• booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I’m just trying to imagine being Taylor Swift and reading this post. Like, I do not envy celebrities. This shit’s fucking weird. Y’all are all weird. Leave this random stranger alone lmao

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      She’s from old money and could have done literally nothing but eat caviar her entire life.

      She went way out of her way to live this specific mega-celebrity culture life, constantly in the spotlight.

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        shes the most attention obsessed celebrity, she constantly repost likes and comments under shit like this online. more than any other artist she cultivates these parasocial relationships. so annoying to see people be like wow these fans are so crazy poor wittle innocent taylor who could choose to never bee seen again and just release music as she wishes instead of daily papwalks and buying nonstop adds for her socials. her entire carrer is built off of speculation about her love life she literally sends random fans christmas presents and invites superfans who have done the most to promote her to her house. and its implied that if you post really hard she may invite you to her house too.

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            i never liked that term or the way its applied but i mean they know, her last album was about how shes a pathological people pleaser, a covert narcissist, that she cheats on her partners if they dont giver her attention, shes not hiding it. shes cheated on her last 3-4 partners and wrote songs about them. like everyone not delusional knows but sadly most swifties are delusional. i think the party line for her serial cheating is that the men she cheated on deserved it for not being hot and rich enough and not worshiping her enough.

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              shes cheated on her last 3-4 partners

              Maybe. What I suspect, though, is that even those relationships were fabricated for public consumption. I think nearly everything publicly known about her is kayfabe.

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              I haven’t listened to the album, but I would point out it’s not uncommon for artists to engage with hyperbole when making autobiographical material. “I was mediocre” doesn’t sell as many albums as “I was a piece of shit”.

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            Got confused and thought the dark triad was the Macdonald Triad and I was going to ask “Are you accusing Taylor Swift of bed-wetting, cruelty to animals, and arson?”

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            buddy this is a taylor swift comm something that was supposed to be fun and annoy misogynist but clearly there are too many of them. i get it youre a super cool edgelord communist thats too good to participate in basic aspect of all modern human society lets see “knowing things about someone who writes autobiographical songs” like fucking ancient times had celebrities you dont even get to blame capitalism your issue is with all human societies if we follow your logic. you must be so fun at parties.

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                  buddy look at this thread, fucking no one is more critical of the white billionaire than me. nothing i said could even imply im defending the billionaire. im defending normal people who enjoy pop culture and music and media aimed at woman. i just think engaging in popculture is normal and yeah its pretty obviously misogynistic why things that are popular with teenage girls get the most vitriol on here. like how if some one hates rap music and goes into rap based communities to be agro and insult all fans of rap its a safe bet to say that person is anti black. also THAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS SUB! to trigger people like you.

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                    i just think engaging in popculture is normal and yeah its pretty obviously misogynistic why things that are popular with teenage girls get the most vitriol on here

                    the only vitriol is coming from you lol, i made a very mild criticism of the absolute freakish behavior captured in the OP, just saying “you know, if I was taylor swift I would be very uncomfortable with posts like these”

                    if this post was about taylor swift’s music i would never have even commented. you can like whatever music you want. it’s being creepy toward random stranger women that im criticizing, and somehow that makes me a misogynist?

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              I think it’s weird to know more than maybe some fun factoids, like that Trent Reznor’s family owns one of the biggest HVAC companies in the US and you can see heaters with “Reznor” on the side in like every Home Depot. I think know intimate details about everything they’ve done since high school is not healthy.

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                Wait is this the origin of the name Nine Inch Nails? He just spent a lot of time in hardware stores while his dad pointed out HVAC units and prattled on about the family legacy?

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              honestly the latter, pop culture has sucked ever since they stopped letting bands into the music industry and the streaming economy killed netflix. literally no reason to keep up with it any more

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              i think it’s weird to know anything about the personality or personal life of a complete stranger whose music you like, yeah. i think it’s weird and creepy and im not a fan of it.

              i have people whose works of art i appreciate, but i dont know or want to know about their personal lives. they’re not my friends. theyre not my associates. they’re strangers who make things i enjoy. we dont have a relationship.

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                i think it’s weird to know anything about the personality or personal life of a complete stranger whose music you like, yeah.

                What if the music is about their personal life?

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                  someone saying something in a song does not mean it’s literally a true fact about their life. the only way you learn that is if you go beyond the art

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                they’re strangers who make things i enjoy. we dont have a relationship.

                This is the media equivalent of preferring DoorDash to eating at a restaurant. People should want to learn about an artist and the context behind the art they enjoy.

                Art is labor. It inherently facilitates a relationship between the audience and the artist. We ought to be able to learn about an artist and the context behind their art without forming some sort of unhealthy parasocial attachment, and if not, it is important to understand what’s preventing us from doing so.

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                  I mean sure, if you say so, but I’m criticizing the parasocial attachment fundamentally, everybody else here is going way off the rails

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            This is an odd stance to take on the taylor swift comm. Like do you go into the comms for video games and tell them that games are a waste of time? Or into the movie comm to tell them movies are stupid? Or is it only the gossip one you find objectionable?

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              Like do you go into the comms for video games and tell them that games are a waste of time?

              how often do posts on the games comm involve weird deification of specific game developers?

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                  hasan-ok-dude

                  Last time Kojima was brought up on hexbear, it was to shit on him. The time before that it was a post of a video he released recommending movies or some shit. The time before that it was to make a joke about the kind of art he makes. The time before that it was to make a joke about the kind of art he makes. The time before that (12 days ago) it was to make a joke about the kind of art he makes.

                  Would you like to point to a single post on this site which actually demonstrates your point, or would you like to admit you don’t actually have a point?

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                    Posts about kojima include rumors about who he’s hanging out, discussions of his hobbies, long videos of his personal story, etc, etc, etc. You are simply wrong, and you are being a weird, weird debate-bro to try to cover up the fact that you are being wrong. And it’s a weird fucking tactic to take to point out that someone doesn’t have a point when stirpped to the studs you’ve got nothing to say except “Your interests are bad”

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            @BolsheWitch@hexbear.net @UmbraVivi@hexbear.net

            Hey if it was an admin who did this and not one of you sorry for the ping, but excuse me, what the hell? I did not imply anything of the sort. I was specifically calling out someone else for implying that. Remove the comments of the person calling me a misogynist for thinking that women shouldn’t be creeped on.

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      Yeah. I’ve seen a lot of critique of celebrity culture, but I can’t help but to feel pity for them. Makes complete sense why so many fall into addiction. Idk if I could handle having my every move watched.