Article
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ftuniahmaddahlan:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/5108>
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DOI: <
10.12928/commicast.v3i1.5108>
Abstract
The appearance of ARMY asa loyalfans is a response to what BTS has to offeras a K-Pop idols. Asidebeing a fan,theirconsumption behavior is inevitable. Along with the development of media technology and as a result of pop culture commodities, fanscreate its own meaning and culture as an active actor of consumption.This research provides an overview of the way consumption culture is formed in ARMY fandom and how it affects most significant aspects in their life. The researcher also wants to examine related to the concept of free fan labor that fans holds such an important role at maintaining the fan production culture in the web and benefit the K-Pop industry to broaden their market globally. This research uses a qualitative method. Then the researcher collects data by interviewing six informants who have consume BTS merchandise continuously with purposive sampling technique. The result of this research showed that fansconsistently interpret the goods they consumed, the value they generate from their sense of closeness to BTS members. This research also demonstrated regarding fans becoming “free” fan labor with their own eagerness, along with the fan production culture results to the personalize customization into their own interest as an active and loyal costumer, with the exchange of pleasure they got from actively interact and exchanging feedback with another fans in the cyberspace.