August 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Taylor Swift’s engagement news inspired a viral TikTok stunt that spiraled out of control—shutting down an entire subway system, costing millions, and even leading to arrests. But how did a pop star’s love life cause complete transit mayhem overseas, and could it happen in the U.S. next? Find out on The Jubal Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How did Taylor Swift shut down the subway system in
South Korea and cost the city millions of dollars?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Well, it's more like the news of Taylor Swift's engagement did,
but it caused a social media influencer to do something
so ridiculous that arrests were made, an entire subway system
was shut down, and the city lost millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sounds about right?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What happened? And could this be happening soon in your city?
We'll tell you next. Taylor Swift owes the South Korean
government three point three million.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Dollars the tubule show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I'm not sure if Taylor will pay it, but
she sort of does because one social media influencer did
something so ridiculous that arrests were made, the entire subway
system was shut down, and the city lost millions of dollars. Also,
they say this could be happening in America soon, So
it could it be happening in your city?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We how many times get engaged? That just happened? Once?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Like?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Here's what happened?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
A influencer named Crystal, a self proclaimed love architect and
manifestation coach.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hey oh i love. That's great.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Went viral for her ways of finding your soulmate.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
She says she has a guaranteed way to find your soulmate.
And she was so inspired by the news of Taylor
Swift getting engaged that she shared a TikTok clip that
was viewed over eight million times.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
She declared that Taylor found her forever person because she
was aligned with the universe, and if Taylor can manifest
her soulmate, so can you. Yes, I believe that though no.
So here's what happened. Crystal announced to her one point
two million TikTok followers that the Soulmate Portal would be
opening inside the South Korean subway system.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
At exactly eleven eleven pm on alternating Thursdays is when
she said, the Soulmate Portal opens. Okay, that is subway
system of South Korea. So people just flooded it. We
want to find love. She instructed her fans to wear
matching red sox to align with romantic energy. Okay, and
(02:01):
they were supposed to stand on the platform, spin in
circles and chant their ex's name out loud.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now she's strolling them.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now she's strolling and then to chant my soul is open,
over and over and over until somebody comes up to
you and introduces themselves.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Whoa that is your soulmate? Waits for her tips and
people believed it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, the CoP's gonna come up to you if you're
spinning in circles screaming your ex's.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Name, I mean, are you okay?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Talking about an incident in the subway system in South
Korea inspired by Taylor Swift Getting Engaged, where one influencer
said that she knows how to meet your soulmate and
inspired a bunch of people to go to the subway
system wearing matching red sox at eleven eleven PM, stand
on a platform, spin in circles, chant your ex's name,
and then chant my soul is open, over and over
(02:47):
and over until somebody introduces themselves. Also play any type
of musical instrument, even if you don't know how, because
those vibrations will bring love upon you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Chrystal explained, Oh my good.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Everyone is doing this, going in circles and waiting for
someone to walk up to them. How are any of
you gonna end up giving a soul mate? Because y'all
are all to be doing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And that's the thing is you gotta be careful you
believe online because she had enough people believe her that
the subway riders were stunned when trend stations filled with
hundreds of chanting, bad music playing participants.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The story says.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Witnesses described a wall of people spinning in circles, screaming names.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, No.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I feel like once you hear something like this, you're like, Okay, well,
what do you have to lose? Why wouldn't you just
like you are looking for your soulmate? Like, why wouldn't you, I, however,
would stop at turning around in circles chanting my ex's name.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, you would go though?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How bad people want to find their soulmate?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I mean it would just force you get out of
the house, because really, how you find your soulmate is
leaving your home.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
But you're gonna believe a TikTok person who says the
portal will be open?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
What portal?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I do believe in portals? I do beleeve manifestation. I
do believe in all that portal is going to be
open at eleven eleven?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay? Cool game? Where in the soul Korea Subway station.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No, do people fly to Soul or were those people
already living there?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Didn't say, but it said commuters trying to catch trains
were forced to dodge onion carrying singles because Crystal had
also suggested that bringing an onion in your pocket cleanses energy.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Strolling them so hard.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Does her ex work at the subway city station in Soul,
Korea and she's like, oh, watch this.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
One man claims that he got body checked by a
woman blowing a kazoo in his face and yelling you're
the one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
TikTok influencer who said you knows how to find your
soulmate and convince people in South Korea to go to
the South Korean subway system at eleven eleven pm on
every other Thursday, the Soulmate portal opens and do all
this crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
This is kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Service ground to a halt, they say, after the chanting
crowd spilled onto the tracks and multiple stations, believing the
Soulmate portal might emerge from the tunnels. Oh okay, they
reported our long delays across several lines, and the transit
police had to evacuate stations and a fire started from
dozens of candles that were lit on the floor. Of course,
(05:10):
one person said, I was just trying to get home
and suddenly five hundred people in red sox were circling me,
chanting somebody's name. I thought I was in a horror movie.
