#BurgerKingIsOverParty trends as Taylor Swift fans react to fast-food giant's joke about singer's ex-boyfriends
It all started innocently enough. A Taylor Swift fan asked the fast-food giant Burger King a simple question about what their favorite Taylor Swift song might be, and the response turned out to be a little more than they could stomach with good humor. Swifties everywhere were swift to retaliate and the next Twitter trend was soon born, in another unsightly example of cancel culture gone wrong (or ironic to the extreme, depending on how you look at it).
On Wednesday, May 27, a Taylor Swift fan called Audrey asked the Burger King's official Twitter account, "@BurgerKing, i need to know... what's yalls favorite Taylor Swift song?" Pat came the reply from Burger King, "The one about her ex." Oh, snap! This was obviously a huge burn, given that Swift has had her fair share of exes and written more than her fair share of songs about said ex-boyfriends in the past.
Megacorporations are known for being quite savvy on social media and frequently engage in banter and fan interactions to liven up social media. However, Swifties were not pleased with this whopper of an insult served up with a towering side of disrespect and proceeded to wage all-out war against Burger King by throwing the #BurgerKingIsOverParty on Twitter.
Given the 30-year-old Swift has a legion of followers that number in millions online, this was a recipe for disaster. In another case of hysterical cancel culture, salty Swift fans proceeded to declare that the fast-food giant's days were over, and #BurgerKingIsOverParty soon started trending in the United States. Apparently the main bone of contention was that it was an example of slut-shaming online, but that's a reach any way you look at it. It was just a well-timed joke as far as we're concerned - even Wendy's has dished out far worse burns in the past and perhaps that's exactly what Burger King was going for.
Thankfully, the hysteria was short-lived, as most of Twitter saw the joke for what it was and called off the witch-hunt. "Y’all canceling a fast-food chain now? This week is so ghetto," said one fan. Another user tweeted, "Imagine trending #BurgerKingIsOverParty because they don’t care about a singer when you could be tweeting about s*** that actually matters."
Pointing out more important matters, a social media user said: "There’s black people that are dying because of white racist police officers and instead of rising awareness and talk about it, y’all are trying to cancel Burger King... unbelievable #BurgerKingIsOverParty."
Most people saw the funny side of things and said that everyone was getting bored because of the coronavirus lockdown slump - "BURGER KING??? Y’all don’t really care, y’all are just bored!!!" As one user concluded, "BURGER KING IS HILARIOUS FOR SAYING WHAT THEY SAID YALL SWIFTIES ARE JUST SENSITIVE."
If anything, it looks like Burger King just got a whole bunch of free publicity for making that joke. It looks like angry Swifties will have to chew on that for the time being.