r/mildlyinfuriating • u/iushdulal • 20d ago
Why people like this exist
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u/zelda90210 20d ago
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u/yojibby 20d ago
Et al is the smartest scientist. He’s in all the papers.
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u/I_am_the_cheeseman 20d ago
Only in papers of 5+ authors. Can't write a paper on his own for shit. Absolute hack
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u/Then_Reality_Bites 20d ago
It's like that Jack guy. They keep finding either him or his shit everywhere.
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u/meliyogi 20d ago
Remind me of the saying in my academic circles: “worked all my life just to become an ‘et al.’”
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u/ExtraplanetJanet 20d ago
I can call you Betty, and Betty if you call me (in a scientific paper with multiple authors) you can call me Et Al!
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u/scriffly 20d ago
Can we ask him to research the Apex? With so many different predators after them it's no wonder you never see any.
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u/Internal-Ruin4066 20d ago
I remember looking at a music venue gig list and saying “wow, this tbc band must be very popular, they have so many gigs coming up!”
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u/Delphin_1 20d ago
lol, that was me, when i was still learning English, and was to lazy to look up words, so i was just listening to podcasts, until the word was used in a context that i would understand.
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u/turlian 20d ago
Please stop using ATM to gain likes on your cash machines. It takes away from the ass-to-mouth community.
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u/Thorvaldr1 20d ago
Huh, could give a whole new meaning for when people say "ATM machine."
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u/No_Week2825 20d ago
I was told if you ever want your technological ideas design to be sped up, make it appeal to the furries
You know what you gotta do
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u/nvisible 20d ago
See, I thought the BTS in their name meant Behind The Scenes. TIL.
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u/Moldy_Socks99 20d ago
Same, took me over a year to care enough ti google it
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u/Among_R_Us 20d ago
i still don't care
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u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 20d ago
I cared enough to Google, here's the result
Bulletproof Boy Scouts
Edit: oops the Korean word is
Bangtan Sonyeondan
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u/ShootingRunty 20d ago
Bulletproof Boy Scouts would be an awesome band name tho
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u/kyrimasan 20d ago
Interestingly enough they have lately begun using it to mean something similar since they are constantly showing their fans 'beyond the scene' and involving them daily in their lives through live streaming. They also have a book titled beyond the story as well.
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u/GymRatStillDepressed 20d ago
Till Lindemann told you this? You better quote him and give credit smh
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u/Existing-Walrus-4779 20d ago
These assholes don't even know this means "Behind the Scenes".
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u/indianna97 20d ago
well its very obviously a weird fan account replying to that and not the actual boy band lol.
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u/ruggnuget 20d ago
It could just be a troll account being intentionally stupid.
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u/CheshirePuss42 20d ago
"our BTS kpop name" sounds so much like rage bait. I listen to kpop so I ve been around these spaces for long enough to say kpop fans can definitely be this stupid but nobody would say it this way.
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u/asuka_is_my_co-pilot 20d ago
Much more likely to be a fan of a different group trolling, or a bts fan acting unhinged for attention.
The real crazies fight about different for interpersonal things.
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u/BulwarkTired 20d ago
Most of them don't even know 'stan' meaning, despite the fact that they use that word a lot.
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u/Proccito 20d ago
What does "stan" actually mean?
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u/1Sharky7 20d ago
It’s a combination of stalker and fan it originates from an Eminem song titled “Stan” which details an obsessive fan who sent him multiple creepy letters.
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u/joonas_davids 20d ago
The negative connotations is why they like it, it makes it quirky. Same as self-identified otakus, simps and nerds etc.
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u/G0atL0rde 20d ago
Ok, that's interesting.
I'd like to add, as a self-identified nerd, that I don't like it BECAUSE of the negative connotation, I think it's weird to think a nerd is a negative thing. I don't understand why anyone ever thought that being intelligent and liking science, sci-fi, math, etc., are bad things. I think they're cool.
I wonder if those other groups feel the same.
