#BlackOutBTS: Race and Self(ie)-Display in Digital Fandom

• DOI: 10.1353/cj.2023.0024
• Publication Date: 2023-05-07T13:00:29Z
• Authors: Andrea Acosta
• Keywords: Selfie; Fandom; Presentation (obstetrics); Digital video

This article takes up K-pop's online fandoms as sites of racial work and resistance in the digital era. Examining #BlackOutBTS selfie project on Twitter, a created by for Black fans Korean group BTS to combat racism, I argue these intervene meaningfully into anti-Black optic regimes through creative acts self-display. In turn, their productions frame dynamic, rather than static, genre. Its capacity editing, manipulation, image play—its merging photography with performance—makes an effective site minoritarian (re)presentation racialized subject.