Should Taylor Swift's Engagement Really Be Breaking News? Swifties And Non-Swifties Debate.
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“She, herself, has put [her personal life] up for public consumption,” one HuffPost news editor said.
Welcome to Ick Court, where we debate/rate the ickiness of internet trends, “Am I The Asshole”-esque discussions, and various WTF-am-I-looking-at moments that come across our browsers. For this installment, we ask: Did the news cycle around Taylor Swift’s engagement give us “the ick”?
As news spread Tuesday that mega-pop star Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce were engaged, many online made the same joke: “I’ve gotten so many texts about these two, you’d think I was the one who got engaged.”
It wasn’t just group texts that were going off earlier this week, though. Countless news agencies ― ours included ― sent out “breaking news” alerts about Swift and Kelce’s engagement.
“Never in my life did i think i would find out about taylor swift getting engaged via ESPN notification,” one person wrote on X.
And, unsurprisingly, a lot of people got a little parasocial relationship-y about the couple: “I HAVE TO CALL IN SICK HOW AM I EXPECTED TO WORK TODAY MY PARENTS JUST GOT ENGAGED,” one fan joked.
