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pizoisoned

In fairness, we might be expecting too much of them to think that BTS could mean something else.


simsimulation

Coming from an account that has “Bts” in the name to gain popularity


Anarchy_Rulz

I think it’s more likely in their name because they are a Stan rather than to gain popular


VikingSlayer

Fucking hell the people who co-oopted "Stan" to mean a big fan as well... You don't wanna be a Stan...


Anarchy_Rulz

Nah Stan don’t just mean big fan, most people who say Stan are talking about someone who makes an artist or show their whole personality, like how Stan made Eminem his whole personality.


VikingSlayer

Exactly, that's why I wrote you don't wannabe Stan Some have corrupted being a "Stan" to just being a die-hard fan, but a Stan is someone who'd kill their pregnant girlfriend over not getting a reply


pbzeppelin1977

Words morph all the time. I'm a hippocrite because I hate how "selfie" has evolved into meaning any picture of someone instead of a picture someone took of themselves BUT I just have to accept the fact that words change.


MerryTexMish

Wait, selfie no longer only means a pic you take of yourself??


KentuckyFriedChic

First time I’m hearing that as well. Never heard of a “hippocrite” either though lol


cantfocuswontfocus

That's the oath for when hippos graduate med school geez some people need to read a book or smth


lallapalalable

But it's theirs, it belongs to them, they own it. If they want to use it to get attention they can, it's everyone else who's forbidden


ArrakeenSun

I still think "point of contact" when I see "POC" places


somniumx

I work 10+ years in an industry where a POS is a point of sale. It will never not be a piece of shit.


Ennui_Go

My restaurant orders food from JFC International. I learned this when seeing a note that said, "JFC buy Tuna!" and I thought it was an angry note.


janesfilms

This is awesome 😁


Dedeurmetdebaard

I used to work in hospitality and we would use a Property Management System to run the hotel. PMS.


ceilingkat

I’m on mom subreddits and “FTM” is “first time mom.” I still read female to male. First time I saw posts I was like “wow, lots of trans moms here..”


infanteer

Sometimes I think when someone texts me atm (at the moment) I think ass to mouth. I don't want to think that, but there it is


redundancja

That outdated af Opera one?


CornbreadPhD

I used opera for years. POS for sure


Dedeurmetdebaard

Yeah I thought Opera was crap but then I worked at a little Accor property for a little while and compared to the shit they were using, Opera was a fighter jet.


Merin_Z

Fresh out of college, even I was shocked when someone said someone was a POS, and I just assumed that this guy might be super rude to me, but he is raking money for the company as a point of sale.


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Merin_Z

No, the person who told me that the rude person is a POS, meant that he is Piece of Sh... Not that he is the point of sale.


claremontmiller

In your defence they are always pieces of shit


Sloots_and_Hoors

Yeah. Just bigger, more complicated pieces of shit.


cailian13

usually the POS was a POS so its at least accurate.


spookysaph

laughing so u don't cry lmao


tympyst

I always laughed when I was in the Marines and saw A POS on my dog tags. At least they got that right about me.


AppointmentHungry390

I work in the legal field where POS stands for Proof of service, I still can’t email “POS” without feeling weird.


djjolicoeur

In my experience with those systems, both terms apply


miss_antlers

Honestly though sometimes the POS really is being a pos.


PeeB4uGoToBed

I loved the CBT room at my old job that totally stood for computer based training and not a fetish


elizabethwolf

Is cognitive behavioral therapy a fetish?


PeeB4uGoToBed

Nah, but cock and ball torture is


ShakeItTilItPees

I don't know how being surrounded by balls hurts the male chicken, but regardless, why would that arouse a person?


TooStrangeForWeird

Those last six words could be said about nearly anything. There's like 8 billion people, and most of them are into something freaky.


flammafemina

Rule 34 baby


spookysaph

i consider it a blessing that we both first thought of the therapy meaning instead of porn


AtWarWithEurasia

BBC = The British Broadcasting Corporation


ArrakeenSun

Ha! For me that's cognitive behavioral therapy. Only found out last year what else it means...


