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In “Butter,” the performance does the talking.

"Hopper has shown in his famous Nighthawks that everyone is lonely since we are all strangers and happen to cross paths. BTS shows that loneliness can create a community in itself through sharing a journey together no matter how many obstacles that may cross their path."

"Vermeer and BTS utilize their means of expression to give way to their idea of what small things are for them. Vermeer sees small things as a moment in time while BTS sees small things as a thought that changes into action."

"Mono isn’t instructive – it never preaches to the listener, never forces them to adopt a certain approach to life. Rather, it shares an experience. A very personal, emotional, and desperate experience of how it feels to be lost."

This study examines how young people become, and feel about being, K-pop fans in a Western context, which is geographically and culturally distant from K-pop's place of origin.