Elliot Sang

Name:	Elliot Sang Estevez
Also Known As:	Elliot Sang, elliotsangestevez, bby gang mag, bbygangelliot
Occupation:	YouTuber, Video Essayist, Musician, Journalist
Medium:	YouTube, Video Essays, Music, Journalism
Works:
Official Website(s):	bby gang mag YouTube Channel, elliotsangestevez YouTube Channel, Twitter Account, DJBooth Account, Articles in MuckRack, Instagram Account
Fan Website(s):
On Fanlore:	Related pages

Elliot Sang Estevez, mostly known only as Elliot Sang, and also sometimes referred to by the online username bby gang mag, is a Chinese-Dominican American musician, music journalist and video-essayist YouTuber, and resident of Queens, one of the boroughs of New York City. He is best known for his video essays on the Elliot Sang YouTube channel, mostly analyzing and discussing mental health, social dynamics, politics, and specific cultural trends or products from a leftist point of view, with particular emphasis on anti-colonialism and anti-capitalism.

His video essays on the bby gang mag YouTube channel, talking about 방탄소년단 [BTS] and the K-Pop idol industry in general, have made him a high profile member of the 아미 [ARMY] fandom.

He has also published numerous articles reporting and analyzing numerous subjects regarding pop and internet culture.

Works

Video Essays

• Nowhere to Go: The Loss of Third Places
• Solidarity is supposed to be hard.
• Gen Z Needs Public Libraries
• Tea: How Britain Screwed India and China
• Encanto, Latin America, and family trauma

Elliot Sang's video essays delve into the social aspects of BTS ARMY and music aspects of BTS. Some of these essays include:

• BTS, mental health and you | A CONVERSATION
• BTS vs. K-POP: a video essay
• k-pop vs. orientalism: no more than a machine
• why are people unstanning?
• the BTS coronavirus tweet
• you're wrong about k-pop: a video essay
• pop art: a review of BTS' map of the soul: 7

Articles

Sang also writes articles on Medium on his account Elliot Sang. Some of these articles include:

• The problem with “The Late Capitalism of K-Pop”, and the K-pop industry
• shut up about “authenticity”
• How to Cover K-pop Fandom With the Seriousness It Deserves
• the revolution will look like a k-pop fandom

Responses from Other Fans

Praises

butter 521

• Spotify
• YouTube
• Soundcloud

butter 521 was a song by Elliot Sang (prod. THAIBEATS) released on April 27th, the day after the teaser for BTS' summer hit "Butter" was released. The lyrics contain fun rhymes and quick quips at people who have looked down at BTS and ARMY such as "antis," "kpop journalists," and "white ppl," while also criticizing aspects of Stan Twitter.

On April 27th 2021, Twitter user jinakgaes made a fanvid with the butter 521 song captioned "#BTS: butter butter butter meltin all that butter ass so fat make a boy wanna stutter." As of November 2021, the video has over 270,000 views. The video is commonly used to clap back at antis on the Twitter timeline.