BTS 'FAKE LOVE' - My First Reaction. 

Wrong! There is snickers in the BU! In the flash back scene where J-Hope remembers being abandoned by his mother at an amusement park, she gave him a snickers bar and told him to wait for her. Therefore, the snickers represents his trauma. Now think of the definition of Magic shop. He has exchanged his trauma for what? If that is the case, then we can theorize that each of the boys (except Jungkook, who doesn’t exchange anything for his key) is trading in something that represents their trauma in the BU storyline. The mystery is what they get and how it is supposed to help them.

"I grew a flower that can't bloom in a dream that can't come true." I interpret that as the dream being the relationship and the flower being the effort put in to change yourself to make things work. You create a different version of yourself that ultimately won't bloom because the relationship, in this case the dream, was destined to crumble.

A little thing about the "Save Me" Wall, in case nobody else has said it yet. If you look at the writing on the wall upside down, it reads "I'm Fine." Both "Save Me" and "I'm Fine" are songs made by BTS. And actually, the beginning of both songs are the same sound so they're already directly connected. "Fake Love" was released before "I'm Fine" was so technically, that was a little easter egg/teaser that they put in for the name of an upcoming song. It also represents how sometimes when we say "I'm Fine" we actually aren't. In reality, we want someone to save us from our misery and talk to us. It's about how we say one thing, but actually want the opposite.

Actually this song was made on the time of their career when they're starting to soar high but they don't know what to do with the pressure or the praise and hate they've received and they're kinda sick of putting up a front just so people would like them and yes there's still some easter eggs here just look out this is the love yourself trilogy starting with love yourself her, tear (this era) and answer. This is my favourite trilogy!

I love how they decided "hey, let's have the floor drop in real life. That'll be fun!" How do you even BUILD all of these sets????????

Jim : Why is everything so confusing....... WHYY Jimin : I dunno I dunno I dunno whyy 😂

The hands in the sculpture form See/Hear/Speak no evil. Reflected in the choreo. Addressing the many taboos that make people hide their struggles by not acknowledging them.

About "the Magic Shop" as a technique, for what I got from the book it comes from, the idea is to help yourself break out of anxiety or bad thoughts in general by trying to focus on a positive experience or a feeling from a good memory which you can relate to the bad one but "overrides" it? The book is nice storytelling mixed with self-help and I relate the technique to mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy. Not sure if I really "got it" but that's what I got from it

The lore in this mv ties way more into the short film esque content they released. Butterfly prologue film, the highlight reels (the objects they got in return were the prevalent objects they had in the reels)

Fake Love and Love Yourself Tear holds a special place in my heart. My favorite album changes from time to time. Their discography is so diverse I cannot pick a favorite, but Tear era is when I experience my second comeback as an ARMY, and it was an experience like no other. I was a baby ARMY in DNA era so I don't know much about the comeback season, likes things to look forward to, things to do, where to see the performances and so on. Weeks before the Tear comeback I made a twitter account, and that was when I fully experience what it means for BTS to have a comeback. All the theories, performances, photos, Bangtan's interactions with ARMY, there's just so many things I was missing out on the first comeback. On one tweet someone is gushing about the boy's visuals, the next tweet you will see mind blowing theories related to the BU. It was overwhelming, but so fun at the same time.

I love noticing new things every time I watch these. Like the flower in the lantern is the one V had in Singularity and also the coat racks.

