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Taylor Swift and NFL Player Travis Kelce Have Been "Quietly Hanging Out" refers to a series of memes about Taylor Swift's potential relationship with Travis Kelce claiming Taylor Swift is "quietly hanging out" with another celebrity or character, using the phrasal template, "Taylor Swift and X have been ‘quietly hanging out,’ The Messenger reports." The meme became popularized on X, formerly Twitter, in mid-September 2023 after Pop Base made a post claiming Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce have been quietly hanging out.

Origin

On September 12th, 2023, X^[1] user @PopBase posted side-by-side images of Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce, writing, "Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce have been ‘quietly hanging out,’ The Messenger reports," garnering over 100,000 likes in two days (shown below). They also provided a link to the Messenger^[2] article about the two hanging out, where an anonymous source is quoted as saying, "Taylor and Travis have been quietly hanging out. She saw him when she was in NYC a few weeks ago."

Spread

That day, X users began using the post's text as a phrasal template alongside images of Taylor Swift and other celebrities. For example, on September 12th, 2023, X^[3][4] users @biceplor and @Maxerto posted versions of the meme pairing Swift with Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks and Hasan Piker respectively, garnering over 220 likes and 4,700 likes in two days (shown below, left and right).

That day, Instagram^[5] page Memezar posted a screenshot of the original PopBase post with an additional comment reacting to it, garnering over 445,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On September 13th, X^[6] user @Ianscheese posted a version of the meme pairing Swift with Ethan Klein of the H3 Podcast, garnering over 1,500 likes in a day (shown below, left). On the same day, X^[7] user @alphaINTEL posted a version of the meme about Mirage from Apex Legends, garnering over 7,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

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