Friday, June 17, 2016

Taylor Swift-Tom Hiddleston-Kim Kardashian conspiracy theories abound on Twitter


Taylor Swift-Tom Hiddleston-Kim Kardashian conspiracy theories abound on Twitter

So many celebrity social accounts, so little time. In our new feature, we do the work for you, following every Twitter meltdown and nude selfie that you didn’t need to see but probably will anyway.

It.has.been.a.week.

One could be angry at the Taylor Swift / Tom Hiddleston / Calvin Harris / Kim Kardashian frenzy that has overtaken the Internet the last few days for many, many reasons. Most things -- like postulating on celebrity breakups and catfights -- can feel particularly shallow in the wake of something like Orlando. Not that they didn’t to begin with, we get it.



But sheer frustration and weariness with the whole breakup and new boyfriend charade was already brewing. And this time, most of that fatigue is falling on Miss Taylor Alison Swift. Seriously, search ‘tired of Taylor’ on Twitter if you don’t believe us.

Here’s a recap for those choosing to only listen / pay attention to Hamilton this week: Tay and Cal broke things off, officially announcing it on the social medias about two weeks ago. The fine smut purveyors at The Sun (this is an important detail) published supposedly candid photos of Tay and Tom Hiddleston making out on rocks close to her Rhode Island house. Not to be confused with the Massachusetts house that was a “stone’s-throw” from the Kennedy compound, which she sold a short but not headline-inspiring amount of time after splitting with Conor Kennedy. But we digress.

Shortly before the NEW COUPLE ALERT! pics appeared, a GQ profile of Kim Kardashian hit the webs, and in it, some uncharacteristically pointed attacks on what Tay did or didn’t know about that Kanye line that reinvigorated their long-standing beef. And yesterday, the paparazzi TMZ found Cal and forced him to mutter something barely distinguishable about the situation, all while he was conveniently wearing a pair of Yeezys.
Got that? OK good, time for some fan theories.

Though first a note from our editors: USA TODAY has reached out to Taylor Swift’s reps about the dating rumors and subsequent events but has not yet received a response. All of which follows is Internet conjecture and sarcasm.

Starting with the photos, which have inspired a lot of things except 100% acceptance that they were, as The Sun wrote in it’s lead, proof that Tay “is secretly romancing future James Bond Tom Hiddleston.”


But why, you may ask, would a woman capable of buying her own desert island, shipping in rocks to make it look like Rhode Island, selecting nearly any man on the planet to ship out there for the purposes of a rebound without flagging the media, chose to stage photos for a British tabloid?

Twitter theorists have a two-fold answer: 1. This is her tried and true formula and we only have ourselves to blame because we consume its byproducts (re: songs, adorable Instagrams) without question (OK we added that last part but it needed to be said). 2. She needed to divert attention from that GQ article.
Yes friends, this is where things get interesting.

Remember that Grammys acceptance speech? The one we concluded was directed at the misogynistic Kanye lyric, which is misogynistic at face-value but also because we were lead to believe it was not approved by Tay despite Kanye’s protests otherwise?

Well, Kim K left nothing to the imagination, saying it was all LIES in a way that was so candid GQ writer Caity Weaver knew she was being planted with information but did what we would all do and ran with it. A Taylor spokesperson provided the mag with a very Taylor response from Taylor, which included the name Taylor a whopping eight Taylor times (we counted), saying all Kanye’s ever gonna be is mean.

So here we are: Tay is claiming to be a victim of #cyberbullying as she has many times. But unlike most of those other times, this one is not going over well, which may or may not have to do with the Hiddleston photos and her clearly #overit ex, Cal. All of which she may or may not have done to help disguise a calculated public persona, which may or may not be having the opposite effect.

Oh and remember we said it was important that The Sun was the outlet with the photos? That's because Hiddleston has been waging what many are calling a campaign to be James Bond, and this seemingly sweet May - December romance is the latest step in his quest for the British high honor.

Can't say we'd be angry seeing Tay on some Bond red carpets, though.


source: usatoday 
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