TFBoys: China's Most Popular "Fresh Meat"

Last week's big hubbub in China's entertainment circles was getting a sneak peek at tomorrow's celebrities auditioning for the notoriously exclusive Beijing Film Academy. But even with the feast of fresh faces available for China's stargazers, one name stood out from the crowd: TFBoy band member Wang Junkai.

Simply describing TFBoys as a popular boy band won't properly explain the massive gravitational pull of their all-encompassing popularity in China. TFBoys are nothing less than a cultural phenomenon that some of their fans have likened to proof of China's growing soft power.

The People's Daily quoted one enthusiastic TFBoys fan as saying, "I  bet many people in the US know about Wang now – isn’t that a new method to disseminate our modern culture?"

Who are TFBoys? What's so special about them? Well, let's explain it this way:

For a bunch of kids who aren't even eighteen years-old, TFBoys are everywhere.

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