LGBT Fanbase: Pretty much comes with the territories of being both a late-90s pop act and a boy band.Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: Frick & Frack for the Brian and Nick friendship, as well as Letterboys for the RPS ship of AJ/JC Chasez, due to the fact that both went by their initials.Harsher in Hindsight: 'Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely' becomes more heartbreaking following the death of Nick's sister Leslie in January 2012, and brother Aaron in November 2022.It wasn't until acts like the Spice Girls and Hanson became popular in America that the Boys began sweeping the nation for real. At the time they released their first album, they weren't exactly well-received in the US, but turned out to be huge in the UK and Europe, where their kind of pop music was considered more mainstream (the fact that they really sang live while every other local act used playback helped a lot). In fact, this very trope is part of the reason they became such a phenomenon.

Even their latter albums sold well enough to earn gold and platinum sales certificates even when they stopped selling as much in other countries.

Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Insanely popular in East Asian countries like Japan (as seen in the video for 'Bigger') and Vietnam, even after all those years.

ONTD comment: in what world does westlife and one direction beat nsync and bsb.

Then again, both fandoms put aside their differences to glare enraged daggers at everyone when both BSB and *NSYNC were knocked out of MTV's Boy Band Battle in the first stage.

Buzzfeed held a user-ranked poll for the 25 greatest boy bands of all time, in which *NSYNC was voted the winner, with Backstreet at #2.not helped by the fact that Joey Fatone once made a joke at Backstreet's expense that the fanbase did not take too kindly. The fandom rivalry still goes on to this day.A prime example of this is Tiffany, a diehard Backstreet fan who threatened Carson Daly after she lost a trivia game to a *NSYNC fan. That did not stop the vicious fandom wars back in The '90s, especially when it came to Total Request Live. Fandom Rivalry: Although the Boys did feel betrayed when they first learned of *NSYNC, the two groups eventually formed a Friendly Rivalry and are friends off stage.

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