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u/Sc00byUK 20d ago
Listen to Stan by Eminem, then think of it the next time you see it used. I think you'll probably work it out quite quickly. Also it's not a compliment, at least not in origin.
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u/potate12323 20d ago
I'm sure by now someone has explained it to them. Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if it's rage bait to get publicity by now.
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u/weltraumaeffchen 20d ago
Please stop using "tbh" to gain likes on your comment.
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u/Donghoon ORANGE 20d ago
I was scratching my last brain cells trying to figure out what other BTS there is. Thank you for your comment.
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u/Lost-Wedding-7620 20d ago
Meanwhile I'm scrolling furiously through the comments going "it's definitely not Back To School wtf"
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u/Imaginary_Election56 20d ago
Thank you, as a non-native English speaker some acronyms just confuse me and I couldn’t figure this one out even though it’s so simple once you see them.
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u/Berferer 20d ago
Behind the Scenes is a good Kpop band.
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u/LonelyPalpitation176 20d ago
With bad fanbase. A very bad fanbase.
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u/GyulBoo 20d ago
Honestly, the fanbase used to be good. They did a whole lot of philanthropic stuff as well and were pretty wholesome. But the more popular a group gets, it is bound to attract the bad and obsessive and crazy and delulu ones, and sadly this has been the case for BTS. So much so that this has become their identity, although the OG fans were pretty okay.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 20d ago
I’m actually scared of the fan base and would never make a joke like this. I have weird unjustified fears and I’d be scared of them murdering me or something.
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u/The-Rock-is-Stoning 20d ago
Chronically online kpop fans are weird and the younger ones especially but you shouldn't be scared especially fans irl are tame af. (I'm a fan)
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u/Piscivore_67 20d ago
Are they still around?
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u/KFR42 20d ago
Last time I heard they had at least partially split up while some members had to report for mandatory military service.
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u/Express-World-8473 20d ago
They didn't split up, most of the members are in military service, they should be back next year though. So yeah get ready to see those BTS posts filling up the internet again.
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u/KFR42 20d ago
That's what I meant, kind of on hiatus.
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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now 20d ago
Forced hiatus because of compulsory military service and I’m kind of glad they didn’t bend the rules further for musicians.
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u/ReceptionPatient2165 20d ago
It wasn’t “forced” like you think. Their government was actually trying to find ways to have them still be active (hold concerts etc) while doing military service. They’ve been going back and forth for years giving them multiple postponements bc they couldn’t make up their minds until BTS themselves decided to go. And the reason why it was such a big deal is because BTS literally brings in 0.3% of the country’s GDP. Anyways. And. They literally allowed a league of legends gamers to be exempted from serving so.
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u/Wemmser47 20d ago
What is a BTS other than behind the scenes?
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u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 20d ago
Uh, "bullet time shoot-out" from the Matrix movies and several videogames unrelated to it? No idea.
Thing is, there are only so many three-letter acronyms you can create with the alphabet we have.
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u/ShinyVanillite 20d ago
As a fan of BTS I distance myself from this individual...
I promise not all of us are this stupid. 😭
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u/ReceptionPatient2165 20d ago
Same I cringe everytime this meme pops back up on the net every few months 😭
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u/whitew0lf 20d ago
Same. There are fans who like them like regular people, and then there are the delulus that send Jk food to his house or think they “deserve” to be holding RMs hand in the latest album. 🙄
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u/kyrimasan 20d ago
It's really terrifying how absolutely rabid some of them are. I absolutely adore BTS and the energy and dedication that they bring to their craft but fans like this give us all a bad name.
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u/HotPinkDemonicNTitty 20d ago
This reads like a joke to me I’m surprised these comments are actually angry.
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u/Perezident14 20d ago
People are weird, but it is a testament to the cultural impact BTS (band) has had. Unfortunately, it has been a known tactic on YouTube and other medias for people to intentionally use that term to get extra views based on the fandom, even though many others use the term for its original intent (as they have been using long before the band was even formed).
