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Great analysis. I agree that their friendship has totally different vibes and that's okay. I have lots of different friend groups and the interactions are different from each other, from college buddies to gaming buddies, and drinking buddies. But the point is we are still close!

People putting garlic in their usernames to mock the fact that Jungkook was talking about garlic when Jimin was watching his live (as if he was prioritizing food over his friend) are ignoring the fact that Jungkook basically invited Jimin over to have drinks, eat chicken, and watch Netflix with him. Also, when he noticed that Jimin logged in a second time, he started playing with his hair and smiling from ear to ear. Sometimes I wonder how it's possible to have such different interpretations of the same video.

JK-Tae and JK-JM - The two lives and the differences between them

I will start by saying this is not a competition.

Nah-ah.

Also, let’s keep this clear from the get go:

JK and Tae are close friends.  10 years’ worth of growing up together, living together, working together, playing together friends.

But here are the magic words:  growing up. 

And when you grow up you change, your likes and dislikes they change, your interests they change.  You can suddenly find yourself not sharing those same common grounds you did as kids, teenagers or even young adults.  And that, at times changes friendships or even ends them, the latter not being the case with JK and Tae.

But in life there are different kinds of friendships, different levels of friendships.

JK, JM and Tae.

All three of these young men are close friends for years now.

I repeat - all three of them.

And add Hobi into the mix, all four definitely spend time together, by choice, not work related (Hobi told us that in the Las Vegas live).  Probably less now (all four) because of JM being super busy, while the younger two (JK and Tae) are obviously taking much needed time to wind down at the moment.

These guys are all in touch, all the members, that is, including Jin (who sends them messages once in a while too). They talk constantly on their group chat. We knew that before from comments members made in the past and we know it now too from Tae, RM and JK's interactions in the lives.

What I’ll be trying to convey in my post is the different reactions JK has to either of the two joining, the way he interacts with each of them, and his behaviour while doing so. Watching the three lives (including the IG live) the differences are quite obvious, as obvious as the difference between how you would interact with a good friend as opposed to interacting with your partner, someone you are intimate with, someone you are in a long term relationship with.

It's all about the:

RIB

Reaction - Interaction - Behaviour.

Reaction

First reaction with JM -

First reaction when JK sees JM has commented on his live is excitement. He's all smiley, giddy.

JK's first reaction with Tae:

Hold on for a minute I’m talking about something important here. 

And then, when he's done answering the fan, he follows with:

Tae's here? Why are you here?

Ahm... ok then...

Interaction - Behaviour

Next let's look at the interaction and behaviour, cause I do think the two kind of intertwine, don't they?

With JM:

“Jiminie hyung is here, right? No? Right? He's here?” 

JK was super excited when JM showed up in his comments and he wanted him to stay.  Well, that is, what he really wanted was for JM to come join him at his place, lol.

And again

And when it was clear that JM couldn’t come over and had to go back to work JK turned on his assertive caretaker button telling him to stay healthy.

With Tae:

The low key bickering...JK did or did not tell Tae he was going to sleep before doing the live...

And then, the back and forth about doing the joint live:

 JK asks Tae laughingly if he can handle the consequences of doing the live (as they were not supposed to be doing lives on IG), to which Tae answers he’ll take the responsibility.

I'm gonna go on a limb here and say that Tae was the one wanting to do the live on IG, JK not so much wanting it, but agreeing to it kind of reluctantly...  JK wasn’t forced into it, and I really don’t think he was bugged by Tae.  It’s not something he really wanted to do either though, and it felt like he really wanted Tae to give up on the idea, lol.

Then we have the live, more JK and Tae interaction, both on screen.

It wasn't jelling. Yes, the connection wasn't great, but even when it got better...ahm...

In the live: We have talk about the option to do the joint live – quite a bit of talk about that and the possibility of adding the option to Weverse; We have talk about Bam – Tae saying how big he's become, JK saying he's just as big;  We have talk about the comments, a lot about them being flags; We have talk about the conversation JK had in his live with a fan about getting tattoos and the 7 tattoo – what Tae told his parents about it; We have them keep going back to a common joke (the rice joke?);

Side note:  the way Tae talked about Bam it’s obvious he hasn’t seen him in quite a while.  Fact.  Why that is, we don’t know.  Could be them not meeting up at JK’s, could be Bam being away at family/training school.  But it’s clear it’s been a long time since he’s seen him.

At some point JK brings Bam over (this is a second time Bam is in the live), uses him as a buffer, or maybe a conversation starter/ice breaker. JK was going to town with Bam.  

Tae was trying to get Bam to go to his place/house/crate, it didn't work, Bam ignoring him (, and JK just continuing to mess around with Bam.

With no convo Tae turns to playing with filters, and then I guess just gave up cause JK wasn't in the game. At the end Tae saying he’s sleepy, for JK to go back to his Weverse live and off we go, end of IG live, JK saying goodbye waiting for Tae to disconnect.  He does say goodbye but that’s it.  No other niceties.

In the 13 minutes we had a lot of searching for comments, drinking, getting up doing stuff, playing with Bam – doing the distractions, cause again, the conversation wasn’t flowing.

Now, I will give a little credit to the bad connection, but nah, even if you take that into consideration, I think you need to be deaf and blind to continue to think there is anything more than mateship between those two men.

JM wasn't even physically there in JK’s live (not in person and not on screen) and the sparks were flying crazy, can you even imagine if we had them both on live like that?

A few things extra I noticed in the IG live:

First is Tae’s reaction after asking if JK doesn’t have anything to do the next day and JK saying “well, Bam has a medical checkup”.  It was so sus. It was his usual “aha, yep, I’m obviously not buying that or know something otherwise you’re not saying out loud” kind of face…

Now the translation could be a little inaccurate, but Tae’s non verbal reaction is hard to miss.

