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* [[BTS (band)|BTS]] has claimed that their album ''Be'' - released on November 2020, and whose production began around April (shortly after lockdowns were enacted in Korea) in lieu of their then postponed world tour - is about the effects of the lockdowns on their mental state, and that that album and their English-language singles released in 2020 and 2021 were created as a way to comfort their fans during the crisis.
** The music video for "Life Goes On" shows band member V going outside in a medical facemask and looking wistfully at a stadium while driving; later in the video, the band is shown singing the last chorus on stage while in the same (very empty) stadium.
** The music video for "Permission to Dance" and its teaser caused a minor controversy, as the teaser showed band member Suga - who is regarded by the fandom as a "future-teller" due to having accurately predicted every major accolade the group has ever received - reading [[TwentyNext MinutesSunday Into the FutureA.D.|a newspaper dated 2022]] claiming that the pandemic crisis would be over by then, and the actual video showed people ditching their face masks. This turned out to cause an unfortunate coincidence when the video was released during a spike in infections and the discovery of a new variant in several countries, causing quarantines and public mask use to be more strongly enforced.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==