Travis and Taylor

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Anonymous wrote:She has a song called Getaway Car. I feel that is being lost on some of you. Yes this was an easter egg. It was fun.

No, it's not being lost on us. We just think it's lame to have a freaking "easter egg" in your dating life, a planted reference designed to reward fans for obsessing over your every move. Like I think that's borderline insane. It also pushes fans to obsessive even more, looking for more references and secret codes, pulling apart her every move and word, looking for messages in her clothes, her hair, her shade of lipstick.

All of which is a great way to sell concert tickets and albums, but an absolutely deranged and gross way to conduct your personal life.

Which, again, is why some of us speculate that this is not actually her persona life, but a fake relationship being conducted for business reasons.

She likes attention. She found someone who also likes attention. Call the celeb police.

Yes, and many of us are annoyed by it specifically because they've created a kind of attention vortex that has pulled in the NFL, the sports media, morning talk shows, our parents, my Uber driver, Liz Cheney, and now even the entire MAGA world. Do you really not understand why some people might find that... irritating?

I find people with Main Character Syndrome annoying, but there's nothing worse than when two people with Main Character Syndrome start a relationship. If these two get married it will be like the time my annoying coworker talked about her wedding every day for 8 straight months, only times a billion. So... thumbs down.

No...I don't? You don't know these people personally (I assume you don't) so what effect does hearing about it in passing have on your life at all? If your Uber driver is like "Did you see Taylor at the game last night" you can just be like "No, sorry" and go back to your phone. It really is not that serious lol.

I also dislike people with Main Character Syndrome IRL. All celebrities have main character syndrome and I don't know them so it doesn't bother me.

Taylor & Travis have officially moved into a category where no, you cannot simply "go back to your phone" to avoid conversation about them.

The degree to this is true should already be clear, but if it's not, let's just see how this plays out at the Super Bowl. As a longtime football fan, Taylor/Travis is like some kind of alien spacecraft that moved in to blot out the sun 3 months ago. It's very, very tiresome.

I think I have literally had one conversation about Taylor and Travis and it was when I went to my boyfriend's work happy hour on a Friday afternoon and the bar on Capitol Hill had a rerun of a Chiefs game from the previous weekend playing. One of the girls he works with is from Kansas City and asked if I liked Taylor Swift. I said yes but that I didn't follow football so I didn't know much about Travis.

That's it! That's the only conversation I've had about this! And that was three or four months ago!

This is why you don't feel inundated. For actual football fans, the coverage feels incessant and has really obliterated normal coverage of the sport, especially since the playoffs. I am not a Chiefs fan so I wouldn't have been rooting for them to make it to the Super Bowl no matter what, but my team didn't even make the playoffs so I was just watching because I love football. And I was not alone in very much wishing the Chiefs would lose so that we could have games be about, you know, football instead of whether or not Taylor Swift was there, who she was with, and whether her impact on the game is good or bad (it's bad, fools).

But yeah, I guess if you don't follow football, the coverage of Swift probably hasn't impacted you in a negative way. Good for you.

But has it actually impacted you in a negative way? Has seeing a couple minutes worth of a celebrity during a football game really impacted you in a negative way? Really? The last time I watched the Super Bowl Paul Rudd was there and they showed him. I didn't care. Would you have a fall to pieces like this over Paul Rudd?

This! It's a 3 hour game and you can't handle a minute or two of her over the entire game? I don't even like her or her music, but who cares.

But it's not a minute or two in one 3 hour game. It's her being brought up and mentioned in pre game and post game interviews, jokes and references in coverage of the game, it's my Swiftie friend pretending she likes football now, declaring herself a Chiefs fan and then getting mad when I'm not excited the Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl (I'm a Ravens fan! I'm from Maryland! Why would I be enthusiastic about the Chiefs beating my team so that we get another two weeks of Taylor/Travis mania, ugh). It's that when I say "ugh I'm tired of hearing about it," I get yelled at for being "anti-Taylor" or MAGA or a misogynist, because some Swifts are absolutely insane and can't hear a tiny criticism of their girl, even if that criticism is just "I would like to watch a football game that isn't about Taylor Swift."