So here's my little personal theory about this video: So the lantern that you see in the video. There's a flower inside of it at the beginning and Jin is in the room as well. The flower itself represents love but that love is inside of a lantern where you can't actually reach it, so in a way it's fake love. When the chorus drops for the first time, we see a bunch of debris fly in through the windows and Jin tries to protect the flower within the lantern but ultimately fails, representing trying to protect this fake and toxic love but fake love never lasts. The flower turns to dust. Flash forward to the cut scene where Jungkook is walking through the room with the waterfall in it. There's the lantern again on top of a pile of dust. Jungkook takes some of it in his hands and it ends up turning into flower petals (some of them shaped like hearts). He created new love. But it's different this time. It's self-love, because he made it with his own two hands. It's real and free love that's floating all around the room instead of being trapped within a lantern where you can't reach it. I would also like to point out that the name of this trilogy is Love Yourself. *cough* And that on the front of Love Yourself: Her's album cover is the image of a flower. For me, this entire trilogy represents a story: Love Yourself: Her - The story of a beautiful love that in reality is very toxic and fake. Love Yourself: Tear - The story of finally letting that "love" die. Love Yourself: Answer - The story of finally figuring out that you need to love yourself for who you are. You shouldn't have to completely change yourself for another person who wouldn't do the same for you. You finally have the ANSWER. It's really beautiful and I hope you enjoyed my Ted Talk. 😅

Fun fact: The songs Save Me and I’m Fine connect to each other. Also in the MV for Fake Love in the mirror it says Save Me but if you flip it is says I’m Fine! I think it cool how they connect !!

I love that shot where he's standing by the sink and as the camera pans out you see he's trapped, look at the floor it's wooden floor board and they are painted blue except for the bit he's standing in It's like he's painted the floor boards but inadvertantly painted himself into a corner unable to escape the room until the paint dries. It's a picture of being trapped trapped in a bad situation or love etc etc.

If you know the BU story behind the Snickers... a pile of Snickers and Hobi on top of it... would make you sob. It's the most heartbreaking thing.

Remember the highlight reels? Umbrella snickers hairband birthday cake. The picture wings short films.. flower that jin tried to protect is the smeraldo flower the same flowers he got in bouquet in highlight reel

Fun fact: "save me" at the mirror, turned upside down is "im fine". Snickers bar - BU story Jhope's mother gave him a snicker bar, let him alone near a merry-go-round and desappeared.

As someone who gardens I know the phrase 'I grow a flower but it couldn't bloom' in gardening it means you grow a flower plant from a seed so the roots, stem and leaves grow it could also mean the bud of the flower formed but something stop it from blooming eg the flower head itself never open it bascially for flower died before it could open/bloom.

You'll start to understand more fully when they let you get into the webtoon and game. It plays the whole story out that they give us clips/scenes of in the videos. It's hard to put it all together with the videos alone.

Oh, he was so lost. The BU can be very confusing and convoluted. Is anyone going to help him with the snickers? 😄

For the line "I grew a flower that can't be bloomed in a dream the can't come true" look at it from end to beginning. It's a dream thats not true, so it can't bloomed, but the flower (love and hope) grew anyway

The flower was also used in singularity.... the words written in the mirror were "save me" and " i'm fine" (after the wall was opened for jk)... RM said that fake love is the sequel for singularity.... that you have to listen(or watch the mv) to singularity before listening (or warch the mv) to fake love.....

One of my favorite songs from BTS alongside of Singularity, Black Swan, Pied Pieper and ON Kinetic Manifesto Film! And, there is actually a flower called L. nigricans that doesn't bloom but bears fruit. And it's only the original variety that doesn't bloom, though now other varieties do. Pretty fascinating.

They actually have a song called save me and that lights turning on in the background are actually phones lighting up it could me couple things they're trying to break free of the suffocating power of social media, the words from haters or just the stress that comes with fame in a digital age

this is a part of bangtan universe. that's why this mv is very complicated. the mv's from BU is begin is i need you, and the other mvs is all the part from the BU itself. for deep dive to the BU you should check all the books ( the most beautiful moment in life part 1 & 2 / the notes, and all the books is represented) highlight reel, save me webtoon and bts world mobile game. that's such a rabbit hole.