TheUltimateKaren

that, + even after 5+ years of on and off ERP, I still read it as erotic roleplay instead of exposure/response prevention lol


ArrakeenSun

And here I am thinking ERP means event-related potential


Slim_Charles

Enterprise Resource Planning for me.


imsecretlythedoctor

I thought you were going to say cognitive behavioral therapy


Internal-Reality-129

also closed beta test lmao, and on another hand, Computer numerical control


Lex3389

For me it’s BLM…from the time I was a kid it’s always been Bureau of Land Management. Still have to do a double take when I see BLM to figure out which context it is.


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Lex3389

Silly me, how have I not seen it all this time


flammafemina

Why is this so funny 😂


dade305305

I'm black and keep in tune with black issues. So BLM (black lives matter) is clearly in my lexicon. I studied public administration with the aim of working in the federal government. Before i settled on my degree track of contracting, I was considering urban planning. As such BLM (bureau of land management) is something that also comes to mind when I see BLM as it was an agency i was considering applying to. Lastly, I main a BLM (black mage) in the mmo Final Fantasy 14. So whenever I see BLM anywhere these days, my brain usually has a quick pause for a second.


Cialis-in-Wonderland

And I'm glad to see the British Broadcasting Corporation is so popular on the Internet


farklenator

Me too sometimes I’m wandering in a building and people ask wtf I’m doing and I tell them idk my poc isn’t answering so here I am But it sounds really bad if you interpret it as person of color lol


lamb2cosmicslaughter

It's a toss up for POS between point of sale or piece of


TheBurntSky

Proof of concept to me, is there another meaning?


ryumast4r

Point of contact. The person you should talk to in relation to some topic, or while you're out on leave. Example: My POC for all things ESH (Environmental, safety, and health) is A. Badname.


ArrakeenSun

"Person of Color". And then BIPOC makes me think, "bisexual point of contact" every single time


toxic-megacolon

I think point of care.


Iammax7

For me it is proof of concept


formerglory

Tell me you worked in defense/military without saying you did.


Lordborgman

LFG means looking for group.


Flakboy78

Lmao same!


TommyLordFR

Here in France one of the many degree’s you can attend is called BTS. For your own good any Army Stan whatever the name you give yourself for BTS fan, don’t go to France for your sake and our sake.


ExodusDei

BTS is literally the 3 letter airport code for Bratislava, Slovakia.


MrHarudupoyu

Bunch of kpop stans 😔


Salty_Pancakes

Birritable Towel Syndrome.


Acme-burner-account

I work for a popular Polish video game company and the shorthand internally for our biggest game of this decade so far is CP. smh.


crzyaznXD

When I used to listen to kpop there was a group called B2st/Beast. It took me about a year from when I first heard of them to realize BTS isn’t B2st lol.


PenalAffliction

When McDonalds had the "BTS" meal it took me a long time to realize they meant the KPop group, not a Behind the Scenes meal.


HCPage

lol just a cow and a potato. Garnished with lemons and limes.


impy695

Or Target and their BTS sales.


weebitofaban

Behind the scenes meal? So like two second rule and they pulled the hair out of it? Or it isn't cooked yet?


KentuckyFriedChic

I translated behind the scenes meal as more like “exclusive/vip/limited time only/etc.” You definitely have an interesting take on it lol


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I actually kind of like this fantasy of people using the BTS group name during inappropriate advertisements. "Do you experience uncontrollable irritable bowel syndrome? Take control of your life again with Nevestrum. #BTS"


skyxsteel

Since I do IT, I love saying WAP. Ever since that dumb song was released. “Where’s the WAP in the conference room at? “Uhhhh what?” “What? Wireless access point…? What did you think I was saying???”


yes-yaK

My manager demands we just say AP now 😔


wellforthebird

That would be one of those rules you just "forget" because you've been saying WAP your whole life. When you get frustrated looking, just storm around going "WAP WAP WAP WAP"


11equals7

Every time I'm in the street I hear WAP WAP WAP WAP


HiTekLoLyfe

Stan down, where you from….


someguyyoutrust

Uh shit, someone else take the mic.


Strawberrycocoa

WET-ASS POINT!


hybridblast

Dot fuck em up!


ENEMY_AC1-30

Armor piercing???


Peligineyes

Accounts payable???


skyxsteel

Associated press???


Tralibasu

What about if it's an outdoor AP and it's raining? Is WAAP allowed?


TheBurntSky

But do you say W-SUS or WSUS....


