Taylor Swift followers aspect with Caitlin Clark after Angel Reese interviews Travis Kelce’s ex-girlfriend

Caitlin Clark might have simply gained over extra Taylor Swift followers than Kamala Harris has. And Clark did not should ask for any of it. 

A viral resurfacing of a social media put up Clark despatched when she was in school has made her the newest worshiped ally of the Swift military. 

The put up initially got here proper after Swift went public together with her relationship with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star tight finish Travis Kelce. Clark welcomed Swift to the Chiefs’ fan household. Clark has stated she is a lifelong Chiefs fan having grown up in suburban Iowa. 

“Taylor Swift welcome to the nice aspect,” Clark wrote Sept. 24, 2023, in a put up on X with the hashtag “Chiefs Kingdom.”

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Taylor Swift stands with Donna Kelce after the AFC championship sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore.   (AP Photograph/Julio Cortez)

Within the final 24 hours, a number of Taylor Swift fan pages throughout social media have recirculated Clark’s tweet after a controversial podcast episode hosted by Clark’s archrival, Angel Reese. 

Reese hosted a lady named Kayla Nicole, who’s a promotional mannequin, media character, on-air host and leisure journalist in style on Instagram with greater than 797,000 followers. It is a following that has been rising quickly for the reason that episode was posted Thursday, after Nicole went into private element about her romantic relationship with Kelce prior to now and its heavy aftermath.

“We’ve seen one another in public areas earlier than, however it’s — I feel that we’re each conscious of the character of his new state of affairs that there’s simply no room actually for us to speak or acknowledge one another publicly with out it being spun into one thing loopy,” Nicole stated of Kelce and his new relationship with Swift. 

Nicole additionally claimed she has acquired hate for the connection ever since Kelce started to this point Swift as a substitute of her. 

“I might be mendacity if I stated that that degree of hate and simply, like, on-line chaos doesn’t affect me,” Nicole stated. “It does, even to this present day. You possibly can go to my most up-to-date put up, and it is going to be individuals debating one another why I’m nugatory, and I’ll by no means be a proficient individual and I’ve no profession.”

The feedback have ignited a extensively debated controversy on social media, with some defending Nicole and sympathizing together with her for the alleged hate she has acquired. Nevertheless, others, and lots of who overtly establish as Swift followers, have been vital of Nicole for a wide range of causes. 

Lots of those self same Swift followers declared themselves followers of Clark in her ongoing ladies’s basketball rivalry towards Reese. 

Angel Reese, proper, and Caitlin Clark in the course of the second half June 23, 2024, at Wintrust Enviornment in Chicago.  (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)

Clark and Reese have been transcendent figures in ladies’s basketball, linked to 1 one other since they first met within the 2023 NCAA ladies’s basketball championship. Reese famously mocked Clark on the finish of that sport when her LSU Tigers defeated Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes for the title, pointing to her finger in a taunting style to remind her who was getting the ring. 

This sparked outrage from Clark’s immense fan base, together with Bartstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy, who known as Reese “a bit of s—” in a extensively circulated X put up after Reese’s gesture within the championship sport.

Clark and Reese have by no means acknowledged that there’s a “feud” between them and have solely made respectful feedback about each other in interviews and press conferences. Nevertheless, followers of the celebs have been infamous for attacking each other on social media since that sport in 2023. 

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Angel Reese, proper, and Flau’jae Johnson of the LSU Girl Tigers react after a 79-72 victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies in the course of the 2023 NCAA Ladies’s Closing 4 at American Airways Middle March 31, 2023, in Dallas, Texas.  (Tom Pennington/Getty Pictures)

Reese has stated Clark’s followers have despatched her dying threats and made express AI pictures of her and despatched them to her household. 

“I feel it is actually simply the followers, her followers, the Iowa followers, now the Indiana followers, which might be actually simply, they experience for her, and I respect that, respectfully. However generally it is very disrespectful. I feel there’s plenty of racism in relation to it,” Reese stated. 

Her newest episode drew debate. Criticism towards Reese for internet hosting Kelce’s ex, prompted a response from Reese Friday afternoon. 

“Hating pays too,” Reese wrote in a put up on X with emoji of portray toenails. The episode has attracted important consideration within the final day, which Reese will revenue from because the podcast host. 

Nicole is not the primary sufferer of hate feedback from Swift followers both. Swift followers famously attacked one other girl who was well-known for a relationship with a Chiefs star participant. Brittany Mahomes, the spouse of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was the topic of a viral backlash for liking a put up from Donald Trump’s Instagram account Aug. 13. 

The put up outlined the previous president’s 2024 coverage agenda. Swift followers have been accustomed to Mahomes for her friendship with Swift after they attended Chiefs video games to observe Patrick Mahomes and Kelce play.

However lots of those self same Swift followers recirculated screenshots of Mahomes’ like of the put up, which made her the goal of on-line assaults that she addressed a number of instances via extra Instagram posts. It thrust Mahomes and her husband into the nationwide political dialog. After Swift endorsed Kamala Harris Sept. 10, Trump stated he favored Brittany Mahomes greater than Swift in a Fox Information interview Sept. 11. 

Patrick publicly recommended his spouse after Trump’s feedback that very same day however refused to endorse a politician. 

Swift’s preliminary endorsement of Harris additionally drew a response from Clark, who favored Swift’s Instagram put up that introduced the endorsement assertion. 

When requested why Clark favored that put up, the basketball star didn’t endorse Harris however stated she needed to make use of her platform to encourage People to vote. 

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark reacts throughout a first-round WNBA basketball playoff sport towards the Connecticut Solar Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photograph/Jessica Hill)

As extra Swift followers flip to Clark after Reese’s interview, they are going to be becoming a member of a fan base that has been extensively debated as nicely. Some WNBA gamers, together with Reese and Connecticut Solar participant Alyssa Thomas, have accused the Indiana Fever fan base of racism, whereas Solar participant DiJonai Carrington known as the Fever followers “the nastiest followers within the [WNBA].” 

Clark has stated a few of her staff’s followers aren’t followers in the course of the Fever’s exit interviews Sept. 27. 

“These aren’t followers. These are trolls,” Clark stated. 

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