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K-pop's biggest group BTS and their global army of loyal superfans finally get the film they deserve. An epic and captiv | dG1fZVktMnlmZG1PcWM
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00:00The Billboard Music Awards, they had an award called Top Social Artist, and it was like
00:11whichever artist received the most votes on social media would receive Top Social Artist.
00:16In 2017, however, BTS got a nomination.
00:24We were very surprised, and I voted religiously every day.
00:30I remember we had kind of a system of like baton passing where different fan bases for different countries in different time zones would take turns,
00:39and we would use Korean Standard Time as a way to organize.
00:42So 4 a.m. Korean Standard Time, it was the U.S.'s turn to vote, including Latin America and Canada.
00:48And then once the people in the U.S. went to bed, then Europe woke up.
00:52I remember thinking to myself, I'm not normally a very, you know, online type of fan, but I have to.
01:08Because they want it so badly.

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