 Alright, so this is Permission to Dance on Stage LA in Inglewood, California. This would mark the first concert since 2019, which is more than two years ago. This was of course their map of the Soul concert was cancelled due to COVID, of course. CURSE YOU, COVENT! Now, I could talk for days why people love BTS, but I feel like we've talked about it here, here, here, here, here, and here. Let's talk for a minute about the impact BTS has had on us as a society. Growing up as a young Filipino boy, I was taught that in order to be attractive or bogey, I needed to have big, huge muscles, I needed to have a chiseled jawline, six-pack abs, I needed to be six feet tall. Society, TV shows, and movies told us that Asians were the nerds, the goofy sidekick, the butt of all the jokes. Weaklybo, you cannot go on or keep ringing my bell! You disturb me! Well, I got me shitty walk, you like to try shitty chicken today! Never, NEVER, EVER, the male lead. Unless, of course, they played the steer-typical martial artist, and no way in hell was an Asian male going to get the leading lady. Asian males weren't even allowed to get the Asian female in the story, those were reserved for the white male lead. Asian males were effectively desexualized, portrayed by all means as being undesirable. I am marching over there and putting my foot down with mechs. No one has sex on my clock. Well, maybe your clock's not big enough. Meanwhile, on the other side, Asian females were hyper-sexualized and seen as objects more than actual people. And it seemed, at least from my perspective, as an easily impressionable young boy living in America, Asians were ugly, or at least Asian men. Now, K-pop made their first significant wave in the United States, spearheaded by none other than Bing Bang and Super Junior. Of course, the West responded just exactly how you'd expect them to respond, calling them lady boys, feminine, unmasculine, and pretty much take every single homophobic slur that you can think of, that's what they said. Fast forward, well, to today, BTS have sold over 30 million albums and are currently the best-selling artists in the world today. Now, I'm not saying that BTS was the sole reason for this change. Make no mistake, there's been hundreds and hundreds of years of civil rights movements, there are many people and organizations fighting for Asian representation every single day. But, simply put, BTS paved the way. BTS has changed the perception of Asian men from scrawny, pathetic, loser nerds to now the ideal type for many people. I mean, look at them. Now, while marrying or even dating a BTS member may be a pipe dream for 99.99999% of the world, for the rest of us, maybe we can get the next best thing. This is where EMEHive comes into play. EMEHive is the number one. 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It's that easy. In 2021, it's easy to find Asian men attractive. But it wasn't always that easy. Now, Asian men have always been marginalized by society. However, thanks to BTS and the recent rise in interest in Asian pop culture, this is slowly changing. We asked people at the BTS concert about how they think BTS has changed how Asians are viewed. Yeah, I think there's just more visibility. There's more visibility so that more people are paying attention. And I think it's just open the door for them to actually be sex icons and seeing as attractive men instead of Asian men are always viewed as weaker or not as attractive. So I definitely think they're changing the way Asian men are looked at in the U.S. I mean, I think in the U.S. in general, beyond just K-pop, I think Asian males have not been thought of as conventionally attractive because of bullsh** stereotypes. It's stupid. But yeah, I have seen a lot of thoughts from people who have more qualifications than me to talk about it, of how cool it is to see Korean men on stage being considered really attractive. I think they are incredibly hot. Now they want to look like them. Now they want to dress like them. And now they want to wear earrings like Jimin. Now they want to dress like Jimin. They want to wear makeup like Jungkook. They want to be good looking like Jin. 10, 15 years ago when Chinese came out, Chinese were wearing color in jeans and everyone thought, oh, are they gay? But now everyone wants to dress like them and everyone want to look like them and everyone want to be cool like them. I think just anything that has such a diverse community is obviously going to change the world and change how we see artistry and, you know... Yeah, just how more accepting Americans can become when it comes to doing art of all cultures. I think it's no coincidence that we see the rise of something like BTS along with like Parasite winning Best Picture. Yeah, which I think it's, you know, it's a really great thing. When it comes to media, we as Asians, we feel like, you know, the racism is there. It's still there and we felt that they're feeling that way as well. But with what's going on right now and with ARMY supporting them, hopefully it will change. Did you realize how crazy it is that BTS just changed the whole, like, feel of the word? Like to, like, just Asian, like, artists and stuff like that? Because before them, I feel like people didn't really took them seriously, unfortunately. Kind of, like, they didn't give them the chance to be there just because you're Asian or just because they speak Korean or something like that. Like, so after BTS, I feel like after they realize that BTS is something that cannot be stopped and, you know, like, they are just what they are. Like, nothing can change how powerful they are. They're like starting to open the door, not just for BTS, but like for the whole K-pop and like the whole Asian culture. I feel like, like, it's like squid game. Like, what time, like, in life, it was like, when I started singing BTS was like 2015 and I started, like, watching K-dramas too. I would never, like, people would make fun of me because I used, like, K-dramas. And now everyone is obsessed with squid game. They literally, like, paved the way. I feel like it's not just on a music level. They're so far beyond that. Like, they speak at the UN, all the charities they do. You know, how much they put into stuff that's not related to music. Like, it kind of comes together and makes the music even better. This was a perception of Asians before BTS. So, what's your name? Long. What's your first name? Long. After BTS? Before BTS. Miss Golan? After BTS. Before BTS? I don't think I should be in the band. Why not? I'm not cool enough. People in bands are cool. I'm not cool. After BTS. Now, once again, I just hope this doesn't get misinterpreted. There's been 100 years of civil rights movements, millions and millions of people that have been fighting for Asian equality and representation. Productions like Crazy Rich Asians, Parasite and Squid Game have also helped a ton. So, what do you guys think? Has BTS changed the way the Western world looks at Asians? Did BTS just make us hot? Hey guys, we'd like to thank EME Hive for partnering with us on this video. EME Hive is THE place for Asian dating, mingling and entertainment. Use my link in the description box below and meet Asian singles today with EME Hive.