After weathering accusations from other Kpop fandom, BTS ARMYs are now experiencing what it’s like to be plagiarized. But do they really deserve this?
In the brutal world of Kpop fandom, maybe this is what they’d call ‘payback’. Either way, BTS fans are now feeling the sting of getting ripped off and plagiarized. And they really, really dislike it.
The controversy started a fews days ago, when Kpop girl group G-friend unveiled their latest lightsticks. The only problem? G-friend’s ‘Glass Marble Stick’ looks almost exactly like BTS’ iconic ‘ARMY Bomb,’ which first debuted in 2015.
Take a closer look. So here’s the ARMY Bomb, released in 2015.
And, here’s a close-up of the G-Friend ‘Glass Marble Stick,; just released:
Did they deserve this?
BTS ARMYs, notoriously thin-skinned, started bombing the headquarters of G-Friend’s label, Source Music. That only intensified tempers, with Source Music employees politely advising BTS fans on where to stuff something.
ARMYs complained that G-Friend are making plagiarism into a habit. “Honestly, it’s not just the lightsticks,” one irate fan declared. “They’ve copied choreography, outfits, MVs, and songs, but never gave any credit. They need to explain this.”
The similarity was noticed throughout the Kpop world, though many fans wondered if BTS ARMYs are getting out of control. And, whether or not they deserved this.
Part of the reason for that feeling stems from an ugly incident involving plagiarism against Big Bang.
Outrageously, BTS blatantly copied the opening ‘No Signal’ intro to Big Bang and rapper TOP’s earlier performances — and never apologized. Instead, the group blamed a mixup with the Gaonchart Music Awards, though angry Kpop fans accused the Bangtan Boys of routinely plagiarizing others.
Here’s a complete recap of the ‘No Signal’ plagiarism controversy.
That situation was following by another controversy involving hand creams. According to critics, the Bangtan Boys blatantly stole the concept of customized hand creams from rival group EXO, sparking another serious debate.
All of which is lowering sympathy for the latest plagiarism situation. And raising the question:
Triggered. As an ARMY and a Buddy I seriously couldn’t care less. GFriend and BTS’s fanlights shapes may be the same, but they’re completely different. Please stop with all your horrible articles 🙁
I know right and the thing about hand cream, like relax last time I checked expo didn’t invent hand cream. It so sad though because even though it’s the dance accusation innocent idols like bts, exo, gfriend and Big Bang get blamed
If only I had as much as free time to hate on this Resnikoff dude like he does BTS.
It’s because he has no friends and his family has disowned him.
I love BTS
I LOVE BTS
I MADLY IN LOVE WITH BTS NO MATTER HOW MUCH HATE THIS SLUTTY OLD MAN GAVE TO OUR PRECIOUS BOYS!!
I LOVE BTS THE MOST BUT THIS GUY IS DISRESPECTING THEM A LOT LIKE LITERALLY ALL HIS POSTS R SO NEGATIVE ? A NOTE FOR U MISTER WHATEVER IT IS. U SUCK
First of all, please get yourself an education because if these were real cases of plagarism then both parties would be suing. Don’t make false claims without knowing the facts and while these designs or performances may be similar they are not the same. If these is the case then other groups in the entertainment industry and not just the music industry would be gulity of plagarism all over the world. Plagarism is defined as the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. Which neither of these groups did, they were only following the trend that others had set. Second of all it is clear that by all of you, Paul Resnikoff have a biased opinion towards BTS based off of all your past articles that negatively debase BTS’ name. If you only intended to inform readers then you would only state the facts and how they are related. Instead you made a false claim like “BTS blatantly copied the opening ‘No Signal’ intro to Big Bang” taking on your frequent negative tone towards the music group. When this is clearly not the case because anyone with 20/20 vision can tell the difference between the SIMILAR openings. It is not the exact same opening as you have claimed. Also if you intend to keep making false claims against K-pop groups (because you have now involved Big Bang, G-Friend,etc.)then show proof that these false claims are fact.
Exactly! Plus BTS didn’t have control over the opening pictures or whatever, Gaon did and Gaon put that ‘No Signal’ opening. Even if they had the exact same one as TOP, it doesn’t belong to him! Thousands of artists have used that same opening way before TOP! And plus, that opening wasn’t even there for ten seconds! Why would anyone wanna make such a big deal over something as stupid as a five second intro that everyone has used before and that Gaon put in the opening for them?
