--- title: BTS and Jimmy Fallon Try the Fortnite Dance Challenge description: The Korean boy band BTS visited Jimmy Fallon's show on Tuesday night — and showed off their enviable dancing against Fortnite characters. canonical: https://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-26T15:29:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:05.744Z og:title: BTS and Jimmy Fallon Try the "Fortnite Dance Challenge" og:description: The boys of BTS all threw down copying the dance moves of Fortnite characters og:url: https://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa36b12c3cfafd71/69893b24fb4eac04fa897bea/bts-on-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: BTS and Jimmy Fallon Try the "Fortnite Dance Challenge" twitter:description: The boys of BTS all threw down copying the dance moves of Fortnite characters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa36b12c3cfafd71/69893b24fb4eac04fa897bea/bts-on-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Unstoppable BTS and Jimmy Fallon Throw Down With the 'Fortnite Dance Challenge' > Sponsored content. 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General Assembly speech](http://time.com/5405422/bts-k-pop-united-nations-address/), and on Tuesday they got another chance to show off — this time sharing their unstoppable dance moves, thanks to Jimmy Fallon. In a video segment for the _Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_, the seven boys of BTS — that’s RM, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jungkook, Jin and Jimin — tested out their dancing skills by copying the characters of the popular game [Fortnite](http://time.com/5394933/fortnite-gaming/) in real-vs.-digital dance battle for the ages. From V’s flawless “flapper” dance to J-Hope’s precision robot and the whole group’s impressive iteration of the viral dance move “the floss,” they proved the animated characters have nothing on them. BTS also taught Fallon part of the choreography [to “Idol,”](http://time.com/5377307/nicki-minaj-bts-idol/) their newest single and record-breaking music video from the album _Love Yourself: Answer._ After their appearance on Fallon — which included performances of two of their songs — social media lit up as usual with mentions of the group; they’re known for being able to rally their [giant fanbase](http://time.com/5241905/time-100-reader-poll-2018-winner/), known as ARMY, to support them at every endeavor. On Wednesday morning, they continued their New York promotional tour with a performance on _Good Morning America_ that also became a worldwide [trending topic online.](https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1044950363193974785) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Unstoppable BTS and Jimmy Fallon Throw Down With the 'Fortnite Dance Challenge'","datePublished":"2018-09-26T15:29:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:05.744Z","description":"And they taught Fallon the \"Idol\" dance","url":"https://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Late Night Television","bts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa36b12c3cfafd71/69893b24fb4eac04fa897bea/bts-on-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa36b12c3cfafd71/69893b24fb4eac04fa897bea/bts-on-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Unstoppable BTS and Jimmy Fallon Throw Down With the 'Fortnite Dance Challenge'"}}]}] ```