unironic uwu

“She inconvenienced the city” - she closed down 2 streets that are already closed for various reasons 95% of the time and people who ACTUALLY live in NYC didn’t give a fuck

“She’s a billionaire why would I be happy for her” - because she’s been wanting this her entire life like any other girl who dreams of romance and getting married. She doesn’t actually have $1b in her bank account as it’s more so the value of her discography which she famously fought tooth and nail to buy back for years and will never sell. She donated $26 million (more than her wedding cost) to various charities around the country.

“But the power grid!” - she brought in independent generators that were used to power the venue so it didn’t affect the power grid at all.

“She should’ve had her wedding outside on an island or somewhere else” - she chose a venue that was big enough for her guests as well as secure enough to keep paps and weirdos out in the city WHERE SHE LIVES.

“She’s so weird and made everything about her” - last I checked the wedding is supposed to be about the bride & groom

“Can’t believe she got married on a Friday” - it was a holiday weekend and how many people do you think were there that have a 9-5. Taylor and Travis are not your average people and 99% of the guest list was A list celebrities. Also I’m a normie and got married on a Friday I don’t see the issue this is a normal thing people do.

Hello as your resident Swiftie I thought I’d take some time to annoy the #antiswifties on her and dispute some misinformation going around about the wedding that just happened between Taylor and Travis.

1. She did not invite ICE to her wedding.

The claim is that she invited Steve Demetriou Sr. to her wedding, Amentum executive. Amentum is responsible for overseeing operations at an ICE detention facility. However people are getting Sr. Confused with his son Jr. (they have the same name). Steven J. Demetriou jr. And Reggie (there adoptive son) are Travis’ childhood friends and did attend the wedding. However there is no verifiable evidence that Demetriou senior attended the wedding. “But he’s listed as a guest.” Yes many guest lists online have been listing father and son interchangeably, but none have listed both. We know Demetriou jr. Did attend because he spoke to reporters Sr. Most likely was not there. “What about the picture of his dad going around?” Thats a grid lock photo of the family from an entirely different event.”

Also a few more things you should know about the father

- he doesn’t oversee “ice operations” he retired before his company Jacobs merged with Amentum (the company that currently oversees ICE operations).

2. Taylor and Travis used so many public resources including tax payer dollars on the day of her wedding.

- that’s not true, organizers of private events are required to reimburse the city for police services. Large events, film shoots, and more require street closure in nyc locals know it’s part of living here and know she didn’t have three blocks closed it was small area near MSG mainly used by pedestrians during a weekend where everyone leaves for the holiday.

3. She contributed to the cities power outages.

MSG has its own power generators, back up power generators, etc…meaning she’s not contributing whatsoever to the electrical power grid. Not to mention the power outages were nation wide.

4. The venue was tacky.

Okay that’s more of an opinion. The thing is a blank space like msg can be turned into whatever you want, but honestly I think weddings by nature are just tacky might as well do what you want.

5. She wanted attention she kept saying she wanted a secret, private wedding and had it somewhere like Madison square garden.

so there’s a difference between private and secret. It definitely was private cause days later we’ve hardly seen/know anything. However her being one one the most famous popstars were going to find out about it no matter what. “Tom holland and Zendaya kept it secret”, stop trying to pretend they’re the same level of celebrity.

6. “She walked down the aisle to her own song, she sang during her vows, she made it all about herself, she just wants attention how tacky.”

Again, weddings by nature are tacky. Also, weddings are supposed to be about the bride and groom. She’s the only bride I know of that people expect to not make her wedding day about her.

the ethics surrounding her music having the wealth it does and how that could or couldn’t be different than oil billionaires, the musk/bezos/zuckerberg/trump type vs its similarities to jay z and Beyoncé/rihanna, all of whom are billionaires. If someone is to look me dead in the eye and say that Elon musk and Taylor swift are on the same level they’re genuinely insane and don’t actually carry the ethics they think they do.

All that being said: I do agree that billionaires shouldn’t exist because it’s built on the backs of exploited workers (and this is everyone’s only argument against billionaires and not one I disagree with because Yeah!) but I’d want to dissect that more regarding Taylor.

