Tavis are engaged – what we learned and how fans reacted

“Your English teacher and your fitness teacher are getting married.”

With this sole post on Instagram with five paintings, signed with Fire Coker Emoji, Taylor Swift announced his commitment to American footballer Travis Kels, sending the Internet in madness.

Tuesday’s post from the couple – who have been together for two years – has been liked more than 18 million times on the social media platform.

The NFL star Kels is depicted, descending to a knee to put the question to the world -famous music superstar, with the couple staring at each other’s eyes and hugging.

In the third photo in a carousel, a swift dressed in a dress on the neck of Ralph Lauren Halter and a diamond inlaid Cartier clock, blinking his engagement ring – a diamond to cut the pillow on a gold ribbon.

According to US reports, the ring was purchased by Artifex Fine Jewelery. The prices of the rings on his website start at about $ 29,000 (£ 21 506.26).

The photos show the couple surrounded by roses, anemones, dolphinias and hydrangeas that appear to be placed in the forest with strategically placed urns and arch, told the wedding Florist Nikola Paul to the BBC.

“It’s simple elegance, it’s not too showy,” she said. “It is placed in the forest, so you get this lush appearance of the greenery.”

Celebrity Tsvetski Jeff Leham, who worked with Kardashian, described the design as “a beautiful, hidden secret garden with a romantic combination of Florals.”

Accompanying the Instagram publication is Swift’s ballad, so the high school from the album of tortured poets – rumors that they were written for Kelce.

“I feel so high school every time I look at you,” she sings.

The video of the song ends on the line “Will you marry, kiss or kill me?” Which is obviously a reference to an interview from 2016, in which Kels chose to kiss Taylor in a kiss game, to marry, kill.

“It was so magical and especially to see,” said Dr. Jonah Murphy, Advisor of last year’s exhibition of Victoria and the Albert Museum On Swift and Superfan, which he wrote about Swift.

“A song written about Travis is now used in the publication. It’s a nice moment of a full circle,” says Dr. Murphy, a teacher of English literature at Huddersfield University.

She said the inscription in the Instagram message – “Your English teacher and your fitness teacher are marrying” – is also remarkable as it refers to how fans like to describe the couple.

“It’s like a small joke in Fandom. You see it on social media. So it’s a little nod to the fans,” she said.

In an interview with the ABC News 5 Cleveland station, Kels’s father, Ed, revealed that “Travis actually made the proposal … maybe two weeks, not only two weeks ago.”

He said this happened in a garden at the summit of the city of Lee, Missouri.

“He took her there. They would go out to dinner and he said,” Let’s go out and drink a glass of wine “… They went out there. Then he asked her, and it was beautiful,” said Ed Kels.

“They started encountering me and their mother and her people to make sure everyone knows. So to see them together is great.”

Pop emergency resonates with fans in an exceptional way.

Videos on social media show groups of friends who scream as they hear the news, while others describe the sense of emotional and even tears.

“I thought it was AI when I first opened Instagram,” said Chloe, who runs an account at Fan Fan News with 74,000 Tiktok followers, “BBC told.

“I couldn’t believe it was real, then I realized that it was their accounts that posted it,” she said. “I was immediately frightened and sending a message to my group chat inconsistent. Just excitement and unbelief, really.”

As the news broke, many Swift fans joked on social media that they were happy because of their “close friend” Swift.

Swift admitted early in his career by the benefits of connecting to the fans and carefully created a sense of relativity.

And at the same time, many of the original Swift fans – who were teenagers at the same time as Swift was piercing as an artist – they grew up with her and are now the same age when they could also be married or married.

Explaining why she felt so strong about the engagement, Chloe said, “I feel the way we all know her.

“Her music is so personal and the way she connects with her fans is through the way she talks and sings about her relationship. I just want the best for her and just happy to find love.”

The fury of social media about Swift’s engagement news marks another high point in the great interest and charm of fans in her love life – including her previous relationships and palpitations.

In fact, Swift had previously talked about “the fixation of the media on my drawing as a psycho -serial girl from sensors.”

But it is also something in which songwriter has deliberately played, knowing writes about her exes in his song and giving clues to fans about his relationships.

According to Laura Snims, Guardian’s deputy editor and Swift fan, he was “almost like an art form” how she played in media speculation about her love life.

“She definitely knows the benefits of relationships to hold her in the titles. 1989 is about her relationship with Harry Styles, but as far as we can say that this lasted several months,” Snis said at Podcast Today in Focus.

And the interesting thing is that the message of engagement came just weeks after Swift’s interview with Kels In his new HEIGHTS podcast – which D -M Murphy believed was remarkable, as it was the first time the fans saw them interact together in a long interview and how compatible they looked.

“It was almost like a two -hour interview – we didn’t have so much interview content. So it was great to watch. We could see the chemistry and how comfortable it felt with it,” she said.

According to Chlo, it’s not just Swift to say “Yes – the feeling is the same for her Fandom.

“We’ve seen a lot of boyfriends over the years, some liked us, and some have definitely not liked it.

“Travis is a person who loves her proudly and does not look frightened by his success, as they may have been other suitors,” she said.