💖 Your reaction, Mr Jim. This lyric resonates with my life. because of that fake love, I have depression and undergo treatment until now. How I struggled with my sadness. I don't have any more tears to shed only heartache😭

Little explain (hope theire is no spoilers in) The first vidéo was connect with "highlight reel" Jhope : Snikers : scène where Jhope's mom left him front of a carousel with a chocolat barre. Cake : the scène his friend give him a cake in the dance room RM : Miror : you see it in réflection and alsow in the prologue when he write "we have to survive" elastic : connect with the girl of the bus. Jin : I'm not sure if you had react to the vidéo it's connect V : I don't see wat he give The bag is the girl's bag in highlight reel Suga : I don't know what he give The lolipop the girl give him a lolipop when he keep a cigarette Jimin : the picture is the same you see in his song "lie" The umbrella is in "highlight reel" (but I don't know what good with that because it's connect with a sad scène) JK : Don't know what he give The kee is directly connect with the song"fake love" Alsow hope you anderstand my english is not on the top and it's a little to long to use Google translate.

JHope on the pile of snickers was more about the addiction of searching for things to dull the pain.

“Jungkook is late, i’m surprised he didn’t just repel from the ceiling” lololol just wait… 😅😂

Bruh the Snickers Bar is probably part of the saddest stories in the BU, it's probably good to go back and pay attention to the Highlights.

Besides the BU, to me, the Snickers so represent fake love, the way some people can substitute food/chocolate for love.

But the Snickers are incredibly sad. I know, hard to believe but I won't spoil anything.

Please do the extended version its more like the rock version its so good and there's extended part at the end 🙏

The hardest part being a fan of BTS, if you dont really dive into everything, mv, ahort films, bu contents, webtoons, etc you wont get a 100% grasp of what's happening. You'll get the idea pf the song, but the whole timeline and connected stories is confusing. Only hardcore fans can do that like diving into that rabbit hole. I cant go any deeper especially the webtoon. I am okay appreciating BTS beinf bts, the personality, the songs and what it means. Sometimes the MVs have this confuisng details that is ties with everything that i cannot really understand 🤣

Oh but they would be sad on top of a pile of Snickers if it had bad past memories for him. That's all I'll say.

The coat racks from singularity and V in the mask. RM said pay attention to the songs and listen to them in order. Because the songs tell a story. Jin hides JK in the dark and tries to protect both JK and the flower which represents V's heart. The flower turns dust. JK picks up dust/sand and it turns back into V's heart. He unlocked the door and the same room V danced in appears. Go back and rewatch Singularity and pay attention to V's earring.

In the BU J - Hope mother takes him to a carnival and gives a Snickers bar and tells him to close his eyes and she abandoned him 💜

"What are all the snickers? Does it mean people are snickering about them?" Lol that just killed me.

And THIS is why I wanted you to pay attention in the highlight reel! If this was filmed before that, I apologize, but you really should go back and watch some BU content again. It's easy to lose the thread of the story over time. 💜

Jim, I love you! Thank you so much for posting this! 😍🥰💜

Fabulous song and MV and oh, the Snickers are so sad 😢❤️

There is also a very minor theory that the relationship they reference is with the fans or the music industry. Even with I Need U, it kinda fits too as if the “girl” is the industry. That’s the beauty of their music, it can fit so many relationships beyond the simple girl boy

Not sure if someone has mentioned, its not just romantic relationships you put a mask on. There are people who do it with their parents, siblings, other family, friends....this can literally take over someone's life.

In the BU J Hope’ mother abandoned him when he was little she gave him a candy bar and told him to close his eyes when he opened them she was gone it was J Hope on top of the mound of snickers bars.

you need to watch their wings solos and highlight reels to understand those things they exchanged for... also, there is a director's cut version of this (maybe the japanese one) with an extended ending and showed who thise masked people are. plus, this rabbit hole have no definite ending (as far as i know) coz after all the teasers, notes, and mvs, the company decided to release the bts game where it continues based on player's choices.

the clothe racks are from singularity, V's solo MV.... and V wore the same mask at maybe the end of his MV....