She doesn’t have any separate business ventures in the way the other celebrities listed do, she just has her music and her production company where she makes her music videos from. So that means any workers being exploited and underpaid come from exclusively her music and anything related to her music and how her catalogue reached the value it has.

We know from the eras tour that she pays her direct employees Very well with Very Good benefits and gave life changing bonuses multiple times during the tour as the grosses from the show continued tow grow. Confirmed included her dancers and singers and truck drivers and we can safely assume that includes her band, all the crew members from wardrobe to sound to lighting— anyone directly tied to her tour. All the venues she performed at had union crews as far as we know so they’re getting paid adequately there.

So touring is, as far as we know, good and above industry standard in terms of how money is distributed and workers exploitation. The actual making of her music is her and her collaborators, no need to dig further into that imo.

The other main way that she is marketing her music is through merch. This is primarily where I can see worker exploitation coming in downstream of her and her direct hand on the process. Whoever manufactures her vinyls/cds/cassettes, her merch apparel, all of it- that’s where I think there could be tighter scrutiny. There is a rumor floating around that she doesn’t have control over merch and that her label republic records has control over it, given in exchange for allowing her to own the masters when she signed with them in 2018, post reputation and pre Lover. This is unconfirmed but fans noticed a difference in merch as well as warehouses when she signed on so it could be true, but we’ll probably never know.

If she has control over merch- that’s where the issue could arise. If not, then we’re back to square one.

Taylor wasn’t a billionaire before 2023. This was the eras tour when she reached an entirely new peak of her career. There were a lot of factors involved in the tour being as big as it was, everything from re-recordings to new music to the eras tour basically being a biggest hits+ tour. And then she bought back her masters to the first six albums she made under big machine and that basically doubled her wealth. It’s actually credited that she is the first person to have the majority of her wealth come from her magic and royalties/touring. “Primarily based on her songs and performances” is the exact quote.

So is it unethical for an artist’s catalogue to amass that much wealth? Is it more ethical for a corporation to own her music (again) vs the artist owning their work and having control over it? And how do we tax a billionaire accordingly when it comes from the means hers did? These are all genuine questions, and only the last I don’t have a clear answer to. Maybe a higher tax % against the valuation of an asset once it hits a certain threshold. The higher the more it wacks.

We don’t know what the rest of her wealth looks like. We know she has a few houses. We don’t know about stock portfolios etc. we do know she’s not selling her music, not when she fought for years to get it back and went so far as to re-record her music so she could own it. She still earned royalties from her old music pre-buy back but it was important to actually Own her work. It wasn’t about the money.

I don’t know what the correct answer is to any of this. I also think that with the way the global economy has shifted and with rapid inflation across the globe that single digit billionaires will become more and more common where they wouldn’t have existed in the past and that we need to have a serious look at whether an ethical billionaire can exist or not. I still don’t think there can be one, but that might be changing.

What a mess.

The hypocrisy you come across on Stan Twitter is tiresome. It’s one thing when it comes to Taylor Swift and another for every other artist. And we all know the reason why, that being that she is far more successful than the artists those throwing up a storm support. That is basically it, there is nothing more to it. However will they ever admit that, of course not.

How is it that they only care about morals when it comes to Taylor Swift. Outside of that you check through most of their Twitter accounts and they’ve never posted anything of worth. They are not raising awareness, they are not sharing educational posts on current affairs or the tragedies occurring across the globe and neither are they combating misinformation. Not even highlighting the voices of the activists speaking up.

They remember that they dislike billionaires when the conversation is about Taylor Swift. However search their posts and they’ve never tweeted about Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Beyonce or Rihanna. Yet they’ll kick and scream about how they have the energy to criticise all billionaires. We are still waiting to see them do that. They hear a single term or sentence and run to regurgitate it. One of them being ‘There is no such thing as an ethical billionaire’. As if it can be applied across the board. Taylor Swift’s vast majority of earnings have come from her music itself. We’ve seen her be charitable from the very beginning as she has always and still continues to donate money to various charities. She also has always been fair with those that work with her. I mean you can do a simple search and see how those part of the Eras Tour were paid. So it’s senseless attacks at best where those pointing fingers haven’t actually given much thought and ran to try and appear as ‘morally superior’. When in fact that is far from their truth.