I agree! Psy had the same image in his “I Luv It” music video, so how in the world does Big Bang own it? They don’t have the copyright. So ridiculous!.
dont blame bigbang for this article,
do bigbang ever claimed that this opening intro is them?
this article is two face
And what is more, in Korea this issue of on-stage performance plagirism is already over and done with, since the Gaon music awards people officially apologized that it was them who managed the whole stage settings, and that BTS and BigHit had no control over the screen… this was the reason BTS couldn’t make any responses about this
The dumb writer / reporter just want to do something or write some nonsense topics to trap more readers into his hell in order helping him to bring his name more well known. He is now making use of BTS’s name for his credit. He is a shit!
Anonymous ,I swear he doesnt even deserve to be called a writer or a reporter.
he’s a reporter ? lol I thought he was an anti throwing a HUGE tantrum.
Yeah! He is and hating bts is no good at all. For me bts is the most influencing k pop group at all.
He’s crazy. BTS is on trend right now that’s why he’s doing all this crazy stuffs to be notice, to be famous and to get attention. You Paul must stop throwing hates or else you’ll rot your life in hell.
Music is a beautiful thing, it’s the only thing that brings people together no matter what the culture or tradition is. You are ruining it with false information as well as your biased opinion. Have you ever heard of, “if you don’t have something good to say then don’t say it at all,”? These boys are wonderful children who are making their culture and country known. I don’t see how they can be plagiarizing such beautiful pieces of work. But with popularity they are bound to have some haters. Of course, you overlook the ARMY.
Seriously, they’re the same thing but, different in a unique way. these articles are making me pissed.
ok these idiot armys need to ACTUALLY stop this. they literally get mad over everything. i like bts but i am NOT an army.
Exactly. This is all so stupid. Theyŕe DIFFERENT lightsticks. So whatś the problem??
WHO IS THIS PAUL RESNIKOFF? IS THIS YOUR DAILY WORK? I PITY YOU SO MUCH BC OF YOUR HORRIBLE ARTICLES ABOUT BTS. YOU SHOULD LOVE YOURSELF INSTEAD OF HATING OTHER PEOPLE. I BET YOUR PARENTS DON’T WANT TO RAISE YOU BC OF YOUR DISGUSTING ATTITUDE. SOON YOU WILL REALIZED ALL YOUR MISTAKES. I WILL PRAY FOR YOU TO BE A BETTER MAN AND MAY GOD BLESS YOUR POOR SOUL. GUYS, LET’S HELP THIS PAUL RESNIKOFF TO GIVE 1 LIKE, 1 PRAYER FOR HIS SOUL.
Pretty sure he’s in love with Namjoon. Paul, if you wanna get his attention this might not be the best way…
Exactly.
I was starting to get seriously pissed off with this guy after reading a couple of his articles but your comment helped me calm down and cheer up XD
Armys/fans are the best <3
LOL I’M Laughing so hard at this article, Army is chill about this so called plagiarized Lightstick, I’m wondering tho, is this PAUL RESNIKOFF guy had some kind of bad blood against Army or BTS, or he just leave his personality in his mother womb? cause he seem hell bent on bringing us down, get a life won’t ya? it’s kinda pathetic that you called this kinda article journalism
Somehow, i’m no longer surprised with the trashy articles this Resnikoff is writing. I mean, he must have such a horrible life and he wants to drag others into it. And since bts has become really popular, he found his target.
Stop criticizing any group. If you dont like BTS or ARMY, stop writing about them. You only write bad things about BTS or ARMY, think before you write anything.
My advice to your site is to switch your website name to antibangtan . Dont worry it wont make your website more unpopular(it is already hated by many) .
Think on my free advice
Nailed it!! ??, he better try your advice… ROFL
perfect
Is it possible to report this guy to bighit? He really needs to stop. Also, Poul Restinhell or whatever your name is, ARMYs aren’t even mad over GFRIEND’s lightstick lol. You and allKpop really need to get your facts together.
