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ok let’s break down the cardigan stream because it’s 2020 and we’ve all gone insane anyway and why not

here are the scenarios we’re working with here:

1.  it was an accident

this is possible.  right after folklore came out dianna went private on Spotify and she’s gone private before.  she knows how to do it and it seems like it’s possible she may have thought she was private.  our sweet baby forgot how to use twitter for like 8 months and doesn’t always seem to be the best with technology (she doesn’t tag things right on Instagram stories and she was always getting her twitter hacked [sometimes i think she was fake hacked but sometimes she was legit hacked] back in her glee days).  she may have thought she was private and screwed up.

however if it were an accident wouldn’t she have streamed something else to cover up her stream history or private and then unprivate to clear her history...seems like she has no issue with taylor’s song just...hanging out there in her stream history...still...even 36 hours later...there it is...haunting us.  so it doesn’t seem like this was an accident tho i guess it’s possible she made the mistake and then decided to own it and pretend like it’s no big deal.

2.  she’s finally swiftgroning to create a little buzz for herself.  for 7 years dianna has only ever referenced taylor in the subtlest (subtle to hets anyways) of subtweets.  other than showing up to snl (during which she was promoting NOTHING) and this spotify stream she has never publicly explicitly acknowledged taylor since their friendship went dark in 2013 (jeeze we live in crazy times!)

if she announces a project within the next day or two...a week at max my opinion would be that she streamed the song to get people talking about her to promote a new project.  (in my opinion, if this is the case she gets one (1) swiftgron for clout moment like...for promotion...anything more than that is just obnoxious)

one thing that’s odd is dianna has shared music via her Instagram stories before so why wouldn’t she just do it there if it were a pr move. she has nearly 2 million Instagram followers and only 5,000 on Spotify.  of course it was still enough to generate some buzz...sort of among a very very niche and specific tumblr and twitter gaylor/swiftgron audience.  it seems to me like if she was specifically trying to calculate and make a premeditated pr/marketing move she would have shared the song in her Instagram stories or made a post about taylor.

3.  she’s throwing the fandom a bone??? it sounds ridiculous to even suggest that she’s even aware of specifically the swiftgron fandom but her wlw fandom is a HUGE (if not a majority) portion of her fandom and the wlws love taylor right now right? and more specifically there’s us and well...i mean i’m certain she does not read this blog but it has been suggested to me by people in the industry that her team is probably at least aware of it so idk...i mean swiftgron is in right now.  i was doing some research a few weeks ago and i saw that swiftgron/taylor and dianna/tayanna is more popular now in terms of google trends than it was even when it was going on in like 2012.  maybe we’ve gotten loud enough that she wants to be loud too?  i don’t think this for sure or anything but it’s just one possibility like maybe she just wants to kick it with the sapphics...i don’t know lol

4.  even more delulu but i’m listing every possibility here - she and taylor are together and it was a declaration of love andoaifjdsijoaisdjjads i can’t even finish typing that out it’s so crazy lmao

5.  she just likes the song and listened to it.  (HOW BORING, THAT WASN’T EVEN FUN TO TYPE😤) 6.  it’s a sign of things to come?  maybe their public friendship is going to be reestablished and they’ll be hanging out in person sometime soon?

my favorite option is number 6 (well ok obviously number 4 but that’s even less likely) and/or i suppose number 3 and tbh i hope she’ll continue to swiftgron on main from time to time as long as she doesn’t do it in a way that makes the fandom think they’re together when they’re not and as long as she doesn’t do it to promote work stuff.

idk what do y’all think?