VIDEO: Anies Baswedan Suddenly Becomes A K-Pop Idol Because Of Live TikTok

JAKARTA - After the nickname 'gemoy' for Presidential Candidate number 2, Prabowo Subianto, now it's the turn of Presidential Candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan, to steal the attention of netizens.

Anies made several live on TikTok social media and managed to attract the attention of Gen Z. It turned out that the live resulted in the nickname for Anies to become Park Ahn Nice. Anies first made a TikTok live on Thursday, December 28.

It is known that TikTok Anies live is watched by 300 thousand TikTok users. And the live broadcast was watched by many K-Pop or K-Pop fans. As a result, the K-Popers created a new Korean name for Anies Baswedan, namely Park Ahn Nice. The origin of the name was made because a netizen through social media X @HyoJinHo who considered Anies to be similar to K-Pop idols who often broadcast live in cars While on the way.

The netizen also said that this is one way to raise the spirit of democracy ahead of the upcoming 2024 presidential election. In addition to creating the Korean name, netizens also made typical Korean idols, such as photocards, cup holders and fans filled with Anies' faces.

In addition to these items, netizens also created an X account with the name @aniesbubble which was made in the K-Pop idol fanbase style. The X account contains Anies Baswedan's activities while campaigning and is an account for K-Pop fans who support Anies as President of Indonesia.

The use of the owl symbol for Anies also means something. The owl interpreted Anies' figure as wise even though he was doing live. Warganet also several times mentioned Anies as an online grant, because he saw Anies as a father figure. Watch the video below.