FACT CHECK: Is BTS V's 'Kiss' With Frog REALLY His First Onscreen Lip-Lock? ARMYs Go Wild At Viral Video

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member Kim Taeyhung aka V is back in the news, this time for an apparent kiss. A video that has gone viral on social media shows him turning up the heat...with a frog! Infact such is the vibe of the clip that ARMYs cannot stop jibing about it, flooding platforms with reactions. As V gears up for a comeback with their album ARIRANG by his entire K-pop group, also including Jin, J-Hope, Suga, RM, Jimin and Jungkook, this tiny new video has set a hilarious mood. It even shocked many netizens who are scratching their brains wondering whether this is really V's first kiss onscreen.

About V's video kissing a frog

On January 20, a video surfaced that showed V's alleged first-ever on-screen kiss. However, the fact that it was a frog at the other end made things a tad funnier. In the clip, a pixelated, animated frog is seated at a table opposite V. As the scene escalates, V gets seemingly angry and stands up, prompting the frog to jump towards the idol as they "kiss" before the frog "eats" up V.

The video is one of the 15 promotional teaser clips of V's upcoming solo photobook, TYPE 非, each highlighting different concepts and visual styles that the beloved K-pop idol has explored in the project. Interestingly, while other teasres rely on their artistic depiction, this particular one has caught the fancy of fans for being quirky.

Internet reacts to V and frog's kiss

Soon after, netizens started having a field-day with hilarious reactions. A user wrote on X (formerly Twitter), "this is going to sound like a fever dream but i’m pretty sure i just saw taehyung kiss a frog and then it devoured him." Another one wrote, "WAR IS OVER Y'ALL WE GOT TAEHYUNG'S FIRST ON-SCREEN KISS." A fan said, "taehyung’s first onscreen kiss is with a frog he’s never beating the unserious allegations." A second fan laughed, "everyone thinking who will be taehyung's first kiss, onscreen. meanwhile taehyung.... HE SO FUNNY GUYS I CANT BREATHE."Some said it is an investogation scene where V is the detective, and frog is the criminal. A fan explained the concept, "Taehyung never does anything without thought. The imagery of Taehyung being “swallowed by a toad” is deeply symbolic, tied to themes of transformation, liminality, and confronting the grotesque as a gateway to rebirth. It reflects his project’s core idea of “non-fixity,” an existence unbound by form."

Is this really V's first onscreen kiss?

The answer is no, according to what many fans pointed it out. We might remember V from his early idol days when he "kissed" fellow BTS member J-Hope. The two shared a scripted, on-screen kiss during their 2013 variety show Rookie King, where they re-enacted a scene from the movie Frozen Flowers as part of a challenge. Hesitent at first, they later went with the flow to get over with the task, giving fans a memorable moment forever, which they still call V and J-Hope's first kiss on screen, individually.Even in the comments' section for the frog video, many fans remembered the 2013 lip-lock and laughed how J-hope must be reacting seeing this teaser clip.