Even in case your financial institution stability is feeling the burn from all of the BTS albums and merch you’ve purchased just lately, your spend is probably going nowhere close to the extent of this ARMY who spent a staggering $50,000 USD on merch and extra. In a function for MTV, she revealed her astounding assortment and defined simply what BTS means to her.

20-year-old Thuy from California has been a fan of BTS since their rookie days. She started following and supporting the group in 2014 on the age of simply 11, and since then, she’s been an avid ARMY.

Alongside listening to BTS for “at least five hours a day,” Thuy has additionally spent extra on BTS merch than many individuals spend on their school tuition. On an episode of MTV’s Lifestyles of the Biggest Standoms, the Californian teen confessed she’s spent “at least $50,000” on the group so far.

That consists of $30,000 USD solely on her merchandise assortment together with an extra $20,000 on live performance tickets, garments the BTS members have worn, and extra.

There’s rather a lot that I’ve poured into it.

— Thuy

Thuy defined that she collects all types of official merchandise, together with objects from BTS’s excursions, their albums and DVDs, cup sleeves from fan occasions, and fanmade pins and keychains.

I simply love having bodily issues.

— Thuy

She even went so far as shopping for a replica of School Luv Affair signed by all seven members—though it was signed to a woman named Yoobin, not Thuy herself.

I’m unsure whose handwriting it’s, however I did some analysis. I believe it might be [Suga’s] handwriting… Obviously [Yoobin] just isn’t me, however I actually needed to get myself a signed album, even when it didn’t have my title on it.

— Thuy

Another signed merchandise she owns is a photobook web page with an autograph from maknae Jungkook—certainly one of Thuy’s biases. She went on to theme an entire part of her room round it personalised along with his BT21 character, Cooky, and Jungkook polaroids.

Speaking of BT21, Thuy’s BTS assortment additionally consists of extra character plushies than you possibly can depend, together with a number of Cooky toys in each dimension conceivable.

And Thuy doesn’t simply gather objects produced by Big Hit Music; she additionally has the merchandise from BTS’s model offers, from Cold Brew to Lemona.

On high of that, she additionally buys clothes that the members have worn in photoshoots or in public, regardless of the excessive designer worth tags. Some of her items embrace a shirt Jimin wore for Weverse Magazine, a shirt Jungkook wore in a dwell broadcast, and Balenciaga sneakers worn by Jungkook and J-Hope. Many of the objects value her upwards of $2,000 USD.

I do prefer to put on a number of what they put on, even when it’s dearer.

— Thuy

Some of the opposite quantities she’s spent embrace $500 USD on BTS books…

$600 USD on BTS-themed pins…

$170 USD on BTS microphones…

$5,000 USD on BTS albums…

and $20,000 on live performance tickets, aircraft tickets, and inns.

Definitely lied to my dad and mom, perhaps a couple of times, about how a lot I’ve spent… Just for my dad’s psychological stability,  I’ve not informed him how a lot I’ve spent. He might be higher off not figuring out.

— Thuy

As huge as Thuy’s assortment is now, it didn’t begin out that means. The teen says it’s progressively advanced in dimension and commenced together with her displaying little BTS-themed objects in her room. Then, over time, “just one more,” rapidly became an entire room stuffed with merchandise.

Now it’s like, in case you stroll into my room, each nook, each wall that you simply look, you’ll most likely see them.

— Thuy

Naturally, as a real collector, she doesn’t use many of the objects she buys with a view to maintain them in pristine situation. Despite the current pandemic, for instance, she hasn’t ever opened her BTS face masks.

While some could say that proudly owning so many merch objects should make them really feel much less helpful, Thuy has many purchases which might be significant to her. Her ARMY Bomb lightstick, for instance, “means the most” to her as a result of she’s taken it to so many BTS live shows. She even determined to customise it for BTS’s sadly canceled 2020 world tour, spending 20 hours hand-applying 7,000 rhinestones.

It’s identical to that factor is what you deliver to each single live performance to let BTS know that you simply’re there… Even in case you took away all the things else in my assortment, I might nonetheless discover a solution to go see BTS in live performance and I must deliver that gentle stick.

— Thuy

Of course, even many ARMYs studying this will assume Thuy’s assortment is excessive—they usually wouldn’t be the primary to have a considerably damaging view of it. The teen says these round her who don’t get the hype “definitely think I’m a little crazy.” That stated, she added that family members additionally simply completely satisfied to see her feeling completely satisfied. And finally, all that cash spent comes from the real love Thuy has for BTS.

“I think they’ve always helped me through those really, really low points,” she revealed, explaining that always surrounds herself with merch to unwind and even cried to BTS’s music when she’s down. “I think the fact that there’s kind of that outlet and that it feels that someone is listening there,” she says, “that always is so reassuring.” She went on to say that BTS’s album title, The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, sums up simply how particular the members are to her.

BTS means a lot to me as a result of they’re concerned in each facet of my life.  Most of my life is devoted in the direction of them.  Every day I’m doing one thing for them. There’s actually nobody like them. They’re particular in and out. They’re such type boys. They achieve this a lot for his or her followers. They’re simply, to me, my favourite individuals in the entire world, except for my household.

— Thuy

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