Taylor Swift’s new album has already been the subject of much online fretting after its release date was set for November 10 – the anniversary of the death of Kanye West’s mom.
But even that bizarre claim of hyper-vindictive psychopathy comes up short next to the accusations being made by online conspiracy theorists.
They include claims that Swift’s eerie marketing alternately proves that she is a space-faring snake-mother, a clone of herself, and an insider in Pizzagate – a conspiracy so preposterous that even Alex Jones said it was wrong – Wired reported.
Snakes alive! Is Taylor Swift a snake person? Did she give birth to a reptile baby? Is she a neo-Nazi fighting Democrat-run child traffickers? Is she dead? Online conspiracy theorists say yes
Bad reputation: Swift – who is promoting her new album, Reputation – has been linked to a string of bizarre conspiracy theories in chat groups
In the lead-up to the announcement of her album, Swift, 27, posted a string of cryptic videos and images.
They included a series of Tweeted videos showing segments of a snake, concluding with the snake’s head. The music video for Swift’s first single, Look What You Made Me Do, also features snake imagery.
That, apparently, is all it takes to kick-start a string of crazy conspiracy theories.
Taylor Swift: Reptilian baby momma
Fangs for the memories: One rumor says that the snake imagery in Reputation’s marketing represents Swift’s secret lizard lovechild
ParamoreFanClub, who frequents Reddit’s Conspiracy chat boards, offered up this insight: ‘For weeks I’ve been saying Taylor swift gave birth to a reptilian baby the. She tweets this?
‘This isn’t a coincidence… We haven’t seen an actual picture of her for months now(due to the pregnancy). Reptiles are going mainstream, the end is near.’
When questioned, they added: ‘kim kardashian is a well known lizard, and the snakes and lizards have been going at it for years. trump is a snake and the clintons are lizards(they were friends until recently)’.
A secret society of lizards controlling human civilization has been a feature of fiction and theory since non-fiction writer Maurice Doreal described a race of serpent-people in a 1940s pamphlet – and was popularized by David Icke in the 1980s.
Kim Kardashian being a lizard creature is a new one, however, and it’s unclear what the continuing Kanye/Swift clashes would mean for reptilian civilization.
Swift could also just be reclaiming the snake symbol used against her on Twitter, of course.
That symbol proliferated after Kardashian revealed she’d taped a phone call in which Taylor told Kanye he could use lyrics about her; lyrics she later denounced online.
But ‘mother of a space serpent’ is more fun.
Taylor Swift: Satanic snake-worshiper
A twist in the tail: Another theorist spotted a Satanic message in this frame of a Twitter video of a snake’s tail, shared by Swift. The singer is most likely reclaiming the reptile, which was associated with her by Kim Kardashian during a Twitter fight
YouTube user Truthneversleeps doesn’t go that far, mark you – he merely identifies the snake as Swift’s occult god, not a symbol of her demon-spawn child.
‘This woman is a representation of death,’ he says, breathlessly, having previously identified a series of lines across her dress in another music video as looking like the’ eye in the pyramid’ symbol associated with the Illuminati.
Pausing one of her snake video Tweets at a point where the snake’s body jitters – as thought it were on a broken old VHS cassette – he spots a horned face in the CGI scales.
‘Here, folks, is a demon,’ he says, indicating something that is not a demon. ‘Because this is who she worships.’
He points out what he sees as eyes, mouth, nose and horns in the shadows in the scales.
‘No denying it, so that was a cryptic message in this little… this little video thing.’
Demon-stration: The theorist suggested that there was a demonic face in the tail’s loop (left). He saw a horned demon face (right) and said that was Swift’s ‘Satanic master’
He then skips over her other snake videos, saying ‘I bet if I paused it at certain areas we would see more subliminal messaging. I didn’t really worth with this one too much, but it’s all there folks.’
The continues in that vein for another 15 minutes, pointing out Swift’s ‘evil eye of Horus’ (her eye), her clothing’s ‘Illuminati-type pyramids’ (triangles), and a necklace that indicates ‘she is a slave to the Satanic system’ (it’s a choker).
Others identified as Satanic agents are Buzz Aldrin, Ashley Graham, Bella Hadid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Cash Me Outside girl and ‘Satanic shapeshifter Miley Cyrus’.