Resinkoff you need to call +1 310-395-2128 .I really hope this will make you better (thats the phonenumber of one of Psychologist in santa monica)
Hey Paul, where are you from?
Probably lives in his mom’s basement. Paul, stop making your mom do your laundry.
His mom killed herself remember?
Someone please make this guy stop
Clearly he has something against BTS
And all the Buddies or V.I.Ps reading this please do not misunderstand
Probably 1% of the ARMYs said that or none at all
Gfriend didn’t copy the lightstick
Author nim, I’m sorry to ask this but do you even have life? Your articles almost showed that you dislike bts.. does your parents even know about this? I mean, you had wasted your time, searching for bts update, wow you know about 2015 BTS bomb stick. 2015. You must LIKE them too much aren’t you? Actually, we(A.R.M.Y) had been talking about this gfriend light stick and we lovee it because it’s fucking beautiful (we’re girls after all kyaa) and we had been talking how we also want that gfriend marble stick. You should be careful dear author nim, you may be in danger if you continue to write something like this, since I assume you’re a smart one, you must know about rules and what happen if you write about bad things and false information about other people. i won’t report you, but we don’t know about the others right? Yeah i won’t report you because you may not realized what you’re doing and yeah everybody has their own choice to like or dislike on particular people and things but writing something like won’t worth you at all. (and of course if things get worse even you read this then i’d probably will report on ya) not because I love bts, i’m a multifandom and bts also don’t give a shit about this but I hate people who criticized others like they live with that person but in reality they don’t even know that person.
Guys this is Paul again …. Chill he just makes matters more irritating to us… Seriously this dude needs to chill his hate against BTS…. Like come on dude you just make every one of your article against BTS even though the topic isn’t that serious… Or if you can’t chill just stop writing articles on BTS…if you can’t spread love why spread hate?
Paul just stop writing articles..
This idiot is again writing articles…
Just F*** off and stop writing articles like this… I’m not an army…but I’m in multifandoms and I know how it feels to be hated…just stop criticising one group in particular
Do research! They don’t copied BIGBANG… the show were they perform did this…and everybody knows it! BTS didn’t steal enything from other groups! So shut up and get you a life!
ONLY U THAT REGARD ARMY BOMB SAME LIKE LS GFRIEND! NONE ARMY ASSUME BOMB LS SAME LIKE GFRIEND LS!!! ARMY NOT HAVE THINK WORSE LIKE U BITCH, i’m an army but i’m not like gfriend but u make about shitty gfriend are, haha 2in1. gfriend just for reason that u want make news article WORSE AGAIN ABOUT BTS THAT BTS HAVE PLAGIARISM to bigbang concept !?! wtf u are?? U DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT KOREA MUSIC JST STOPPED U’R RUDE JOURNEY TO KOREAN.
GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST REPORT THIS WRITER TO BIGHIT!! I’M SURE BIGHIT WILL HANDLE THIS SUCKS PERSON..
LET’S JUST REPORT THIS FAKE WEBSITE AND THIS PAUL . I REALLY PITY THESE KIND OF PEOPLE. BTS AND ARMY’S DON’T DESERVE THESE KIND OF HORRIBLE ARTICLES WHICH IS NOT TRUE. THIS IS REALLY TOO MUCH. I’M REPORTING THIS ASSHOLE TO BIGHIT. I JUST CAN’T WAIT KARMA TO SLAP THIS GAY IN HIS ASS. THIS IS HIS ACCOUNT Y’ALL
This person has got some really great irritating news again… Is there any way to block this site and stop this shameless person…
Honestly I am an ARMY and I don’t see a problem with Gfriends light-stick and I’m sure most (real) ARMY’S feel like that. If I’m correct the light-stick was released a month ago and nobody was complaining. This is the work of antis just like you Paul. Instead of trying to ruin BTS and making crappy, hilarious, and hate articles you should write about their success and positive articles. Maybe if you do that you won’t get any hate. For your information BTS didn’t plagiarize TOPS “No Signal”. If you did research you’ll know that Bighit released an official statement that said they didn’t have control over it. They were just there to preform. Also your question is very ignorant please at least come up with more intriguing questions.
Honestly, I think you guys need to be a little more critical in this situation. If you actually look at DMN articles, specifically on BTS, it’s a mix of positive, neutral, or negative — but I personally don’t even evaluate it on that level. If I say it’s raining, is that negative? No, it’s just the weather at the moment, whether you like it or not.
