This tweet showcases the type of translanguaging discussed in Nurenzia Yannuar and Nazarudin's (2024) paper "Between Oppa and Borahae: Language and Identity among Indonesian K-Pop Fans", where resources from English, Indonesian are used seamlessly along with K-Pop in-group terms (both global and Indonesian-specific) and Islam, using translanguaging to transcend not only borderized languages but also borderized identificational oppositions, such as Global vs. Indonesian, East vs. West, and Islam vs. Secular Pop Culture. [Published on 02-07-2025]

This tweet is an example of the kind of translanguaging that takes place in the Indonesian K-Pop fan community on Twitter, seamlessly using resources from Indonesian and English (at different levels of incorporation, see "real life" vs "psikologi", assumingly an Indonesian phonetic respelling of "psychology") along with K-Pop in-group terms ("IndoMY" is a collective term for the fans of K-Pop group BTS in Indonesia, a fusion of the collective term for BTS fans globally, "ARMY" and "Indonesia", also a reference to a popular Indonesian instant noodle brand) and emojis (the purple heart is a reference to "borahae", a Korean term coined by the K-Pop group BTS literally meaning "I purple you", meaning "I'll love you to the end of the rainbow (purple)"), which is used to create transnational identifications, using the transcendence of language boundaries to transcend binaries of global and local and create multilayered community connections. Citation: Nurenzia Yannuar and Nazarudin, 2024. Between Oppa and Borahae, Language and Identity among Indonesian K-Pop Fans. [Published on 02-06-2025]