The implications of the tweet are layered, but it was clearly interpreted by Taylor Swift fans to be a diss. Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and famously had a very public beef with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and his former wife Kim Kardashian.

Bryan was arrested in Oklahoma last year on a charge of obstructing an investigation. He acknowledged afterward that he “was an idiot” and an “actual child” throughout the incident and asserted, “I’ll take the fall for it… I’m a grown man, and I shouldn’t have behaved like that.”

Bryan's post on X drew backlash from Swifties and ultimately led him to deactivate his account, though he took to Instagram to apologize.