So is calling the ARMY fandom thin-skinned and bringing up old controversies about BTS that have already been resolved, even going back as far as 2015, considered a critical and unbiased way of looking at these situations? If you were writing these articles with a critical mind, the articles should portray facts without bias of personal opinion. Paul, there is so much visible bias against BTS in your articles I honestly don’t even know where to start. Perhaps I am wrong, but I have seen no positive articles written about BTS on this website (and if there are, I guarantee they don’t outweigh the negative) and only a couple articles that could be called “neutral.” Also, your question at the end- baseless and irrelevant. You could argue that we should ask that question considering all the other plagerism controversies BTS has been involved in, if it weren’t for the fact the issues have already been resolved. Gaon made an official apology, RM apologized for the stolen lyrics (my reference to the 2015 incident you wrote an article about in 2017), and handcreams? Seriously? Celebrities endorsing or selling their own cosmetics is nothing new. So my advice to you would be to take your own advice, and start posting articles about BTS that are truly unbiased and critically written. If you find yourself unable to do that, then please refrain from writing articles about BTS at all.
@Abby I think you’re much more deserving to be a journalist than this ** (I really don’t want to curse him directly so I’m putting *) you’re much more knowledgeable than him and I think you’re right, I have kept quiet, avoiding to comment on his ridiculous articles but I can’t stand it anymore, reading this makes me laugh and at the same time pity him, that poor guy don’t even know what facts are, and considering that articles should really be unbiased but he keeps claiming that his so called ‘articles’ is not biased makes me laugh even more, he needs to think before writing because he still don’t know how powerful K-pop fandom is, especially ARMY’s, he is a hater, no doubt, you have pointed out all his mistakes in his comment, and I can’t help but think that he is a hypocrite (sorry not sorry -_-) how can he say that ARMY’s finally understand the feeling of being plagiarized when they didn’t do anything wrong in the first place, thank you for trying to let the facts sink in his brain (which I wish really did sink in his brain) have good day 🙂
HEY ARMY SHUT THE FUCK UP PAUL’S THE COOLEST GUY IN THE WORLD I LOOOOOOVEE PAUL CAUSE HE DOESN’T LIE ABOUT ANYTHING OR WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT “CRITICIZING” BTS, HE ONLY WRITES THEM CAUSE 1ST AMENDMENT BITCHES. PAUL IS SO COOL I LOVE HIM SOOOO MUCH HIS MOM SHOULD STILL KILL HERSELF THO.
i dont know who this Paul guy but he seems to be an anti BTS and.. i bet he will receive a lot of hates from millions of ARMYs out there. Pity him, he just want some attention but, hates.
I’m not saying that I am an ARMY but the way this guy throw all the hates towards BTS is too much. I bet he is the next person to get a death threat from a sasaeng ARMY
Thanks for the article Paul I like the fact that u didnt spend a wasteful 4 years in college for shitting on peoples career
I really want to put all your so-fake-articles in a trash and burn it with FIRE. You are turning yourself as a laughing stock. POOR You!
Honestly, I do not think it’s GFriends fault that they “copied” the lightstick. Not every lightstick can look completely different from all the others.
Futhermore it was NOT BTS’s nor BigHit’s fault that the “no signal” was copied but the show’s fault. BTS and BigHit did not create the design of the stage (BigHit’s statement). You should inform yourself better.
That’s right! 🙂 I agree with you!
Sorry but everybody knows that BTS didn’t copied BIGBANG…the fault is by the Music event … the also explained it… DO RESEARCH! AND UNDERTAND IT BETTER! Have a nice Day:)
WOWWW. YOU ARE SO IRRITATING. STUPID ARTICLE!!
