[Highlight] Taylor Swift congratulates Russell Westbrook for winning the NBA Most Valuable Player (2017)
Taylor teaching Russ how to shoot explains everything
Does Russ even deserve ANY of the hate he gets? It’s wild
Yes. Great player. Unbelievable engine. Amazing career. Absolutely a haller. Doesn’t mean he’s free from criticism.
You’re talking about criticism, not hate. Yes, there’s a big difference.
Russ is one of my favorite players of all time because he’s exciting to watch but also frustrating too in his best days with KD I felt like he too often froze KD out at end of games and tried to do too much himself.
1 season with late stage Russ was magic and just enough.
Criticisms can be fair, hate is a different level. Have you seen some of the vile things thrown at him?
*insert kenny teaching chuck the difference between coaching and criticisms”
He’s a great player with some clear deficiencies, but his biggest flaw is just that he’s so thin skinned (that’s also KD’s biggest flaw).
From erupting over fairly innocuous media questioning to his over sensitivity to “Westbrick,” he clearly can’t handle even the mildest criticism. I don’t think he’s unique or even uncommon in that, but he’s probably the worst among all the superstars.
Teenagers shouldn’t be team leaders like they were on the Thunder. I don’t care how good they are. The maturation process just kind of crystallizes at that point.
I’ll get hate for saying this but he was never a player capable of winning at the highest level. He was great in his prime but his limitations meant he could never be a number one, or even arguably a number 2 on a championship team
Honestly? Nah. For every great play he has there is the exact opposite but for the amount of effort he puts into each and every game (hell every PLAY), to me it balances out.
Jordan’s signature shimmy?
my friend’s dog acts like that with tennis balls too
Ahhh, back in that window of time where she really did have an endearing personality, and well before her fans were completely unhinged to the level they are today. Better times.
Her fans and anti fans both suck equally. And I like some of her music
“Anti fans” sounds like people who hates fans lol I think youre looking for “haters”
They’re too obsessed with everything she does to just be haters. Anti-fans actually does more aptly described how they interact with anything regarding Taylor.
No anti fans is the correct term. They are people who consume all your stuff but essentially do so from the perspective of hate watching your life.
It has become far more prevalent with the rise of snark culture and snark subreddits.
No, haters is the correct term because you just described the definition of a hater. All youre doing is saying your new made up term is the new stand in like how you guys say ahh instead of ass
I don’t know if anti-fan is actually used anywhere but I feel like you can create a distinction between hater and anti-fan.
To me, an anti-fan would be someone who listens to every new song on release and goes to every show just to hate on it, whereas a hater doesn’t even really engage with the person’s work beyond hearing a song once in a while on the radio and just hates the artist for the sake of hating.
I think of a hater as casual, somewhat disengaged hating and an “anti-fan” as ranked, competitive, active hating.
I think they might’ve been making a play on the Antihero song.
Could be totally wrong too.
No, her fans are just trying to enjoy something they like. The anti fans are way more toxic.
While there are plenty of her fans that are just trying to enjoy something they like, there are also hordes of incredibly vocal parasocial psychopaths.
This is not unique to her either, pretty much every pop star, actor, athlete etc. with that level of fame has online hit squads of deranged fans nowadays.
her fans are just trying to enjoy something
You’ve clearly not experienced the people who get offended if you like a different pop star or simply don’t care for her music.
I’ve met someone and told them that I don’t like her music and they started calling me all sorts of names lol.
If they would let me finish my sentence “I prefer heavy metal music, and I enjoy listening to Swift on the radio… I just won’t be buying her albums, but she is nice!”…
No, I’m a Satan lover now.
anecdote
It’s not necessarily a taylor swift thing but her being so famous has generated a hoard of parasocial fans that’ll harass the shit out of you for any slight, imagined or not, on her behalf.
every fandom has that though.
It’s more toxic to be anti something like Taylor swift than it is to be a respectful fan. I replied “anecdote” to that guy because it’s just an anecdote lol. I could probably find a metal head who would harass me for liking pop music much like he found a TS fan to harass him for liking metal
Brother, most of her fans don’t even care about her music. I swear, Taylor lives off from her drama and romances/breakups. All you see when she drops a new album is her fans speculating 24⁄7 about who or what are her poorly written songs about. It’s real life soap opera in the form of music and it’s paraocial as fuck
Sure, but unfortunately that’s the truth about pretty much every major celebrity. Including sports stars.
