About

Your English Teacher and Your Gym Teacher Are Getting Married refers to a catchphrase that American pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce used to announce their engagement on Instagram in late August 2025. Swift was supposed to be the "English teacher," while Kelce was the "gym teacher." The catchphrase was used as a caption in image macros and tweets in the following days, often paired with images of couples or pairs who fit the archetypes either earnestly or satirically.

Origin

On August 26th, 2025, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce shared a collaboration Instagram^[1] post, which included five photos of the couple, captioned, "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨." In the photos, Kelce is seen proposing to Swift. In a day, the post received over 30.6 million likes.

Spread

On August 26th, 2025, multiple internet users commented on Swift and Kelce's caption in viral posts. For instance, on that day, X^[2] user @Stevensully99 tweeted a GIF of a woman crying, captioned, "From 'I Wouldn’t Marry Me Either' to 'Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨,'" gaining over 56,000 likes in a day.

Soon after, other internet users started repurposing the catchphrase by applying it to different photos of couples and pairs.

For instance, on August 26th, X^[3] user @dropbuffspod tweeted an image of Survivor contestants Kirby Bentley and Parvati Shallow, gaining over 1,400 likes in a day.

Also on August 26th, 2025, X^[4] user @bigrackspart7 tweeted, "'Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married' maybe the worst caption of all time ever," gaining over 119,000 likes in a day.

By the end of the day, brands and companies began using the catchphrase for posts. For example, on August 26th, the official X^[5] account of Pixar paired the caption with an image of the Incredibles, gaining over 30,000 likes in a day.

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