‘Wild Idol’ winners meet fans as band TAN but ARMYs call them out for 'copying BTS'
The seven members who won the K-pop survival show from MBC are soon going to make their debut in the year 2022. The group emerged from the survival show, ‘Extreme Debut: Wild Idol’ (commonly known as ‘Wild Idol’) and its members are the final seven winners, namely ChangSun, TaeHoon, JiSeong, SungHyuk, JaeJun, HyunYeop, and JooAn. They were grouped together to form a new boy group called TAN.
It was also reported that all the seven members of TAN will officially greet fans in various appearances before 2021 ends, ahead of their official debut which will be announced soon. The winning contestants of the show have not met fans since the survival show ‘Wild Idol’ aired on MBC. But get ready to see them again at the 2021 MBC Entertainment Awards on December 29. After that, TAN will also appear in a pre-debut performance in front of fans as well as the biggest names in the K-pop industry at the 2021 MBC Gayo Daejejeon on December 31.
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[#TAN_BEHIND]
— TAN_official (@tan__official_) December 28, 2021
TIME TO TAN😎잘 보셨나요?!
팬 여러분들 만나서 너무 좋았어요❤❤#네이버NOW 덕분에 좋은시간 보내다 갑니다🎅🎉🎁🎀#네이버 #탄 #창선 #주안 #재준 #성혁 #현엽 #태훈 #지성 #naver #탄깅이들_짜란다짜란다짜란다❤ pic.twitter.com/oostf6RYaI
Naver Now ‘Time to TAN’
While these two MBC show appearances will mark the first official 'public appearances' of the group, TAN also met fans through a Naver Now broadcast show on December 28. The seven members got together to have their first official broadcast as TAN (To All Nations). It kicked of their first official schedule since the end of the survival show.
The video broadcast of TAN members was streamed through Naver Now at 8 pm KST (6 am ET) on December 28 in which the members of the group performed many 'showcase activities' to please fans while Red Velvet’s Irene joined the seven TAN members as the special MC of ‘Time to Tan’. On the day of this broadcast, TAN members also gave out a live performance of their hit single from the show ‘Wild Idol’.
Is TAN copying BTS?
While the boys are soon going to make their debut in the K-pop industry, the BTS fanbase is accusing the group of attempting to "copy BTS," currently the biggest K-pop act in the world. BTS stands for ‘Bangtan Sonyeondan’ in Korean which is why fans of BTS believe that TAN picked out its group name from the word “Bangtan”. What's more, BTS’ cartoon universe is called ‘Tiny Tan’ with characters that correspond to each BTS member.
These survival shows realize they will never have 2nd BTS like even if they had same name & everything,there's only 1 BTS that's it
— ᴮᴱikram⁷⟭⟬🪐🌌(zergdouniot7 sworded)IA (@seoktr) December 17, 2021
Naming group TAN & the fact owner of survival show is mbc,the one that have beef with BTS,cause BTS decided to go to NYE over going to mbc NY show
??? some of ppl really lacking common sense ?? TAN ?? ong there’s literally a brand called tiny tan based on bts ?? 😭😭 mbc lawsuit era
— yoongi’s (@azwrenna) December 17, 2021
ARMYs have also claimed that the logo with which Wild Idol group TAN has started to promote their upcoming schedule is very similar to the BTS logo. But that is not all. ARMYs pointed out that TAN also has seven members, just like BTS. Fans of BTS joked about how TAN has been terrible at hiding the fact that they are trying to copy BTS. Meanwhile, TAN members will soon make their debut in the year 2022.