Overview

• Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Travis Kelce on Instagram, writing, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
• Less than a day after the announcement, r/GaylorSwift was set to private, limiting access to approved members only.
• Screenshots of posts from the forum circulated widely on other platforms as many users mocked members of the Gaylor community.
• A related subreddit saw users urge a temporary closure to deter trolling, and Forbes reported that both r/GaylorSwift and r/Gaylor were made private.
• Founded in 2018, r/GaylorSwift frames itself as a space for thoughtful queer readings of Swift’s work, a discourse that drew wider attention after a 2024 New York Times op‑ed and which Swift pushed back on in 2023 album notes.