JK changes the subject, but this reaction, the snicker and giggle that follow, I attribute to JK's previous answer...

And damn, I'd say those facial expressions, the eyebrow wiggles, multiple times, that's Tae knowing something we don't and probably shouldn't either...

He was clearly amused, and I myself am dying of curiosity to know why…

YouTube

JK and Tae's IG live - Tae's reaction to JK saying he has a health checkup with Bam the next morning

Being the live was on a Friday night, maybe a certain band member name starting with Ji and ending with min was supposed to have the Saturday off…

If you look real hard you can also detect somewhat of a smirk on JK’s face too. 

Ehmm... we also have what seemed perhaps to be JK's brother taking Bam to the Vet? Or at least spending time with him, maybe without JK?

It could have absolutely nothing to do with Jimin, but one thing I can tell you is that there was absolutely nothing innocent behind that eyebrow wiggle of Tae’s, nor the smirk, nor the giggle.

Second was when JK during the IG live mentioned there is option to have up to 4 people doing the live at once:

Yep.  Talking out of experience I guess Tae. You know it.

Third, JK keeps asking Tae “aren’t you going to sleep?” or “when are you going to sleep?” 

Hinting much?

🤕

Me clarifying myself once again:

I am certainly not saying JK and Tae are not good friends, close friends.  

But like I said, in life there are different kinds of friendships, levels of friendships, levels of intimacy that grow beyond friendship.

These two they have history, they have several common interests, but perhaps they limited now days. There is nothing wrong with that, people grow up they move in different directions. The two still love to game together, we know that, and probably/maybe spend time doing other activities. They are mates. But there are no sparks, no intimacy there. These are not two men in a long term love relationship. Spin it any way you want, they just aren't.

To sum it up:

There are clear differences between the two interactions.

Also, I can't find a way to convey in words the difference in JK's voice, the intonation of his speech. You have to watch them both to understand how different he was in each of those instances.

with JM:

JM’s here?  Where is he?  Stop everything, I need to see if JM left a comment.  Then, JM, please come and eat some chicken with me - come over - I'm waiting for you very impatiently...are you still there? please still be there... come join me...

Also with JM:

Ear to ear smile, and going into full caretaker mode, dropping the honorific to tell JM to look after himself (knowing just how much JM pushes himself when working).

JM's name being mentioned by JK 12 times within 7 minutes.

With Tae:

Wait a minute I can't pay attention to you yet, I have something more important to do;  Then – nonchalantly asking: why are you here? (ouch);  Ok, I’ll do the live you wanted, just as long as nothing big happens; 

Also with Tae:

I’m going to get alcohol; Here’s Bam; Let’s talk about the live options on IG and how we should make them for Weverse too; When are you going to bed? Aren't you going to bed already?

I wonder, do you spot the difference?

Also, go watch them!!!

A week later, I'm still stuck on the idea of Jimin stopping by Jungkook's place after work because he got an explicit invitation to come over. And after having drinks and leftover chicken, things would devolve into them kissing and Jimin getting to bury his hands in JK's hair. Or maybe it starts with kissing and then food and drinks 😏 (cr 1 2)

My therapy. He always knows how to comfort us.

his words are always so comforting he knows exactly what’s to say ♡ (trans. cr. ryuminating)

The differences between Jimin and Jungkook are really cute.  Just based on their two wlives, Jimin is the type who asks permission and plans out activities like the good class president that he is.  Meanwhile, Jungkook complains that it’s too much work to ask for permission and decides to then turn on wlive for 4 hours to drink and sing karaoke at 4 AM LOL.  

Holy: Jimin laughs shyly and sings “la di da di da” under his breath vs Jungkook goes all out and does the choreography.

Sure, they’re the “neoneun na, naneun neo” couple, but they’re also the sun and moon duo. The black and white pair.  Some people might use their differences to say that they don’t get along, but their differences actually complement each other.  It keeps them balanced, and that's one of the reasons why I think they are perfect for each other.

Other friends watching his live:

Jimin watching his live: come over

What a way to start my Saturday! Woke up to JiminsDanceTime and Jungkook starting a wlive with Jimin and JHope commenting 😍 Can jikook get any more cuter? I miss you? Protect hyung???

One thing is for sure, Jimin doesn't give two shits about antis and they're gonna keep being cute to each other in front of our salads.

jimin [weverse live]: 여러분 잠깐 들렸어요 !

220918 live~ ♡🐥 part 4

best boy ♡

+♡♡♡

jungkook please...

Me waking up and seeing that Namjoon finally had a wlive after so many months:

Me logging onto Twitter and Tumblr after work and the word "hickey" is trending:

Happy birthday jwehope 🥹

jimin showing up for jhope’s bday live!~

Jimin was feeling good and glowing today!! I hope he and Hobi had a great dinner and game of Starcraft after this wlive.

such an obvious question 😂😂

Jimin sweetie- you're so obvious.

Just admit you have a strength kink. 💪

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Cr twt

jimin wishing hobi happy birthday with his dance ♡

Jimin's freestyle on Hobi’s bday live! 🥰🥰

jimin showing up for jhope’s bday live!~

He's obviously talking about his boo's teaser which came out at midnight 🤭

Jungkook logged off Weverse before Jimin's Set me Free teaser came out. Taehyung logged off before Jimin's photos were released. Jimin logged off before Taehyung's interview started. The tannies are so supportive of each other.

Jimin was quietly watching Jungkook's wlive after waking up. He said "I'm still here/I didn't leave" when Jungkook asked if he left. 🥹

Jimin being in another country and opposite time zone but still logging into weverse to watch JK's live. 🥹🥹🥹

He's such a troll and I love him for it.

jimin teasing us lmaooo 🤣 (trans. cr.btstranslation_)