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Meathead and Longback are engaged!
Hip Hip Hooray!
My girlfriend was actually kind of shocked that this news made it to my corner of the internet yesterday. Crypto Libertarians tend to lean right, and the right seems to have made it their mission to hate on Taylor Swift. Of course perhaps that's all the more reason why news like this is so pervasive, if only to be an NPC hater.
And there are many, many haters
One of the most unbreakable rules of fame is that the more people who love you the more people are destined to hate you. There's no way around this, especially for someone like Taylor Swift who is associated with the Left and girls with purple hair. Although... she is currently getting quite a bit of backlash for saying silent on the genocide in Gaza; a topic that has been absolute career suicide for a lot of people, especially within an entertainment industry that is oozing with Zionists and Imperialists.
Taylor Swift fans are rabid.
Swift has the most insanely zealous fanbase of potentially any entertainer who has ever existed. There's an entire sect of irrational conspiracy theorists trying to guess what she'll do next while interpreting every action or announcement as one of her Easter Eggs. In 2022 a guy named Roger Alvarado was arrested by police for breaking into her house and sleeping in her bed while she was away. It's due to circumstances such as these that she tends to maintain extreme privacy in her personal life.
Tree Paine?
Apparently even Swift's publicist and PR manager is famous by proxy. I did not know about this person until yesterday but clearly she's well known for how flawlessly she's handled Taylor's career. Interesting.
Literally Everything she does gets over-scrutinized
What was the left's response to Taylor comparing herself to an English teacher and her man as the PE teacher?
"Is that really appropriate when the American education system is falling apart under Trump?"
EVERYONE'S A CRITIC.
Ed Kelce gets a talking to.
Travis Kelce's dad went off and gave a very sloppy interview to a local news station in Cleveland of all places (maybe he's got a friend there?) and gave a lot of personal details revolving around this event. The main thing I remember is that he said multiple times that Travis was going to pop the question earlier but had "cold feet".
My guess is that Tree Paine has basically attempted to scrub this from the internet as I can no longer find it anywhere... not that I'm looking very hard but it should have been very easy to find. Now Youtube and the search engines are full of all the other interviews that don't air any dirty laundry. This is the kind of micromanagement that Taylor Swift's career is privy to on a daily basis... and it's somehow not even unjustified considering how irrational people are about this particular celebrity.
You seem to know a lot about Taylor Swift...
Ah yes well both of the people I live with are huge fans so I'm subjected to all kinds of information that I wouldn't be otherwise. Personally I like a couple of her songs but I'm honestly not a huge fan of any particular musician. My favorite song thus far by her is probably Anti-Hero... as I always appreciate a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek introspective song that questions one's own actions to promote personal growth.
Although I must admit her career is interesting.
I can't name any other pop star that was able to breakout of the genre and just do whatever they wanted with a new style in every album with such overwhelming success. Impressive to be honest. Swift haters label her as a talentless hack that got lucky... when in reality it's pretty obvious that she's well educated and talented; whether or not you enjoy the art is irrelevant to this assessment.
Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism
Like some kind of congressman? (Tale as old as time)
These are clearly not the lyrics of a vapid popstar.
And it's disingenuous or just blindly ignorant to imply otherwise.
Quoting Taylor Swift without knowing it.
Taylor Swift is so absurdly ubiquitous that people who HATE her have been caught quoting her multiple times without even realizing it.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum that they raised me.
These memes were in every single social media corner of the internet.
The virality of some of these one-liners can not be denied.
SWIFT
I've actually been wanting to write a post on Taylor Swift for quite some time because I think it would be absolutely hilarious if she launched her own crypto token. How perfect would that be? Could legit just call it SWIFT as a sarcastic way to fling shade at the traditional SWIFT banking system created in the 1970's.
It's basically a free win for a couple of different reasons, the main one being Taylor Swift is already the leader of a ravenous cult, so the token is guaranteed to succeed (probably even into the long term). All that's needed is a good way to distribute the token to fans without the ability to dump it outright or Sybil attack it.
