Well, the BTS ARMY has somehow found a way to level up their standom: By creating their own online awards show just for Bangtan, to run at the same time as the MTV Video Music Awards.

At the 2019 VMAs, BTS won the Best K-Pop category for their song featuring Halsey, "Boy With Luv," and they also won Best Group. But the real action was happening on Twitter, where BTS fans held the BTS Music Video Awards under several hashtags, including #BTSMVawards and #BTSMVAs.

Twitter account @Highlight_Army appears to be the force behind the project, which even had a website where ARMYs could vote in categories like "Best Social Message," "Hidden Gem," and "Best Styling." The fan community then got together for a streaming party as they chatted online about their love for the group and their favorite music videos. They even photoshopped BTS and other celebrities onto the purple carpet, and we honestly wish this awards show existed in real life.

At the end of the night, @Highlight_Army expanded on the reason for creating the event. "We want to thank you all for participating in this project! It started as a way to speak out against gatekeepers in the industry, but become a beautiful ARMY x BTS memory!" the tweet read. "Let's always fight for @BTS_twt and speak up when we know something isn't right."

Other fans also spoke up about the protest nature of the BTS MVAs, seemingly alluding to the addition of a K-Pop category to this year's MTV Video Music Awards ceremony, as well as the lack of BTS in any of the main VMAs categories. Teen Vogue's Aamina Khan argued back in July that the K-Pop category "just reiterates a tendency in Western awards shows to 'celebrate' non-Western, non-English speaking, non-white artists by separating them away from their accepted, non-othered counterparts."

Regardless of what awards BTS wins throughout their hopefully long career, it's nice to know the real award was the BTS ARMY love they received along the way.

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