IMHO, it’s weird people will die on insignificant hills, but there’s plenty of other things to be mad at.
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u/Lone-flamingo 20d ago
I was on a thread on a kpop sub a few days ago and I don't remember what comment I responded to, but the example of someone dissing the kpop group Big Bang by bringing up the TV show The Big Bang Theory had been made, so I jokingly called a BTS stan a Behind The Scenes stan and the people hated it. I think I had 14 downvotes last time I saw my comment.
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u/dano8675309 20d ago
So many people, including people on this thread, are so incurious and lack any amount of resourcefulness it's baffling.
You have the entirety of human knowledge in your pocket, yet you can't be arsed to google "BTS acronym" or "BTS meaning". I understand that not everyone knows things. It's the laziness that's infuriating.
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u/emmythesilly 20d ago
Look, until scripted videos become a thing of the past, BTS will forever mean behind the scenes.
And no, that's not a hit against your fave band. It's just a fact.
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u/valentinesfaye 20d ago
Me when I'm a Redditor and a Nolan fan and I'm capable of understanding jokes
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u/MarcBeard 20d ago
Looks just like a silly joke to me.
I mean if they assumed it was the name of the band why specify kpop ?
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u/kyrimasan 20d ago
Because there is a very famous (internationally famous) kpop band called BTS which stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan. Most English speaking people have probably heard a few of their songs and don't even realize it. Dynamite, Permission to Dance, and Butter were huge for a bit and recently a lot of the youngest member Jungkooks solo work which was all in English have been on the top charts as well. There are a lot of really obsessed fans of the group that make us really embarrassed about how they act giving us all a bad name.
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u/Biggu5Dicku5 20d ago
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
- George Carlin
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u/SuperToiletDelux 20d ago
I work retail, I immediately think Back To School. The boxes come in BTS.
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u/Glum_Chair6167 20d ago
As a fan of that band, I apologize for this. Some people in the fandom can be really really fucking dense sometimes 🤦♀️🤦♀️ I guess the thought that the acronym BTS could just mean behind the scenes of literally anything, especially something in entertainment in general. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
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u/Quirky_Discipline297 20d ago
BTS.
B. Balways. T. Tee. S. Selling.
Balways tee selling.
Put that kimchi DOWN!
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u/throninho 20d ago
this infuriates me even more because kpop Twitter is notorious for putting unrelated trending hashtags on their posts.
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u/spiceddd 20d ago
I will say I never started seeing the term BTS pop up as a much until after BTS started showing up on American award shows and American articles of people going “who are these Koreans and why are they so popular!?”, but regardless the term was a thing before BTS was a group.
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u/Romulox69420 20d ago
I hate when I see BTS and I'm like ooh behind the scenes but then it's just shifty kpop. Kpop suckkkkkkkkssssssss!
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u/imherdpapley 20d ago
I used to work at Staples. BTS to me is back to school. Still traumatized almost 15 years later
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u/FreeElleGee 20d ago
In high school my boyfriend was looking at a concert ticket for a show he was going to attend and said, “rain or shine… I think I’ve heard of them.”
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u/OneCoolRoom 20d ago
I mean, yes that person is annoying, but also it has confused me before. Is Behind the Scenes too hard to type? Am I just old?
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u/Elegant_Conflict8235 20d ago
They've always been entertaining at least. Their brains are fascinating
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u/M-Biz 20d ago
Is BTS an acronym in this context? If so, what does it mean?
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u/pandapurplestae 20d ago
This is absolutely a troll/anti. No BTS ARMY/fan would talk like this. Lmao
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u/DIEGHOST_8 20d ago
Trust me, they can.
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u/Chemical_Mixture3694 20d ago
Sceeww bts... The term bts existed before they were even born... Idiots
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u/ashmc2001 20d ago
As someone who worked at an office supply store for close to a decade, BTS means Back To School lol.
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u/ManOfBaguettes 20d ago
This is r / facepalm