The accounts follow no pattern beyond being j-hope centric accounts. Some are fanpages posting pictures, edits and for personal use albeit a large following. Others are devout fanbases for countries, encourage streaming, voting and updates, and who otherwise spent years building their following. Some accounts like @lvnhobi were personal accounts that eventually morphed into translating j-hope content.
The wide range of accounts now missing have left many fans puzzled due to its unusual nature.
The first wave happened over the course of two days (April 22th - April 24) when 28 accounts were suspended.
This chart denotes which of the 28 accounts were fanpages (blue) and fanbases (red).
A further 6 accounts were deleted over the course of May and June, 3 fanpages (blue), 1 fanbase (@jhopeupts, red) and 2 back up accounts of fanbases (red).
In summary to date, 34 j-hope centric accounts have been suspended with no warning since April. At least 5 of these accounts are backup accounts that were also suspended on the same day, or weeks after. There are more suspended backup/secondary accounts still undeclared.
All of these accounts had been devotedly building their following and supporting j-hope and BTS for years, so they were dismayed to have lost access to their platform. The circumstances of their disappearance have led many people to speculate foul play and/or mass reporting by antis. The exact nature has yet to be determined. Some could be due to copyright strikes on posted videos. However, not all accounts posted videos and made purely text or photo based tweets. Therefore, copyright crackdown does not rationalize or explain all suspensions.
Why is the suspension of these accounts such an issue?
These accounts have build a loyal following of fans who support j-hope. It is unfair for all account owners and is a direct blow on j-hope's brand and the integrity of his fanbases. If j-hope accounts are being targeted, then this means that j-hope centric content will slowly diminish on the platform. This is an issue that all ARMY should be made aware of.
For example, another related loss is the suspension of the account @shimmeringjimin whose fancam of j-hope with the view count of 16 million held the previous standing record of most viewed fancam on the app:
Little-by-little notable fans, integral pages and notable achievements are being whittled away.
Just how many followers were lost?
There is no clear distinct record for the number of followers that each and every account held. Only 20 of the 32 accounts followers could be approximated - a culminative 1,011,538 followers. This does not account for any account whose following count not be determined, some follower growth unaccounted for, and potential new followers lost in the time of their suspension. Accounts now lost include those with more than 100 thousand followers - @relatablejhope with 106K followers, @relatablehobi with 100K, @jhopestudio with 113K, and @jharchives with 483K.
What now?
Fans have been appealing for three months now, hopefully the wider fandom takes notice and Twitter can consider these cases.
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idk i feel like this is the work of solo stans. why would antis outside BTS fandom target only one member?
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