It seems that The 2019 E! People’s Choice Awards has managed to infuriate the biggest fandom and its not looking good!
On November 10, The 2019 E! People’s Choice Awards were held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. BTS were nominated in three categories: The Group of 2019, The Music Video of 2019 and The Concert Tour of 2019.
They went up against many other notable Kpop and international acts, however, to the surprise of many, BTS lost in all of those categories. BLACKPINK ended up taking home all three awards while CL won The Most Inspiring Asian Woman of 2019.
Congratulations @chaelinCL for winning the E! People’s Choice Award for #TheMostInspiringAsianWoman of 2019! #PCAs pic.twitter.com/ziCUuFH8XR
— E! Online Asia (@eonlineasia) November 11, 2019
.@ygofficialblink graced us with Kill This Love 🎵 Now, we’re happy to announce they’ve won #TheMusicVideo of 2019! #PCAs pic.twitter.com/mWWch1XjYD
— E! People’s Choice (@peopleschoice) November 11, 2019
#BLINKs, you made tonight possible. Congrats on making @ygofficialblink #TheGroup of 2019! pic.twitter.com/cg3eZ5T1a8
— E! People’s Choice (@peopleschoice) November 11, 2019
Blinks! RT so the world knows that @ygofficialblink has won for #TheConcertTour of 2019! ❤️ #PCAs pic.twitter.com/2LgkRVcoZU
— E! People’s Choice (@peopleschoice) November 11, 2019
The People’s Choice Awards is about people’s choice and naturally, there was a voting process that took place ahead of the ceremony. According to various voting accounts, BTS were leading by a huge margin which isn’t difficult to comprehend considering ARMY are the biggest fandom in Kpop at the moment, they’re also known for being extremely supportive voting for BTS in which ever award they’re nominated for, domestic or foreign.
This is why it didn’t sit well with ARMY after they saw the winner’s list. As a result, they made sure the let the award organizers know how they feel. They trended #ThePeopleChooseBTS and #ARMYsChoiceBTS worldwide, they’re currently sitting at number 1 and 2 respectively.
ARMY are protesting BTS losing in those three categories calling The People’s Choice Awards clout chasers for using BTS and their fandom to hype up their award ceremony.
Here are some of their reactions:
PC* could have rigged just ‘Best Group’ and ‘Best MV’ and it would have been a bit harder to argue that it’s rigged. The fact that BP won ‘Best Tour’ with this gap between the two groups is really all the proof we need. #ThePeopleChooseBTS#ARMYsChoiceBTS@BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/KkgTMi2wQp
— omer meroz (@omermeroz) November 11, 2019
I seriously love how long our hashtags have been trending at the top of the list. @BTS_twt borahae! #ThePeopleChooseBTS #ARMYsChoiceBTS pic.twitter.com/hsGIWjRjp4
— What a relief that we are seven 💜 (@KookieMonSuga) November 11, 2019
#ThePeopleChooseBTS #ARMYsChooseBTS @BTS_twt
omfg im feelin so red BEYOTCH pic.twitter.com/WstZFQ6SNU— leen | ᴛᴀᴇ ɪꜱ ᴀɴ ᴇᴛʜᴇʀᴇᴀʟ ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ (@caramcllattae) November 11, 2019
#ThePeopleChooseBTS#ArmyChooseBTS
No one’s doing it like BTS, Stadiums sold in a matter of time and breaking their own records….BTS organic wbk 💜💜💜
Here’s Jin to bless your timeline with his visuals pic.twitter.com/xiiLWystZC— 달아이 (@Holy_Dionysus) November 11, 2019
They fucking used my boys for clout?!!!?
Armys lets unite@BTS_twt#ThePeopleChooseBTS pic.twitter.com/l7h8AjUFZP— jamais vu (@bingbtsph) November 11, 2019
we all know whose the real winners is BTS#ThePeopleChooseBTS @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/6E3sZ0ewTZ
— JEON ᵔᴥᵔ JJK1 (@jungkookei_) November 11, 2019
What do you think of this? Do you think the winner was justified?
sorry bp..this is not the way the be no 1
i luv thus girl but the company really ruin them slowly and as a blink this is so embarrassing if this girl proud with this award..can we just go slowly and steadily n not stealing other people opportunity..
Well, everything that goes up, falls down someday.
Actually not even just the stats but the gap for voting on twitter was 20 million plus. They want us to believe, that was fair? And yes, we voted on website everyday as well. Regardless of who it was, the clear winner was BTS but we did not realize it was a pay for choice award. I assumed the name of the award show was self explanatory.
I feel sorry for blackpink. They have to know what the votes really were. It seems like they get the number 1 spot through manipulation and that’s not fair to them either. BlackPink is represented by Universal in the US, so it appears they used a loophole to have their own artists win.
ARMYs need to focus on legit awards now until the end of the year. There are many awards that are more prestigious coming our way in the next few months.
I can definitely see how bp won best mv and i think best group was a bit of a toss up but bts should have won best concert tour like…. cmon. ur getting ridiculous now that tour was actually legendary
This is honestly so stressful knowing they basically used the boys for clout, Honestly we stan Army who take no crap from anyone willing to say something harmful to the boys