BookTokers can now not flip to Seattle Kracken’s social media pages for his or her fill of thirsty content material in regards to the professional athletes.
The NHL group just lately scrubbed its TikTok profile of all of its steamy movies of its gamers — which was impressed by romance readers’ fandom — after athlete Alex Wennberg and his spouse, Felicia Wennberg, slammed the web feedback as harassment.
“So I’ve joked earlier than and referred to as my husband booktooks [sic] w*nkb*nk and truthfully didn’t thoughts,” Felicia, who married the 28-year-old NHL star in August 2022, wrote through her Instagram Story late final month. “I at all times thought Alex was essentially the most lovely particular person on the planet and that it simply appears the world lastly caught as much as it. The rationale I struggled to navigate this — whereas I’m all for feminine empowerment and particularly round intercourse — there was movies and feedback made that has crossed the road of what it means to fancy somebody and when it really sounds fairly predatory and exploiting.”
The onslaught of hockey-set romance novels (akin to Hannah Grace’s Icebreaker and Helena Looking’s Pucked) quickly sparked a development amongst TikTok’s group of e book readers, the place customers even in contrast their favourite “e book boyfriends” to real-life athletes. In accordance with Felicia, influencers have taken their fandom of Alex and his teammates too far after they began chanting “Krack my again” — a play on the sexual innuendo “break my again” — at video games.
“What doesn’t sit with me is when your needs include sexual harassment, inappropriate feedback and the truth that, with the Web, we will normalize conduct that will by no means be OK if we flipped the genders round to a man doing this to a feminine athlete,” Felicia — who welcomed son Rio in September 2021 with Alex — added in her message.
Alex Wennberg with spouse Felicia. Courtesy of Alexander Wennberg/Instagram
Alex later launched his personal assertion two days later, calling out the “aggressive language” that social media customers had been utilizing to explain him and his teammates. “It has become every day and weekly feedback on our private social media,” he wrote. “This isn’t one thing we help or need our baby to develop up with. All we ask for is just a little respect and customary sense transferring ahead. We are able to all take a joke and humorous feedback however when it turns private and into one thing larger that results our household, we have to inform you that we’ve had sufficient. Sufficient of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship.”
Felicia had particularly referred to as out TikToker Kierra Lewis for her feedback about Alex, likening her thirsty movies to sexual harassment. Lewis, 27, has since denied the allegations. Lewis claimed in a Saturday, July 29, assertion that her posts — and nicknaming Alex “Mr. Pantydropper” — had been solely meant to be jokes.
“As soon as I noticed her submit, I IMMEDIATELY DM’ed her apologizing and supplied an answer of me deleting and ALL movies that point out Alex Wennberg. No response. Yesterday, I get residence to search out out that Seattle Kracken had unfollowed me and deleted all their ‘thirst entice’ movies,” Lewis claimed, noting that the group had beforehand gifted her a customized jersey and invited her to a number of video games.
Join Us Weekly’s free, every day e-newsletter and by no means miss breaking information or unique tales about your favourite celebrities, TV exhibits and extra!
Lewis had began posting humorous movies about her attraction to the Kracken’s teammates 4 months earlier — usually in response to the squad’s personal “BookTok” clips.
