K-Pop: Former EXO artist Tao mistaken for BTS bandmember, here's how he reacted

Huang Zitao, popularly known as Tao, who is also a former member of popular K-pop group EXO, was recently mistaken for a BTS member. While he was shooting for his Chinese variety show The Protectors, Tao noticed the girls while they were in between the live segment of their show. He willingly posed with them for photographs after noticing their eagerness.

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However, Tao was in for a surprise, as he was later confronted by the girls. They asked him whether he belongs to the K-pop boy group BTS, as the girls found profound resemblance. Whilst Tao was still trying to understand their question, the girls repeated their question.

To this Tao was caught in utter surprise. He could not believe this. Later, he corrected them by saying that he was a former member of EXO.

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One of the girls was familiar with the group, however, the other one was not. Though Tao was humble to this little confusion, he later asked the cameramen and producers to cut the part as he was embarrassed about them not knowing about EXO. He later exclaimed that EXO was popular when BTS were still in their struggle phase. Some of the fans of BTS took this sportingly, while some threw shade on Tao’s reaction about BTS.

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Here are some fan reactions: 

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