A Taylor Swift-obsessed fan has revealed that her love for the pop star ‘tore apart’ her group of friends because one of her close friends hated the songwriter.
The 25-year-old took to Reddit to share her frustrations about her 26-year-old friend, named Izzy, who didn’t like the Shake It Off creator’s music.
She revealed that their differing opinions ended up coming to a shocking climax, leading the entire group of friends to deal with the aftermath.
After hearing insults about the singer for too long, the 25-year-old finally decided to block her friend.
Now, she has taken the Am I wrong? subreddit to question whether she was wrong to express her love for the pop sensation.
A Taylor Swift-obsessed fan has revealed that her love for the pop star ‘tore apart’ her group of friends because one of her close friends hated the songwriter.
The post was titled: ‘Am I wrong for blocking my friend for her obsessive hatred towards Taylor Swift?’
She went on to explain: ‘This issue has literally split my group of friends in half.
‘I have a friend, Izzy (26F), who’s been friends with us since senior year of college. We’re not super close or anything, but we run in the same circles, we laugh together, and we’ve helped each other out in the past.
“Now, I’m a huge Swift fan and she hates her. Which I don’t think should be a deal breaker, we have other things in common and we just don’t talk about Taylor. I have friends that I can gush about T-Swift with so it doesn’t bother me. However, recently, Izzy has started to get annoyed by it and it seems like her hatred for Taylor Swift has only increased.”
The 25-year-old explained that Izzy had started going out of her way to criticize the singer and her friend because of her love for Taylor.
She noted that the situation came to a head last year, just before she attended the Eras Tour in the UK.
“I don’t remember exactly when it all started, but I guess it was last year when I bought the tickets for the Eras tour in the UK. I was really excited and of course Izzy asked me, when she crossed paths with me, why I was so excited,” she recalls.
‘I told her so, and she immediately shut me out of the city and told me I was stupid for paying “exorbitant amounts of money to see such a mediocre artist,” while also complaining about the rent and how my job didn’t pay me enough.
The 25-year-old took to Reddit to share her frustrations about her 26-year-old friend Izzy, who didn’t like the Shake It Off hitmaker’s music.
“I was quite shocked, to put it mildly. I told her I don’t usually buy concert tickets every month and pointed out that I had just paid a lot for a holiday in Spain, but she rolled her eyes and said ‘that’s different’. I tried not to take it personally, but it really hurt.”
And while the 25-year-old had hoped that would be the end of Izzy’s utter dislike for the All Too Well singer, it seemed like it was just the beginning.
He noted that he “really noticed that he was growing” after that initial meeting.
She added: ‘Previously there was the occasional jibe about not giving me the aux cable or not trusting my taste in music but that just resulted in him sending me memes on Instagram about how much Taylor sucks and when I asked him why he was sending me these he would complain that I can’t take a joke.
“If I was listening to music, she would ask me what song it was, and if it was a Swift song she would roll her eyes, and if it wasn’t she would get incredibly sarcastic and be like, ‘Oh, you can listen to other music. ‘” Whenever I posted something about Taylor on my social media (because there is no rule in our friendship that says I can’t do that), like when Speak Now TV, 1989 TV, and TTPD were announced, she would reply to complain that I was subjecting her to more terrible music. I pointed out that she didn’t have to listen to it if she didn’t like it, and she responded, ‘Yeah, but you never stop talking about her. ‘”
‘Without a second thought, I was shopping for a new dress for the Eras tour and Izzy went on a five-minute rant about why I should buy a new dress for “a stupid concert” and that “most of her fans are little kids or have the mentality of little kids.”
‘I guess she noticed my sad face because she rolled her eyes and said, “This is why no one likes Swifties, they’re all so sensitive.”
‘She even grills me about Taylor’s actions, such as her private jet flights. For the record, yes, she uses the jet excessively, but I don’t think she’s the villain of Captain Planet and I have issues with the way the article was written and presented.
‘When I told this to Izzy, she sighed and said something about how she had let Taylor destroy the planet. I once posted about my volunteering for a local green space initiative and Izzy made sure to comment, “But are you okay with Taylor destroying the planet?” Once again, she defended it by saying, “It’s just a joke.”
Social media users flocked to the comments sections and rushed to the 25-year-old’s defense.
And when The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor’s latest album, came out, Izzy went so far as to send messages to her friends criticizing the songs.
The 25-year-old wrote: ‘It all came to a head a few weeks ago when I posted a picture of a new tattoo I got. My Eras tour date was so special to me for so many reasons that I got a tattoo with one of Taylor’s lyrics underneath. Of course, Izzy was one of the first to respond, telling me how stupid and childish I was and what a waste of my money it was.
‘She said I was just a regular white girl (when I told Izzy she was white too, she replied, “I’m not that kind of white”). And I realized I’d had enough; when I looked back at our messages, they were all of us arguing. I felt like we weren’t friends anymore. So I just blocked her.’
At the end of the post, she asked people on the web if she was wrong to cut off contact with her friend.
Social media users flocked to the comments sections and rushed to the 25-year-old’s defense.
One person said: “No, moron, I’m not a fan. A friend of mine is a huge Swift fan. I don’t click on videos, but I do interact with photos from her concerts because I support my friend having fun, even if I don’t like the artist. It’s not hard to say ‘you must be really excited, I hope you’re having fun’ and then change the subject.”
Someone else wrote: ‘No, you moron. You can be friends with people who disagree with you (to a certain extent). What you don’t have to do is accept them being mean and harassing you for something that honestly isn’t that serious. I love Taylor Swift. I went to one of her concerts in Paris and it was sensational. But I know people who don’t like her or her music and that’s perfectly fine. We can’t all like the same thing, it would be boring anyway. But it’s not your fault that you protect yourself from someone whose main hobby seems to be putting you down.’
Another user added: ‘For someone who has such an intense hatred for T Swift, he seems pretty obsessed with her.’
“No, you moron. Your friend is an abuser. And I say this as someone who doesn’t really like TS,” one commenter wrote.
“You have the right to love whoever you want without your friends scolding you for it.”
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