PAUL U GOT NO JAMS
go home paul. smh
why are such a miserable man….ARMYs pity u
even no mental hospital will treat u 😀
u know dont take the name of OUR BTS with ur filthy mouth
Anyways
sympathies for a mental man
ARMYs FIGHTING
this article is dumb and retarded in personally not a fan of and k pop girl groups my only fandom goes for bts but the sticks do look a little similar only the shape they bothe put thier unique touch to it so stop this bs
ahh i really feel sorry for u what a miserable man
ARMYs we should pity him
well u can never reach the level of our BOYS
not even a single mental hospital will treat ths psycho
Anyways we will always love our very own BANGTAN SONYEONDAN
<3 <3 <3
HEARTFUL SYMPATHIES FOR A MISERABLE MAN….:(
Aish! Back at it again with the terrible articles, are you? Just stop, Paul. If there even is a problem, which there isn’t, then nobody would trust it coming from you. Stop writing articles about BTS. They suck.
I mean to say that the articles suck, not BTS! lol sorry.
Your giving a really bad name to digital music news, this isnt the best way to gain attention , one day you’re going to get what you deserve, and it won’t be pretty.
“notoriously thin-skinned”… excuse me? Sure there are some ARMYS that are immature but you can’t use them to represent our fandom as a whole. I also don’t understand why you’re making a big deal over this. As an ARMY myself, I see no problem with G-Friend’s new light stick. Not only are you giving yourself a bad reputation but you’re publishing false bullshit.. good job, well done. I don’t know what you have against BTS but FUCK OFFFFFFFF and stop writing headass articles.
PAUL RESNIKOFF you are boring!!! Stop writing this articles!! ARMYs hate when people write lies about BTS!!!
you guys just calm down and report, don”t waste your time on such a irrelevant person
I think it’s pretty obvious that G-friend lifted this idea. Which is too bad, because I’ve seen some pretty innovative light sticks, even one from G-friend.
But just responding to the above (please just constructively respond), is this really just a small percentage of ARMYs reactive negatively, and bombing Source Music?
I don’t think there’s any real way to tell what percentage of ARMYS are reacting negatively and bombing Source Music, considering we don’t even know how many people are in the fandom. It’s all speculation.
You really need to do some actual research. It’s a SPHERE, the most basic shape. Seventeen also has a spherical light stick, where’s the news on that? The fact that it’s a transparent ball on a stick is where the similarities end. The BTS light stick is completely empty and just has a little fuse making it a bomb. The gfriend light stick has their G inside it and it’s a SNOWGLOBE. The most important parts (and really the only actually important parts) of the light sticks are where they have the biggest difference, and it’s a massive difference. The no signal situation was entirely gaons fault, bighit had no control over that, they didn’t have to apologize. BTS had hand cream BEFORE Big Bang, they just happened to release ANOTHER hand cream after Big Bang, and everyone forgot about the hip hop monster hand cream just so they could start drama. Pretty sure EXO also has hand cream, I believe released by the same company that BTS used and maybe even Big Bang. It’s not an exclusive thing. You’re just a terrible researcher. You basically called rap monsters newest solo video unsuccessful and a complete flop at 4 million views. Yea that’s nothing compared to what BTS gets as a group, but he can definitely have a good career on his own. Just look at how well BAP and VIXX are doing. They don’t get millions upon millions of views in a week but they are successful, definitely not flops, and BAPs newest music video only has 3-4 million combined views and it was released over a month ago.
I hope you die soon Paul
Shut the **** up Paul! Now your saying that G-friend plagiarized?! And your saying that we deserved it?! G-friend didn’t plagiarize and we NEVER even deserved being fakely plagiarized. I think you should visit a pschychiatrist. And start taking meds. Hmm… those things aren’t even enough. Just go die already. First was BTS and now G-friend?! Get a life!
Advice- change your profession because you suck in writing articles.
what the fuck…
Know your facts before writing any articles. Thats your responsibility being a journalist. Obviously you are not a fan of BTS but thats not an excuse to be writing false information. Just saying…
Yet another fake article. This website is losing it’s credibility. I have never heard of anyone complaining about some stupid light stick. This is made up fake news to make up a non existent fight.
I have not quite recovered from the BTX garbage and now this. I thought Digital Music News was credible music news media but guess I was wrong. Now it looks more like National Enquirer than Billboard to me. Oh well, from this point on whatever written on this site is synonymous with gossip and rumor, not real news.
Hope you continue to enjoy reader’s negative reactions.
Please stop
Digital Music News probably figure out, riding on BTS popularity, the more they write on BTS negatively the more attention and hits they will get on the website. And you are the ace to do the honor.
