anonnie · 5d
reading about why you ship bmjn made me think a lot. I was rewatching their date with the white jackets from debut and the way they acted then is so different to now and the fact bmjn went from the mdof popular ship during debut to not as popular now makes me think the company is really marketing them as a bickering duo (not even in a loving way). Even shipping aside it upsets me how m0as just see them as Tom and Jerry and make it out like YJ hates BG and BG is annoying. It's just so disrespectful. :(
hmm honestly i can't speak of how the company is marketing them these days because i've simply been gone too long and too frequently to have any substantive observations on that but i can speak on why the debut era bmjn wave wasn't able to sustain itself.
ofc my memory isn't perfect and there are factors i'm most definitely going to miss but the gap of activity between crown and run away really halted the fandom's momentum across all fronts. this wasn't the boys' fault of course since they really were just hit with stroke after stroke of bad luck, but a freshly debuted group isn't going to have the most stable of fanbases, regardless of how well their debut went (and tubbats' went Really Well).
by the time run away came out and the fandom was able to replenish itself with new numbers, other ships were emerging as more popular and although there Were beomjunists, as there always had been, we simply weren't as many as we used to be. a lot of the earliest bmjn crowd became a casualty in the general fandom's shrinking pains.
but i wouldn't be so disheartened anonnie!! bc yeah, bmjn were one of the bigger ships during debut, but the fandom was also nowhere near as huge as it is now. like, i could say with complete confidence that the bmjn crowd now is bigger than it ever was during debut. and i don't think they're unpopular by any means either? altho i do get what you mean, i think it's because i'm coming into this with a different perspective because having survived the content boom that never was and the great winter of late 2020, i think bmjnists are in a great spot. it's never been so easy to get into bmjn these days.
but yeah that whole "bmjn actually hate eo" thing has been a persistent thorn in our side since 2019 LMAO I WANT IT DEAD AND GONE AND DUSTED. it really is disrespectful bc not only are they taking the most surface-level observations of their dynamic and stretching it into something ridiculous, they're just blatantly Not Listening to anything either yj or bg has to say about their relationship.
at the end of the day, those two Adore each other. irrespective of whatever, their bond is Solid and Wonderful and it's something they very obviously cherish and take care of and i think just remembering that is enough to block out any noise :))))