Her super fans can be very very weird (I find them especially weird now considering her recent issues) but I will always give a fan the benefit of the doubt before a hater
i see you aren’t in the know about her fans literally harassing and abusing people online in hordes
Her stand are so much worse than the anti fans. I have a cousin who’s a big fan. They bully overs for not buying every single item she drops, no matter their financial state. He has to replace his phone battery once a year because he plays her music 24⁄7 on Spotify to boost her numbers. Not to mention the insane mobs and death threats to anyone that even thinks a negative thought about her.
The anti fans make some jokes.
Not even remotely comparable.
Like you knew her then or now lmao
She hasn’t change she just got more famous so people hate more now
What exactly happened?
I feel like she was a pretty famous music artist. Then all of the sudden she was a billionaire and the Eras tour had people spending money like they were Super Bowl tickets.
She’s had a massive millennial audience for a very long time. It’s the combination of not having a tour for Lover because of COVID, it being such a massive tour, hitting post quarantine, and then the FOMO of not going is what really propelled it.
It helped that it was a really good show too
I think being an age where a career break from touring to have a family might be on its way exasperated this too. It could be 10 years until she does another World Tour again and I doubt it’ll be as many dates as The Eras Tour was
Doesn’t seem like she’s any less nice or different now-a-days. You just grew up.
she seemed more quaint and relatable and it kind of shows in her writing nowadays too. i think she’s just become a bit of out of touch
Her fans were still unhinged since the beginning.
Trampled over my dad at a concert in 2009
Yeah I was gonna say i remember her fan bases being crazy online lol
In 2013 sure. Def not 2017.
Her fans have been unhinged since the early 2010s.
Man this takes me back to a happier place.
Taylor didn’t change, she’s literally the exact same fake nice, performative modest industry plant in 2026 that she was in 2017. the only thing that changed is your perspective of her.
How do you know she is fake?
They don’t, they are just jumping on the hate train
I don’t think she seems fake. One of her ex boyfriends is my mates cousin. They’re a pretty normal not rich family. She said their family adored her when she visited them, she was really down to earth and polite.
She has a massive spotlight for decades and has worked with so many people, I think if she was fake nice more stories would have come out by now
Redditors mistake politeness and a non-confrontational persona as fake-nice because they’re always rude
Becoming so popular was the worst thing to happen to her
Her bank account would disagree
It’s not like he was starving before
Yeah I don’t know what these people are on.
Why because people on Twitter and Reddit hate her now? You think she really gives a fuck what people on the internet think of her? It’s so funny how people on here think that their opinion matters to celebrities
In the aggregate, she definitely does care. Obviously not about individuals, but overall people’s opinion of her determines her reputation. Same goes for any celebrity. And usually, your reputation is your career.
And she literally made an entire album about that
What a strange thing to make an album about if you don’t care…
See! I KNEW she cared about meeee!
Well she seems to be doing pretty well despite you not liking her lol
Good for her.
Comments here are sad, I’m not a swift fan but this is just pretty funny
I know nothing about this woman but this was just a fun silly little video. Why would anyone get mad about it
First time on the internet?
I am a Swiftie and this is funny
Sadly Russ went out of Style.
Now take me home
She looks super young here. Maybe it’s the hair.
Because she was, she was like 26 lol.
2017 was just 3yrs ago
Covid was wild
I still don’t know if it’s Covid, simply getting older, or a combination of both that heavily fucks with my perception of time and how fast it seemingly moves.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r6CLIuy0YDw
Women are “old” once they hit 25.
Or maybe cause it was 9 years ago??💀
Was nearly a decade ago brother
She was like 27 in this and now 36. A lot of work and life stress since then
“Work”
Yeah, because doing 4h shows every day a year straight while also making an album isn’t work. Get back in your hole.
Yeah I don’t get the hate, I’m not a fan of hers music but I can respect she puts in tons of hours on her work. It’s not like she lucked into this and hasn’t been grinding for several years.
You don’t have to be doing manual labor to work hard lol
Except she literally never did that and 4 hours of singing with plenty of breaks and no physical labor while making a billion dollars is not someone you pity about how “stressed” they are
You’re a sad, sad human.
