Fans of K-pop supergroup BTS took credit for crashing TikTok in the wake of their album release but the company says a faulty link was to blame
Get the Full StoryDia Dipasupil Getty ImagesK-pop boy band BTS dropped their new single via TikTok on Thursday and a search function on the platform promptly stopped working.
BTS fans, often called the BTS Army, took credit for "crashing" part of the app, suggesting an overload of searches for the new track "ON" caused the search feature to break.
While K-pop fans have crashed websites and apps in the past, a representative for TikTok said the error was simply a result of a broken URL.
Once the URL was replaced, the BTS army took to uploading thousands of videos to the song.
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The world K-pop fandom descended into chaos on Thursday when the iconic boy band BTS dropped a new single on TikTok and a search function on the platform promptly crashed.
Shortly after the group released "ON," a song from their new album "Map Of The Soul: 7," the app's function that allows users to search for 'sounds' displayed an error message when fans typed in the name of the track. See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: A Georgetown professor explains how Martin Luther King Jr. 'has been severely whitewashed'See Also:Bernie Sanders is winning the 2020 meme race, but can internet fandom get him elected?A steam-cleaning company has gone viral for its incredibly satisfying videos showing the transformation of everyday objectsInside the 'creator retreat' for influencers trying to replicate the collaborative success of Hype House and the Vlog Squad and make as much content as possible
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