Please tell your boss this is not a good business strategy. Short sighted and on journalist’s credibility at best. Unless staying with Digital Music News forever is your career goal, I’d tell my boss to stop asking me to write shits if I were you.
Ah, you are the Digital Music News boss. Do your best, and worst, to keep your little rumor mill running.
digital music news? more like butt-hurt bts anti’s LOL, Aww my poor babies, is bts’s success and popularity triggering you this much?
Nice troll attempt
Funny thing is ARMY and Buddies could care less. It’s the antis who are neither ARMY or Buddies creating all the bull and fanwar
You know what we should do ARMYs? JUST IGNORE THIS DISGUSTING THING!! Some “things” in this world are so low that they enjoy feeding off of negativity. There’s no point in explaining anything to this “thing” cause this “thing” with no brain will not understand anything we, armys say. This thing just clearly hates BTS and those who hate BTS for stupid reasons mean nothing to us so CAN WE JUST STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS POOP??? ARMYS, lets just ignore this poop from now on. PLEASE REFRAIN YOURSELF FROM COMMENTING. I know it’s hard not to defend BTS but there’s no point in talking to a poop. THANKS. JUST IGNORE, PLEASE!!!
Srsly againnnnnn ahhh these articles are such a waste if time guys all kpop fans just stop reading these articles then this guy might stop let’s boycott this site.
Boi, stop starting shit! Is this ur job? (Insert Kim Kardashian gif) Tragic.
this article is bullshit…. and also all the other bts related articles on this site are terrible and in no way are they true!! AND DO YOUR JOB PROPERLY!!!
“ARMYs complained that G-Friend are making plagiarism into a habit. “Honestly, it’s not just the lightsticks,” one irate fan declared. “They’ve copied choreography, outfits, MVs, and songs, but never gave any credit. They need to explain this.””
= okay first of all armys haven’t complained about plagiarism. And secondly where the fuck have they copied choreography (although they have had the same choreographer, which may appear similar formations in the dance but other than that !?!? their choreography are completely different) and secondly outfits, mvs, songs ?!?! what the fuck have you even done your research on gfriend???
Do you even know how to write articles? Or you just learned yourself writing a piece of shit called ‘tabloid’? I guess you just want to gain haters because that’s what you’re made of.
I don’t understand that how can a news report be one sided. I might be wrong but the choice of language clearly indicates that this content is biased. I wish to know who put this up.
I think we need to teach them how to write a report.
i think you need to stop with the bias opinion. almost all of the article from here about bts are so negative. I’ve been an army since day one and i really couldn’t care less about this thing. you should really know the meaning of plagiarism. i’m not from an english spoken country but even i know what it means. so before making accusations, how about you do your fucking research first.
THANK YOU, PAUL RESKINOFF!!
Thank you for voicing out the opinions of non-ARMYs. You couldn’t have said it better.
I’m sorry you have to face the horde of immature ARMYs attacking you in the comments section because they couldn’t handle the truth.
Ok first of all, he is not voicing out the truth because it’s obvious that the whole article is biased, and do you know why ARMY’s are attacking the comment section? It is because he does not do proper research instead make up non-existent facts about BTS and ARMYs so that he can spread his hate, how can we not handle the truth because it’s not true in the first place, people like you should do research first, you are just like Paul, maybe that is why you idolize him, and of of course you are not an ARMY since you clearly are an anti, this comment was so stupid and irrelevant, can you also think and be aware before you write a comment, I swear you only visited this website since the ‘article’ (no it’s not an article honestly, since articles are supposed to contain facts) mentions something negative about BTS and ARMYs so just connect with Paul because I think you will be good friends, you are both stupid and haters of BTS ?
Shut up , stop trying to start fan-wars
Non of the ARMYs even said a single word aout G-friend’s lightstick
He’s just trying to create fanwars
ARMYs and buddies don’t have bad blood
Are you trying to make us fight between fandoms? ?
Wait, you’re not fired yet?
I dont know any Army that complained about Gfriends Lightstick…
SMH YOU’RE TRYNA BUILD HATE.