Pay attention Jim with Fake Love reference…I think think this love has bloomed now to their next album

no and the fact the water in jimin's scene and the fire were true... they are AMAZING

Yesss, magic shop!! So excited to watch your reaction to this one

If You have watched the extended version it contains part , which explains the part from a teaser. Kookie it wasn't shown what he has exchanged yet if we base it on BU it might be himself for a sake of the other members , in BU it kind of looked like he thinks he is the cause of their misery, cause at end he is facing himself. Due they exchanging their traumas for positive attitude it doesn't mean the positive is good. Hobi exchanged chocolate bar the snickers which was given to him by his mother which abandoned him at the amusement park when he was like a 5 years old child ( as we know after this event he developed narcolepsy , thats what he thought yet it was Munchausen syndrome in which the person thinks is ill and develops the symptoms themselves yet they healthy, we can count it like childs behaviour which is doing it for mother attention and affection to receive it when he or lacks of it) for a cake the birthday cake he has received before from a friend. Jimin exchanged the photo of flower arboretum which upholds the memory of the murder of a child which he witnessed onto the umbrella in highlight reel we saw him using it in a rain but it does not brought a good memory. Yoongi exchanges the lighter for a lollipop which previously was given to him by a girl with a guitar. Namjoonie is exchanging the part of a broken mirror with written "we must survive" onto a hair band of a girl which he met , they were traveling by the same bus he picked it up, and placed it on her backpack while she was asleep. Jin has exchanged the ear piece which was used by him to report to a director, the director of the school threatened him to reveal the members base or he will tell everything to his father. Tae we can not see what he is exchanging yet we can consider a broken bottle which he has used to stab his father or a photo of his mother, for the backpack to which a girl was stealing goods from an convenience store he was working for.

I love the song Fake Love of BTS💜💜💜

snickers is the candy bar given to Hoseok when he was abandoned by his mother at the amusement park as a child. and the room he was in, a kind of "toy library", also conveys this vibe from when he was a child.

My favorite era!

Yet another masterpiece!

Hi. Ohhhh YES there is candy😉💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

No spoilers. But write down things you see members get from the magic shop and try to find those items in Highlights reels... and the things members exchange is all there in earlier BU mvs.

This MV is beautiful. I really love the song and mv. Thank u so much for the reaction!

There's an extended version of this mv as well... 😉

I like your reactions. They are genuine and you know what needs to be focused on. Good luck with your channel.

Jim's editor strikes again. 😂😂😂

The "Save me" written in the mirror is an anagram for "I'm fine." The snickers thing...i think J-hope is showing his "fake love" for sugary snacks, V shows his "fake love" for social media, Suga shows his "Fake love" for fire/distruction, these are all bad things for you that people obsess over.

I think about the chocolate bars as people who are being changed by the one they love into something they don't recognise as themselves anymore will often turn to something to smooth themselves be it sweet things like chocolate and cakes, or drink or drugs or self harm. What they thought was love has killed their own love of themselves just to please the other person isn't really love it's fake love. There's also the thing were I can't remember who but one of them is left my their mother as a child in a park of some kind after she give him a bar of chocolate I think it was a snickers chocolate bar but I might be wrong.

I think you can be momentarily happy on top of a giant mound of candy but candy is not good for you just like Fake Love….it’s like a quick thrill but not real sustainable food like real love.

This song is how I entered the chat tho I didn't attention till like a year after, still my fave song to date

LOL Jim I loved your reaction. Things will make more sense the further you go.

loved the video Jim!

Muchas teorias ,en toda su discogeafia ,,unirlos todas vomo un rompecabezas,,nos cuenta una historia desde hace años ,

Turn SAVE ME upside down and it becomes IM FINE

OMG I WAS SO EXCITED FOR THIS

are you ready for the comeback, sir.?😁

Jim, I don't know if anyone really explained to you what all the BU consists of. There's a webtoon, a game, books and videos. It is impossible to understand the storyline completely with the video content alone. Don't stress about it too much!! 😆

Rewatch the love yourself: highlight heel many of the objetcs apear there!

Xceleste has a video that explaines everything its amazing you should watch. And you are realy good.

