A viral TikTok showing a child disappointed about getting Taylor Swift concert tickets has people scrambling trying to buy them off of her
Screenshot/TikTok - allybeach919
- A TikTok went viral showing parents giving their child tickets to see Taylor Swift for Christmas.
- Even though tickets are hard to come by, the child said she was not a "big fan" of the artist.
- Swift fans are now desperately trying to snag the tickets from her — and some are questioning why she was gifted them in the first place.
A parent managed to wrangle coveted Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets for their daughter, but when she opened her Christmas gift, she said she wasn't a fan of the artist. Now, Swift fans are mobbing the comment sections of their TikToks trying to get their hands on them.
"What is this?" the teenager said as she opens the present in the video posted on Monday. It has already amassed over 14 million views. "Oh, Taylor Swift. Whoa, I'm not a big fan."
"What?" the camera holder said back in surprise.
"Sell them right now i've never been so serious in my life," a top comment read.
People are now spamming the comment sections of more recent TikToks to try to get the kid or parent to resell their Eras tickets to them. "SELL THE TICKET," one person wrote; "Pls i will give anyhting for those tickets."
The intense reaction is not surprising considering the Ticketmaster kerfuffle from last month, and how the website's multiple malfuctions prevented a large swath of vehement Swift fans from purchasing tickets for her forthcoming tour. Scores of fans reported ticket-purchasing problems and condemned the company online. Swift herself spoke out about the debacle, and the Department of Justice announced it was opening an investigation into the company to see whether it held a monopoly over the industry.
The parent in the TikTok, or user @allybeach919, also received a barrage of comments questioning why they gifted the tickets to their daughter in the first place. "They got her something THEY wanted ????" one person joked. "You guys are mad at the kid but it's honestly not their fault ???? the parent should have known," another added.
Insider has reached out to @allybeach919 for comment. While they did not seem to address much of the criticism in the comment section, they did write that their kid's musical tastes "change by the hour" at her age. They responded to one comment suggesting the child's dad assumed his daughter would like Swift today because she used to be a fan.
"He is the one who bought the tickets," @allybeach919 wrote in response to a comment calling out the dad's chuckle. "His daughter loves Taylor. he asked her if she liked Taylor, she said yes, her old music. So he tried."