These articles really need to STOP. This person clearly has something against BTS. If he doesn’t like them then that’s fine, whatever, everyone has they’re own opinion but don’t go writing false articles to try to damage their name and reputation. As both an ARMY and as someone who has studied journalism I have so many problems with this website. As I mentioned this person clearly doesn’t like BTS and is trying to damage their name and reputation none of these article have any real basis in reality. They are nothing more than false claims and accusations. Especially all of these accusations that this website keeps making against BTS saying that they’re plagiarizing others. No. They are not. The hand cream situation for example, BTS and EXO both made hand creams long before bigbang did. And the whole “no signal” situation is even more ridiculous. bigbang does not own the rights to that signal. They did not create it. It is not their intellectual property. It does not belong to them. So no. It is not plagiarism. And I still can’t understand why people (VIPs, I’m sorry but I’m calling you out) got so angry about this. Especially when bigbang have done the exact same thing. Bigbang themselves directly said that they’ve “borrowed” ideas from Michael Jackson. And no one cared about that. So why is it ok for bigbang to “borrow” ideas from other artists but the second anyone does anything even remotely similar to something bigbang has done suddenly it’s plagiarism and people are furious? And and this lightstick situation is just another example. Yes the shape is similar but that’s about it. And as an ARMY I really don’t care. And a vast majority of ARMIES don’t care either. So please, whoever runs this website or writes these articles, get your facts straight before you write anything. Because not only are these articles completely untrue and completely unfair to BTS, it’s also just poor journalism. Very poor journalism.
One thing I just wanted to add: I’m not sure why Seventeen hasn’t really been called out for their lightsticks, seems really unfair given the similarities to the ARMY bombs.
Anyone else noticing this?
One thing I just wanted to add: I’m not sure why Paul hasn’t really been reported yet, seems really unfair that he’s still a journalist.
Anyone else noticing this?
i write better articles than him
you can’t even call this an article , it’s a disgrace
Paul aka attention rat please go get a life instead of starting fan wars. You are a just a filth that wants to cause problems. I hope you stop being immature and grow up. Journaling doesn’t fit you, maybe you should join a fake gossip rumor website. You are just another a trash we need to dispose.
Writer please shut up if u don’t have a good thing to write about army and BTS. All u write about this family never be good. always put blame on BTS n army. We don’t even care about the light stick. I never see or heard army were talking about gfriend light stick. So just shut up.
PAUL YOU SUCK ASS, LITERALLY FIND A LEGITIMATE TOPIC TO WRITE ABOUT! FABRICATING TOPICS THAT ARE PETTY LIKE THIS IS ONLY ANGERING PEOPLE!! GET A NEW JOB FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYONE ELSE.
I’m actually laughing at this lmao what a weird article haha we armys know plus do some research first haha I cant what a stupid article no offense
Your articles are shit
Smd Paul
How do we report this website? Let’s just report this website, it’s a trash.
We can report this website to Big Hit Entertainment on the ground of defamation. Hopefully they will bring some legal actions against Digital Music News when they hear the notoriety surrounding this website’s BTS articles.
THE AMOUNT OF ROAST AND SAVAGE IN THE COMMENT SECTION ABOUT THIS STUPID ARTICLE IS NO JOKE! XD
REPORTING THIS STUPID WEBSITE BECAUSE ONLY STUPID PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ON THIS STUPID ARTICLE AND I THINK THIS PAUL IS THE STUPIDEST PERSON THAT I’VE EVER ENCOUNTER. PLS CHOKE URSELF ALREADY
This isn’t called real journalism it’s fake news. ARMYs please ignore this man, this cite, and all of his articles. I highly doubt he reads the comment section anyways. He’s obviously doing this so this cite can gain attention.
And to you Paul, you’re clearly biased against BTS. Nobody is taking about this light stick controversy with SEVENTEEN or G-Friend and us commenters should know as we are actually a part of the kpop world. You clearly have no experience with kpop or journalism in general. I’m not even a BTS fan but I know that it’s wrong to attack such a large miniority like this. There are many other incidents about other groups yet you don’t report anything about them.
I’ve had enough of your articles. I’m reporting your cite and articles to BigHit and other companies for purposeful defamation.
BigHit has shut down websites before.
Stop while you still can Paul.
If you attack BTS they’ll ignore it, but if you attack ARMY they’ll do something about it.
