sound like the n-word is not respectful. People who are offended by that need to get over themselves and realize that Korean is a language as well.

Army totally buy multiple copies of albums, as many as they can afford. They see it as buying the copy another army isn't able to afford.

I lover Fake love soo much!!!!! 💜

Para cerrar esta serie, deberian ver el Festa 2022!

13:55 exactly!!!!!!!!

Singularity is baby making music 😭🤣

Some Army would buy in tens or hundred to either give them as presents to their newly found friends in the ARMY or resell them online to other ARMY in Countries where KPop albums could not reach. Although, streaming became the fad in the global pop music industry.

54:54 TRUEEE TRUEEE

30:25 I think that's Zach Sang. In general, he does pretty good interviews. He's interviewed BTS a couple times that's worth checking out. I'm sure he did donate the shirt lol. Spoiler: V wears a shirt like it in the music video IDOL.

you guys are very patience reacting "the rise of bantang episodes" I would like to recommand to react "American hustle life and bts free performance show there" It's really good to see their performance and their coaches reactions😊

They were giving those albums for free for others who can’t afford them. If there were attempts to scalp you can be sure ARMY will put a stop of it.

17:14 Many Army did/do buy in bulk, or at least more than 1 at a time for multiple reasons. I can guarantee that it wasn't for scalping though. There was no reselling for profit by Army. Others have talked about the reasons why, but it was purely out of love and excitement and not the usual greedy reasons that the work scalping implies.

There are more episodes

Some people bought it for their friends and families. You guys are still new to BTS. So don't go and assume anything. I personally bought 3 myself.

You guys went to Japan and you didn't know about ANPAN MAN. The doll is all over Japan.

After this hope ur reacting thier variety show 'run bts' trust me it's fun to watch. 😊💜

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It's very normal in kpop to buy albums in bulk and then sell it to other fans 💀

I hope you watch suchwita with bts members too 💜

Second😂😂hello

Have tou watched itaiwon class?

😂😂There is no point to buy bulk to re sell it. No Army is going to buy anything that doesn't count towards the charts.

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Puedes ver toda la entrevista de Dr LEE JIYONG ella es una profecional destacada y ha hecho investigaciones sobre BTS y sus exposiciones son muy informativas luego se convirtio en verdadera Army y hace extream y todo la amo!💜

41:08 not only Jimin received such messages, everyone received them even before "love yourself" album, but for some reason only Jimin they asked about that. This is what I don't understand