Many Apologies to Taylor Swift
“Taylor Swift knows you think she’s ‘insane.’ In the music video for ‘Blank Space,’ which leaked online on Monday via Vevo and Yahoo, she plays on every single horrible girlfriend stereotype.”
Taylor Swift’s new music video has been released by one of the world’s largest websites in partnership with the internet’s leading music video hosting service. Or wait, was Taylor Swift’s new music video leaked by one of the world’s largest websites in partnership with the internet’s leading music video hosting service? If this sounds like a small distinction to make, between two nearly identical behaviors carried out in the same venue with nearly the same result, then you’re clearly not a Taylor Swift fan. This morning, the video seems to have been pulled, and Taylor Swift fans are sorry:
@taylorswift13 I’m sorry that your video got leaked, we didn’t know about that honestly or we wouldn’t have spread it like that.
— i know places (@ohmysugarcube) November 10, 2014
@taylorswift13 we’re sorry about the blank space video taylor, it just appeared out of no where and it’s not your fault it leaked
— Rebecca (@aussieslovetay) November 10, 2014
@taylorswift13 @taylorswift13 @BigMachine Im truly sorry taylor 🙁 I swear i didn’t know that it was leaked. Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry:(
— TS1989 (@_Leonyarum) November 10, 2014
OH SO IT WAS LEAKED? My apologies, @taylorswift13 @taylornation13 But why did Yahoo release it too soon.
— celina//LauraBodewig (@_cagesandguns) November 10, 2014
@taylorswift13 is it actually leaked did i just watch a leaked video wow im done with myself
— idk (@littletownswxft) November 10, 2014
If only they had known, they would have averted their eyes. Perhaps they would have policed their peers, preventing them from watching this illicit intellectual property. Modern fandom is powerful and terrifying.
Meanwhile, on the very far end of the Taylor Swift fan spectrum, you can enjoy what has been called, soberly, the “dumbest Twitter thread ever:”
1/If @taylorswift13 raised venture capital instead of signing a record deal she would make 20x the $$ — and reach 10x as many people.
— jason (@Jason) November 9, 2014
It is breathtaking. And a valuable contribution to the quest for a pathology of venture capital. From each according to her investors, to each according to her valuation.
Gif by Casey Johnston.