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“Public opinion is gradually being shaped and conditioned by polarizing media narratives, which are often amplified by algorithms that prioritize conflict and confrontation.” -Pope Leo The pope just exposed the entire grifting social media influencer class

so many fanwars happen because people treat their own assumptions like facts and run with them. the idols are simply out there focusing on their work, yet somehow they always become the target of hate over narratives fans created in their own heads

Oops dropped this

Can someone remind this art bro that he's part of the music business? Even if he's self-funding his music project (band) for the “love of art”, he can only do it because he became a wealthy and successful (hit maker) producer.

Social media is killing fandom communities. I’ve never been so fucking sad over how quick people react to half assed info and how they spread it. Fans instead of wanting to celebrate, engage or hype the good parts of stanning, are now just looking at ways to criticise and rage

Destruir un ecosistema natural bellísimo para construir toboganes de colores mirameahuevo con una imagen culerísima de un jaguar. Hay que estar idiotas. @SEMARNAT_mx @MaraLezama #SalvemosMahahual #NoAPerfectDay #royalcaribbeanecocida

- where's it [the wedding] gonna be, do you know?🤔 ~I'm gonna let you know at a different time😭

Patrick Mahomes striping a drive on his Instagram Story 👀🔥 Milestone worth noting, as a golf swing takes quite a bit of torque from the lower body! QB1 is gonna be playing in the preseason games, isn’t he? 😤 🎥 | PatrickMahomes on IG

she’s the coolest ever actually

Taylor out in NYC (May 14, 2026) Wearing: Stella McCartney ‘Poplin Peplum Shirt’ ($1,190) Stella McCartney ‘Textured Lightweight Straight Trousers’ ($1,190) The Row ‘Awar Leather Block Heel Sandals’ ($1,150) Fendi ‘Peekaboo Iseeu Mini Purse’ ($4,500) Cartier ‘Santos Demoiselle Watch’ Kindred Lubeck x Travis Kelce Artifex Fine Jewelry ‘Custom Diamond Old Mine Elongated Cushion Cut Engagement Ring’ Cartier ‘Love Unlimited Bracelet’ Rest (and links and dupes!) coming soon!

IM CRYING THIS WAS THE DELIVERY LMAO

Also, just to clarify (we cannot believe we need to do so for Vogue) but this is a mini dress! From an old Vogue article: “Babydoll dress is a specific, flowy style of dress featuring a high empire waist, loose fit, and short, mini-length hem.” TLDR All babydoll dresses are mini-length, not all mini dresses are babydoll style.

WOW!!!!

omg i wonder who it could be. i will be super surprised when they announce

Magical realism is hard to capture in the big/small screen… but the bar is low after the last Hollywood adaptation of THOTS. Hope they do a better job this time…

Really cute moment… Hope one day she wins an Oscar…. She deserves one

Part 2. Taylor Swift was 15 when she signed the contract that handed over the rights to every song she would record for 13 years. She was 28 when she signed the next one. Same person, two very different deals. The reason the second deal looks the way it does is because she lived through the first. In 2005, Swift signed with Big Machine Records, a brand-new Nashville label. Six albums over 13 years. Her father picked up a 3% stake in the label as part of the agreement. Big Machine owned every recording she made. Her debut album, then Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation. All of it owned by someone else. When that contract ended in November 2018, Big Machine was already up for sale. Swift tried to buy back her old recordings. According to her, the only deal on offer required her to record one new album for every old one she wanted back. She refused. That same month, with her old recordings about to go to the highest bidder, she signed with Universal Music's Republic Records. She insisted on three things. She would own the recordings of every album going forward. Her share of every sale roughly tripled, from a reported 10-15% to over 50%. And the Spotify clause: any money Universal made from selling Spotify shares had to be paid to every Universal artist, in cash, even artists who owed money back to the label. The first two clauses were for her. The third one, she could have kept just for herself. She didn't. Seven months later, music manager Scooter Braun bought Big Machine for around $300 million. Swift's old recordings made up roughly 80% of the label's revenue. She had no say. A year and a half after that, Braun sold her recordings to an investment firm called Shamrock Capital for around $405 million. She had no say in that sale either. So she did the only thing she could. She started re-recording her old albums. Fearless (Taylor's Version) came out in April 2021, then Red, then Speak Now, then 1989. The Eras Tour, built around the re-recordings, grossed roughly $2.2 billion. In May 2025, Shamrock Capital finally sold the original recordings back to her for $360 million. It had taken 20 years. This week, the clause she fought for in 2018 finally pays out. Hundreds of millions of dollars are landing in Universal artists' bank accounts. Most of those artists never had to take on a label the way Swift did. She did it for them eight years ago, while her own catalog was being sold out from under her.

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that. Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday. Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers. Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets. Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did. Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this. Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

Taylor looking gorgeous out in NYC (April 8, 2026) Note - A full outfit and graphic/shopping links coming soon with better HD photos! Wearing: Meshki ‘Sabrina Silk Blend Maxi Skirt’ ($180) Dior ‘Small 30 Montaigne Avenue Top Handle Bag’ ($3,450) Audrey Rose Jewelry ‘Pave Lock Necklace and 3 diamond drop lariat’ Kindred Lubeck x Travis Kelce Artifex Fine Jewelry ‘Custom Diamond Old Mine Elongated Cushion Cut Engagement Ring’)

oh she’s CONFIDENT and REGAL we are sooooo back