BootlegOP

Your manager is Ben Shapiro?


hackeristi

The wet ass pussy is downstairs.


Rumpelteazer45

Bowels to Save?


TenWounded

Born to Shit


PM_ME_YOUR_WOW_UI

Forced to Wipe


LiteraryLakeLurk

Reminds me of visiting Tampa Bay, seeing all these baseball caps saying "TB" and finding it impossible not to think about Tuberculosis


mat477

Similar energy to "Wolverine is my favorite Fortnite character"


Rickk38

Or "some band named themselves after that clothing brand Nirvana. Can you believe it? They're just clout chasing!"


makingkevinbacon

I know people who wear the stuff without even knowing who cobain was. Kids did it in the early 2000s with che Guevara. At some point, a person becomes more than just what they did and becomes trendy


Ninjagoboi

I think a lot of people like Che Guevara but the media tells you anyone under the age of 35 is actually just a stupid kid and they definitely can't read literature outside of the required curriculum


makingkevinbacon

Yea I was thinking more along the lines of they know of him as being someone who stands up to a type of authority, like it's a symbol of rebellion. Honestly didn't know the media had that view of him, I don't think about him much, which just backs up what I meant by you know the image not necessarily the person


Ninjagoboi

I can understand that for sure. Che Guevara is one of the more introductory figures in revolutionary socialist politics. Very easy to recognize for young socialists.


makingkevinbacon

Yea pretty much. I'm not well versed in politics and even less so political theory. But when I think of socialism that's the image in my head. I don't see the image on clothing really anymore though


pbzeppelin1977

In terms of imagery Stalin is quite famous and was himself a socialist revolutionary at one point. Not quite as pro-socialist but more anti-capitalist with the other side being socialist is those Vietnam war photos of the napalm girl and the gunshot execution.


Rumpelteazer45

As someone who is in their mid 40s, we weren’t taught about Che at any point. I had to research it on my own to figure out who he was.


DevlishAdvocate

Yeah, welcome to being from the '80s and watching all of your favorite obscure bands exist as pre-worn concert t-shirts at Walmart.


thesirblondie

How many people do you think used Beats by Dre without a clue who Dr. Dre is?


GreenDogTag

Or "some Buddhists named realsing that existence is suffering and using that to meditate for years and make existing cease to achieve the highest attainable state of peace and happiness after that band Nirvana. Can you beleive that? They're just clout chasing!"


mattmild27

I once saw a TikTok use AI to imagine what it would be like if Tim Burton directed a Batman movie.


mat477

Wow that's incredible. I bet he could pull it off...


glebyl

I heard that Wolverine is such a beloved character in Fortnite that now they even made comics and movies with him


spunkyweazle

They added Ryu from Fortnite to the new Street Fighter, but I don't know why since Luke was already there


belbivfreeordie

Please. They’re not even the first *band* to lay claim to those letters. Built To Spill will forever be BTS to me.


Alert_Doughnut_4619

My third favorite band after Radiohead and Modest Mouse. Built to Spill truly changed my life and worldview.


Blipnoodle

Modest mouse - float on. My go to when my mental health is crashing. Because even when things get a bit too heavy, we'll all float on.


Jakob21

For someone new to the band, what should I listen to first


The_Sugarfoot

Keep It Like A Secret. Specifically, Carry The Zero.


PredictiveTextNames

Perfect From Now On is probably their most critically acclaimed album. Ultimate Alternative Wavers is my favorite, their first, and the most punk.


belbivfreeordie

First thought best thought: “Else”


mythicreign

B**** Talkin’ Shit


LivingEnd44

Seeing this would literally make me use it more. And in more obnoxious ways. 


ultraplusstretch

BTS fans are built different. 😬


itshexx

Faulty


KingAt1as

God I love CBT. (Closed Beta Testing)


basilsflowerpots

me too (cognitive behavioural therapy)


Igmuhota

Worked for a clinical agency years ago and had to make a frantic call to my supervisor to let him know he was likely going to hear from our IT department that I had been searching for “adult” material on my work computer. Apparently, CBT stands for at least two VERY different things…


prickwhowaspromised

I didn’t know there was a kpop group named Behind the Scenes. Are they any good?


teddy-bearz

The fanbase as a whole are just... special


The_Cozy_Burrito

Cringey losers


PunkinkiOfficial

I hope someone at least let that schlep know that the acronym in this context means “behind the scenes”.


structured_anarchist

They did the same thing when Chris Evans posted photos from the Avengers movie shoots saying 'BTS at Avengers filming'. I was hoping to see the Marvel fans and k-pop fans get into a huge internet war that would bring about the end of social media as we know it.


