Debuting in 2022, NewJeans was widely regarded as one of HYBE's most promising next-generation groups, particularly as the act expected to carry on the legacy BTS had built on the global stage. However, in March 2025, the group announced a hiatus amid the prolonged legal dispute between ADOR and HYBE. After more than a year away from the spotlight, NewJeans υиєχρє¢тє∂ly released new content in late July to celebrate their fourth anniversary, marking the first time all members had appeared together again since the hiatus.
Meanwhile, BTS are currently busy with their worldwide BTS WORLD TOUR "ARIRANG." The group recently wrapped up two concerts at MetLife Stadium, drawing a total of more than 157,000 attendees—the same venue where they made history just two weeks earlier as the headliners of the World Cup Halftime Show. The North αмєяι¢αn leg of the ARIRANG World Tour has also officially set a new record as the single K-pop tour with the most concert dates in North αмєяι¢α, with approximately 31 shows.
Overall, the two groups have had little connection beyond being under the same label. However, they were recently and υиєχρє¢тє∂ly brought together by a surprising incident!
Specifically, some ARMYs recently discovered that btsblog.ibigнιт.com—BTS's former official blog, which had been promoted by the group's official account since 2013—had suddenly appeared with a completely different layout. Instead of displaying BTS-related images and content, the site showed a photo of the five NewJeans members, and the artist name had also been changed to NewJeans, leaving fans stunned.
Immediately after discovering the issue, many ARMYs suspected that the domain had been taken over by hackers. They quickly reported the matter to BigHit Music, hoping the company would investigate and resolve it as soon as possible. One fan wrote: "For some reason it feels to me like BTS's blog address was hacked. I think if BigHit, the group's company, had sold it, they wouldn't have put a picture of a former member. BigHit needs to fix this urgently. @BIGHIT_MUSIC @bts_bigнιт."
The reason many fans leaned toward the hacking theory is that a similar incident had happened before. At the time, a post on BT21's account was υиєχρє¢тє∂ly changed into promotional content for a NewJeans event. After fans collectively reported it, the original post was restored. This time, even more notably, just a few hours after ARMYs collectively reported the issue to BigHit, btsblog.ibigнιт.com became completely inaccessible.
Following this development, many ARMYs urged other fans to switch to BTS's current official blog, 2026bts.com. The situation also sparked widespread discussion across social media. Some fans believed BigHit Music had quickly taken the website offline to fix the issue. Others speculated that hackers had caused the site to go down after the incident was discovered. Some even theorized that BigHit might have sold BTS's old blog domain to NewJeans. Despite the various fan theories, as of now, BigHit Music has not released any official statement, and the old blog has yet to come back online.
The discussion has been extremely active across social media, with comments including: "One time for the present, two times for the past", "F*ck, it's not even the first time", "if they had sold it, the group's former member wouldn't be in the blog photo, this is probably a hack", "It is hacked actually", "I hope they catch & jail the weirdo who keeps doing this, haven't forgot bt21 & the k-streaming site", "the question is why are they still a group and leech bts", "It's so annoying, HYBE go and do soмєтнing",...
