askchapo

As one of the people moderating that comm, it was weird. I had a phase (like 10 years ago) where I was a full-on Swiftie with a stan twitter account and during that time I met the swiftie who later went viral on twitter for going to prison after she refused to join the IDF. I talked about that on here and then there was another user who brought up the idea of starting the taylorswift comm. From the way they pitched it it was semi-ironic I suppose, they wanted to turn Taylor Swift into a leftist icon and it was supposed to be a sort of ragebait, though I'm not sure who exactly was supposed to be baited by it. That's where the emote came from. Comms need two moderators to be started and I agreed to be the other one since I was the resident Taylor Swift expert. The bit got old pretty quickly. The user who originally pitched the comm left the site shortly after the comm was founded so that didn't help. At the time I still had generally positive opinions about Taylor Swift but that has soured quite a bit since then.

To be perfectly honest, I think both the other user and me saw it as an opportunity to talk about a special interest of ours, one that would usually find very little resonance on hexbear, with the plausible deniability of "haha we're just being ironic though look it's Taylor as a communist". In hindsight it's kinda embarrassing that it existed but oh well. I still have the little moderator emblem on my hexbear UI so it was all worth it.