I really can't relate because I don't have these interactions IRL. Not sure what your colleagues, social circle, family etc is like. I love in MD too! Talk of TS is pretty minor and light hearted.

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Anonymous wrote:She has a song called Getaway Car. I feel that is being lost on some of you. Yes this was an easter egg. It was fun.

No, it's not being lost on us. We just think it's lame to have a freaking "easter egg" in your dating life, a planted reference designed to reward fans for obsessing over your every move. Like I think that's borderline insane. It also pushes fans to obsessive even more, looking for more references and secret codes, pulling apart her every move and word, looking for messages in her clothes, her hair, her shade of lipstick.

All of which is a great way to sell concert tickets and albums, but an absolutely deranged and gross way to conduct your personal life.

Which, again, is why some of us speculate that this is not actually her persona life, but a fake relationship being conducted for business reasons.

She likes attention. She found someone who also likes attention. Call the celeb police.

Yes, and many of us are annoyed by it specifically because they've created a kind of attention vortex that has pulled in the NFL, the sports media, morning talk shows, our parents, my Uber driver, Liz Cheney, and now even the entire MAGA world. Do you really not understand why some people might find that... irritating?

I find people with Main Character Syndrome annoying, but there's nothing worse than when two people with Main Character Syndrome start a relationship. If these two get married it will be like the time my annoying coworker talked about her wedding every day for 8 straight months, only times a billion. So... thumbs down.

No...I don't? You don't know these people personally (I assume you don't) so what effect does hearing about it in passing have on your life at all? If your Uber driver is like "Did you see Taylor at the game last night" you can just be like "No, sorry" and go back to your phone. It really is not that serious lol.

I also dislike people with Main Character Syndrome IRL. All celebrities have main character syndrome and I don't know them so it doesn't bother me.

Taylor & Travis have officially moved into a category where no, you cannot simply "go back to your phone" to avoid conversation about them.

The degree to this is true should already be clear, but if it's not, let's just see how this plays out at the Super Bowl. As a longtime football fan, Taylor/Travis is like some kind of alien spacecraft that moved in to blot out the sun 3 months ago. It's very, very tiresome.

I think I have literally had one conversation about Taylor and Travis and it was when I went to my boyfriend's work happy hour on a Friday afternoon and the bar on Capitol Hill had a rerun of a Chiefs game from the previous weekend playing. One of the girls he works with is from Kansas City and asked if I liked Taylor Swift. I said yes but that I didn't follow football so I didn't know much about Travis.

That's it! That's the only conversation I've had about this! And that was three or four months ago!

This is why you don't feel inundated. For actual football fans, the coverage feels incessant and has really obliterated normal coverage of the sport, especially since the playoffs. I am not a Chiefs fan so I wouldn't have been rooting for them to make it to the Super Bowl no matter what, but my team didn't even make the playoffs so I was just watching because I love football. And I was not alone in very much wishing the Chiefs would lose so that we could have games be about, you know, football instead of whether or not Taylor Swift was there, who she was with, and whether her impact on the game is good or bad (it's bad, fools).

But yeah, I guess if you don't follow football, the coverage of Swift probably hasn't impacted you in a negative way. Good for you.

But has it actually impacted you in a negative way? Has seeing a couple minutes worth of a celebrity during a football game really impacted you in a negative way? Really? The last time I watched the Super Bowl Paul Rudd was there and they showed him. I didn't care. Would you have a fall to pieces like this over Paul Rudd?

This! It's a 3 hour game and you can't handle a minute or two of her over the entire game? I don't even like her or her music, but who cares.

