Nobody is shaking this off: Pop celebrity Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce introduced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a live performance. The publish broke Instagram’s file for reposts, although, to be truthful, reposting simply began on Instagram in August. Still, the publish hit 1 million reposts in lower than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in simply the primary hour. By Wednesday, it had topped 30 million likes, vaulting it to quantity eight on Instagram’s record of prime non-soccer posts.”Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift and Kelce wrote on an Instagram publish displaying a number of images of the proposal. In the primary photograph, Kelce is kneeling in entrance of Swift in a wide ranging floral backyard. The second photograph reveals them standing and holding each other. The subsequent is her hand with an unlimited diamond engagement ring, adopted by two extra of the couple embracing. The two apparently received engaged in a wide ranging backyard setting. InstagramThe publish additionally includes a dynamite emoji and the audio of Swift’s 2024 tune So High School. The snippet cuts off with the lyrics, “Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?” (Let’s hope it is the primary or second possibility.)Instagram publish is already climbing into the hundreds of thousands As you may count on, the Instagram publish delivering the engagement information shot into the stratosphere as quickly because it was posted. A consultant for Instagram confirmed to CNET that Swift and Kelce’s engagement announcement earned over 14 million likes and 452,000 reposts in simply over an hour.That’s an enormous viewers, however it will likely be fascinating to see how excessive up Swift and Kelce’s engagement information publish lands on Instagram’s all-time hottest record.Right now, the hottest publish ever on Instagram is from 2022, when soccer star Lionel Messi posted a picture of himself hoisting the World Cup he’d simply received. That publish has greater than 74 million likes. (Swifties, maintain it going if you wish to ship the Swift-Kelce publish to the highest.) The Instagram consultant did not instantly touch upon whether or not Swift and Kelce’s publish is climbing on the identical tempo as Messi’s. Messi additionally has the third-most in style publish, once more displaying him and the World Cup trophy, this time snuggled up in mattress collectively.But it is not simply soccer images that prime the Instagram most-viewed-ever record. The second most-liked publish of all time is a photograph of a plain, odd egg, posted to the social community again in 2019 as a part of somebody’s experiment to see if such a secular picture may go massively viral. I interviewed the particular person behind Eugene the Egg again in 2019 and am shocked to see it is nonetheless within the No. 2 spot six years later, with greater than 60 million likes.As of Wednesday afternoon, the publish had reached 30 million likes, and was sitting at quantity eight on Instagram’s record of prime posts that are not soccer-related. If it could possibly garner 900,000 extra likes, it could possibly leap into seventh place, passing a reel of a smiley child.Details on the ring and outfitsAccording to The New York Post, Swift is sporting a blue silk-blend Polo Ralph Lauren costume within the photograph, and Kelce is sporting a navy cable-knit Polo Ralph Lauren sweater. The Post additionally studies that Swift’s new engagement ring is “an old mine brilliant-cut diamond in a gold bezel setting, which was designed by Kelce himself with the help of Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry.” Taylor Swift’s fashion of engagement ring was the preferred lower in the course of the Georgian and Victorian eras. InstagramPrevious mine refers to a historic diamond lower in style from the early 18th century to the late 19th century. Such diamonds are sq. with rounded corners and have 58 sides, making them something however a “paper ring.”The Post delved into every thing else Swift had on, together with her cognac-colored Louis Vuitton sandals, $18,000 diamond-studded Cartier Santos Demoiselle watch and her “TNT” friendship bracelet by Wove, which was a Christmas present from her new fiancé.To nobody’s shock, the $400 costume Swift is sporting is promoting out quick. Just think about the thrill when the marriage particulars begin trickling out, and Swift begins to “pick out a white dress,” as Juliet does in Swift’s hit tune Love Story.Memeing the wedding proposalUntil we’ve extra details about the upcoming marriage ceremony, followers must content material themselves by creating and sharing memes as a result of, properly, it is 2025, and that is a part of how we talk nowadays.The Instagram account belonging to the Prince and Princess of Wales even appreciated the publish. (No shock, actually, they frolicked when Swift performed London.) InstagramEven espresso big Starbucks received into the act, making a joke about pumpkin spice lattes and posting, “Are we supposed to keep posting about PSL like nothing happened?” The firm additionally famous within the publish’s feedback that “the long list of Starbucks lovers just got a +1.” (“Starbucks lovers” is a sly reference to a lyric in Swift’s 2014 tune Blank Space. Swift really sings, “got a long list of ex-lovers,” however virtually anybody with working ears mishears it as one thing like, “all the lonely Starbucks lovers.”) Starbucks’ announcement of the pumpkin spice latte’s return was buried by Swift’s information. InstagramOne meme publish on X confirmed Paul Revere’s famed trip, captioned “me telling everyone I know that Taylor Swift got engaged.”me telling everybody I do know that Taylor Swift received engaged pic.twitter.com/MpS8BLPOZj— Siobhan ✨ (@Siobachka) August 26, 2025
One Bluesky person wrote, “Very interesting that Taylor Swift got engaged mere months after I did. Get your own thing.” Bluesky/Screenshot by CNETAnother joked, “Can’t believe that on July 8th, 2023, @likethe309.bsky.social, Travis Kelce and I all walked into Arrowhead Stadium to attend the Eras Tour and now one of us is marrying Taylor Swift.” Bluesky/Screenshot by CNETMatt Ufford warned the billionaire bride-to-be and her millionaire NFL star husband to depend their pennies, writing, “a word of warning to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: weddings can get EXPENSIVE, fast. Be sure to leave enough in the account for your monthly expenses.” Bluesky/Screenshot by CNETThere had been soccer jokes, after all. Bluesky/Screenshot by CNET Bluesky/Screenshot by CNETThe Detroit Free Press sought an area connection, utilizing the headline, “Tight end for Detroit Lions’ Week 6 opponent gets engaged to Taylor Swift.” Screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNETOne particular person questioned the caption about an English trainer marrying a health club trainer, asking, “Why does Taylor Swift think she’s an English teacher and not a music teacher?” Bluesky/Screenshot by CNETWe’re fairly positive this particular person actually does know who Swift is, however their publish was humorous anyway. It reads, “Okay, I’ll bite: who’s Taylor Swift? What’s so great about him?” Bluesky/Screenshot by CNETThe two 35-year-old celebrities have been courting for 2 years. It’s a love story, and Taylor simply stated sure.