BTS fans shut down Toronto radio station wanting to make a K-pop hour due to … uh, reasons

Hits 93 Toronto, which claims to be “Canada’s Most Followed Radio Station”, recently wanted to dedicate an hour of their broadcast to K-pop. Sounds like a rather innocuous idea, right? Well, apparently not.

I'd like to comment on the Tweet posted yesterday regarding us playing K-POP once a day for an hour

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— Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018

When I posted the Tweet, I did not intend to offend. In fact, I intended to help promote bigger acts and smaller acts from Korea and beyond, during that K-POP hour.

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— Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018

However, after careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be wise to continue plans for a K-POP hour considering the outpouring of opinions on this matter.

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— Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018

I and the team at Hits 93 Toronto, understand (and appreciate), the comments sent to us. As such, we have decided to yield your warnings, and pull the plug on this week's 'Where Did It Chart' and the K-POP hour.

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— Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018

I did not mean to offend nor attack any opinions on this and have since removed this week's 'Where Did It Chart' from our site and have opted to remove any K-POP songs from the playlist — as per your suggestions.

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— Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018

I sincerely apologize for the turmoil my Tweet caused!

– Viktor and the team at Hits 93 Toronto

— Hits 93 Toronto (@Hits93Toronto) January 29, 2018

The account appears to have deleted earlier tweets, but the replies to this APOLOGY to K-pop fans for wanting to create a K-pop hour (stop laughing, seriously) tell me that it has to do with BTS fans not wanting EXO (and the rest of K-pop) to ride on their coattails or something like that. So once again, that dumbass fanwar shows its ass.

Hooray.

The weirdest part is seeing BTS fans be proud of doing this or something.

https://twitter.com/Jin_Butterfly/status/958111823949045761

To sane people, this is weird as hell, right? A radio station wanted to make a K-pop hour, and they sure as fuck weren’t gonna play EXO for the entire fucking hour every fucking day, so what in the hell are BTS fans trying to block by doing this? K-pop? My god.

If BTS stans truly believe their group are pioneers, then do they not understand that groups get remembered/respected as such for the groups that follow them, not for shutting down any groups that might? Imagine if every pioneer felt this way, especially in K-pop, where a lot of those pioneers are still active because it was only a couple decades ago that they were breaking barriers for groups like BTS. K-pop as we know it wouldn’t even exist.

My brain hurts.

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Also, I’ve seen this video making the rounds. Please tell me this is a fucking parody or something.

And it gets better or worse ? “you’re gonna mess with an army? You’re gonna mess with an army” I got chills. pic.twitter.com/mza3mLppe6

— Jeanée|| Countdown T-2 (@FIuteloops) January 29, 2018