This year, we watched content together. We screamed together. We cried together. We not only waited out the enlistment days and cursed black-hat cameramen, we also celebrated personal milestones, shared hospital updates, held space for each other when life was heavy, and rejoiced in each others’ successes.

Join us in a look back over the past two years of AP529 recapped by Stefne, through the words of our community.

When the world felt overwhelming, we logged into Discord… and felt okay again. And when the members FINALLY returned, we celebrated! Boy, did we celebrate! If the last two years were about surviving the wait… 2026 is about living the comeback together.

We made it to 529 days. That’s wild. The original 529 days of content we promised at the beginning are coming to an “official” close. A community member asked, “So are you going to change the project’s name now?” To which we laughed. “No! Too much work.” Which is true. We’ve built a brand around the name ARMY Project 529, one that we’re immensely proud of. But that’s not the whole reason why we don’t plan to change our name. The 529 days had a very specific meaning originally—it was a goal, a milestone. But just because we’ve reached that goalpost, it doesn’t mean we can’t move it further down the field and go for it again. (Um, I’m terrible with sportsball metaphors, but I think that works on some level, right?) The “529” can represent something new. Maybe it’s a new time frame, or maybe it’s a number of livestreams, or maybe it’s just arbitrary and doesn’t have to mean anything at all, because the spirit of what we’ve created is bigger than any number or any name we could give ourselves. Last week we reflected on ARMY Project 529 from its start until now. We talked about lessons learned and what it all has meant to us. Feelings are hard, yo. So hard that we decided to do it again this week… TA DA! (jazz hands) This time we are looking to the future. What do we want to do, where do we want to take the project next? How do we feel about all of it? We’ve gathered some more questions based on BTS songs, but this time they’re aimed at making us think ahead. While we’re not going into specifics yet, we wanted to share with you all how ARMY Project 529 plans to begin its own Chapter Two… and that’s TOGETHER.

It’s June 2025… HAPPY FESTA!

This time next week we’ll be welcoming back four more members of BTS from their military service. We’ll be about to celebrate the group’s 12th Debut Anniversary with them, AND we’ll be gearing up for j-hope’s final concerts in Seoul and the release of his single, “Killin’ It Girl”. It feels like a whirlwind, right?

But hey. Look at us. We’ve almost made it to 529 days.

Who would’ve thought?

We did. We all did. Not every second of every day, but enough that we kept going to see Chapter One of ARMY Project 529 all the way to its FESTA finish line. But at the end of 2023, that goal seemed a million years away.

This week, join the six members of the Admin Team as we answer some questions picked by members of the AP529line and reflect on what this project and community have meant to us over the past year and a half. Grab a drink and some tissues, and hope that we “Don’t Make it Weird.”

What started as a simple book club concept grew into a beautiful website with daily content, a shop with fun merchandise designed by us!), an awe-inspiring map where over 4200 members of ARMY in 143 countries and territories have pinned their location so they can be found by other ARMY looking to make connections! We are always looking for new ways to connect ARMY with BTS content and each other.

On February 4, 2024, ARMY Project 529 hosted the First Annual Tannies Awards (“The Tannies”) to commemorate the fun memories we made with BTS in 2023, and to provide alternative entertainment to the ‘Awards Show That Shall Not Be Named’. Not only did our tongue-in-cheek ceremony honor the members of BTS, we also recognized others within the Bangtan community for their achievements.