BTSV has taken the top spot in the "IDOL GIF AWARDS", which was hosted by popular Chinese portal site Sina's Official Account on Weibo, China's biggest SNS platform, showing his immense popularity and impact in China.
From April 26 to May 29, Sina's Official Account held a contest on the GIF images of K-pop Idols under themes like heart-warming expressions, beautiful faces, and stage performance photos for about a month. As a result, V topped the list with a combined score of 123,000 points retweets, comments, and likes, beating others with an overwhelming margin.
Many Chinese K-pop fans participated in the event, recording over 111,000 posts and 150 million views, which illustrates the craze of the popular contest.
[NAVER] Taehyung topped the Idol Gif Awards hosted on Weibo with a combined score of 123,000 points including reposts, comments and likes proving his immense popularity in China.
A contest was held on Weibo in which votes were to be casted for +
V's popularity in China has always been quite impressive. In April, V's 'Singularity' was selected as the Best Legendary Solo Stage by Chinese netizens with a total of 727,754 votes; thanks to his overwhelming popularity.
Despite BTS's inactivity in China, V's popularity status is truly amazing. K-media Naver has also reported : V is the most popular BTS member in China in terms of search volume, Weibo followers, views and posts on Baidu since past 4 years.
Super Topic Data 5.25-5.31
Taehyung is still the only BTS member that enters the Top100 in "Super Topic" this week (ST is similar to idol‘s personal Fanclub in China). Taehyung has 1,127,478 points which are the highest among members.
In addition, V's Chinese fan club also boasts the largest scale and economic power.
ᴛᴀᴇʜʏᴜɴɢ is still the only member tht enters the Top100 in"Super Topic" this week w 1M points,the only foreigner to ever get 150K twts&5 consecutive mths as the highest ranking on Twipple Jpn,Russian Media called him as'Visual Representative of K-pop' cuz of 15 Beauty Titles
King taehyung