Zach Bryan has deactivated his Twitter/X account after “drunkenly” declaring his choice for Kanye West over Taylor Swift — however turned to Instagram Thursday morning to make amendments.

The difficulty began on Tuesday night time when Bryan, a vocal supporter of the Philadelphia Eagles (who misplaced to Travis Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the 2023 Tremendous Bowl), tweeted, “eagles > chiefs Kanye > Taylor who’s with me.”

Not surprisingly, the tweet introduced forth a tidal wave of indignant Swifties. The backlash grew to become so loud that Bryan defined in a follow-up tweet Wednesday that he “drunkenly” made his offending assertion after listening to Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology track “Thank You Aimee,” a not-so-subtle jab directed at Kim Kardashian and her ex-husband Kanye West.

“Guys I really like Taylor, was listening to TTPD final night time and thanks aimee got here on and I drunkenly tweeted about Kanye,” Bryan tweeted. “If anybody took it severe please know I really like each artists rather a lot and suppose we’re in a extremely lovely time of music.”

Regardless of the reason, the harm was completed, and Bryan promptly deactivated his Twitter/X account, which, as of Thursday morning, was nonetheless down.

Bryan’s Instagram continues to be energetic, nonetheless, and in his Storieshe posted an extended assertion accompanied by an audio clip of Swift’s “Fortnight,” the place he tried to mollify the state of affairs.

“For the report guys I wasn’t coming for Taylor the opposite night time,” Bryan wrote. “I used to be drunkenly evaluating two data and it got here out fallacious. I do know there’s lots of stuff that clouds round Ye and I used to be talking purely musically. I really like Taylor’s music and pray you guys know I am human and tweet silly issues usually. Hope someday I can clarify to her.”

As for his I am sorry to any Taylor followers I pissed off or let down. Love you guys and I am making an attempt my greatest!”

In a follow-up Story soundtracked by Swift’s “The Albatross,” Bryan added, “I have been going by way of a tough time in my very own life and I feel I used to be projecting somewhat. To be fully trustworthy, it simply got here off as impolite and desensitized to Taylor. I respect her a lot as a musician that the very last thing I would like folks pondering is I do not recognize and love what she has completed for music.”

In two extra Tales Thursday morning, Bryan continued to reward Swift, “a pressure of nature for so long as we have all been rising up and I love that,” and confirmed his break from Twitter/X. “I will take a breather from tweeting silly stuff, end my tour, and floor myself one way or the other within the midst of all this.”

And as Bryan reiterated, “Do not drink and tweet!!”