Upon mentioning his name and calling him her boyfriend, the crowd went wild. “Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic. So I wanna thank him for adding that to our shoot because I’ll always remember that,” added Swift.

The reaction Swift’s acceptance speech garnered online was very different from the excited cheers she received from the VMA audience. Some netizens seem to think that the moment had an undercover agenda.

“She had to mention [Kelce], it’s part of the ‘arrangement,’” stated a social media user on Instagram. Similarly, another echoed, “‘[I’ll] always remember that.’ The contract between them is about to end. .”