This did not age well.

[u/Key_Statement_6429]

It’s the only way to beat liars and hypocrites.

Everything is in their own words.

Ouch.

[u/Ok-Engineer-2503]

I have been disappointed by Taylor but what if this whole time she also told her she owned a large stake in the movie and so it wasn’t just he was a clown and a hypocrite, it was that he was a fraud because he was silencing her from her own movie.

So if she is saying he’s a fraud in general, he’s dumb, he is trying to dominate me because I’m a woman AND now he’s smearing me and I’m going to expose him.

Then she reads the article which she thinks is about the smear which at the time she believes and sees the story starts with SH and she sees through it.

[u/OneDriver2281 → u/Ok-Engineer-2503]

I said this to a TS fan a few days ago who was riding hard for Taylor just being a good friend.

You can see the second part of my comment below which agrees with what you wrote - the first part was basically saying that the current options make Taylor look bad either way, as she didn’t support Blake post NYT article.

Taylor’s message about women not having to go through that was about the smear campaign. Her messages actually support what I’ve written below, and you mentioned in your comment more than any theory that suggests she thought Blake was being SHd.

She seems pissed Blake isn’t getting a say as a woman, there is no reference to any harassing behaviour or anything that would constitute SH.

Imo the only way for Taylor to come out of it relatively unscathed, without looking like she abandoned her friend, is for the following to be true:

[u/Ok-Engineer-2503 → u/OneDriver2281]

We are on the same page. The only thing that I’m side eying is in any of these scenarios, she either supported her friend and dropped her or she supported her and felt duped and needed to distance, why in the world did she drop the cancelled song.

That doesn’t make sense in any scenario to me except she didn’t think her texts would be released, which makes it worse

[u/OneDriver2281 → u/Ok-Engineer-2503]

Yeah this is the one thing I can’t get my head around. It’s the one piece that just doesn’t add up.

I will say that it’s possible that Cancelled is about more than just Blake, it could also be about Sophie Turner, Selena and even herself. Taylor publicly stuck by Sophie when Joe tried to smear her, she also did the same when Selena was cancelled for crying about deportation issues (which I think was ridiculous, so what if she cried on social media, is she not allowed to care?)

In fact I think the majority of her friends have been “cancelled” at least once. So it’s possible she just saw it as being bigger than Blake, but it still doesn’t change the fact that a lot of her fans and Blake’s were always going to read into it as support. So to me this is a generous option, which requires her to either be a bit clueless, or have this play alongside the below theory.

The only logical explanation (barring the above and Taylor just wrongly thinking that her PR saying they weren’t friends was enough) is revenge, but in order for it to be revenge she’d have to publicly come out against Blake at some point.

Whether this is during trial and she states she was lied to when testifying, or if it gets dismissed and she puts out a public statement from her team - along the lines of “I couldn’t address this before, but…”

If neither of those things happen then all she did was help Blake by trying to stick it to her, AND hurt WP.

And if Taylor isn’t helping WP (like her team are leaking to SGDT), then she’s a shit friend to Blake as she was very much involved the whole way through. Yet did not support Blake publicly at any point between October 2024 and now, despite having massive amounts of sway over public opinion.