Disrespectful Comments Toward RM During Recent Live Broadcast Raise Concerns About The Lack Of Weverse Etiquette

For K-pop fans in general and BTS fans in particular, the community of fans and artists - Weverse is no longer a strange platform. After the golden age of multiple communication platforms between fans and artists is over, Weverse now dominates the mayor, becoming an online community of many artists and fans to interact with each other.

However, like other social networks, on Weverse, there are many fans who lack awareness in the use of words. In particular, recently, during one of his live broadcasts on Weverse Live, RM had to react to a lot of negative, even rude comments from some fans.

Here are RM's reactions to disappointing ARMYs about some fans in the fandom who have acted badly. At the same time, it also raised concerns about the way fans treat idols in the fan community:

Weverse is a South кσяєαn social media and online social networking service owned by HYBE Corporation. The application specializes in storing multimedia content and communicating between artists and fans.

Through this platform, artists can connect with fans and fans can connect with each other. As of 2022, Weverse has over 6.8 million monthly users. In particular, the BTS fan community accounts for a large number.

Since the creation of Weverse, ARMYs have had many ways to interact with different fans and members of BTS. BTS members work very hard to leave comments or answer fans' questions on this platform. In addition, there are live broadcasts as well as shared posts made by members on the platform exclusively for their fans.

Not only that, the majority of ARMYs on this platform have set an implicit rule about using positive words, respecting and civilized behavior so that BTS feels comfortable talking to fans on Weverse. However, it seems that the communication culture of some fans is no longer as positive and nice as it was in the early days.

Even the members noticed soṃệẗḧing different in their live broadcast comments. This is so upsetting that RM recently warned fans of the extent of it during his live broadcast.

Specifically, on April 1, RM surprised fans with a live broadcast where he updated ARMYs with everything from his activities and even his enlistment plans. Although at the beginning of the broadcast, RM was in a good mood to chat with ARMYs after a while, that quickly päṩṩed when he discovered that there were many rude comments during his broadcast. he.

RM suddenly exclaimed, "Many people are writing strange things in the chat". Since the majority of ARMYs comment in кσяєαn and English and RM can understand these two languages fluently, he was able to catch the negative comments during his broadcast.

RM even felt so disappointed when he read this that he made a brief comment that: “You guys changed…”. Not stopping there, RM also explained to ARMYs later that: “Ah, I think it’ll be better if I don’t look at the comments". And the reaction This episode of RM has taken over the internet, raising concerns about the lack of etiquette in Weverse.

For an idol who likes to read ARMY's comments and answer questions like RM, that's a shσcking statement. Some ARMYs are sure other people said disrespectful things to him that's why he reacted like that. This topic was also widely discussed among netizens.

Many people point out that when looking back, it can be seen that the comments have become out of control. The stream of hate comments, the constant questioning of other members, and spamming means that idols are struggling to see comments with questions from fans.

In light of RM's reaction and the negative situations happening, many ARMYs have created guides for other fans to help them write positive comments and understand the etiquette when communicating directly with their idols. Many also expressed hope that minimal courtesy would be respected by fans in future situations:

- Short кσяєαn expressions you can use during @BTS_twt Weverse Live. Note: you can always report users who make inappropriate comments by clicking on their username

- well twitter armys now we know we cant be silent viewers anymore when the tannies go live. we going to have to do better with engaging in the comments to drown out anything weird. we need more of presence on weverse period. it’s too weird over there.

- I normally turn off comments so i had no idea abt what's going on, but moving forward i will try to send as many nice comments to the members. Doesn't matter if i get noticed or not. I will make my membership to good use and i encourage everyone to do so

- Seriously. I know ppl have said this but a lot us, I included, turn off comments just so we can hear them talk, but yeah, we need to be more active. Plus I wish weverse would let me report more frequently. Sometimes I can't report because I've done it "too much"

- On the latest lives I've been reporting the creepiest ones, but maybe commenting might be more effective idk

- Hope this is a lesson for some of those weverse weirdos, we need to start cleaning the chats:

- It felt like I got an F on my test

- Joon really being straightforward. do better next time army. Stop being too wierd.

- People need to stop with im _ wife. Marry me yoongi and whatever stupid stuff. And actually ask him things. I always ask questions or just say soṃệẗḧing nice and almost always all of them comment back.

- this breaking my heart omg, but at the same time im glad he called them out, im really tired to these kinds of armys

- me calculating if weverse armys didn’t exist, corny äṩṩ tiktok armys didn’t exist and vlive was still an app that the live comments would have been better

After RM's situation, the issue continued to become a topic and extended to regular Weverse posts. On April 2, SUGA shared a touching message following the d̾e̾a̾t̾h of musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.

On TikTok, one fan pointed out that while the post was on a sensitive topic, one user thought it appropriate to comment with the "Yoongi, marry me" meme. The OP shared how it was wrong and it was similar to the case with RM's broadcast.

While it may seem natural to comment and have a way to interact with BTS, ARMYs believe that some users are taking advantage of it to the detriment of the members!