Forging BTS accounts or using BTS's name to attract attention for malicious purposes is no longer strange to ARMYs and netizens. Because BTS are the ones who always attract attention and they can gather a large number of people, people with bad intentions often try to take advantage of BTS's name.
Recently, the policy of selling green marks on Twitter has made ARMYs worried about fake BTS accounts that can be harmful. ARMYs also quickly spread this news to many people to limit what bad individuals can take advantage of.
Specifically, the story begins with Twitter's November 6 morning update when this social network allows users to pay $ 7.99 to have their accounts verified and enjoy the privilege of "blue check-mark". Users can pay $7.99 a month for a blue check-mark next to their name, "like the celebrities" they're following.
Before Twitter was owned by Elon Musk, Twitter's blue check-mark was only granted when the account was confirmed to belong to a celebrity or business. Celebrity accounts are verified by this social network for free. However, after the introduction of this policy, there were many cases of celebrity impersonation and fake news accounts confusing information.
BTS is one of the cases with the most fake accounts today. Not only that, there are many people who also set up accounts with the members' names and buy blue check-marks to make it look like real accounts of famous members.
But what's even scarier is that these accounts are trying to mimic real BTS members. They also stole the members' content to post on Twitter, confusing many other fans. Toxic individual that try to do this and pay for influence will then do many other bad things.
So ARMYs who soon realized this are calling on other ARMYs to report fake accounts as well as those with unusual behavior. People also advise ARMY to be aware that BTS has no personal SNS accounts other than the official Instagram account. So be careful!
In addition, a note that ARMYs who are new to Twitter may be more confused when they see the ticks on fake accounts. So please take note and help each other about it!
Although most ARMYs know and only follow the official accounts listed by Big Hit Music as belonging to BTS, there are still many other ARMYs who are still confused and do not know about this. Therefore, please everyone stay awake and do not let bad news or scammers affect you, the ARMY community and BTS.
