King Daniel is more popular than the pope 👑

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

... at least on Instagram.

Kang Daniel has officially joined Instagram again (@thisisdaniel_k) and shared his first post on Jan 2 at 3pm KST. By 2:35am KST on the next day, he had already reached 1 million followers, meaning he reached the milestone in 11 hours and 35 minutes. Naver now reports that this makes him the fastest account ever on Instagram to reach 1 million followers. The previous record was held by none other than Pope Francis.

Kang Daniel becomes the fastest individual to reach 1 million followers on Instagram within 10 hours and 59 minutes

The previous record was held by Pope Francis who opened his Instagram back in 2016 and reached 1 million followers in 12 hours
https://t.co/6FO0nlpsdp pic.twitter.com/hfg9oS2cqP

— 파룬 (@balloon_wanted) January 2, 2019

sources: @balloon_wanted, naver

Comments

[dongsaengkiller.livejournal.com]

He is so unbelievably big. And his pics are so cute. Can’t wait to see what numbers he gets when he drops an album.

[kyulkyung.livejournal.com]

how are all of korea's it girls beautiful goddesses and yet this guy is the #1 it boy.. tired of men and their low effort existence.

[henolam.livejournal.com]

mte...

[goldenrosalie.livejournal.com]

this

[kukamine.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you even though I like him and ong seung woo
I don't get why either one of them are considered handsome

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's the conventional type of handsome, but as someone who doesn't follow him or Wanna One, I can see the appeal. He's more cute and cuddly to me, if that makes sense. lol.

[kukamine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I see it lol
Plus, he's very charming so that helps as well

[alterlife.livejournal.com]

I will never understand this tbh

[daynr.livejournal.com]

ha!

My sis has a theory that women want a hint of goof in their men (goof like sth that mars otherwise picture perfect looks.) maybe it's a corollarly of my view that short men try harder, and thus generally better partners.

Or it's that people think his mannerisms are cute & charming. He was cute on Blankets, but he seems like the type who burps a lot and leaves crumbs everywhere.

[kyulkyung.livejournal.com]

me, a lesbian:

[minho-lover.livejournal.com]

i adore daniel so congrats to him!

[kcaomei.livejournal.com]

i didn't even know the pope had an IG... what could he possibly have to post lmao

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

i swear he was breaking another idol record but ... the pope(?) lol 😅

[weneedmedicine.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting that he (and the rest of wanna one) is only irrelevant to me and not everyone else.

[krissasaur]

Same. I dont get it. I mean I did actively avoid them cause why invest in something that needs to end so soon, and groups i liked breaking up has scarred me enough, but their popularity is insane. A part of me wishes I had just gave in and stanned, but I think my hearts glad I didn't. Maybe now that its ending I will check out the kids that continue on and maybe old clips.

[accioanime.livejournal.com]

there's such a huge gap between his popularity and the rest of the members... really makes me wonder how the wanna one boys will bode post-break up.

[sjtaazrz.livejournal.com]

Kudos to him, I guess.


I assumed he still had his pre-debut IG that kind of got him in trouble on the show, but I guess he got off social media after that and never made a new one until now. He's super popular so this doesn't surprise me.

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

Ngl my reaction to him is always arresteddevelopmenther.gif

I don’t get it but I guess he appeals to others

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

Habemus papam!!

[post-dada.livejournal.com]

He deserves it more than the pope.

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

I don't follow Wanna One or Daniel Kang, but does someone want to tell me why he has an English name? I always wondered lol and never bothered to look him up. Was he born in the U.S.? Or is it a religious thing like that one actress Lee Elijah or Choi Daniel?

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

Iirc he disliked his birth name so she switched to daniel

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

Ohh okay

[torontok.livejournal.com]

His birth name was Kang Eui Geon (강의건). It's very difficult to pronounce, to the point that his dad had trouble saying it so he changed it

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

lol I see

[ohbubbajoan.livejournal.com]

why is he so popular in korea/asia? i knew he was big but not that big lol is he going solo after wanna one?

[hilary-faye.livejournal.com]

i'm glad at least i have y'all because while i mean he seems harmless and nice i guess i will literally never understand why people lose their minds over this dude. maybe if he was crazy talented/charismatic or something but even then he's just kinda....there.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

i don't understand the negative comments here, he's harmless and cute... but then again some people here have no problem stanning actual problematic dudes so what did i expect


short update, he's now in the guiness world book
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/397211-most-instagram-subscribers-in-24-hours

[torontok.livejournal.com]

MTE. He's not even done anything to warrant this kind of negativity.

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

Oop lol. Like I get the sentiment that men are useless and ppl stan them for no reason but he is so harmless compared to a bunch of the racist/sexist POS that make up most of the popular idols. He's super charming and cute imo, and has a killer body

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

He's charming and he has great stage presence which is rare in this industry. I hope he has a career after this.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Y'all just needlessly nasty.Daniel is a sweetheart. His little english captions are cute.

[juhli.livejournal.com]

I knew Wanna One is big an Daniel is even bigger...but this level of BIG still surprised me, holy moly....