BTS‘s concert tour in America is going … um … incredibly poorly. In earlier stops, I had already heard complaints that everything was disorganized and BTS were only on stage for about 30 minutes, performing only four songs, but that was honestly sort of par for the course. Yes, concerts put on by these second-rate promoters are usually that terrible to the point where I didn’t think it warranted coverage.
In Atlanta though, things seemed to take the next step in fuckery, as the promoters oversold the venue, which led to hundreds of fans being locked out. Promoters apparently literally didn’t check the venue capacity, which led to this mistake. And though I’m very sorry to those who had to deal with this, I just have to say that’s so incompetent that I have to find it hilarious and laugh a bit.
Anyway, this led to the promoters in panic mode to try and compensate for it … but they just ended up in more lies.
#Highlight2015 #HighlightInAtlanta #HighlightInToronto pic.twitter.com/ud8izX4Mcg
— emmie smh (@wotemmie) September 27, 2015
Here goes mine oh well time to put down TGM @highlight2015 #Highlight2015 #HighlightinSF pic.twitter.com/oVqPcYkGdT
— J I M I N (@FKNJIMIN95) September 25, 2015
I wasnt going to do this but after I heard that the Houston stop also got cheated I had to rant lol @tgm_events_scam pic.twitter.com/unwErqfuLy
— *eyes emoji* (@vbaehyung) September 25, 2015
now i'm sure bts would never work w tgm again this is disgusting. if this had happened to me….. fucking rip pic.twitter.com/bgkFwMih2p
— graciela (@wtfwoozi) September 25, 2015
For all the ppl that got ripped at #Highlight2015 off you can file a complaint with the ftc https://t.co/XVD2WLEOZM pic.twitter.com/hNFJLu5uHr
— 칠 (@yooneki) September 27, 2015
Yes, as compensation, they made fans wait for the concert to finish, then wait around after the concert more, and then it was told to them that BTS had already left.
That sure is an interesting way to go about things.
That said, I’m honestly not that shocked by this, which is basically the problem.
I see BTS fans were the next lucky ones to find out why I remain skeptical of international K-pop related shit for life.
— Asian Junkie (@asianjunkiecom) September 27, 2015
Most aren't professional and have no idea what they're doing. Just trying to score a quick buck off crazy fans. Was same years ago.
— Asian Junkie (@asianjunkiecom) September 27, 2015
I’m not in any way saying fans should’ve known better with those tweets. I’m just saying that this has been consistently the case for international … well … anything involving K-pop. The market is flooded with terrible promoters trying to score a quick buck, which leads to disorganized messes like this being put on by people who have no idea what they’re doing.
Not sure what else one can do to combat this though. Fans basically need to do their own due diligence on the company putting on these events, which is not something they SHOULD have to do, but it’s sadly the reality of most of these events and it has been basically forever now.
Good luck to the fans getting their money back or taking action in court, but fans have unfortunately been ripped off like this before and nothing has happened to these shitty companies. Don’t know what else to say, really.
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Update
The promoters knew they oversold the venue for months.
TGM knew since JULY that they had oversold Atlanta and did NOTHING. pic.twitter.com/pcbXJUcTsX
— Kate (@KissMeKate7) September 27, 2015
LMAO
Also, here’s video:
The nervousness of somebody who knows she’s about to get dragged.