But it's not a minute or two in one 3 hour game. It's her being brought up and mentioned in pre game and post game interviews, jokes and references in coverage of the game, it's my Swiftie friend pretending she likes football now, declaring herself a Chiefs fan and then getting mad when I'm not excited the Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl (I'm a Ravens fan! I'm from Maryland! Why would I be enthusiastic about the Chiefs beating my team so that we get another two weeks of Taylor/Travis mania, ugh). It's that when I say "ugh I'm tired of hearing about it," I get yelled at for being "anti-Taylor" or MAGA or a misogynist, because some Swifts are absolutely insane and can't hear a tiny criticism of their girl, even if that criticism is just "I would like to watch a football game that isn't about Taylor Swift."

Ohhhhhhhhhh I get it now. You don't like it because with Swifties watching football you're no longer the unique cool girl.

So I guess you’ve never been really invested in a football game (like the ravens AFC championship against the chiefs, for example!!) and had to listen to people chatting about unrelated things loudly the whole time and asking when they’re going to show Taylor swift. It’s distracting and annoying.

Why were you watching with those people? Why didn't you watch with fellow sports fans? A lot of.people were super into that game, esp in Maryland.

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Travis is setting off gaydar.

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Anonymous wrote:Travis is setting off gaydar.

I agree. Only doing this so he can have a child with Taylor to give to George Soros to raise.

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Anonymous wrote:She has a song called Getaway Car. I feel that is being lost on some of you. Yes this was an easter egg. It was fun.

No, it's not being lost on us. We just think it's lame to have a freaking "easter egg" in your dating life, a planted reference designed to reward fans for obsessing over your every move. Like I think that's borderline insane. It also pushes fans to obsessive even more, looking for more references and secret codes, pulling apart her every move and word, looking for messages in her clothes, her hair, her shade of lipstick.

All of which is a great way to sell concert tickets and albums, but an absolutely deranged and gross way to conduct your personal life.

Which, again, is why some of us speculate that this is not actually her persona life, but a fake relationship being conducted for business reasons.

She likes attention. She found someone who also likes attention. Call the celeb police.

Yes, and many of us are annoyed by it specifically because they've created a kind of attention vortex that has pulled in the NFL, the sports media, morning talk shows, our parents, my Uber driver, Liz Cheney, and now even the entire MAGA world. Do you really not understand why some people might find that... irritating?

I find people with Main Character Syndrome annoying, but there's nothing worse than when two people with Main Character Syndrome start a relationship. If these two get married it will be like the time my annoying coworker talked about her wedding every day for 8 straight months, only times a billion. So... thumbs down.

No...I don't? You don't know these people personally (I assume you don't) so what effect does hearing about it in passing have on your life at all? If your Uber driver is like "Did you see Taylor at the game last night" you can just be like "No, sorry" and go back to your phone. It really is not that serious lol.

I also dislike people with Main Character Syndrome IRL. All celebrities have main character syndrome and I don't know them so it doesn't bother me.

Taylor & Travis have officially moved into a category where no, you cannot simply "go back to your phone" to avoid conversation about them.

The degree to this is true should already be clear, but if it's not, let's just see how this plays out at the Super Bowl. As a longtime football fan, Taylor/Travis is like some kind of alien spacecraft that moved in to blot out the sun 3 months ago. It's very, very tiresome.

I think I have literally had one conversation about Taylor and Travis and it was when I went to my boyfriend's work happy hour on a Friday afternoon and the bar on Capitol Hill had a rerun of a Chiefs game from the previous weekend playing. One of the girls he works with is from Kansas City and asked if I liked Taylor Swift. I said yes but that I didn't follow football so I didn't know much about Travis.

That's it! That's the only conversation I've had about this! And that was three or four months ago!

This is why you don't feel inundated. For actual football fans, the coverage feels incessant and has really obliterated normal coverage of the sport, especially since the playoffs. I am not a Chiefs fan so I wouldn't have been rooting for them to make it to the Super Bowl no matter what, but my team didn't even make the playoffs so I was just watching because I love football. And I was not alone in very much wishing the Chiefs would lose so that we could have games be about, you know, football instead of whether or not Taylor Swift was there, who she was with, and whether her impact on the game is good or bad (it's bad, fools).

