I want to read off to you some of the notes that I took while I was getting death threats.

I'm scared that by the end of this episode they're going to have doxed me and all of my ex-boyfriends.

Hello hello and welcome back to a bit fruity.

I have been the subject of many harassment campaigns from

Andrew Tate's teenage insales to J.K. Rolling's fanatical turfs, To Elon Musk's Musk Rats, to Libs of Tik-Toc's bloodthirsty homophobes.

You name it, I've had it.

If there was a punch card for harassment campaigns, I would be getting my free drink by now.

Thank you. I thought that was funny.

What drink would it be?

The very berry hybiscus because I'm a faggot.

So I was surprised when, after all of that,

the coordinated cruelty of a certain fandom could shock me just by its scale.

I'm not talking about super-fans of an aspiring American dictator or

delusional conspiracy theorists on the hunt for an imaginary pedophile ring being run

out of the basement of a pizza shop, no. I'm talking about fans of country darling turned pop

superstar Taylor Swift. Rule number one of online mobs is that you should not feed into them when they're on

your tail so I know that by doing this I am kicking a hornet's nest nonetheless

here we are today we are going to be putting the cult in stand culture asking

questions like why have some pop music superfans adopted the online harassment

tactics of the far right.

What can it tell us about the state of pop culture, the internet,

and a worsening epidemic of loneliness?

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