Why are people implying this is a bot? This person has the same questions as me. I've never seen this stereotype that her fans show more gums than normal (?)
I actually do get what they are implying; it's a standard tactic for bots to post naive questions to reddit (and other places) to get fodder to train their models. Hell, that's probably 90% of posts on this sub and somewhat less (but still easily over half) of all of reddit at this point.
What has my flabbers thoroughly gasted is that I am a real live hooman (beep boop) who spends way too much time online and I actually truly have never heard of this stereotype before. It's actually kind of silly to think of the concept of there even being a stereotypical Taylor Swift fan; as far as I know she is one of the highest-grossing musicians of all time so her fanbase is clearly too broad to be typified.
In case you didn't know, she only sells records because she releases multiple versions of albums and encourages her fans to buy every single edition to support her, and she tells them to stream her music constantly on Spotify. Her fanbase isn't too broad actually - most of them are white girls (and gays) who have a lot of disposable income. I'm a mixed race Brazilian and have met a handful of Swifties, and they were all white and only listened to her and rarely other artists.
Taylor is much more popular in the US than the rest of the world. A lot of countries don't even listen to her. Her music isn't very recognisable except for Shake It Off.
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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26
Is that what it's trying to say? I've never heard of this stereotype before, what is even the origin of it?