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Fans baffled by latest TikTok video from Chiefs’ Travis Kelce: ‘Has he been hacked?’

A snippet from Travis Kelce’s latest TikTok video.
A snippet from Travis Kelce’s latest TikTok video.

Long before he met superstar singer Taylor Swift, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had an aura about him.

Kelce has been on top of all the latest dance trends for more than a decade, and he’d often bust out those moves after scoring a touchdown for the Chiefs.

That explains Kelce’s latest TikTok video that baffled a lot of his fans.

It’s an edit of the Indonesian Boat Racing Kid that has gone viral that mixes in highlights of Kelce.

“Some people are calling him the biggest aura farmer of 2025,” the website Know Your Meme noted.

That story said that video is from an Indonesian boat racing festival and “one thing that stands out about the races is that each boat has a child who stands on the bow and dances to direct the rowers in an entertaining way.”

Videos of the kid and his aura went viral last month, Know Your Meme said. It obviously caught Kelce’s attention.

Here is the video from Kelce.

@traviskelce The aura has been farmed #indonesia #boatkid #aurafarming ♬ Young Black & Rich - Melly Mike

I’ve explained the story behind the video but many of the comments left to the video were from people baffled about what they were watching. Here is a snippet of those comments from TikTok and X.

“What am I watching?” a fan wrote.

Another shared this: “I am confusion.”

“Has he been hacked??” one person questioned.

A fan asked: “HELP WHAT IS THIS”

Another wrote: “Not me checking to see if it was the real Travis Kelce post this.”

“Not sure what I was expecting,” a person shared.

And then there was this: “I am so lost.”

Although some were not sure what Kelce was sharing on the social-media channel, many got the aura theme and they loved it.

“Top 5 TikToks of all-time,” a fan wrote.

“This is honestly pretty sick. lol,” one commenter wrote.

Another wrote: “W aura farming.”

“They can’t handle this much aura,” a fan penned.

And then there’s this: “ready to see this energy in 2025!!!”

This story was originally published July 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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