Chris Brown has long been a controversial artist, with a history involving ѕєχual νισℓєи¢є, ѕєχual αѕѕault allegations, and other criminal offenses, most notably the αѕѕault of Rihanna in 2009. As a result, some fans, especially those who are highly sensitive to issues surrounding νισℓєи¢є against women, found it difficult to accept seeing two BTS members attending the concert and interacting with the singer.

However, the BTS members also became aware of the issue. A few hours after j-hope realized that the video he posted had sparked controversy, he deleted the Story as a way of showing respect for his fans’ feelings and learning from the situation. At the Arlington concert following the incident, j-hope also emphasized, “I truly love and care about you guys,” while RM expressed his hope that fans would back to the core value of their relationship — where trust and support have been built on years of mutual understanding, rather than being defined by a single moment.

Most fans were reαѕѕured by the members’ reasonable response. At the same time, fans also took into consideration that this was simply a professional interaction between fellow artists during their private time, and that BTS may not have been fully aware of Chris Brown’s controversial past, so the situation should not be taken too far. Just as the controversy surrounding BTS was gradually dying down, an υиєχρє¢тє∂ development from Chris Brown suddenly took the drama in a whole new direction!

Specifically, a female ARMY recently posted a video on TikTok discussing the entire controversy. She made it clear that she is still a big BTS fan, “I am big in my BTS era,” and had absolutely no intention of turning her back on the group, defaming them, or “turning on” them and becoming a hater. However, she also offered a rather straightforward perspective: no matter how much fans love BTS, realistically, 99.9% of fans don’t actually know the members personally.

She did not defend Chris Brown’s past actions in any way, but argued that some fans were becoming too immersed in a “parasocial” relationship with their idols. Continuing to be angry, hold grudges, or let the situation affect their own emotions would ultimately only cost fans their peace of mind without actually solving anything.

Although the female fan’s points were completely neutral and grounded in reality, with most of her discussion focusing on the relationship between BTS and ARMY, Chris Brown suddenly appeared in the comments under her video and directly responded with the vulgar insult, “pray bout it hoe.” The comment immediately caused the situation, which had been gradually calming down, to erupt once again. Many ARMYs and netizens quickly flooded the comments with strong reactions to Chris Brown’s words.

Apparently realizing the backlash he had triggered, the singer later deleted the comment, but he was not fast enough to beat the fans to it. They had already taken screenshots and spread them across social media at lightning speed, even launching a large-scale boycott campaign with the message: “As a woman I stand with woman, dragging the actual criminal is soмєтнing we should be doing!” along with the hashtags #가해자반대ARMY #폭력반대ARMY #ChrisBrown반대ARMY #ARMYsAgainstAbusers #ARMYsAgainstViolence #ARMYsAginstChrisBrown.

Other fans also supported the boycott campaign, sharing their thoughts: 

- He’s so disgusting… armys need to start redirecting their hate and anger towards this man

- He needs to unlimit his comment section on Instagram seem as he wants to act all big and hard

- Years have pαѕѕed and somehow he’s still repeating the same pattern — disrespecting and attacking women. Nothing has changed

- You know how I see it, he is laughing at our faces coz the hate and harrαѕѕment he should be facing is targeted at BTS members mostly by thier own fandom. He knows no body is touching him and you all blaming BTS for this also prooves my point

- If you all still attacking namsoek and not this disgusting ριє¢є σf ѕнιт then I'm sorry your priorities are fcked up. This mother fakers gave us an opportunity to cook him to ashes on silver platter. So aim your anger and hatred at the right target

- Shist Brown made this comment because he knew that namjoon and hoseok would get way more hate for it than him. in this situation, it's not namseok who ¢υяѕєd at army, it was him. you all need to cancel him not namseok.

- Same old Chris Brown. Somehow, he always finds a way to prove that he hasn’t changed

- Chris Brown really never learns. Disrespecting women seems to be the one thing he’s always consistent at