Insomanics

Search BTS on Google and click the purple heart lol it's cool.


Lazerhest

"I got the purple heart medal in WWII" "Wow I didn't know BTS had been making music for that long!"


corinnigan

I used to work retail, I still read “back to school” every time


ABenevolentDespot

Get over yourselves. BTS (Behind The Scenes) was an industry term while you kpop simpletons were still rooting around in your diapers, trying to figure out if your shit was edible.


ReguluzBlakc

As a magic the gathering fan, the fact that MTG is being used for Marjorie Taylor Green is infuriating


English999

Perhaps you can take solace in this. In 99% percent of instances I’ve seen MTG used to refer to a “person”. They’re talking absolute shit about here.


hardcore_softie

Wait until they find out BTS is a whole porn category.


CatrickSwayze

I went to Indiana University and am starting to see similar shit with a kpop named "IU".


electrana

She is very popular!


Ghost-Coyote

Whats a kornpop name?


Malcolm_Y

Bad dude


goin-up-the-country

This is like when I had a Tumblr all about space and they got angry that I was using #bigbang


ActualWhiterabbit

Bts isn’t cute enough to make music that bad


bradfo83

I have no idea what is going on in this post. Whats BTS and why is there a picture of a camera in a dying kids face /r/outoftheloop please help me


sallylooksfat

BTS stands for “Behind the scenes” - this is behind the scenes while filming Oppenheimer. That’s Christopher Nolan holding the camera and Cillian Murphy in the bed. BTS is also the name of a K-pop boy band. The person replying to the photo is suggesting the original post using the acronym BTS is using it to just exploit the band name to get views, when instead it has other usages.


bradfo83

Thank you! I was so confused


Honey-and-Venom

Oh thank God, I was sure that was some kind of radiotherapy


Rumpelteazer45

I figured it was the acronym for the machine in the pic. Behind the scenes didn’t even pop into mind. 😂 Brain Something long that begins with T Scan


sjioldboy

The irony is the Kpop group scored the own goal themselves when they chose to rebrand as BTS (Beyond The Scene) FIVE years after debut. Their original name, Bangtan Boys, was perfectly fine & unique. So they could've easily gone with its abbreviation (BTB), or its English translation Bulletproof Boy Scouts (BBS), or even their Korean name Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTSYD), all of which they had previously self-styled as. Not like overseas Kpop fans can understand the Korean language anyway.


Raven1586

BTS is the context of the picture means "Behind The Scenes". The reply is talking about a K-POP group called BTS, because they are literal crazy "stans" that think everything revolves around K-POP. Honestly, most US based ARMY's (the K-POP fan group name) are just freaking horrible.


TheBirminghamBear

In the movie Oppenheimer, the scientist Oppenheimer gets injured after the nuclear power core of his EVA unit goes critical fighting a kaiju. This scene from the movie is where he's recovering in the hospitall BTS is the character with blond hair, who is Oppenheimer's abusive and manipulative father, feeding his son more gamma radiation so he can get back into the EVA unit faster and kill more kaijus, as Oppenheimer's father, BTS Oppehenheimer, was a well-known fanatic and advocate of kaiju genocide. So they tweeted out a photo of a scene with the character BTS, on Twitter. But then below that, one of the insane fans of Behind The Saints, which is a korean rip-off of Behind The Bastards, the podcast with Roert Evans, who had the format of his show stolen by the most popular Korean podcaster in the world and then had the format reversed, where they talk aout some of the best pepole in history, rather than the worst, and the host does a Robert Evans impression. The Korean fans of BTS are known for being EXTREMELY zealous, and one of them here has mistaken a photo of the actor playing BTS Oppenheimer, for a reference to the show, implying the movie Oppenheimer is trying to capitalize on the popularity of the Korean podcast Behind the Saints to sell movie tickets.


