My stomach always sinks when I read the words "The winners will be determined by a raffle" on an event announcement because no matter what I do, how up to date my membership is, how many albums I buy, I never win them, but so many people i follow on Instagram always seem to win and will even win more than once. I went to Seoul for Festa and didn't win either Armyzone day while so many people won both days and started selling their second photocard set for for $500 on in our country's BST group. It felt really unfair to let a lot of people win twice and get two sets of gifts while others didn't get to go at all. I entered all of Jungkook's Golden event, Jin's Happy Event, Jin's Hi-Touch, Hobi's Killing it Girl award show recordings, D-Day Movie Night, Jin's 2024 Festa Event, Hobi's Sweet Dreams event, Vicnic and Jimin's Production Diary event and didn't win a single one of them. Pretty much every one I follow and know in this fandom has won at least one of the events. Even this girl in my city who is the only other person I know who didn't win either Army Zone day won Jin's event last year, so I couldn't help but be bitter when she complained about Weverse hating her because she didn't get the Festa PCs. Girl, you at least won SOMETHING even if you've lost most Raffles, I've never won a SINGLE raffle. A couple of girls on TikTok and Instagram have won almost every single one of these events and I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist starting to wonder if it is rigged for these big influencer accounts to win somehow because they make reels and content, and they're young and pretty. I'm not an "influencer" style Army, I don't have the aesthetic account, I'm in my 40s, overweight and unattractive and it's starting to make me wonder if I'm just not really welcome as an Army. And if it is not that....I wish they'd have a limit that you can only win a couple of events a year so other people get a chance and the same few people don't get to go to everything while others ALWAYS miss out. It's so painful to always miss out. submitted by /u/Penguin_Pyjamas_98 [link] [comments]