That would be scary. Could you imagine you're on the
subway and you get out and there's just thousands of
people in red socks carrying onions instruments.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, guys, it is not that bad. We cannot be
trusting TikTok influencers like this.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
They confirm more than thirty year wrestles made, and officials
estimated delays and damages would cost the city over three
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Holy wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Somebody, one of the security guards said, We've dealt with rats, floods,
even flash mobs, but never thousands of people playing horrible
instruments and chanting for soulmates with onion.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
There's so many takeaways from the story.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
There's so many How people are starved for love, how
people are so easily influenced, what drives them, Like all
of these things. You just want something, to believe it
and it can turn into this. No, I mean you
could go on and have a whole cat theory of
your own Victoria, and everybody would follow you with their cats,
and you guys could praise I don't know the sun
(06:14):
and make money.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Absolutely not. If you want to start a colt man,
you could do it easily, so easy, very easy.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And then just when when you sit here and you
think about all those cults that are like in true
crime movies and stuff, you're like, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, you hear this story. It's that easy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Crystal, the woman who started this whole thing, was briefly
detained for inciting a riot and released hours later. She
did post a live stream outside of the station saying
that this is how you find your soulmate, and the
universe is now listening and there will be a new
portal open in New York City soon.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Oh no, someone take that away and prepare for that
text my friend.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I want her to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Also, just for information. As for her own relationship status,
Crystal is single.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, yeah, well Crystal? Was there a Red Sox soon
How did Taylor Swift shut down the subway system in
South Korea and cost the city millions of dollars?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Well, it's more like the news of Taylor Swift's engagement did,
but it caused a social media influencer to do something
so ridiculous that arrests were made, an entire subway system
was shut down, and the city lost millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Sounds about right?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What happened? And could this be happening soon in your city?
We'll tell you next. Taylor Swift owes the South Korean
government three point three million.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Dollars the tubule show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I'm not sure if Taylor will pay it, but
she sort of does because one social media influencer did
something so ridiculous that arrests were made, the entire subway
system was shut down, and the city lost millions of dollars. Also,
they say this could be happening in America soon, So
it could it be happening in your city?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We how many times get engaged? That just happened? Once?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Like?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Here's what happened?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
A influencer named Crystal, a self proclaimed love architect and
manifestation coach.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hey oh i love. That's great.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Went viral for her ways of finding your soulmate.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
She says she has a guaranteed way to find your soulmate.
And she was so inspired by the news of Taylor
Swift getting engaged that she shared a TikTok clip that
was viewed over eight million times.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
She declared that Taylor found her forever person because she
was aligned with the universe, and if Taylor can manifest
her soulmate, so can you. Yes, I believe that though no.
