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Swiftie Rehab
Renouncing Taylor Swift fandom can feel like “leaving a cult.” But r/SwiftlyNeutral is a safe space to process.
She created numerous Twitter and Instagram accounts dedicated to Swift, sharing pictures of everything from her squad to her cat Meredith, tagging the star and her publicist in each caption. But disconnecting from the world of her former favorite pop singer left her feeling adrift — until earlier this year, when the Reddit homepage suggested she join r/SwiftlyNeutral, a page for questioning Swifties like herself. “It does feel like the identity I created of her, especially when I was a kid, fell through,” says 19-year-old Iman Rizwan, who believes that many former fans in Muslim communities like hers “have felt the same,” pointing to the singer’s lack of response on Israel’s war in Gaza.
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