Stand There. It's Cute Here, Tho?

🐥 stand there. It's cute here, tho?

🐥 📸

🐥(take for me too)

🐰 📸

🐰 ah why is it a video ㅋㅋ

🐥aisshh~

🐰 ahah.. should i take pic with the building too?

🐥 of course! Gotta take the pic horizontally

🐰 horizontal? Should i do horizontally?

🐥 usually that's the vibe tho?

🐰📸 eyy~

🐥 (feeling suspicious)

🐥 *run towards 🐰* aishh!

[🐰Taking selca while pretending to take 🐥 pic]

🐰🐥😆😆🤣😂

🐥 you gonna take pic until i check it

🐰 okay okay 😂

🐰 i'm good at taking pic, right~

🐥 i need to check you

🐰 no no, i was taking the pic

🐥 nvm, it's enough

🐰 i took it well, right?

🐰 should we take pic here?

🐥🐰✌🏻📸

Translation: tw, @/ai_jiminily

There’s something about this picture😍

their smiles

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Jikook & "Are You Sure?!" : The Beauty of Mundane

The much-maligned reality-TV format deserves most of the criticism and ire it provokes. Schlocky production values and pre-tense often lead to melodramatic fakery that people want to believe because they're bored. We've all succumbed to it; I've seen more than my fair share of Big Brother seasons. But the thing that reality can do, if it doesn't try too hard, is give us a window to life that sits between documentary and that unscripted faux-world, and I think Are You Sure?! makes a wonderful example.

The situations are both planned and imposed on this show, from Connecticut to Jeju to Sappparo. Jungkook and Jimin planned the trip along with producers and agreed to film it as content, a loathsome word if there ever was one. What we see is not genuine real-life, despite what Jimin states in Sapporo; it's a mediated view into the pair's life on camera together -- a life they seem to want to share together and with fans.

What makes AYS work so well is their naturalness on camera and together. I'm struck by how comfortable both facets of their lives seem after just over ten years of vlogging together under agency Big Hit.

We see how much they enjoy existing together, grappling with the highs and lows of the mundanity of travel. I say mundanity specifically because so much of travel is just that -- your life simply transported to a pretty view. It's still full of stomach aches and flus, good and bad food and wide-ranging moods. Seeing Jungkook patiently take care of Jimin, ensuring he took his medicine, and then creating a doltap, the traditional practice of rock stacking to ward off bad luck and bring in good energy, was a healthy glimpse into the everyday of their shared life.

The most telling part of the show is, rather ironically, the worst part -- the three-episode interlude with their unexpected guest in Jeju, Taehyung. Our duo made no bones about the fact that the guest invited himself to their trip -- their special time -- and took every possible opportunity to remind him of his status as unwanted guest.

The entire vibe of the show changed because of Taehyung's presence, and not just because JiKook were put out by the whole thing. His presence changed their dynamic toward one another as well, seemingly disrupting their status as a duo. It was as though there was a need to cater to the guest, to an extent, and to put aside their interest in one another to a marked degree. That in itself is incredibly telling for their relationship.

Luckily, the show bookended itself with JiKook solo trips, and it ended in Sapporo where the duo seemed to be most comfortable and in their element, embracing the romance and magic of the snow resort in Japan. This was a welcome contrast to the funny, fish-out-of-water vibe of NY and Connecticut.

What will stay with me is the joy in the mundanity that the two showed throughout the show, but especially when left alone. The fun of grocery shopping when you're with your person. The enjoyment of playing cards, cooking, or simply going to bed when you're with your person. It's easy to forget there is a team of people watching over them for the majority of the show, filming or simply observing. And I wonder if sometimes Jungkook and Jimin forget, too.

This notice right here added 20 years to my life span!! WE GETTING THE BEHIND THE SCENES TOMORROW LOVES🥹🤍

Party party yeah!!!!

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