• K-Pop supergroup BTS — like hundreds of other superstars — lost its blue checkmark on Twitter.
• At push time, the band experienced not paid out to restore its blue checkmark under Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue.
• BTS’s own account is just one of the most-adopted on the system, with 48.3 million followers.

K-Pop supergroup BTS has not paid the $8 membership fee to restore its Blue checkmark on Twitter, earning it a person of the largest pop society figures to eschew Musk’s payment approach.

The seven-member boyband lost the blue verify mark on its individual account on April 20, signing up for 1000’s of other celebrities in the unverified wilderness of Elon Musk’s Twitter. With a lot more than 48.3 million followers on Twitter, the band has one particular of the most-followed movie star accounts on the system.

It is really a various tale on the band’s official account and that of its administration agency, Hybe, the two of which are designated as Twitter Blue subscribers.

On Thursday, Musk tweeted that he’s individually funding some celebrities’ Twitter Blue statuses — but did not specially say whose subscriptions he’s shelling out for. It can be unclear who’s shelling out for the Twitter Blue subscriptions on Hybe’s and BTS’ formal accounts.

Representatives for BTS at Hybe did not right away respond to Insider’s ask for for comment. Twitter’s push team responded to Insider’s request for comment with a standardized, automatic concept.

Other K-Pop groups have also refused to give Musk $8 for Twitter Blue. Blackpink, the 4-member powerhouse female group below YG Amusement, and 2 times, a girl group under JYP Entertainment, each did not have blue checkmarks on their personal accounts at push time.

The same goes for some of South Korea’s greatest names. Actor Park Bo Gum, a staple at Celine’s higher vogue gatherings, and the rapper G-Dragon, the late Karl Lagerfeld’s a person-time muse and the leader of the 2010s mega-boyband BIGBANG, both do not have blue checkmarks on their Twitter accounts.

In the West, some key musicians do seem to be Twitter Blue subscribers. At push time, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Miley Cyrus, The Weeknd, and Shawn Mendes were all specified as Twitter Blue subscribers.