Swiftie With ADHD

August 3rd: Kamala Harris has a highly publicised meeting with Taylor Swift were they publicly discuss politics with Swift showing surprising knowledge and eloquence . This is followed by very serious speculation from several outlets that Swift will be chosen to run as VP as a way to attract young voters . This is of course not true but a tactic from the Harris campaign to increase visibility with young people to and to bait Trump

August 5th: Trump takes the bait and launches into a truly vile attack on Taylor Swift

August 12th: An angry mob of Taylor Swift fans numbering in the hundreds storms a Trump meet and greet and following Dutch tradition they lynch him publicly and then cannibalise his body

August 20th: Yellowjackets and several others shows that feature cannibalism are cancelled because it’s considered insensitive in light of an US President becoming victim of cannibalism

It exists in a world where a joke about bringing a nail gun to the Eras tour to shoot fans gets 400k likes on TikTok, or where a reel about crashing a plane full of Swifties gets 200k likes on Instagram. It exists in a world where, on this very website, the one that promotes itself as rational and reasonable, someone says that "Taylor Swift and her fans should all die violent horrible deaths" and people applauded it. It exists in a world where, during TTPD release week men were in Swifties' comment sections declaring they would beat their daughters and girlfriends if they ever so much as listened to one of her albums. And it exists in a world where this week, fans of a TV show (which I will not name because that is not the point) sent death threats to a girl on Twitter for daring to be a fan of both their beloved show and Taylor Swift.

I don't give a fuck what your opinion of Taylor Swift is. I don't care if you think her music is grating, I don't care if you think she is the worst thing to happen to humanity since Eve ate the god damn apple. This is the dark side of stan culture that no-one talks about; where dislike of an artist becomes so obsessive that it becomes normal, even funny, to joke about killing their fans, because "it's just online, it's just a joke". It isn't. It is rarely ever "just online".

And yes I am going to be That Person and say that you can complain about Swift's brand of feminism and debate her position as a feminist icon all day long, at the end of the day, her name is still synonymous with girls. It doesn't take a genius to work out who this event was geared at.

I am not going to sit and claim that by simply not liking Taylor Swift you directly caused this. I would encourage you to step back, look at the bigger picture of stan culture, including obsessive dislike of an artist, and ask yourself how much this culture has enabled this. If making jokes on tiktok about killing someone over a pop star is normalised, how much of a leap is it to attacking kids with a knife at a fan event?

Taylor Swift changed the lyrics while performing ''The Great War'' tonight:

we believed you in reputation and we stood for lover 💕 @taylorswift @taylornation

my brain on a loop: you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me…. FLORIDA!!!

We hope someone comments on our sweater when our new tour merch arrives at the mailbox. 🤞📬

Order these updated designs now, featuring the newest member of the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour family, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. 💚💛💜♥️🩵🖤🩷🩶🤎💙🤍

A fortnight passed, and just like Taylor, I surprise you with a double room!✌🏻🤍

The Tortured Poets officially moved into their Department. 🪶 If you wanna tear these rooms apart, I'll just watch it happen. 📜 They aren't mine anymore! 🌑

''imgonnagetyouback'' by Taylor Swift has the right tempo for hands-only CPR