Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert.
"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," Swift and Kelce wrote on an Instagram post showing multiple photos of the proposal. In the first photo, Kelce is kneeling in front of Swift in a breathtaking floral garden. The second photo shows them both standing and holding each other, the next her hand with an enormous diamond engagement ring and then two more of the couple embracing.
The two apparently got engaged in a breathtaking garden setting. Instagram
The post also features a dynamite emoji and a the audio of Swift's 2024 song, So High School. The snippet cuts off with the lyrics, "Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?" (Let's hope it's No. 1 or No. 2.)
Instagram post is already climbing into the millions
As you might expect, the Instagram post delivering the engagement news shot into the stratosphere as soon as it was posted Tuesday morning, earning more than 13 million likes in two hours and continuing to climb. That's a huge audience, but it will be interesting to see how high up Swift and Kelce's engagement news post lands on Instagram's all-time most popular list.
Right now, the most popular post ever on Instagram is from 2022, when soccer star Lionel Messi posted an image of himself hoisting the just-won World Cup. That post has more than 74 million likes, so Swifties, get going if you want to send Taylor's post to the top. A representative for Instagram did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Swift and Kelce's post is climbing at the same pace as Messi's did.
Messi also has the third-most popular post, again showing him and the World Cup trophy, this time snuggled up in bed together.
But it's not just soccer photos that can top the Instagram most-viewed-ever list: the No. 2 post of all time is a photo of a plain, ordinary egg, posted to the social network back in 2019 as part of someone's experiment to see if such a mundane image could go hugely viral. I interviewed the person behind Eugene the Egg back in 2019, and am shocked to see it's still in the No. 2 spot six years later, with more than 60 million likes.
Details on the ring and outfits
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