on being 2nd gen kookminist

for anon <3

as an og km-er, what's it been like to watch them evolve to the married couple they are now? i imagine kinda exhilarating lol

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NONNIE WOWW I GOT SO EXCITED GETTING THIS MESSAGE. it's so sweet of u to call pre-gcft kmers "og kmers"....we're like 2nd gen og and people back in '13/'14 are 1st gen. i actually shared this cc with a 2014 kmer, moch (to which she said, "anon u should ask what it was like in 2014... we was in the trenches fighting" LOL), and we started talking about separations -- generations if u will -- of kmers. this is what i came up with:

[6:21 PM] cha:

arguably 3rd gen could be divided further (EDIT: i do divide it further later in this cc answer, that division point being rose bowl) but i think this is where the waves of kmers divide most clearly:

1st gen kmers >> 2013 up to 2015 pre-osaka incident

2nd gen kmers >> 2015 post-osaka up to 2017 pre-gcft

3rd gen kmers >> 2017 post-gcft up to now

so in this scenario i'd be a 2nd gen kmer and moch would be 1st gen. divisions being between the first obvious change in dynamic (osaka incident) and second obvious change in dynamic (gcft).

anyway, sorry u didn't ask for that at all lmfao....all that aside, to answer your actual question: IT WAS INDEED SO EXHILARATING!!!! when i think back they were one of the things that kept me going, seeing them consistently and proudly demonstrate their love for each other really helped me in what was probably the worst period of my life....it gave me something to smile about :") i remember i'd be in class scrolling twitter like ?@#$@?#$235?##? (i ESPECIALLY remember witnessing the pics from mma 2018 during my genetics class. when i tell u my heart was clenched tight with overwhelming happiness, and amazement, and simultaneously bewilderment, as if it was the first time i'd ever seen the two of them....)

one thing to know about me is i doubt myself /so much/ while tinhatting, so i'll keep trying to investigate and confirm again and again for my mind to be at ease. back then, i read a lot of theories on tumblr, particularly post-gcft (which is what really pushed me over the edge into full-blown tinhatting) up to like, pre-mma 2018 maybe....i screenshotted a lot of them too (if someone asks me to find them maybe i will) and back in 2017/early 2018 we sort of needed those theories yknow, bc they weren't as obvious as they are now. we needed people to point out the strange little things that added up to this conclusion that maybe jimin and jungkook have something going on.

2018 was probably the best year for kookmin moments. TONS of selfies and content, not even including the gcfs released that year. the two that come to mind immediately from 2018 are the "shameless" japanese interview, and then of course -- mma 2018. um, can one even be kookminist without knowing about that. i would very much like to question the boyz hyunjae about what he heard that night, like i don't need confirmation but i would LIKE it yknowyknow

uh, 2019, 2020, and 2021 were/are pretty dry compared to 2018, aside from a select few moments (per year i mean, combined they probably amount to 2018 or more). (and of course excluding rose bowl. god. maybe we need to separate the kmers from before rose bowl and after rose bowl into 3rd and 4th gen kmers, because it seems like that was a big converter moment too.) if u look closer at those years though....there are some things they've revealed to us that indicate that they're still going strong, stronger than ever even....not just in how lovingly they look at each other, but in a quantifiable way. multiple quantifiable ways. that probably requires a whole other cc answer or dw post to discuss though.

it feels great to be continually proven right though, even when they're not as loud. i mentioned being insecure/doubting myself when tinhatting -- kookmin has reached a level beyond that. i really can't think of any doubts i have about them. i feel secure in thinking they're together, even when we don't see them, even when i'm not reading theories (what theories do we even need anymore lmao. they're right there). when i see them now i'm like oh there goes those two lovebirds, doing their thing <3 loving each other unconditionally <3

and considering jungkook believes in destiny, and jimin's was pretty much in love with jungkook for so long before jungkook ever liked him back....it seems like they'll be happy together for a long time. after all, they "click." T____T <3