- A viral TikTok showed a child getting tickets to see Taylor Swift for Christmas.
- Though tickets are hard to come by, the child said she was "not a big fan" of the artist.
A parent managed to wrangle coveted tickets for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour for their daughter — but when she opened her Christmas gift, she said she wasn't a fan of the artist. Now fans are mobbing the comment sections of TikToks trying to get their hands on them.
"What is this?" she says as she opens the present in the video, which was posted on Monday and has over 14 million views. "Oh, Taylor Swift. Whoa, I'm not a big fan."
"What?" the camera holder says in surprise.
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A top comment on the video said: "Sell them right now i've never been so serious in my life."
People also spammed the comment sections of the account's more recent TikToks to try to get the kid or the parent to sell the tickets to them. "SELL THE TICKET," one person wrote. Another said, "Pls i will give anyhting for those tickets."
The intense reaction isn't surprising considering the Ticketmaster kerfuffle from last month, when the website's malfunctions prevented many Swift fans from purchasing tickets for her tour. Scores of fans who'd reported problems condemned the company online. Swift herself spoke out about the debacle, and the Department of Justice is said to be investigating whether the company has a monopoly.
The owner of the TikTok account, @allybeach919, also received a barrage of comments questioning why they'd gifted the tickets in the first place. "They got her something THEY wanted ," one person joked. Another added, "You guys are mad at the kid but it's honestly not their fault the parent should have known."
Insider has reached out to the owner of the account for comment. While they didn't seem to address much of the criticism in the comments of the TikTok, they suggested in some responses that the kid's tastes "change by the hour" at her age and that her dad had assumed his daughter would like Swift because she used to be a fan.
"He is the one who bought the tickets," they wrote in response to a comment calling out the dad's chuckle in the video. "His daughter loves Taylor. he asked her if she liked Taylor, she said yes, her old music. So he tried."