But yeah, I guess if you don't follow football, the coverage of Swift probably hasn't impacted you in a negative way. Good for you.

But has it actually impacted you in a negative way? Has seeing a couple minutes worth of a celebrity during a football game really impacted you in a negative way? Really? The last time I watched the Super Bowl Paul Rudd was there and they showed him. I didn't care. Would you have a fall to pieces like this over Paul Rudd?

I mean if for weeks (months!) every time I tried to watch a football game I heard about Paul Rudd, saw Paul Rudd commercials, heard commentators joking about Paul Rudd, having the cameras pan to Paul Rudd, showing Paul Rudd rush the field after the game… yeah eventually I’d be like omg I’m here to watch football can someone please get rid of Paul rudd

I looooove Paul Rudd and this, 100%. No celebrity can get THIS much exposure and not wind up with people absolutely sick to death of them. It's flying too close to the sun. The tide is only starting to turn.

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Anonymous wrote:She has a song called Getaway Car. I feel that is being lost on some of you. Yes this was an easter egg. It was fun.

No, it's not being lost on us. We just think it's lame to have a freaking "easter egg" in your dating life, a planted reference designed to reward fans for obsessing over your every move. Like I think that's borderline insane. It also pushes fans to obsessive even more, looking for more references and secret codes, pulling apart her every move and word, looking for messages in her clothes, her hair, her shade of lipstick.

All of which is a great way to sell concert tickets and albums, but an absolutely deranged and gross way to conduct your personal life.

Which, again, is why some of us speculate that this is not actually her persona life, but a fake relationship being conducted for business reasons.

She likes attention. She found someone who also likes attention. Call the celeb police.

Yes, and many of us are annoyed by it specifically because they've created a kind of attention vortex that has pulled in the NFL, the sports media, morning talk shows, our parents, my Uber driver, Liz Cheney, and now even the entire MAGA world. Do you really not understand why some people might find that... irritating?

I find people with Main Character Syndrome annoying, but there's nothing worse than when two people with Main Character Syndrome start a relationship. If these two get married it will be like the time my annoying coworker talked about her wedding every day for 8 straight months, only times a billion. So... thumbs down.

No...I don't? You don't know these people personally (I assume you don't) so what effect does hearing about it in passing have on your life at all? If your Uber driver is like "Did you see Taylor at the game last night" you can just be like "No, sorry" and go back to your phone. It really is not that serious lol.

I also dislike people with Main Character Syndrome IRL. All celebrities have main character syndrome and I don't know them so it doesn't bother me.

Taylor & Travis have officially moved into a category where no, you cannot simply "go back to your phone" to avoid conversation about them.

The degree to this is true should already be clear, but if it's not, let's just see how this plays out at the Super Bowl. As a longtime football fan, Taylor/Travis is like some kind of alien spacecraft that moved in to blot out the sun 3 months ago. It's very, very tiresome.

I think I have literally had one conversation about Taylor and Travis and it was when I went to my boyfriend's work happy hour on a Friday afternoon and the bar on Capitol Hill had a rerun of a Chiefs game from the previous weekend playing. One of the girls he works with is from Kansas City and asked if I liked Taylor Swift. I said yes but that I didn't follow football so I didn't know much about Travis.

That's it! That's the only conversation I've had about this! And that was three or four months ago!

This is why you don't feel inundated. For actual football fans, the coverage feels incessant and has really obliterated normal coverage of the sport, especially since the playoffs. I am not a Chiefs fan so I wouldn't have been rooting for them to make it to the Super Bowl no matter what, but my team didn't even make the playoffs so I was just watching because I love football. And I was not alone in very much wishing the Chiefs would lose so that we could have games be about, you know, football instead of whether or not Taylor Swift was there, who she was with, and whether her impact on the game is good or bad (it's bad, fools).

