These BTS superfans in the Philippines show you're never too old to be a K-pop stan
MANILA, Philippines — Some may think that stanning over South Korean pop bands and their music, fashion and relationships is only for young people. However, when it comes to the K-pop phenomenon BTS, one group of fans in the Philippines is proving them wrong.
They call themselves the "Titas of BTS."
But before we go any further... What's a tita?
"A direct translation is an auntie, so somebody who is an older woman," group founder Demai Sunio-Granali says. "Even if you're not a relative, you address someone who is an older female a 'tita' out of respect."
Sunio-Granali, 38, for BTS fans in 2020 with a handful of friends all around her same age. Three years later, that group has grown into an international online community of thousands of women — and some men — in their late 30s and older, all diehard BTS fans.
