Taylor Swift has been getting sacked on Instagram. The Kansas City Chiefs WAG has shed over 144,200 followers since being mercilessly booed at the Super Bowl, according to the sports gaming site SportsMillions.
Conservative Swift fans such as Alexis Winters of Queens said the drop in followers — and the booing — is a signal for the singer to stick to music, and stay out of politics.
Taylor Swift lost over 144,200 followers since being booed at the Super Bowl, according to the sports gaming site SportsMillions.X/@SamuelBrownRBT via REUTERS
“We are tired of celebrities calling down to us from their ivory towers giving their two cents on policies that will never impact them,” said Winters, 24, the corresponding secretary of the New York Young Republican Club.
“Taylor Swift is simply the best example of this and her loss of hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers represents the hundreds of thousands of Americans who chose their president over the woke Hollywood mob.”
Swift’s boyfriend and Chiefs star Travis Kelce enjoyed a bump in Instagram followers post his Super Bowl drubbing to the Philadelphia Eagles, gaining over 12,370 followers, as per SportsMillions, which used Social Blade to track the couple’s social media stats.
“I mostly think it’s equally maddening and unsurprising how people seem more eager to celebrate the man dating a successful woman than the actual woman herself,” said Sara Koger, 32, of Buckeye, Ariz.
Jenna Piwowarczyk, the college student who is the face of the Swifties for Trump movement, agreed.
Travis Kelce, on the other hand, actually gained Instagram followers after the Super Bowl.TNS
“When Travis made an appearance on the Eras Tour, Swifties were excited to see him and cheered him on. When Taylor was shown on the Jumbotron, she was booed,” she said.
“I understand the demographic of the Super Bowl attendees are not fans of Taylor Swift, but the generalized hatred towards her for simply supporting her boyfriend is uncalled for and gross.”
Swift — whose Eras Tour was the highest-grossing concert tour of all time — shouldn’t fret, Koger said.
Jenna Piwowarczyk, the face of the Swifties for Trump movement, said Swift’s negative reception was “uncalled for and gross.”Courtesy of Jenna Piwowarczyk
“Taylor doesn’t even post that often, and she doesn’t technically need social media to thrive or be successful,” she said.
“She isn’t going anywhere, no matter how many boos she hears at a football game or followers she loses.”