But yeah, I guess if you don't follow football, the coverage of Swift probably hasn't impacted you in a negative way. Good for you.

But has it actually impacted you in a negative way? Has seeing a couple minutes worth of a celebrity during a football game really impacted you in a negative way? Really? The last time I watched the Super Bowl Paul Rudd was there and they showed him. I didn't care. Would you have a fall to pieces like this over Paul Rudd?

I mean if for weeks (months!) every time I tried to watch a football game I heard about Paul Rudd, saw Paul Rudd commercials, heard commentators joking about Paul Rudd, having the cameras pan to Paul Rudd, showing Paul Rudd rush the field after the game… yeah eventually I’d be like omg I’m here to watch football can someone please get rid of Paul rudd

I looooove Paul Rudd and this, 100%. No celebrity can get THIS much exposure and not wind up with people absolutely sick to death of them. It's flying too close to the sun. The tide is only starting to turn.

You get Paul Rudd’s name OUT YO MOUTH.

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Anonymous wrote:Travis is setting off gaydar.

I agree. Only doing this so he can have a child with Taylor to give to George Soros to raise.

Marry me

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Anonymous wrote:Wait are some people arguing that a woman who likes football must only like it to impress men????

Yes, apparently the only feminist reason to watch football is to see if Taylor Swift's boyfriend makes heart hands at her during the game or to see if he proposes to her after it's over.

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Anonymous wrote:Psst, no one tell the PPs who have issues with Taylor's clothing choices and behavior at games about the 49ers WAGS.

But Taylor is not some barely-known Instagram model or whatever the other WAGs are. Her choices will be judged differently because she's in a much different position. My 13-year-old doesn't idolize those women, she doesn't know who they are. So if they wear sexy attention-whore clothes to a football game, I don't care.

But when Taylor Swift professes to care about women's empowerment and then wears and honest to god cheerleader skirt while bouncing around a suite making exaggerated "OMG" faces every time her football boyfriend catches a ball, I give it a hard eye-roll. When it's about getting the rights to her masters, it's about women's empowerment and not being taken advantage of by men. But then she's got an NFL player boyfriend and she's happy to put on a public performance of "supportive girlfriend" looking like "WAG Barbie." Okay, girl.

I care about women's empowerment and if my boyfriend were one of the best players in the league and having one of his best games you better bet I would be doing the same dang thing. It is called having fun.

Seriously. How is what Taylor is doing any different from me following my lawyer boyfriend's cases and asking about his work?

If you showed up to your boyfriend's deposition to literally jump up and down and make this face when he asked a really good question, I think you would also draw criticism:

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Anonymous wrote:Psst, no one tell the PPs who have issues with Taylor's clothing choices and behavior at games about the 49ers WAGS.

But Taylor is not some barely-known Instagram model or whatever the other WAGs are. Her choices will be judged differently because she's in a much different position. My 13-year-old doesn't idolize those women, she doesn't know who they are. So if they wear sexy attention-whore clothes to a football game, I don't care.

But when Taylor Swift professes to care about women's empowerment and then wears and honest to god cheerleader skirt while bouncing around a suite making exaggerated "OMG" faces every time her football boyfriend catches a ball, I give it a hard eye-roll. When it's about getting the rights to her masters, it's about women's empowerment and not being taken advantage of by men. But then she's got an NFL player boyfriend and she's happy to put on a public performance of "supportive girlfriend" looking like "WAG Barbie." Okay, girl.

Omg stop lol you're so dramatic. She wasn't wearing an "honest to god cheerleader skirt." I googled and didn't find any pics of such an outfit. You may be referring to an outfit she wore earlier which was a red and gold checked pleated asymmetrical miniskirt (one side was pleated) along with a massive, oversized chiefs sweatshirt and a beanie. The other night she wore a black pleated miniskirt with, again, an oversized red sweater. Neither of these outfits are "sexy attention-whore" clothes.

She's wearing regular clothes in the team colors. Last I checked the other WAGs around her are wearing similar.