PREACH
You all have been click baited too many times. PAULIE D here lives of your frustration.
There is a picture of what Paul R. Looks like on this website. Not a wise move. He might not want to leave his house anything soon lol.
Hello Paul. Okay first of all, no one owns a lightstick concept. If one lightstick looks similar to another, that’s fine because NO ONE FREAKING OWNS A LIGHTSTICK CONCEPT. Second, the “No Signal” has been cleared up long ago by Gaon, and they even issued a formal apology. No plagiarism was intended and the stage isn’t copied at all, they were just SIMILAR, noting that similar is different from THE SAME.
If you don’t like BTS, then that’s fine but please stop spreading immature things for your satisfaction. You can just simply not mind their business and live your life away from them instead of pulling them down when they didn’t even do anything to harm you.
And I guess you call yourself “journalist”. Hilarious. What a crap of an article and trying to become Koreaboo 2.0 won’t give you any results. We have too many already. Oppsies, too late. This website gets blocked.
Okay ‘Paul’ and those people who think BTS stole their concepts, last I heard hand creams were created by MULTIPLE COMPANIES and they’re not even suing or claiming plagiarism either (fyi you twats) and I know for sure concepts like these will be ‘stolen’ in the further future. Concepts like figurines, stickers and even freaking perfumes will be used by MANY MORE. And the No-Signal screen news? is not even bound by copyright laws although if it was music or MV or trademarks Sure that’s copyright. Practically antis and haters are vomiting BS and yes including you PAUL.
sorry my shit is not for you BIH
i like ur article, look like shit
BTS didn’t plagiarize from BIgBang. It was the people who made the video which is not bighit, it was the award show. Bts didnt plagiarize the hand cream because not only exo who have it, there are other groups that have it too.
Is there anyway we can report this website cause it’s getting out of control, I think we can shut this site down if there’s a lot of people reporting it. Let’s report this site, I’m done with his shit.
Yeah, uh hello hello, I’m an ARMY, and I’m not offended or having the “feeling of being plagiarized” of this shit. So they both have circles. So what? Like god, this doesn’t even have the proper research.
Oh yeah, and also, that “irate fan” isn’t a fan. She or he is probably a saesang, or if she/he isn’t, it’s probably just a fake quote you got from your idiotic brain that has so wrinkles. If this is a “DIGITAL MUSIC NEWS,” then why not post about how BTS won the Top Billboard Social Award, and how they won the multiple awards from ‘Spring Day’ and ‘Not Today,’ instead of posting lies no one will care about?
Oh yeah, and get a life, dick.
Hey Paul. There are a ot of hardcore BTS fans “ARMYs” around the world. Take care when walking down a public street so you wont get hit “accidently”.
Dude, find yourself a hobby that doesn’t involve dissing everyone around you.
Who is this man and how can we make him stop writing bullshit about our babies? ( + pls control yourselves army fam, we dont want to be like him…)
i got no problem with it. but just. please dont make thing more horrible
Yooooooouuuuuuur a piece of shit!?☺☺☺
Bruh where do you pull this sht from? From what I remember ARMY and Buddies literally didn’t care. In fact most of Army thought that their light stick was cute. Yeah it looks pretty similar but what do you want GFriend to do…invent a new shape? BTS doesn’t own the sphere and we Army’s are chill with it. You took one opinion from wherever and generalized it to an entire fanbase than spans multiple countries…as for the Big Bang thing..if you checked it was actually the music show’s fault so research please. Like I know this sht gets you more clicks and stuff and you’re probably laughing at who many of us click on this bullsht article to comment…but you do realize that you can’t have any pride in your job because you’re not doing it right. This bullsht from you is an insult to journalism. Forget insulting BTS, GFriend, ARMY and Buddy..you straight up insulted yourself and your profession. Congrats.
Thanks for making the generalization that all ARMYs are uneducated scumbags! (which is weird since you make the article sound like you have an IQ of 18)
Lmao the best thing to do here is just ignore him guys. I’ve seen way too many of his articles to know the drill.
get this guy on cypher 5.
I just read some articles of digital news about BTS. And keep asking my self “what’s wrong with the article writer?”
She or he isnt hating on BTS. But provoke netizen to think badly about BTS tsk pathetic!