Monday, April 19, 2010

"Taylor Swift's Promise" is a mean trick on Taylor Swift



Taylor Swift's the focus of another Internet photo scandal, but it's not her fault.

There's a photo going around the Internet that has country-pop singing star Taylor Swift wearing a red gym jacket and posing with a young man also in red and reportedly known as "Cheeks" and both are holding up a sign made from a napkin that reads "I Heart On TD."

Whatever that means.

That photo was doctored by someone to read something far, far more sexual and sinister that Taylor Swift would promise to do if "Alabama beat LSU this weekend" and then goes on to read "Who are you rooting for now? XOXO Taylor Swift."

Guess which photo's going around the Internet the fastest?

This blogger discovered the photo below after checking the social bookmarking site Reddit.com for news. Right there were the words "Taylor Swift's Promise" If you click on it, as I did, the photo, the doctored one, comes right up in your face. You have to dig through the comments to learn that the picture's not the real one.

Cheeks is reportedly part of a website called "OH NO THEY DID'NT" which has the tagline "the celebrities are disposable, the content is pricesless." But does that mean they replaced Taylor's original napkin with the fake one? If so, that's awful. It's terrible that it happened to her, but if the website created the fake photo they should apologize immediately.

For her part, Taylor's got to be careful. To this blogger, it's like the Swastika episode in that Taylor took a photo with a random fan and got in trouble for an image she wasn't aware of. The difference is that Taylor didn't know some real douche was going to mess with her image like that.

It's sad because Taylor doesn't know who to trust and it's harder to just hang and have fun with people around who are going to mar her image in this way.

Bad form.

Stay tuned.

2 comments:

  1. Actually the thing that says she'll show something to jeff it's a lie ok? you can see the signature there that it's nearly from a picture of her in one site that has her signature and those words a probably edited on photobucket or adobe photo editor. take a close look at the hands. and see the paper so white. nothing can make a perfect white paper unless you edit it.

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  2. Anonymous6:02 PM

    I saw another one like this but instead if Alabama beat LSU, it said that if Obama loses the presidential election in 2012

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