Here's How The Most Popular K-Pop Groups Determined Their Fandom Names

1. Wanna One’s Wannable

Wannable is a portmanteau that combines “Wanna One” and “able” and it means to be able to achieve everything together.

2. BTS’s A.R.M.Y.

A.R.M.Y. stands for “Adorable Representative M.C for Youth”. The name is significant in that BTS and their fans will always go hand in hand as body armor (bangtanbok) and the army go hand in hand. In addition, the fans are the army that continues to faithfully fight for BTS.

3. Red Velvet’s Reveluv

The term Reveluv stems from back when “level up” was one of the group’s catchphrases during their song “One of These Nights”. It is also a play on words as it sounds very similar to “level up”, which was the name of their two reality show programs, while also standing for “Revel (Red Velvet’s nickname)” and “love”. The fandom is often referred to as simply “Luvies”.

4. EXO’s EXO-L

EXO-L came about because the “L” is between the letters “K” and “M” for the subunits EXO-K and EXO-M (originally). L is also the 12th letter of the alphabet and EXO had 12 members. Moreover, L stands for “love” which correlates to EXO’s chant “let’s love”.

5. BIGBANG’s V.I.P

BIGBANG’s fandom was named VIP because they are “very important people” to the band.

6. 2NE1’s Blackjack

Blackjack seems like the perfect fandom name for 2NE1 since getting 21 points is the goal of the game.

7. TWICE’s ONCE

TWICE’s fandom is named ONCE because if you love the group once, they’ll repay you with “twice” that love!

8. GOT7’s iGOT7

iGOT7 means that fans have gotten GOT7. Not only will fans receive love from the group but they’ll also have their luck since 7 is a lucky number. It is usually referred to by the shortened “AhGaSe” in Korean which means “baby bird”. Their lightsticks are shaped like a bird for this very reason.

9. BLACKPINK’s BLINK