Everything on social media now is really just people bandwagoning onto things. I see so many people hating on different celebrities constantly (Taylor being one of them), and when you ask them why they give you some bullshit answer, a fabrication, or better yet they truly don't know why they hate them, they just do.To be honest - and speaking not about her body right now or anything - I don't really mind her new song or its gimmicks. It's not a great piece of music, but I liked the video, especially the ending and how she reclaimed all the longstanding media criticisms of her.
I haven't been into her since I was in middle school and she was country (her old songs are still a nostalgic guilty pleasure), and I don't justify all her actions or anything, but I think the active hate over her character is a bit tiring by now. It looks like she's never going to please any of her haters and is always going to be misinterpreted, so I feel a bit of sympathy towards her and while not saying I'm a fan of it, I can understand why all the fan criticism has led to her kind of robotic, bland manufactured persona over the years.
For so long she used to be hated for being a slut and dating everyone's favorite celebrities, then slut-shaming became problematic on tumblr, so they found new socially acceptable ways to hate her. Like calling her a "mayonnaise trump supporter" [legit term used] because she's white, and saying she's deliberately trying to oppress Kanye as a black male.
(This is a criticism of the mostly-bandwagon haters I see on social media, not a response to the posts above on SG. Sorry for going on a bit of a devil's advocate tangent.)
All that withstanding, reading "TAYLOR HAS GOTTEN SO THICCCC SHE LOOKS SOOO GOOD" just made me want to never look at her, or Tumblr, or food again.
I enjoy how Taylor is using the hate and turning it into her next money making album+world tour. And I've read a lot of stuff online about the music video and she included so many small details and metaphors in it, I just think her and her marketing team are very smart for the way they are spinning all the hate on her.