Unfortunately I imagine she is highly skeptical towards crypto, as she is one of the only celebrities who directly asked SBF if the products she would be endorsing were "unregistered securities". The second she asked that FTX cut off contact. What obvious foreshadow of things to come!
Conclusion
Taylor Swift is engaged and people care way too much, as per usual. Our cultural obsession with fame is a huge red flag that will echo into the future. Personally I can't understand it and can't even imagine being so bored with my own life that I have to live vicariously through someone else in the public sector. These people are simply not that interesting, but here I am writing a post on it; adding fuel to the fire along with everyone else. I'm the problem, it's me.
I could care less about Kelce, but I am happy for her. I hope this relationship works out better than her last ones. Though it might be harder for her to source material of it does. One of the things that has always drawn me to Swift is her ability to tell a story with her lyrics and just how cleverly she uses them. As you said, she is far from talentless. While she might not be the best vocalist, her writing more than makes up for it. Plus she seems to have pretty good business chops as well or at the very least a great team guiding her.
Billionaires gonna billionaire 🤑
That phrase predates her song man.
okay?
Which means you can't simply attribute someone using that phrase as unknowingly quoting her.
If I go and use some commonly used phrase, you are not suddenly unknowingly quoting me are you now?
Second one, sure. I believe that is a phrase she coined.
Just so we're clear:
This is your argument?
It's a weak ass position.
I can only assume that you don't like Taylor Swift and you did this exact thing and now you're doing mental gymnastics as to why you didn't do the thing. It doesn't even matter if an example I give is inaccurate. Nitpicking the fringe of my message doesn't make the message wrong. In fact I provided 2 examples and you've only taken issue with one so far so what was the point of this dialog?
I don't like inaccuracies, and I will point out inaccuracies.
That one liner have been used in memes even before that song man. It isn't something new that just popped out of because it was in the song.
No, I don't feel anything strongly about her. I don't like inaccuracies.
How do you know they didn't know the phrase before her song?
It is like saying plenty of fish on the sea, who am I unknowingly quoting when I use that phrase?
Of course, it does matter. Why would someone care about your messages, if your messages are filled with inaccuracies? Especially, given your tendency to work those inaccuracies even into technical things.
You can't even say, sorry I didn't know the phrase existed before her song and I will remove that part. And if you did know, well then you are adding inaccuracies on purpose which is way worse.
I hope you're not surprised or offended to be treated as an enemy combatant troll when every single comment you write is some obnoxious reply-guy lawyered-up "gotcha" correction that has absolutely no bearing or change to the original narrative being presented, even when you happen to be technically correct on a flimsy subsurface level.
I could go back into the original post and change one word to completely eliminate this falsely perceived inaccuracy you seem to be so stuck on; instead of calling them "quotes" I could just call them "trends" or "viral moments/memes". What you are doing right now is is more akin to nitpicking any pointless technicality you happen to stumble upon, which has very little value to all parties concerned.
I question your motives and your intent.
I do not believe you are interested in making a helpful contribution to this post.
I think you are interested in "being right" and, like so many before you, using social media as some kind of toxic echo-chamber of catharsis where you can position yourself in such a way that your words are somehow superior and inarguable truths. I assure you that's not how it works.
Legit everything has already been said before; it's just a matter of if the person saying it was famous enough to be remembered and attributed to the quote. So right off the bat you are making a distinction as to whether the quote in question was spoken by someone famous enough, which immediately disqualifies it as some kind of set-in-stone fact.
What's the rule here? If I can Google the quote and Google recognizes it, it's a "real" quote, but anything that Google doesn't find is original? That's not going to work, is it? I trust I don't have to explain how easy it would be to discredit and find exceptions within any kind of objective ruleset for this type of thing.
People who do not like this person get unknowingly caught up in the whirlwind that is their influence.
Taylor Swift is one of the world's biggest influencers, whether people like it or not.
That is the point.
That was always the point.
That point has not even been dented in the slightest by this conversation.