Eat the rich
Go cry more, maybe also join r/antiwork
fuck taylor swift, fuck her wealth and her ways of spending, but objectively her shows require a lot of effort and work. WHY she cares so much about it is the issue, not the fact that she she works for it.
The stress of being a billionaire…I couldn’t imagine the horror It must be.
lol I get what you mean and you’re right to an extent
But she worked very hard to get where she is, I’m not a fan of hers but I can respect the work she’s put in
She grew up with very wealthy parents and had every advantage available to her.
Great she is even wealthier than her parents, but don’t pretend her parents weren’t a factor in her success.
Just because your parents were rich doesn’t mean you didn’t work hard in your profession
She built herself up to global star status
Money alone can’t do that, you have to work extremely hard and actually have talent, as well as charisma
I have charisma
Nono, the only reason why u/professionalactive94 isn’t rich is because they didn’t have rich parents. Please, anybody could become a global music icon with no effort if they have rich enough parents.
XD
You just need a willingness to take advantage of everyone in your life
No one said that.
I would imagine that the vast majority of billionaires are probably more stressed than most other people.
Are they though? I’ll gladly take their “stress” in exchange for their wealth.
Boohoo they chose to exploit the working class and condemn millions of them to not even being able to feed their families week to week. I’m sure a couple boardroom meetings and murders and executions are cake
cause it was nine years ago she was like 27 here💀
Probably the plastic surgery
It’s the 480p resolution
It’s because it was 8-9 years ago
And a nose job ago.
Yeah so it wasn’t the hair
MJ could never
She’s so damn cute
She does have the height for basketball lol
taller than an all nba guard that same year (IT)
my goat
Next thing you know the swifties will be rocking Westbrook jerseys.
Crazy, this is cool. Never seen this before
Did she even say his name? She can use this video for LBJ next
this era was the best she ever looked
Thanks Griffith
She seems hilarious 🤣
This also motivates me to try and be as cute and goofy as I can be by the time I’m 26. I’ve got around 5+ years, so it’s time to learn to be lmaoo.
This feels exactly like if Russ requested a Cameo from Swift with clear instructions on what he wants her to say lol
Never knew she used to be so good looking.
Holy fuck she likes attention
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was? still is
Why are her eyes brown in this video? I thought she had blue eyes
Ok
God who cares
*Westbrick
Damn now we know why he got called Russell Westbrick
Wait, WTF am I watching here?
Shut the fuck up
Get this garbage outta here
LMAOOO
The amount of swifties apparently here is deeply disheartening
Are people supposed to hate her?
Yes
Why?
https://www.sundialpress.co/2024/03/21/why-taylor-swift-kinda-sucks/
This is an older article, and not one from any major publication (5 free guesses as to why), but it does a decent job covering a lot of the issues. The private jets, the lack of any real response for the behavior of her fans, the unrelenting monetization of constant re-releases to milk her fanbase, the ticket prices, the weaponized white feminism are the high notes, off top.
Private jets? Are you a Fox News anchor? People only complain about liberals using private jets because they think it somehow contradicts the fact that they actually care about climate change and the environment. Private jets are not going to make a difference. Private Jets don’t contribute significantly to global warming.
She rerecorded and rereleased her albums to get back ownership of her music that was taken by Scooter Braun who later sold to a venture capital firm. Those rereleases devalued the original masters to the point that she was able to purchase them and now she has complete ownership over the originals and rerecordings.
Every popular musician has high ticket prices for their concerts. This is an issue with the wider music industry and not just Taylor Swift.
Can you elaborate on what weaponizing white feminism even means?
Edit: that bitch blocked me, 😭.
Brother, I’m going to tell you right now that I do not have an interest on your very wrong opinions on this topic. I’m a fucking leftist, not a conservative, and I don’t need to be patronized by you parroting capitalist drivel to support your precious idol. I’m not going to change a single thing about how I feel about it, and you are very clearly comfortable with your deeply flawed interpretations of these issues. I’m not here to debate, you asked why, I told you. That’s not an invitation, it’s an answer. If you wanted to continue making excuses for a billionaire using the same tired language that has been regurgitated in American propaganda for decades, by all means. But leave me the fuck out of it.
She craves attention
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That’s a leap in logic on your part
Pot kettle black