Taylor Swift video sparks outrage at Chiefs Game

A video of Taylor Swift arriving at a Kansas City Chiefs game has sparked outrage after the pop superstar’s security asked photographers to stand up, with many assuming it was so they couldn’t take photos up her skirt.

Swift arrived at Sunday’s game to watch her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, play against the Denver Broncos. As is often the case when the singer attends a game, hordes of photographers awaited her arrival at Arrowhead Stadium – and they received direct orders from her team.

It is typical for those in front of the press pack to squat so that they do not obscure the view of the journalists and photographers behind them, but on Sunday this was not allowed. In a video that has been posted online — and has since gone viral — her security can be seen walking in front of Swift, telling photographers to “stand up” as she walks by to enter the VIP suite at the stadium.

As Swift passed the photographers, one went down to kneel again, resulting in one of Swift’s security guards directly asking him to “stand up” as Swift entered the premises.

Newsweek emailed a Swift spokesman for comment Monday outside normal business hours.

A video of the moment was posted to X (formerly Twitter) by using @wibwKatiewhere it had 1.1 million views at the time of writing and has since been re-shared by various other accounts. While it hasn’t been confirmed that either photographer attempted to snap a photo up Swift’s skirt, speculation has run rampant.

User @SavLovesSwift reposted the clip to the social media site with the caption: “Her security is yelling at the photographers to get up so they can’t take pictures under her skirt 🙁 welcome to being a woman.” At the time of writing, the post had viewed 12.8 million times.

X user @TayvisEra1989 also reshared the video, writing: “Queen Taylor is in the building! Kudos to Drew and the rest of Tay’s security team for telling these photographers to get up so they can’t take pictures up her skirt. No, no on their watch.”

“oh my god what happened here??? the way they are STAND UP STAND UP to that guy and taylor slows down super carefully? what’s the connection?” @taylorisdownbad commented, to which @deedeedott replied: “She’s wearing a short skirt, he asked the photographers to stand up so they basically don’t get pictures of her skirt.”

User @wishescametrue added: “Taylor’s security said ‘get up’ to someone and then Taylor gently and noticeably slowed her walking to small steps…I’m assuming it’s because they were trying to take pictures up her skirt. Our sexually exploitative society is disgusting.”

Swift has attended all five Chiefs home games this season, and on Sunday she cheered for Kelce when he caught the football in the end zone, breaking an NFL record with his catch.

“There it is! Chiefs all-time leading touchdown receiver! From (Patrick) Mahomes. It’ll give you something to sing about,” CBS announcer Kevin Harlan said.

For his part, Kelce has also been spotted in the crowd at several stops on Swift’s record-breaking tour Era’s Tourwhich has taken her around the world for more than 18 months and saw her sweep the American leg on Nov. 3 in Indianapolis.

A video of the athlete leaving his girlfriend’s second Indianapolis show while being followed by a camera crew recently went viral, fueling theories that the pop star is filming a documentary about his tour.

This isn’t the only clip of Kelce supporting his girlfriend that has gone viral. A video on TikTok showed the tight end smiling and dancing to “So High School” with Swift’s mom.