Hockey Player’s Wife Wants Thirsty BookTokers to Stop ‘Sexually Harassing’ Her Husband
Felicia Wennberg says thirst for her husband, Seattle Kraken Alex Wennberg, has gotten out of hand, and the once peaceful community of BookTok is in chaos.
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On this hot August day, as record-breaking temperatures have probably confined you to your hopefully air-conditioned homes, allow me to explain the internet to you: As of Tuesday, a popular corner of TikTok known as BookTok is presently up in flames over controversy surrounding leading BookTok influencers’ uncontainable thirst for a handsome hockey player. And there are a lot of moving pieces to this one, so sit tight.
Over the last several months since BookTok-ers “face-claimed” Seattle Kraken player Alex Wennberg—AKA made him the face of fictional hockey players in romance novels—the online thirst for Wennberg has skyrocketed. Hockey romances, you see, are of particular interest on BookTok (which confuses me, personally, because NBA players exist), and it makes sense that TikTokers zeroed in on Wennberg, who looks like an AI-generated image of a 2000s YA heartthrob. One particular BookTok influencer, Kierra Lewis, blazed the trail for the Wennberg thirst with numerous viral videos that even caught the Kraken social media team’s attention. The team went so far as to bring her out to games, spawning viral videos of her calling out to Wennberg to “Krak my back” in May, among other very horny chants.
Then on Friday, something shifted: Wennberg’s wife, Felicia, went on Instagram and put BookTok on blast for objectifying and “sexually harassing” her husband, singling out Lewis in particular by pointing to her videos. “While I’m all for female empowerment and especially around sex, there have been videos and comments made that have crossed the line of what it means to fancy someone and when it actually sounds pretty predatory and [exploitative],” she wrote in her stories.
Felicia continued, “What doesn’t sit with me is when your desires come with sexual harassment, inappropriate comments, and the fact that with the internet, we can normalize behavior that would never be ok if we flipped the genders around.” Sharing screenshots of thirsty comments for Wennberg attached to Lewis’ videos, she wrote, “I mean no hate on the booktook [sic] community just a little request for people to think twice about their comments/videos or chanting ‘krak my back’ at humans with feelings.”