So here's what happened. Crystal announced to her one point
two million TikTok followers that the Soulmate Portal would be
opening inside the South Korean subway system.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
At exactly eleven eleven pm on alternating Thursdays is when
she said, the Soulmate Portal opens. Okay, that is subway
system of South Korea. So people just flooded it. We
want to find love. She instructed her fans to wear
matching red sox to align with romantic energy. Okay, and
(02:01):
they were supposed to stand on the platform, spin in
circles and chant their ex's name out loud.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now she's strolling them.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now she's strolling and then to chant my soul is open,
over and over and over until somebody comes up to
you and introduces themselves.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Whoa that is your soulmate? Waits for her tips and
people believed it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, the CoP's gonna come up to you if you're
spinning in circles screaming your ex's.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Name, I mean, are you okay?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Talking about an incident in the subway system in South
Korea inspired by Taylor Swift Getting Engaged, where one influencer
said that she knows how to meet your soulmate and
inspired a bunch of people to go to the subway
system wearing matching red sox at eleven eleven PM, stand
on a platform, spin in circles, chant your ex's name,
and then chant my soul is open, over and over
(02:47):
and over until somebody introduces themselves. Also play any type
of musical instrument, even if you don't know how, because
those vibrations will bring love upon you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Chrystal explained, Oh my good.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Everyone is doing this, going in circles and waiting for
someone to walk up to them. How are any of
you gonna end up giving a soul mate? Because y'all
are all to be doing the same thing.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And that's the thing is you gotta be careful you
believe online because she had enough people believe her that
the subway riders were stunned when trend stations filled with
hundreds of chanting, bad music playing participants.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The story says.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Witnesses described a wall of people spinning in circles, screaming names.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, No.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I feel like once you hear something like this, you're like, Okay, well,
what do you have to lose? Why wouldn't you just
like you are looking for your soulmate? Like, why wouldn't you, I, however,
would stop at turning around in circles chanting my ex's name.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, you would go though?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How bad people want to find their soulmate?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I mean it would just force you get out of
the house, because really, how you find your soulmate is
leaving your home.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
But you're gonna believe a TikTok person who says the
portal will be open?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
What portal?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I do believe in portals? I do beleeve manifestation. I
do believe in all that portal is going to be
open at eleven eleven?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay? Cool game? Where in the soul Korea Subway station.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No, do people fly to Soul or were those people
already living there?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Didn't say, but it said commuters trying to catch trains
were forced to dodge onion carrying singles because Crystal had
also suggested that bringing an onion in your pocket cleanses energy.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Strolling them so hard.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Does her ex work at the subway city station in Soul,
Korea and she's like, oh, watch this.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
One man claims that he got body checked by a
woman blowing a kazoo in his face and yelling you're
the one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We're talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
TikTok influencer who said you knows how to find your
soulmate and convince people in South Korea to go to
the South Korean subway system at eleven eleven pm on
every other Thursday, the Soulmate portal opens and do all
this crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
This is kind of scary.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Service ground to a halt, they say, after the chanting
crowd spilled onto the tracks and multiple stations, believing the
Soulmate portal might emerge from the tunnels. Oh okay, they
reported our long delays across several lines, and the transit
police had to evacuate stations and a fire started from
dozens of candles that were lit on the floor. Of course,
(05:10):
one person said, I was just trying to get home
and suddenly five hundred people in red sox were circling me,
chanting somebody's name. I thought I was in a horror movie.
That would be scary. Could you imagine you're on the
subway and you get out and there's just thousands of
people in red socks carrying onions instruments.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, guys, it is not that bad. We cannot be
trusting TikTok influencers like this.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
They confirm more than thirty year wrestles made, and officials
estimated delays and damages would cost the city over three
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Holy wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Somebody, one of the security guards said, We've dealt with rats, floods,
even flash mobs, but never thousands of people playing horrible
instruments and chanting for soulmates with onion.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
There's so many takeaways from the story.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
There's so many How people are starved for love, how
people are so easily influenced, what drives them, Like all
of these things. You just want something, to believe it
and it can turn into this. No, I mean you
could go on and have a whole cat theory of
your own Victoria, and everybody would follow you with their cats,
and you guys could praise I don't know the sun
(06:14):
and make money.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Absolutely not. If you want to start a colt man,
you could do it easily, so easy, very easy.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And then just when when you sit here and you
think about all those cults that are like in true
crime movies and stuff, you're like, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, you hear this story. It's that easy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Crystal, the woman who started this whole thing, was briefly
detained for inciting a riot and released hours later. She
did post a live stream outside of the station saying
that this is how you find your soulmate, and the
universe is now listening and there will be a new
portal open in New York City soon.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Oh no, someone take that away and prepare for that
text my friend.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I want her to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Also, just for information. As for her own relationship status,
Crystal is single.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, yeah, well Crystal? Was there a Red Sox soon
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