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It’s not that I wanted everyone to watch the entire broadcast of us being weepy and whiny before making any comments, though.
The broadcast had been—as evident from the fact that it was in the style of a non-regular ‘dinner party’ content and that it was aired on a meaningful date of June 13—solely and entirely dedicated to ARMYs who have supported us for the past nine years.
Sure, the non-ARMYs might think that the members and I were being overdramatic or that we were being ungrateful. But there is a whole decade of time between ARMYs and us when we shared anything and everything non-stop. What we have is special, without a doubt.
And this special ‘bond’ that we share is extremely difficult to define in words—although we’ve had to try explaining it a thousand times in all the interviews we’ve had. Anyway, the broadcast had been a totally honest, almost confession-like, moment that we wanted to share with ARMYs who formed and held on to that indescribable bond with us without asking us for anything in return.
As clear as it would have been to those who actually watched it, we explained throughout the whole broadcast that this is not the end for us—JUST like the title of the song ‘Yet To Come’ suggests.
Now that I see the screenshots of me bawling my eyes out going around the internet, and triggering a lot of misinterpretations, I’m starting to think I shouldn’t have been all that passionate. It seems to me that my courage to be completely transparent and honest always ends up causing unnecessary drama and misunderstandings.
What I would like to clarify is that we weren’t ‘beating around the bush’ about anything. There is nothing to ‘read between the lines,’ in that broadcast; we were being completely open and honest about everything we’ve been feeling. And in the process of being open and honest about our feelings, we ended up shedding some tears.
I have no doubt in my heart that ARMYs, who know us for who we are, will understand all of that with great generosity. We meant what we said in the broadcast as is, with no other message to it.
As both Jungkook and Taehyung also explained so well, the members have been incredibly open to discussing the future of BTS whenever we got the chance. Yes, there have been rough patches and hard feelings for us, but we met when we were all so young. We’ve gone through a fair amount of trial and error—but that’s because we’ve been growing and maturing together through our teens and 20s.
