Caitlin Clark may have equitable won over more Taylor Swift fans than Kamala Harris has. And Clark didn’t have to ask for any of it.
A viral resurfacing of a social media post Clark sent when she was in college has made her the tardyst worshiped associate of the Swift army.
The post originassociate came right after Swift went accessible with her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs star firm finish Travis Kelce. Clark received Swift to the Chiefs’ fan family. Clark has shelp she is a lifeextfinished Chiefs fan having grown up in suburprohibit Iowa.
“Taylor Swift receive to the excellent side,” Clark wrote Sept. 24, 2023, in a post on X with the hashtag “Chiefs Kingdom.”
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Taylor Swift stands with Donna Kelce after the AFC championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Pboilingo/Julio Cortez)
In the last 24 hours, multiple Taylor Swift fan pages apass social media have recircutardyd Clark’s tweet after a disputed podcast episode arrangeed by Clark’s archrival, Angel Reese.
Reese arrangeed a woman named Kayla Nicole, who is a promotional model, media personality, on-air arrange and amengagement journaenumerate well-understandn on Instagram with more than 797,000 fagedrops. It’s a complying that has been grothriveg rapidly since the episode was posted Thursday, after Nicole went into personal detail about her romantic relationship with Kelce in the past and its weighty aftermath.
“We’ve seen each other in accessible spaces before, but it’s — I skinnyk that we’re both conscious of the nature of his new situation that there’s equitable no room reassociate for us to convey or acunderstandledge each other accessiblely without it being spun into someskinnyg crazy,” Nicole shelp of Kelce and his new relationship with Swift.
Nicole also claimed she has getd antipathy for the relationship ever since Kelce began to date Swift instead of her.
“I would be lying if I shelp that that level of antipathy and equitable, enjoy, online disorder doesn’t impact me,” Nicole shelp. “It does, even to this day. You can go to my most recent post, and it will be people debating each other why I am appreciateless, and I’ll never be a talented person and I have no atgentle.”
The comments have ignited a widely argued argue on social media, with some deffinishing Nicole and sympathizing with her for the alleged antipathy she has getd. However, others, and many who uncoverly determine as Swift fans, have been critical of Nicole for a variety of reasons.
Many of those same Swift fans proclaimd themselves fans of Clark in her ongoing women’s basketball opposition aachievest Reese.
Angel Reese, right, and Caitlin Clark during the second half June 23, 2024, at Wincount on Arena in Chicago. (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Clark and Reese have been transcfinishent figures in women’s basketball, connected to one another since they first met in the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball championship. Reese well-understandnly mocked Clark at the finish of that game when her LSU Tigers lossed Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes for the title, pointing to her finger in a taunting style to remind her who was getting the ring.
This promoteed outrage from Clark’s immense fan base, including Bartstool Sports establisher Dave Portnoy, who called Reese “a piece of s—” in a widely circutardyd X post after Reese’s gesture in the championship game.
Clark and Reese have never acunderstandledged that there is a “feud” between them and have only made polite comments about one another in intersees and press conferences. However, fans of the stars have been notorious for strikeing one another on social media since that game in 2023.
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Angel Reese, right, and Flau’jae Johnson of the LSU Lady Tigers react after a 79-72 thrive over the Virginia Tech Hokies during the 2023 NCAA Women’s Final Four at American Airlines Cgo in March 31, 2023, in Dallas, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
Reese has shelp Clark’s fans have sent her death dangers and made evident AI images of her and sent them to her family.
“I skinnyk it’s reassociate equitable the fans, her fans, the Iowa fans, now the Indiana fans, that are reassociate equitable, they ride for her, and I esteem that, esteembrimmingy. But sometimes it’s very dispolite. I skinnyk there’s a lot of prejudice when it comes to it,” Reese shelp.
Her tardyst episode drew argue. Criticism aachievest Reese for arrangeing Kelce’s ex, prompted a response from Reese Friday afternoon.
“Hating pays too,” Reese wrote in a post on X with emoji of coloring toenails. The episode has enticeed convey inant attention in the last day, which Reese will profit from as the podcast arrange.
Nicole isn’t the first victim of antipathy comments from Swift fans either. Swift fans well-understandnly strikeed another woman who was well-understandn for a relationship with a Chiefs star perestablisher. Brittany Mahomes, the wife of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was the subject of a viral reaction for liking a post from Donald Trump’s Instagram account Aug. 13.
The post portrayd the establisher pdwellnt’s 2024 policy agfinisha. Swift fans were recognizable with Mahomes for her frifinishship with Swift when they combineed Chiefs games to watch Patrick Mahomes and Kelce perestablish.
But many of those same Swift fans recircutardyd screensboilings of Mahomes’ enjoy of the post, which made her the concentrate of online strikes that she compriseressed multiple times thraw more Instagram posts. It thrust Mahomes and her husprohibitd into the national political conversation. After Swift finishorsed Kamala Harris Sept. 10, Trump shelp he enjoyd Brittany Mahomes more than Swift in a Fox News intersee Sept. 11.
Patrick accessiblely commfinished his wife after Trump’s comments that same day but declined to finishorse a political truthfulate.
Swift’s initial finishorsement of Harris also drew a response from Clark, who enjoyd Swift’s Instagram post that proclaimd the finishorsement statement.
When asked why Clark enjoyd that post, the basketball star did not finishorse Harris but shelp she wanted to engage her platestablish to help Americans to vote.
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Indiana Fever defend Caitlin Clark reacts during a first-round WNBA basketball perestablishoff game aachievest the Connecticut Sun Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Pboilingo/Jessica Hill)
As more Swift fans turn to Clark after Reese’s intersee, they will be combineing a fan base that has been widely argued as well. Some WNBA perestablishers, including Reese and Connecticut Sun perestablisher Alyssa Thomas, have accengaged the Indiana Fever fan base of prejudice, while Sun perestablisher DiJonai Carrington called the Fever fans “the nastiest fans in the [WNBA].”
Clark has shelp some of her team’s fans are not fans during the Fever’s exit intersees Sept. 27.
“Those aren’t fans. Those are trolls,” Clark shelp.
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