Singing celebrity V of Ok-pop boy band BTS has as soon as once more triggered a social media stir.
On Thursday (Sept 8), the 26-year-old heartthrob – whose actual title is Kim Tae-hyung – took to Instagram to share {a photograph} of himself lounging shirtless within the solar. The caption was clean other than an emoji of an unsure face.
There was additionally a second photograph within the set; a black-and-white variation of the primary.
Though the picture seems moderately tame, displaying solely a portion of his unclothed again, his 50 million followers have been thrown right into a frenzy by this unprecedented show of pores and skin.
BTS has maintained a largely chaste picture since debuting in 2013.
The put up amassed greater than 13 million likes in lower than 24 hours, and elicited a reply from his bandmate J-Hope which additionally comprised of emojis – particularly, a shocked face, an prolonged ellipsis, and fireplace.
On Twitter, the BTS Army fanbase was out in full drive to mark the second.
“I’m crying real tears,” wrote one fan.
Another added: “If Tae-hyung ever thinks of posting the front view of him shirtless on a table, I’ll show him what insane looks like.”
The put up comes on the heels of V gracing Vogue Korea’s October cowl – the primary time a member of BTS has landed a solo Vogue cowl.
Sharp-eyed netizens observed that Vogue Korea’s editor-in-chief Kwang Ho Shin shared an Instagram Story on Friday (Sept 9) teasing “V2 coming soon”, which some interpreted can be the entrance view of the shirtless photograph.
V is not any stranger to social media fervour.
When he began his Instagram account in December final yr, he broke the Guinness World Records for the quickest time to achieve a million Instagram followers (43 minutes) and 10 million Instagram followers (4 hours 52 minutes). – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
