The Real Reason BTS Skipped The “2026 AMAs” Afterparty

Over the years, BTS has often skipped award show afterparties to hang out with ARMY instead, but that’s not the only reason why they didn’t attend their latest one.

BTS | TheQoo

On May 26, BTS attended the 2026 American Music Awards (AMAs) as nominees and presenters. They won all three of their nominations: “Artist of the Year,” “Song of the Summer,” and “Best Male K-Pop Artist.”

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— Koreaboo (@Koreaboo) May 26, 2026

The group had much to celebrate, but instead of partying with fellow award winners after the ceremony, BTS hosted a Weverse Live to chat with ARMY.

According to RM, who held a solo livestream on May 28, BTS didn’t go to the afterparty because some of the members dislike mingling.

BTS’s RM during his live | Weverse

He was also worried that some of the members would struggle with communicating in English.

🐨 Yesterday after the AMAs, we thought about going to the after party and mingling with artists and producers a bit, we thought about it and then didn't go. I was afraid to and the members have difficulty with English and some of us don't like mingling.

— christa⁷ 💜 아리랑 (@ryuminating) May 28, 2026

Fans praised RM for being considerate of his members, some of whom are introverts who need to recharge after social events.

namjoon taking into account both the tannies' comfort in conversing and also the introverts in the group and then they all just gathered in a room and turned on a live to spend time with us and then with just them after, just like every award show, oh we rlly are family https://t.co/Qya28Dz5AP

— ree⁷ (@jkyoongs) May 28, 2026

Prioritising the members comfort before everything will always be 1 reason I love BTS so much 💜 https://t.co/0GSkitEN8f

— 정국 's Kuls⁷ IS SEEING BTS💜 ⊙⊝⊜ (@wannaseeJKin3D) May 28, 2026

love how they dont force themselves to be social js because they are famous🥹🥹🥹makes them more human https://t.co/7ZahmX3GHl

— vmin touch tips (@vamgukie) May 28, 2026

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