“Unprofessionalism Is Fun?” ARMYs Demand Guinness World Records Apologize To BTS’s Jungkook

ARMYs are calling on Guinness World Records to apolgozie to BTS‘s Jungkook.

BTS’s Jungkook

BTS hold many Guinness World Records titles as both a group and individually. They appeared in Guinness World Records 2022 as part of the “Hall of Fame” for their many incredible accomplishments in music, holding over 23 titles in the famous world record book.

From left: Jin, Suga, V, Jimin, RM, J-Hope, and Jungkook | Guinness World Records

Yet, Guinness World Records has gotten on ARMYs’ bad side.

A Jungkook fan account shared in a now-deleted post that the Guinness World Record for “Most Streamed Track on Spotify in a single week (male)” was broken by Jungkook with his solo single “Seven (feat. Latto).” The official X (formerly known as Twitter) account for Guinness World Records replied, “source plz?”

So, ARMYs, including the OP (Original Poster), provided the requested sources. According to Guinness World Records’ website, Harry Styles still held the record, but ARMYs pointed to other sources that indicated Jungkook had recently broken Styles’ record.

According to your website, Harry Styles had the record for biggest streams for a track in a single week for a male with 78.4M streams.

Jungkook has just surpassed 89.7M streams in a week according to Spotify https://t.co/CVOril8KxE pic.twitter.com/riBo3k1Cnp

— ????????????????∞⁷ (@_RapperJK) July 21, 2023

source @billboardcharts https://t.co/0X3Bwzh54k pic.twitter.com/95DFvS5yc7

— ????ak꩜tta | ????????????????????⁷ ???? (@dakotaabout) July 24, 2023

Despite the sources, both ARMYs and Jungkook received hate. Netizens argued that “Seven” didn’t count as a solo achievement since Latto was featured on it.

armys and jjks when they realize that jungkook doesn't actually have any solo achievements: https://t.co/sOnB125r58 pic.twitter.com/ALegFBqMt9

— დ (@fIydipity) July 21, 2023

Yet, today, Guinness World Records shared an article announcing that both BTS members Jimin and Jungkook achieved two new Guinness World Records each. So, Jungkook now holds the achievements of “most streamed track on Spotify in one week (male) with 89,748,171 streams million streams” and “fastest time for a music track to reach 100 million streams on Spotify (male).”

Congratulations to Jungkook and Jimin of @bts_bighit/@BTS_twt for achieving two new Guinness World Records titles each https://t.co/vtmuE1v7Lu

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) August 2, 2023

ARMYs celebrated Jungkook’s new achievement, sharing the records. They trended “CONGRATULATIONS JUNGKOOK” and “HISTORY MAKER JUNGKOOK.”

Jungkook earned two NEW “Guinness World Records”

1⃣ ‘Seven' — Most Streamed Track on Spotify in one week (male) with 89,748,171 streams.
2⃣ 'Seven' — Fastest Music Track to reach 100 Million streams on Spotify (male).

CONGRATULATIONS JUNGKOOK
HISTORY MAKER JUNGKOOK… pic.twitter.com/GXLocZurTW

— DAILY_JK97ʲᵏ (@Daily_JK97) August 2, 2023

But ARMYs didn’t forget what had happened just a few days ago. So, one replied to Guinness World Records’ post about Jungkook and Jimin’s records, cheekily commenting, “source?” The social media manager for Guinness World Records laughed, “finally found one lol.”

finally found one lol

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) August 2, 2023

A minute afterward, the Guinness World Records social media manager replied to its post too, commenting, “luckily we found a source.” 

luckily we found a source

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) August 2, 2023

An ARMY commented in response to that. They told the social media manager, “you’re so embarrassing,” to which they replied, “it’s all good fun.”

it's all good fun

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) August 2, 2023

ARMYs were flabbergasted by Guinness World Records continuing to post such comments even after it was proven that Jungkook had earned his new records. So, the fandom called out Guinness World Records for unprofessionalism and provoking others to hate on an artist. ARMYs then trended “KOOKARMA STRIKES AGAIN” and “GUINNESS APOLOGIZE TO JUNGKOOK,” demanding an apology.

GUINNESS APOLOGIZE TO JUNGKOOK for your unprofessionalism
KOOKARMA STRIKES AGAIN pic.twitter.com/5jvgjnWK7G

— ᴷⱽ (@taegukmania) August 2, 2023

The way the admin of this account got the nerve to use "lol" now when in fact their lack of professionalism previously caused thousands of racist abuse and harassment towards an Asian artist for a rightful record that he broke, is disgusting!

GUINNESS APOLOGIZE TO JUNGKOOK pic.twitter.com/0Oi0cHTEuQ

— ⁷ (@stillwjungkook) August 2, 2023

because of your unprofessional behaviour jungkook got dragged by everyone!! now you are trying to be funny IDIOT

GUINNESS APOLOGIZE TO JUNGKOOK
KOOKARMA STRIKES AGAIN https://t.co/bkBpiRsBZj pic.twitter.com/d10pyteyq2

— IANz BAE⁷ ᵇʸ ʲᵏ (@JeonEsHi97) August 2, 2023

brought unnecessary hate to him despite the record actually being broken, got all the freaks whose faves will never touch or can't even dream about seven's numbers dragging him unprovoked and the tweet is still not deleted…. @GWR you're going to hell https://t.co/lNc23awK0k

— ⁷ (@rpseuphoria) August 2, 2023

GUINNESS APOLOGIZE TO JUNGKOOK
KOOKARMA STRIKES AGAINpic.twitter.com/Its08m14fa https://t.co/Ax4y4K5T1Z

— IANz BAE⁷ ᵇʸ ʲᵏ (@JeonEsHi97) August 2, 2023

Guinness World Records has yet to respond to such posts.