James Corden turned the BTS army upside down and is all the rage on Twitter for all the wrong reasons

If the internet has taught us anything over the past five years, it’s this: you aren’t kidding with BTS and you definitely don’t play with the BTS army.

The last person to learn this universal truth: James Corden.

For context, BTS, the South Korean supergroup with one of the most hardcore fan bases in history, has taken center stage at the UN recently as the special envoy of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. They gave a speech highlighting the issues of climate change and vaccine reluctance. They also played. Why BTS? Well the numbers speak for themselves: six million people watched the YouTube video of the speech and song in just five hours.

And that’s where James Corden comes in.

James Corden has long been a friend of BTS, constantly inviting them on his show to the point where BTS fans call him “Papa Mochi” due to his relationship with Jimin (who is nicknamed Mochi).

But now there are problems in Heaven. The problem? A series of jokes Corden made about BTS’s recent trip to the UN.

In The Late Late Show, Corden very gently mocked the UN for inviting BTS to UN headquarters in New York, but perhaps his biggest fake pax: referring to BTS’s fan base as “15 year old girls”. It was a short series of very mundane (and boring) jokes, but it was enough to raise the ire of BTS fans.

Next minute: James Corden is all the rage on Twitter for all the wrong reasons.

You literally can’t underestimate the power of BTS. When the BTS army rallies around a topic, it tends to have a huge impact. K-Pop fans managed to sabotage a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in July 2020 and they do not forgive any perceived affront to BTS or the BTS fan base.

In this case, the anger is more directed at the way Corden refers to the fan base. Teasing a band to build a fan base of teenage girls seems pretty long in the tooth. Harry Styles said it best in 2017: “Who can say that young girls who love pop music – short for popular, right? – have worse musical tastes than a 30-year-old hipster” , he said in an interview. with Rolling Stone. “It’s not for you to say. Music is something that is constantly changing. There are no goal posts. Young girls like the Beatles. You are going to tell me that they are not serious. ? “

James Corden has been trending for all the wrong reasons over the past month. Just a few weeks ago, he set the internet on fire for disguising himself as a mouse and pushing in the direction of cars in traffic.

Yeah, it happened.

Representatives for the Late Late Show did not immediately respond to a request for comment.