That’s absurd - women’s empowerment is about wearing whatever the F you please. She’s there to cheer on her BF - why wouldn’t she look excited and jump around and have fun? Feminists don’t do that? They just 1) sit somberly on the sidelines or 2) don’t dare date football players at all. GMAFB.

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Anonymous wrote:Psst, no one tell the PPs who have issues with Taylor's clothing choices and behavior at games about the 49ers WAGS.

But Taylor is not some barely-known Instagram model or whatever the other WAGs are. Her choices will be judged differently because she's in a much different position. My 13-year-old doesn't idolize those women, she doesn't know who they are. So if they wear sexy attention-whore clothes to a football game, I don't care.

But when Taylor Swift professes to care about women's empowerment and then wears and honest to god cheerleader skirt while bouncing around a suite making exaggerated "OMG" faces every time her football boyfriend catches a ball, I give it a hard eye-roll. When it's about getting the rights to her masters, it's about women's empowerment and not being taken advantage of by men. But then she's got an NFL player boyfriend and she's happy to put on a public performance of "supportive girlfriend" looking like "WAG Barbie." Okay, girl.

I care about women's empowerment and if my boyfriend were one of the best players in the league and having one of his best games you better bet I would be doing the same dang thing. It is called having fun.

Seriously. How is what Taylor is doing any different from me following my lawyer boyfriend's cases and asking about his work?

If you showed up to your boyfriend's deposition to literally jump up and down and make this face when he asked a really good question, I think you would also draw criticism:

Note that she's standing next to Mama Kelce who's sitting down and not being emanating melodramatic pick-me girl energy. So it's not like this is just what you do when you're a fan of the game.

She might have written that "she's cheer captain" song when she was 14, but I do think Taylor has spent her whole life trying to embody being the popular cool girl who is just so much fun to be around and has all the pretty friends and the hot boyfriend but also, you know, she's super nice too. It comes off as very fake and contrived to me and I find her persona grating because genuine people do not behave like that.

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In an alternate universe this relationship was kept completely under wraps, and when the public discovered TS and TK had been an item for months, Taylor was dragged mercilessly for not attending her significant other’s games. The right wing media went berserk over her selfish, and relentless ambition. “She is so self absorbed she can’t be bothered to root for her boyfriend in the playoffs?”

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Anonymous wrote:Psst, no one tell the PPs who have issues with Taylor's clothing choices and behavior at games about the 49ers WAGS.

But Taylor is not some barely-known Instagram model or whatever the other WAGs are. Her choices will be judged differently because she's in a much different position. My 13-year-old doesn't idolize those women, she doesn't know who they are. So if they wear sexy attention-whore clothes to a football game, I don't care.

But when Taylor Swift professes to care about women's empowerment and then wears and honest to god cheerleader skirt while bouncing around a suite making exaggerated "OMG" faces every time her football boyfriend catches a ball, I give it a hard eye-roll. When it's about getting the rights to her masters, it's about women's empowerment and not being taken advantage of by men. But then she's got an NFL player boyfriend and she's happy to put on a public performance of "supportive girlfriend" looking like "WAG Barbie." Okay, girl.

I care about women's empowerment and if my boyfriend were one of the best players in the league and having one of his best games you better bet I would be doing the same dang thing. It is called having fun.

Seriously. How is what Taylor is doing any different from me following my lawyer boyfriend's cases and asking about his work?

If you showed up to your boyfriend's deposition to literally jump up and down and make this face when he asked a really good question, I think you would also draw criticism:

Huh? Football games are very different environments than football games. Are you serious? Look at the other fans at the stadium, dressed up in team colors, cheering, etc.

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Meant - different environments than depositions ^

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Anonymous wrote:Travis is setting off gaydar.

I agree. Only doing this so he can have a child with Taylor to give to George Soros to raise.

Marry me

Can’t :/ I am already over 30 and my eggs are decrepit like Taylor’s