--- title: Dad Falls Hard for BTS Fan's Prank with Hilarious Results description: A superfan of K-pop group BTS took revenge on her dad by pasting up photos of her favorite group member all over the house, to viral results canonical: https://time.com/5509463/bts-dad-prank/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-22T16:07:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:02.560Z og:title: Dad Falls Hard for BTS Fan's Prank with Hilarious Results og:description: Her dad was not enthusiastic about her favorite group — so she pranked him og:url: https://time.com/5509463/bts-dad-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac25a411a857a43c/698943be4ee2626425313dd9/bts-jimin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2018 MAMA FANS' CHOICE in JAPAN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dad Falls Hard for BTS Fan's Prank with Hilarious Results twitter:description: Her dad was not enthusiastic about her favorite group — so she pranked him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac25a411a857a43c/698943be4ee2626425313dd9/bts-jimin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dad Falls Hard for BTS Fan's Prank and This Is the Hilarious Result > Sponsored content. 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V, Suga, Jin, JungKook, RM, Jimin and J-Hope of South Korean group BTS arrive at 2018 MAMA FANS' CHOICE in JAPAN at Saitama Super Arena on December 12, 2018 in Saitama, Japan. Jun Sato—WireImage  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 22, 2019 4:07 PM UTC BTS fans mean business. The [K-pop supergroup](http://time.com/collection-post/5414052/bts-next-generation-leaders/)‘s followers aren’t afraid to show their loyalty to the [seven-member squad](http://time.com/collection-post/5418827/bts-members/) — especially not this Twitter user, identified as [Molly](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/bts-jimin-prank-twitter-dad), who decided to reaffirm her devotion by pulling a prank on her dad, who is significantly less enthusiastic about the band than her. “My dad left on a business trip claiming he needed a break from BTS and Jimin,” she wrote on Twitter, “so I made sure that when he gets home he will see Jimin’s face everywhere he goes.” With that in mind, she decided to paste up photos of [Jimin](http://time.com/5472018/person-of-the-year-poll-winner/), her favorite of BTS’s seven members, all over the house. From light switches to the toilet to the inside of the refrigerator, she made sure to cover her bases with Jimin images. So when her dad returned home, he naturally ended up discovering Jimin all over the house. She documented his disbelieving reactions, sharing the videos on Twitter as he slowly began to understand the depth of her passion for BTS. Since BTS’s fans, also called ARMY, are nothing if not supportive of their own, her prank has quickly gone viral. Parents: watch out, as plenty of fans may be taking note of this tactic of displaying their love of the group. > [](https://twitter.com/jiiminmoon/status/1087201428723118080) > [](https://twitter.com/jiiminmoon/status/1087222869799641088) > [](https://twitter.com/jiiminmoon/status/1087227945641480192) > [](https://twitter.com/jiiminmoon/status/1087348059158261760) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5509463/bts-dad-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5509463/bts-dad-prank/"},"headline":"Dad Falls Hard for BTS Fan's Prank and This Is the Hilarious Result","datePublished":"2019-01-22T16:07:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:02.560Z","description":"\"He will see Jimin's face everywhere he goes\"","url":"https://time.com/5509463/bts-dad-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac25a411a857a43c/698943be4ee2626425313dd9/bts-jimin.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/bltac25a411a857a43c/698943be4ee2626425313dd9/bts-jimin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 MAMA FANS' CHOICE in JAPAN","caption":"2018 MAMA FANS' CHOICE in JAPAN","creditText":"Jun Sato—WireImage","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/5509463/bts-dad-prank/","name":"Dad Falls Hard for BTS Fan's Prank and This Is the Hilarious Result"}}]}] ```