Swifties rejoice, then bounce, from old Travis Kelce tweets

For celebrities riding the wave of fame, it may be a rite of passage: new scrutiny of old social media posts. This week, it’s Travis Kelce’s turn, as Taylor Swift’s fans have been enjoying the salacious tweets written by her apparent boyfriend since his early 20s.

Internet sleuths then uncovered other tweets – which have since been deleted – that proved even more troubling. They showed the future Kansas City Chiefs player making comments about “ugly girls” and “fat people.” Another included a slur that People with disabilities have long been encouraged People to avoid.

At first, Swift’s fans found Kelsey’s streams of consciousness from over a decade ago on Twitter relatable, hilarious, and even endearing.

in One tweet from 2010 Which now has over 16,000 likes Kelsey posted that he doesn’t want to work, and instead prefers to “sleep in my bed and do nothing with my life!!”

In another From 2011He described feeding the “squirrel” bread and how the animal “smashed the whole thing straight up!!!” I had no idea they ate bread like this! Haha #crazy.” Users of the former Twitter site, now renamed X, have liked the account more than 30,000 times.

It briefly seemed as if the two-time Super Bowl champion was “experiencing the most positive possible version of the Internet digging your tweets since 2011.” books Allison Herman, Variety critic.

But later in the week Deleted tweets appeared in Reddit threads Its authenticity has been verified by a fact-checking site Snopes.

“As a man, there is something wrong with you if you choose girls who weigh more than you!!” Kelsey wrote in a post in 2010. In another, he joked about being “attacked by ugly girls.”

Screenshots of these posts have been circulating on X, Reddit, and Archived versions Of them still standing. But as of Thursday, they are It appears to have been deleted From his page.

The Kansas City Chiefs did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

In the age of social media, celebrities suffer from the resurfacing of past social media posts, which may conflict with the image they project.

For example, model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen is known for being funny online. But in 2021, some Her posts from the 2000s are highlighted. In those encounters, she repeatedly harassed Courtney Stodden, a model who was 16 years old at the time.

Old posts by Iggy Azalea and Kevin Hart also got them into trouble. Azalea, the Australian rapper known for her song “Fancy”, She pulled out of the look At Pittsburgh Pride in 2015 after her homophobic and racist posts from early 2010 surfaced. Hart, a comedian, resigned from hosting the 2019 Academy Awards after his homophobic posts from around 2011 surfaced.

Fans likely did a lot of sleuthing around Kelsey initially because of the “precedent of the last two people Taylor dated,” said Bobby Miller, culture critic and host of the pop culture show “The Afternoon Special.”

The critic made special mention of Matty Healy, the English singer-songwriter who was Criticize Due to previous racist and sexist comments.

one fan wrote That his posts represent a simpler time on that platform: “Travis Kelce’s old tweets perfectly sum up what Twitter used to be like.”

“Men express themselves without fear of judgment during study hall.”

But it wasn’t long after fans were upset by posts they described as misogynistic and fatphobic, in which he said fat people falling down was “slow-motion entertainment” and said he was judging bystanders as “ugly, fat, funny, sexy”. . “.

These posts sparked an online debate about the relevance of sentencing Kelce for content he shared more than a decade ago. Pop culture fans were also surprised that the intense focus on the pair’s apparent budding relationship didn’t prompt him to be more diligent in deleting his account.

Users found some minor errors, ranging from typos he made in posts to misspellings he made in posts Their lack of sophistication compared to words It was written by Swift, a 12-time Grammy Award winner, whose Eras Tour this year broke records for her concerts.

Fans began speculating that the two were dating shortly before Swift appeared at a few of Kelce’s soccer games in September. The two have also made frequent appearances together, including on “Saturday Night Live” and at Swift’s concert in Buenos Aires where she apparently changed the lyrics to refer to him.