I have an unhinged conspiracy theory about Tayvis
There's a 5% chance I'm right and I know I sound batshit insane: a small part of me wonders, if instead of this being a PR stunt, Travis and Taylor may have known each other a lot longer and possibly fucked around on their partners. Travis has known Miles Teller for years, and Kam Saunders is related to one of Travis's teammates, so it's not as if Taylor and Travis didn't have mutual friends. Plus, why are we assuming they wouldn't DM each other? It's Travis's MO to reach out to women he's interested in through social media...and you want me to believe he made a friendship bracelet for Taylor?
Taylor's narrative (according to Time magazine) is that she reached out to Travis because of a sports podcast (in late July), and she wants us to believe Travis Kelce couldn't get backstage in KC to meet her after the concert that he attended with Patrick fucking Mahomes, a.k.a. the god of Arrowhead. Travis, however, told WSJ he had an angel looking out for him and made it seem like they were together earlier. Which makes sense since he was spotted at Zero Bond on July 19th. It seems like Travis's story is closer to the truth: Taylor Lautner (who posted pics of Travis's locker on social media) was at the Eras tour on July 8th and Joey King says "Taylor [Lautner] wanted to say let's go Chiefs" (he's not a Chiefs fan), which Taylor reacts to with shock, which she shouldn't have because they're in KC and it's normal to shout out a home team...the thing is, the 8th is the day Travis attended and King said this on stage during the show; Travis tried to meet her after the show. So the vibes make it seem like they knew each other before he actually attended the concert...so why lie? Even if it's a PR stunt, surely their team ran the story by them and they would memorize the same tale. Tree Paine seems like a professional, so would their lie be so poor to sell this story?
My theory is mostly based on Swiftie twitter constantly finding "invisible strings"; some the the so-called strings are floss (like Mary's song using 87), but some just seem too coincidental and I don't believe in coincidences to a certain extent. For example, Travis used his bye week in 2017 to go up to New York and was photographed at Patron of the New (the day before Reputation dropped), which is next door to a townhouse Taylor bought just a month before; Taylor lived in England at the time but was in NYC that week and did SNL on the 13th. Was Joe Alwyn in NYC with her? He had 4 movies come out in 2018 so I assume he was filming. Where was Kayla Nicole?
A month after he and Kayla breaks up, Travis starts liking Taylor Swift posts (he liked a video of Taylor naming cat breeds on Fallon back in October 2022, and then another Fallon/Taylor clip from December 2022).
Like I said, this is unhinged, but if they knew each other for a bit and were cheating, it makes sense why their timeline is all over the place, and lines about "coming back where she belongs"