“It’s disgusting and dehumanizing,” Seattle Kraken FORCED to take down BookTok videos after Alex Wennberg and his wife Felicia slam users for sexually ‘vile comments’
It’s unthinkable for a team to promote publicizing their own player in a sexually controversial manner rather than protect them from such content. Alex Wennberg and his wife Felicia protested against videos after which Kraken was forced to pull down the posts from social media sites.
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A lot has gone down for Seattle Kraken forward Alex Wennberg and his wife Felicia over the past few weeks. The Wennberg family got victimized on social media following the distribution of some explicit sexual content. What’s even more surprising is that the team chose to divulge the user’s fantasies at first rather than protect their own players.
According to reports, not only did Kraken promote TikTok’s newfound fandom but also left comments on user Kierra Lewis’ posts, who allegedly is at the center of the ongoing controversy. Furthermore, the team flew Lewis in for Game 4 of the Western Conference second round in May. They even gifted her a team jersey captioned ‘BookTok’ on the back.
BookTok’s subsection hockey romance became quite a popular topic for users to divulge into their romance fantasy players. But this went out of hand when users started projecting their fantasies in a rancid fashion onto real players, affecting their personal life.
One of the victims of Kraken was Alex Wennberg. Although his wife Felicia at first took matters lightly, the duo was forced to slam the users for taking this too far. Felicia on her Instagram stories posted how these sexually harassing and “vile comments” have started affecting their life.
Alex Wennberg on BookTok controversy: “Enough of sexual harassment”
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As of now, it’s unclear when the Seattle Kraken deleted the BookTok contents, but the damage had already been done by then. Felicia on her post commented how the fans have “crossed the line of what it means to fancy someone” and started obsessing over her husband through vile content on social platforms. She blasted the users stating the contents and comments that went viral sounded “predatory and exploiting” to her.
“We can normalize behavior that would never be OK if we flipped the genders around.” Felicia’s actions of speaking out created a severe backlash on the Wennberg family. Several fans took to social media to post “vile comments” about Alex Wennberg’s wife under her and their son Rio’s photo.
Wennberg stated, “The aggressive language about real players life is too much” and this is not something “we support or want our child to grow up with”. “We’ve had enough. Enough of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship.”
After Wennberg and Felicia spoke out against the content, the team pulled out of the mess by deleting connections they had with the platform. Especially, the user Kierra Lewis had posted sexual comments that exposed her thoughts in a negative manner. The team did not further speak about the incident when reached out by ESPN.
Last winter, the team not only embraced the BookTok community’s interest in their players but also changed their own bio to “Mostly BookTok”. They began publishing videos of players targeted toward that specific community, featuring players like Wennberg and defenceman Vince Dunn. The videos showed players walking in slow motion, and their exercise focusing on their groin movements.
Hockey romance book author Emily Rath stated that the users blurred “that 1%” line between fiction and reality creating the current controversy. “They took it too far…They weren’t treating him like a hockey player or even like a fictional boyfriend.”
Currently more and more content regarding the controversy is popping out on social media. It’s left to see how that’ll affect the BookTok community, including the Kraken franchise. An NHL representative stated that the league has been in touch with both Kraken and the Wennberg family and has placed “protocols in place to support and protect Players and their families.”
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