The examples given are perfectly accurate within this context.
I don't give a shit if a lawyer would not sign off on them.
Good day, sir.
That isn't true at all, I can find plenty comments where I haven't tried to correct you or anything and just dropped a random comment. You just ignore those because the ones where I correct you are the ones that is more prominent in your memory, because you do not like to be corrected.
Sure, crux of it how well known the said phrase is. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes have been a well known phrase even before her song. Because numerous people have been using it. It is not a matter of a random schmuck using it one time sometime in the past.
You shouldn't project so much dear edicted. Wasn't that what you did when I told you data was transferred bit by bit and not a marketing thing. Hell, you even tripled down on arguing against that.
Where does her influence end and where does the trend's own influence start to shape it? When does the trend become its own thing independent of her influence? Can you quantify that it wasn't that phrase's own cultural influence that continued to fuel the viral moment on and not her song?
Can you say that for the opposite? A small creator creating a viral moment, is it their influence that have fueled the virality of the moment or the influence of all the people added to the virality of it? Or was it the influence of the viral moment itself? Whose influence it is then?
You are making your points in the worst way possible when there are much better examples you can make. Like the economic influence of her Era's tour, the economic boost from her tour does benefit even those who dislike her. Whether they know it or not.
Good day, sir.
The top image says 'A great day for the birth rate.' However, Wikipedia reports that "Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989)" and is a bit long in the tooth to be spitting out a passle of young'uns. 36 isn't beyond the ability to have a kid, but if she has more than two it would practically be a miracle, and fewer doesn't raise the birthrate above replacement, which requires ~2.5 IIRC.
Me too, since I'm fueling the flames by responding here. Although if you contact Paine Tree (I advise avoiding chainsaw images) with a plan to issue a SWIFT coin that will make her rich beyond her wildest dreams (maybe even Taylor, too, and you could add a KELCE coin for maximum profit) might just get her attention, and land you in the circumstances you want to be accustomed to. Don't forget me if you do!
Thanks!
The birthrate thing had me a little confused as well.
I'm thinking it might have to do with the idea that a lot of Taylor Swift's fans are young women... and perhaps might even be referencing the conspiracy theory that Taylor Swift is actually gay and all these relationships with men have been performative. They literally call themselves Gaylors.
As for the crypto token I think Taylor Swift is one of the few people in the world who actually has the opportunity to create a truly altruistic asset for her fans and potentially the entire world. I would certainly pitch the idea to her if I magically had the opportunity to do so. Even a 100% selfless altruistic token would almost certainly be wildly and ironically profitable because the market is completely lacking such a thing. Her huge fanbase would make it the most decentralized crypto in the world immediately at launch if the airdrop and tokenomics were done correctly (I've explained this strategy across several older posts).
I found a video from a guy that thinks Swift was born a man. There is an endless stream of speculation and claims about her.
Good point, and one I hadn't considered in my flippant reply. This proves one thing: you're smarter than me, which is why I follow you.
people are wild
I’m suprised you know Taylor Swift…. blank space
You're surprised I know of the wealthiest billionaire popstar in the world?
Interesting!
To be fair clearly I actually do know a weird amount about T-Swizzle (Google it) because the people around me are big fans... or at least used to be big fans. There may be some drama in the mix.
The only thing I care about when it comes to this engagement is that the event was optionized on Polymarket and there was some heavy movements prior to the announcement.
How long before this becomes the crime central?
Exciting times!
Welcome to the Swifty club. I know Bozz is also a huge fan. She is too wholesome to launch a meme coin and scam her fans.
Did she take her jet from the house down to the yard where she got engaged? Those are my favorite memes, aptly so, with how much she enjoys that private jet.
I dated a swifty a long time ago, and swift is around still and making current music instead of weird homage-to-the-past stuff. Props to her even if I don't care for her and her music. She's at least turning out to be better than Madonna, thank god. Let's just hope that she doesn't turn her body into an abomination of bucal fat removal and shit. So many beautiful women in the public eye have become disgusting with that shit.