“That was a viral marketing campaign to make the media look retarded and to make us look clever.” In fact, smart people understood that it was a troll because, “Swift is just another stupid whore, like all women.” I’m not paid enough to figure out if this is a moment of sincerity from Anglin. “But yes, just to be clear here: Taylor Swift is not an ‘Aryan Goddess,’” he wrote. It was, Anglin claimed, a disinformation campaign orchestrated through “leaks” to get the Daily Stormer “blacklisted” after Charlottesville so he could “organically” build his reach (?). He also firmly restated that the “Aryan goddess” thing was a joke. However, as women age without children, they inevitably become more and more bitter, as it becomes clearer that their lives have no meaning.” Yes, Swift is the bitter one here. To wit: “It is possible for women in their teens and twenties to hold more conservative views. In a post titled, “After Hitting the Wall, Childless Old Bitch Taylor Swift Endorses Democrats,” he wrote that the singer turned against her conservatism after remaining childless through the majority of her twenties. And Anglin, he who promoted the Ayran goddess meme back in 2016, finally addressed the Instagram on Monday. Some users on 4chan posted their disbelief, while more users responded with explicit versions of, “Guys, it was a joke!” on the forum. Reactions came down quickly on all sides, including from her right-wing fans. “In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift said. Blackburn’s voting record “appalls and terrifies” her, she wrote, and cited views held by Blackburn that tend to go against L.G.T.B.Q.
On Sunday, as she finished the American leg of her Reputation tour, Swift posted a photo of herself to Instagram with a long caption that warned against Tennessee Senate hopeful, Republican Marsha Blackburn. When right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was still working with Breitbart, he tried to spell it out: “The alt-right can be given to conspiracy on occasion-hardly surprising, given how often they are lied to and about-and the thought that Swift is covertly ‘red-pilled,’ concealing her secret conservative values from the progressive music industry while issuing subtle nods to a reactionary fanbase, delights them.” As long as Swift said nothing, the lark played.Īnd now the lark is over. Defends Website Accusing Taylor Swift of Being a Neo-Nazi!” intervened on behalf of the blogger, and on Andrew Anglin’s the Daily Stormer, the gleeful headline was, “ A.C.L.U. In 2017, her legal team threatened a lawsuit against the site PopFront when a writer claimed that she was leaning into the alt-right’s obsession with her in her most recent album Reputation. When progressives criticized Swift in subsequent years-for the colonial nostalgia of the “Wildest Dreams” video, or her lack of a political endorsement during the 2016 election-these right-wing sites defended her in their particular brand of humor, and continued to post anti-Semitic memes starring her.
With the power of the Internet threads combined, a Nazi meme was born.
Around the same time, a maybe real, maybe fake photo of her posing with a guy wearing a swastika made the rounds. Elsewhere, a Pinterest user superimposed Hitler quotes over her photos to satirize of the Pinterest habit of misattributing quotes willy-nilly, according to BuzzFeed. The idea came from the once-fringe reaches of the Internet, 4chan’s “politically incorrect” forum “/pol.” 4chan convinced itself that Swift was lurking on the forum in 2011 (it’s a long story involving her cat Meredith). If “Ayran goddess Taylor Swift” sounds like a bad joke, know that it is-or, at least, it started that way. views, and offered a strong, clear political opinion for the first time ever, they were not pleased. Regardless, in 2016, in the summer before the presidential election, reports surfaced that the alt-right refer to her as its “Aryan goddess.” On Monday, after she condemned a Republican Senate candidate with a history of anti-L.G.T.B.Q. She’s never espoused those views in public.