Afternoona Army: Thinky and Thirsty BTS Takes
Aug 24, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments
It's August (Not AgustD) and Arirang has wrapped Europe and is making its way through the last North American dates (concluding with LA in early September). Before Megan and Lea meet up at those…
Leah RileyHostMeganHost
I wanna say something that is deep, though, and that is lovely, is I wanna get the name of the charity exactly right.
Yeah
Mm-hmm.
Um, so at this concert Jimin, uh- ... basically was doing his, like, you know, Jimin thing, and he saw a group of children and went down and interacted with one, gave her, um...
He had, I think, like, an ARMY Bomb that had been bedazzled, and then he actually bent and kissed, like, really lovely, like, the side of her head, like, kind of, like, upper cheek, and she was a little girl.
Um, you could tell she was going through chemotherapy because, you know, of her lack of hair, and she was so excited at the moment.
And it turned out that they were there, there had been tickets donated to them from a group called Heroes for Children.
And much smarter, kinder, more empathetic ARMY than me, like, figured out what the charity was and started donating to them, just kind of, like, out of pocket, just, like, began the movement.
Mm-hmm.
And then I saw on social media, like, somebody who was, like, married and, like, a spouse worked for the group, and they had, like, talked about it on Reddit, being like, "This is incredible.
Like, we're having so much fun because there's all these, like, currencies, and we're having to, like, figure out, like, the different currencies." And they're just like, "This is really incredible." So they, they did what any good nonprofit would do, which is they made a moment for it.
And so it looked like ARMY was hungry to come donate and support this charity, and so they created, like, a landing page which has Jimin, you know, the moment where he connected with the little girl, and then they set a $50,000 goal.
So we are not even 48 hours into when this posted, and they've exceeded the $50,000 goal, and they're currently sitting at $70,583.53 as of this minute.
Amazing.
See-
Like, that is a thing where we're gonna talk about some other things with the fandom.
And like everything, there is light and dark, and this to me is, like, a moment of light.
Mm-hmm.
I wanna say something that is deep, though, and that is lovely, is I wanna get the name of the charity exactly right.
Yeah
Mm-hmm.
Um, so at this concert Jimin, uh- ... basically was doing his, like, you know, Jimin thing, and he saw a group of children and went down and interacted with one, gave her, um...
He had, I think, like, an ARMY Bomb that had been bedazzled, and then he actually bent and kissed, like, really lovely, like, the side of her head, like, kind of, like, upper cheek, and she was a little girl.
Um, you could tell she was going through chemotherapy because, you know, of her lack of hair, and she was so excited at the moment.
And it turned out that they were there, there had been tickets donated to them from a group called Heroes for Children.
And much smarter, kinder, more empathetic ARMY than me, like, figured out what the charity was and started donating to them, just kind of, like, out of pocket, just, like, began the movement.
Mm-hmm.
And then I saw on social media, like, somebody who was, like, married and, like, a spouse worked for the group, and they had, like, talked about it on Reddit, being like, "This is incredible.
Like, we're having so much fun because there's all these, like, currencies, and we're having to, like, figure out, like, the different currencies." And they're just like, "This is really incredible." So they, they did what any good nonprofit would do, which is they made a moment for it.
And so it looked like ARMY was hungry to come donate and support this charity, and so they created, like, a landing page which has Jimin, you know, the moment where he connected with the little girl, and then they set a $50,000 goal.
So we are not even 48 hours into when this posted, and they've exceeded the $50,000 goal, and they're currently sitting at $70,583.53 as of this minute.
Amazing.
See-
Like, that is a thing where we're gonna talk about some other things with the fandom.
And like everything, there is light and dark, and this to me is, like, a moment of light.
Mm-hmm.
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