Dee Kosh, a dramatic Singaporean personality who happens to work for Power 98 radio as a deejay and who has a YouTube channel, has been accused of maligning fans of Korean boyband BTS.

This was following a tiff he got into with the fans of popular Korean music group BTS.

Dee Kosh drew first blood with his opinion that BTS's music all sounded alike:

The tiff then escalated with more back and forth between Dee Kosh and the fans, which culminated with the fans allegedly reporting his behaviour to Power 98 radio.

Subsequently, Dee Kosh tweeted that his YouTube channel "is gone", and sarcastically thanked BTS fans, otherwise known as Army, for it.

Great. Now my youtube channel is gone. Thanks alot ARMYs.

— Dee Kosh (@TheDeeKosh) October 19, 2018

BTS fans rebut

However, BTS fans were not taking the credit or blame lying down.

Many of them have taken to Twitter to call out Dee Kosh's claim that his YouTube channel was removed due to mass reporting by the BTS fans.

Moreover, the time Dee Kosh first provoked the fans by saying BTS songs all sounded the same to the time he tweeted his YouTube channel got removed was only one day between Oct. 18 and 19.

One BTS fan tweeted what arouse the naysayers suspicions:

I contacted youtube and they emailed me back and told me dee kosh deactivated it himself then blamed armys lmao and that youtube doesn’t remove channels just like that. #ThanksArmys

— naddie ✤ 🐥🐯 | JIMTOBER ⁷⟭⟬ (@thebtspop) October 19, 2018

YouTube channel removal procedure

YouTube has put in place robust community guidelines with clear signposts about what is permissible or not on its platform.

Removal of channel would occur only after the channel has accumulated three consecutive Community Guideline strikes in less than three months.

Such as in Amos Yee's case:

The overnight removal of a channel is almost unheard of -- except maybe in Alex Jones' high profile case. Even then.

Moreover, a search for Dee Kosh's YouTube channel showed this after it was allegedly removed by YouTube:

Amos Yee's YouTube channel after it was really removed by YouTube for repeated violations showed this instead:

Dee Kosh channel restored

BTS fans suspicion that Dee Kosh might have engineered the removal of his own YouTube account to make it appear as though it was removed by YouTube itself are confirmed even more on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 20.

This was after Dee Kosh's YouTube channel mysteriously got restored again.

However, newer videos appear to have been removed, as the most recent videos available for viewing are six months old.

Dee Kosh is known to upload videos relatively frequently, with new content almost every week.

Speculation will be rife as to what caused the newer videos to have been taken down.

Implications

This hullabaloo and alleged casting of aspersions on BTS Army fans by Dee Kosh, who he labelled as "toxic", will probably be prolonged.

BTS fans are crafting the narrative on Twitter that Dee Kosh has been planning this event as a publicity stunt for himself.

This is especially so given that Dee Kosh has not shown any proof that his Power 98 superiors were informed of his behaviour, or was there any evidence that YouTube notified Dee Kosh that his channel was getting taken down -- which is unlike the protocol that YouTube would normally follow in the event of account violations.

The most plausible reason is that this was done to win public sympathy for Dee Kosh and to malign the BTS fans as being fanatical in their support in defending their favourite group.

We have reached out to Dee Kosh for comment regarding the accusations that he removed his own YouTube channel.

We will update this story if and when we hear back from him.

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