Great reaction. The snickers (my favorite candy bar if you want some useless info...lol). Anyway, in the BU, apparently, J-Hope was abandoned by his mother at a fair or carnival near a merry-go-round. She handed him a Snickers and said she'd be right back, but never came back. (Not real life, but in the BU). Thus the sadness/despair on the pile of Snickers. The flower that can't be bloomed in a dream that can't come true - I take that to mean that the flower is the 2nd person in the relationship that the first person tried to grow or mold into someone they wanted, but it was not going to happen in reality. Therefore, the flower (Person 2) couldn't bloom and it was just a dream of Person 1 instead. I believe I remember RM saying at one point that this song was written for the BTS members. In that light, maybe they were all feeling like they were growing into Fake people with the fame they started to have, but it wasn't who they felt they truly were inside. Not sure. It also could have been relationships within the group. We'll never likely know for sure. One last thing - SAVE ME - is another song of theirs....followed by I"M FINE.

I suggest you to watch the fake love Explanation by xcelete, but Fake Love was connected to BU so it will be confusing if you didn't watch the BU MVs

There is a making of video which is interesting but you can go back and watch it later. Maybe once you catch up you can go back and watch all the videos of the MV’s being made… 💜

💜 Hi Jim…love all reactions especially when it come 2 BTS…check out the explanation of Fake Love. 💜

Thank you so much!!

You really have to watch xCeleste explanation video about BTS and the BU storyline... she was kind of right from the beginning and put great videos up and explaind everything :)

If you flip that save me it spells I'm fine

Oh the editing😂

Jim....if you wanna cheat like I did regarding the BU.....XCELESTE made a fantastic "Cliff notes" version.....I kept getting lost....her explanation was awesome! 😆 sorry , not sorry I cheated !💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I love watching Jim lose his mind over the BU

You should react to the extend version of this song You'll find who the caractère with the mask is

if you read the notes, after seeing all the mvs related to BU, you will understand better, lol. quickly you understand everything

Do not miss this song at all !!!!! Baekhyun & Seo moon talk_hurt

There are a ton more content you still have to watch in order to try to piece things better & even then it might still be confusing. Some of the universe is on game apps & webtoons, apart from all videos, which includes the Wings short films. If you lose patience & get fed up, go to xCeleste's youtube channel. She has several videos on the universe theories, summaries, explanations, storylines & updates. It is indeed a bit of an overload & tediousness into all. You would need to be a diehard army to piece things together. But in the end, no one knows about it more than Hybe/Bighit. I think not even the BTS boys themselves know all the details. And the universe is still somewhat ongoing. It's just that they are on some hiatus from the storyline. Some have said that Film Out has been the latest & last part of the BU so far, but who knows.

...Someone needs to revisit the wings trailers....😅

Did you watch the HIGHLIGHT REELS from LY HER before you started LY TEAR? You would understand some of the references such as the snickers.

Ahhh Mister, Wings short films? 😉

Grow a flower - make it happen even if it should't bloomed, dream was doomed but it happen and it is wrong, it is only sand there wasn't flower.... Like fake love this 'love' happened but at what cost, it should't never be like it. I see it like that. Like I made something happen by bending myself it was hurtful and not nessesery, it should bloom. It was not real dream but something only in head and you did everything to make it happen and lose yourself with it. There is a lot aspect too this song, like for them it can be friends, family, partner or fans, bc of Idol live and how fans want to see them... Will you watch second version (rock Mix) on MV? Or it will be later? I think second version give light at mask guy ;) This is great song.

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hey can you please react to BTS jump and BTS boys with fun lyric vid please! I think you'll enjoy them , if u want links to the live vids of them then I gotcha!

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you gona upload your react to the all tear songs? i hope so :)

The truth is that without all the content you will not know how to decipher everything from the BU..It's not just the videos... you have the videos, the webtoon, the notebooks, the mobile game.. I know you want to figure it out on your own but without everything you need you won't be able to do it just by watching the videos.. well you can see xcelest that has the complete line of what has come out to date 🤷

"THERES BEEN ZERO SNICKERS IN ANY OF THE BU CONTENT" THATS NOT TRUE YOU JIM AND YOU SHOULDVE KNOWN THAT

All I know is that...the rock version is fire. You gotta listen to the rock version

Like Jordan Orme.

I suggest you watch video editors reaction to thus song.