Taylor Swift: Nazi Pizzagate truther
Fake news: The cover of Reputation pastiches newspaper covers, including a New York Times-like Gothic font. But the font is popular with neo-Nazis, and some say that it’s a sign she is one
If you’ve been lucky enough to somehow avoid Pizzagate, here’s a primer: It’s nuts.
In slightly more detail, it’s theory that says a pizza shop in Washington, DC, was used as a hub for a child trafficking ring run by high-ranking Democrats – a claim so absurd even Alex Jones has apologized for promoting it.
But some alt-right conspiracy fanatics are clinging onto every last crumb of Pizzagate – and believe Swift is too, according to a thread on 4chan’s right-wing politics board.
An anonymous user posted up a 2009 photo of her standing next to a man with a swastika on his shirt – a man who told TMZ it was painted on him during a party – and claimed she was ‘our girl’ due to her use of a Gothic font, favored by neo-Nazis.
More likely, the font on her album’s cover was designed to mimic the masthead of The New York Times – in line with the cover’s newspaper theme.
Pizza the action? At one point in her new video, snakes are seen spiraling down – a reference to the spirals that supposedly represent pedophilia, theorists say – and a link to ‘Pizzagate’
Another user claimed that the lyrics ‘I don’t like your games, Don’t like your tilted stage’ are about how ‘Taylor, being a white, blonde haired, blue eyed woman is made to be an object of hatred and degredation by the jews.’
They also claim that the line ‘I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me, I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams’ translates to ‘The Jews call us Nazis no matter what we do simply because we’re white. Now, we will give them Nazis.’
Other users say that a section of her new music video in which a series of spiraling snakes represent Pizzagate – spirals supposedly representing pedophilia, according to conspiracy theorists).
Those snakes then shattering into triangular shards in turn mean that ‘Pizzagate is unraveling, and spiraling out of the globalist’s control,’ according to another user.
Cracked: They claim the fracturing of the snakes into triangles represents Swift taking on the conspiracy, which said Democrats were running a child trafficking ring in a pizza shop
They then say the use of yellow is used ‘as a reference to goodness or righteously exercised power.
‘The full-screen worldwide flash of yellow means the globalists are losing control of their mind control apparatus. Their poison cloud is about to dissipate.’
So either Taylor Swift is one of the ruling serpent class, or she’s fighting the system. Or perhaps there’s a civil war among the mind-controlling Illuminati snake people; #TeamSwift or #TeamKimye – which lizardly puppet-master group will you choose?
Taylor Swift: Murdered rebel replaced by a clone
Clone and dusted: A line in the song that says Swift can’t ‘come to the phone’ because ‘she’s dead’ may be an indicator that she has been replaced, according to another theory
In a slightly more mundane theory, Taylor Swift is not Taylor Swift, but a second version (Twolor Swift?) used to replace the original, who has been murdered for not following orders from… someone.
Swift maintained Twitter silence in the run-up to the release of her new album, and while sheeple would assume that’s because she was just chilling and finally taking a break from hr otherwise relentless self-promotion, others see the truth.
The truth being that Swift is the latest in a long line of dead pop stars to have been replaced by identical-looking identically talented duplicates.
Copy cat? A theorist says that Swift was killed for rebelling and replaced – as was Miley Cyrus prior to her Robin Thicke-featuring, Cannonball-era reinvention
A_D_D_I_C_T, another Reddit conspiracy fan wrote: ‘Is she already dead and replaced? Failure to comply, she wanted to keep her self, so they killed her and replaced her.
‘This has been done before with Miley Cyrus as the notable example,’ they wrote. ‘She was told to flip her image and become a whore but didn’t want to so they killed her and replaced her.’
When questioned, they elaborated: ‘A common strategy with celebrities is to allow them to do their “own thing” (what they believe is their own) until the time comes to use them for a more overt purpose.
‘Those that don’t obey are murdered and replaced.’
‘Miley was killed prior to a new album and subsequent whore tour,’ he theorized.
That’s not helped by a line in the middle eight of Look What You Made Me Do in which Swift intones: ‘I’m sorry but the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, ’cause she’s DEAD.’
If true – and what about this story sounds false? – Swift and Cyrus will join a mile-high pile of expired pop stars, including Avril Lavigne and, most famously, Paul McCartney.
Although after the PR disaster that was her relationship with Tom Hiddleston, perhaps being replaced by a clone would come as pleasant relief.