Brad Pitt being a guest was something they weaponised too. Now all of a sudden they cares that he had allegations of abuse. However they’ve not once before talked about him.

For every other artist - I mean look at the Olivia Rodrigo situation with Anthony Fantano. Olivia Rodrigo’s fans ran to say that who Fantano is or was is nothing to do with her. Yet they’ve not stayed consistent in their stance when it comes to Taylor Swift. You cannot be criticising someone else whilst at the same time providing justification for another. Logic and reasoning is something that exceeds these individuals. Is Billie Eilish a Zionist for purchasing from a brand that was on the boycott list or for getting up on stage with Justin Bieber? According to those that are attacking Taylor Swift for her guest list they would classify Billie Eilish as a Zionist. Or is it that criticism is only reserved for Taylor Swift.

Stan Twitter wants Taylor Swift to be a MAGA supporter. She’s done everything to indicate that she is a Democrat however they just don’t want to accept that. So what makes them think that she will release a statement to respond to the criticism she is receiving. Because we all know that they will not believe that either.

It’s one thing when people come at something from a genuine place. However the vast majority are performative at best. They’ll tell you that they would call out their idols and yet their idols have done things out of character. However have they spoken out, no they haven’t. It’s brain dead individuals speaking for the sake of it. Coming up with theories and making up scenarios in their own heads to get worked up over.

Swifties aren’t allowed to defend or respond to those attacking Taylor Swift. Because it infuriates the haters as they can’t fathom the idea of someone else loving something or someone that they don’t. Someone quoted a tweet in which a Stan account had listed the artists they love. The quoter said that the person couldn’t love one of the artists as they had been critical of them. You see how that is very contradictory.

It’s like they intentionally lose the ability to be sensible when it comes to Taylor Swift. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an artist/celebrity be targeted in this manner before. People forget that she is still a human being with feelings and emotions, she’s not perfect and has flaws just like everyone else does.

There was someone who was shifting blame that they or their disabled friend were unable to afford healthcare onto Taylor Swift. However Taylor Swift isn’t the person in charge of healthcare now is she. If all these people that are targeting a popstar actually took aim at those in charge then maybe we’d see some form of change or acknowledgement. However they are too busy focused on pointless Stan wars.

You want change then raise your voices against the government. You want to raise awareness for a genocide then share posts about it, link people to places where they can donate to provide aid and who they can write to to get the cause noticed on a higher level. Join protests that are occurring for those causes. Become a part of your local councils so that you can have more a voice in the matters regarding your localities. Reach out to victims of abuse or educate people on racism. These are the things that show that you have a moral backbone and that will actually have meaningful impact.

taylor has made her political stance clear, she is a liberal democrat and has always been one.

not only that but all of taylor's friends are liberal democrats too. also im pretty sure the majority of people invited to the wedding were too (idk about travis' buddies/teammates, i dont give a fuck about football players)

the majority of people taylor aligns herself with are anti-trump, anti- maga. trump himself has said nasty things about her and maga sure as hell hates her for not being one of them

and yet the "woke" left are determined to exclaim she's a maga trumpie

if taylor is near a republican all of a sudden to them it means she no longer a liberal democrat but when she hangs out with democrats its crickets.

also they are claiming its not rooted in misogyny even thought the criticism she is receiving for her wedding only surrounds her, while they ignore travis, why is that?

do these people really not realize they can ignore taylor fucking swift and get on with their lives? mute her name on social media, mute/block swifites, turn the station if her song comes on, chage the channel if she's on tv, is it really that fucking hard to do.

do you know how much i post negative think pieces about celebrities i hate? i dont.

my God im tired, i just wanna engage in fun fandom celebration online but you can search taylor's name with nasty viral tweets spread hate, flase information or this outta context to make her look evil, and yet these people also wanna say taylor plays victim, when they spend their time villainize her for everything.

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taylor haters dni, i have heard enough of your bullshit on twitter.