- I was always familiar with kpop liking SHINee, SNSD and especially FT Island. It was around 2011-2012 when I stopped listening to kpop and got into One Direction. They were really the first artists where I dedicated my life to: buying albums, merch, making fan account for them and going to concerts.
- For my 18th birthday, I went to visit my family in Korea and my younger cousin was really into EXO, forced me to go with her in EXO'luxion. I ended up really liking EXO and switched my 1D fan acc to EXO. As a fan acc, EXOLs and ARMYs were rivals and I sort of bandwagon hated on BTS even though I didn't know anything about them besides watching Dope (I did think the guy in the doctor suit was attractive, but shrugged it off.)
- I ended up spending my summer in Korea again and eventually going to EXO'rDIUM July 23-31. While I was at Co-EX mall, I heard this really great song playing with a guy rapping. I always hated khh and thought it was absolute trash so I was impressed, (I feel stupid but I thought there is a black korean rapper)
- BTS was all over my tl and I really liked that one guy, and besides Taehyung was friends with Baekhyun so I decided to check them out again. I ended up watching Boy In Luv and I liked the guy with the crooked fingers and I just had to know his name. It ended up being Seokjin. I listened to all of BTS' songs and I really liked the meaning of their songs (and turns out the song I heard at Co-EX mall was 24/7=heaven and the guy rapping was Namjoon)
- I still refused to admit I loved BTS' music more than EXO's but even as an EXO acc, I kept tweeting about hyung line. I ended up liking Seokjin and then Yoongi, then Taehyung, Jimin, Hoseok, Namjoon respectively (I didn't like Jungkook at first and thought he was annoying, but I ended up loving him anyways) I was hyung line trash and didn't like maknae line much.
- I ended up switching accs because the one I had was really old and had 60k followers and I was tired of it, so I switched to a smaller account.
- Around earlier this year 2017, I really started losing interest in EXO. I got tired of all the ot8 bullshit and I only liked Yixing. I ended up dropping EXO and I became a full-on ARMY.
- It's been the best thing I've ever done because BTS are so wholesome, talented, genuine, and unproblematic. They love their fans sooo much too and always interacts with us. BTS also has some of the best songs, there's ALWAYS ALWAYS a BTS song for every emotion and it makes it even better because they're the ones who actually make their own songs. I love being an ARMY.
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