Anyone following the dramas with Alex Wennberg and his wife having to ask TicTokers to stop sexually harassing him? Really disgusting behavior by these woman and would be completely unacceptable if the sexes were reversed.
My wife, a self published author, has been telling me about the rise in popularity of hockey romance novels going viral through TicTok BookTok, which has caused a correlating growth in middle aged female hockey fans. Even our local Australian ice hockey team has embraced the new popularity resulting in bigger crowds, but also some really cringe TicTok marketing where young players are thirsted after and even asked to read explicit passages from these books.
This all reached a head over the weekend when Wennberg's wife called out the behavior on instagram, leading to the Kraken, who had originally embraced the attention, to delete their BookTok account. Here are more details.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...ersy-rcna97369
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The Seattle Kraken embraced thirsty ‘Booktok’ hockey romance videos. It backfired.
What started as a playful thirst for hockey players on TikTok quickly devolved into what one Seattle Kraken star and his wife have blasted as inappropriate behavior.
Over the weekend, Alexander Wennberg and his wife, Felicia, took to Instagram to plead with the Kraken fanbase to stop posting sexual comments, calling it harassment. “Enough of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship,” the hockey star wrote.
Their public request came amid a rise in social media content surrounding Wennberg and his Kraken teammates, who have become viral heartthrobs on TikTok. Hockey romances have become a popular subgenre within BookTok, a huge community of book lovers on TikTok, and in recent months many have translated their love for these books – romance stories centered around the sport –into an interest in professional hockey.
Videos showing Kraken players doing groin stretches and walking in slow motion gained popularity, with many using a catchphrase, “Krack my back,” to sexualize them. Even the Kraken team leaned into the fervor, inviting creator Kierra Lewis, who is credited for being among the first to cultivate the crossover fandom of hockey and BookTok, to one of their games...
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