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[โ€“] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Tf? Why do people hate Taylor swift?

[โ€“] hopesdead@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 3 months ago

there are other reasons but they literally wouldn't matter if she wasn't popular.

so yeah, basically.

[โ€“] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

she's very popular with women, too. that's a huge sin that gets you a lot of disproportionate hate.

[โ€“] CAVOK@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

She's popular with women and they hate women?

[โ€“] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dislike her but not enough to resort to terrorism.

[โ€“] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'm proud of you for clearing that bar

[โ€“] You@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

It's not really about Taylor Swift. It's what she stands for and the fact that targeting a mostly young and female audience as potential victims will bring the biggest media attention world wide. Terrorists in general want to spread fear to at least disrupt societies that don't fulfill their ideas of whatever believe system they follow.

It's been the same with the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017.

[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Her song lyrics are fairly shallow and whingy, and she interrupts enjoyable tunes with unpleasant talking or worse tunes, but that's just music critique. It's obviously no excuse to resort to terrorism.