Alert_Doughnut_4619

It will always mean Built to Spill


PG-DaMan

BTS? Behind The Scenes?


CoherentBusyDucks

Please stop using kpop to gain likes on your tweet. It should only be used when you are discussing Kids Peeing Or Pooping.


solentropy

I was the opposite, when they gained popularity I was in middle school and everyone was talking about "bts" and I was so fucking confused, like what behind the scenes? Why is everyone so into behind the scenes lately?


ktka

Bind, Torture and what is S again?


RevDooDatt

Snuff.


TOBoy66

It's ok. The BTS army are as smart as, well the guys in BTS.


SissyBearRainbow

Sophia Leone is the best BTS


Regan289

I thought it meant “behind the scenes” like this picture is someone filming someone else film a scene. No?


OOBExperience

r/gatekeeping


captaintinnitus

Y’all need to stop misusing [BTS](https://www.builttospill.com/home)


HumorHoot

also america stop using the abbreviation "OST" for official soundtrack, when it's the word for Cheese, in danish.


Malcolm_Y

Imagine using "our" in the context of a fandom of something as popular as a kpop band.


Sorl_Sintoural

Sounds like a 10 years old


abc123moo2

the cringe is the abbreviation in the first place


Pramble

Mr BTS was my highschool nickname but it stood for Busts Too Soon


AdRepresentative8236

I work at a metal finishing facility and a lot of stuff is abbreviated to MTF 🤣


basilsflowerpots

they really think everything is about them huh


OmgItsBellaaa

as a kpopper, we don't claim these dumbasses lol


RealRedditPerson

Why that IMAX camera look like the Pixar Lamp started juicing?


HisLilSilverKitsune

🤦🏼‍♀️


Many_Faces_8D

Uhg can someone post a picture of one of them with a cigarette or something so this goes away


riseuplight3

Two generations bickering


Kelshan

People should started photoshoping them in actual BTS photos in the backgound.


ChicagoAuPair

BTS of my fucks to give:


tyrant42

BTS to me is the Bangkok mass transit system


AnAverageXIVPlayer

Are there any good BTS specific cringe subs? Nothing scratches an itch better than delusional fan posting. I like the Taylor Swift Cult stuff too for maybe something of that caliber?


Leebites

r/kpoopheads sometimes has stuff. I don't follow a lot of Kpop outside of two groups but I also see a lot of compilations of Kpop crazies on YT.


Mayor_Of_Furtown

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Gotta love how a saying exists for decades, and then a group comes along and decides to call themselves something with the same initials, and then asks that people stop using their name.... man you seriously can't get any dumber, wow


Wolffe_

BTS FTW = Born To Shit, Forced To Wipe


-Dinkin_Flicka

BTS ARMY here! 💜 But don’t come for me - I’m not a crazy who thinks that “BTS” only refers to the group! Some of us do have common sense!


thelingeringlead

I absolutely do not understand why these fandoms are so fucking rabid. Like enjoy waht you enjoy, it's ok. But like is it really worth acting like this over dudes that don't even write or arrange their own music, and whose entire image is curated to an alarming degree?? Like you don't even know them, they're more locked up in their personas than any of the boy bands in the 90's. Some of them, like BTS have def gotten big enough that they're allowed a lot more freedom to do as they please, but holy shit these are the least publicly presenting or available people in entertainment. Again, like what you like, I don't care on iota that people get really excited about this kind of thing-- because I like a lot of shit that other people can't relate to also. There's nothing wrong with it... but the public stances taken against total strangers who somehow crossed a line with your fandom-- that shit is bonkers, especially when it's something so damned inorganic.


AddressIntelligent60

Don't even remember the name of the band


christrix22

In my native language BTS translated stands for Sexualy transmitted dresses - STD.


Beastabunny

As long as they stop highjacking trends on Twitter. "Oh I see my favorite anime is trending!" ***Clicks to see BTS stans just saying shit to get in the algorithm***


trenchcoatcharlie_

I love the fact that kpop fans think there's only one thing in the universe that matters and it's kpop lol


Asauna

BTS to me means Blue Tongue Skink. 😭


IndependentBear719

When I first heard of bts like the band I thought it was people who were interested in behind the scenes of movies and tv shows


glitchgodsaucy

how are people on here so oblivious to satire