Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

have you descended into madness?

The option before was to prove you weren't a bot through sms...

these are systems solving two different problems

What problem do you think is being solved? There's no improvement here, it's taking solutions that were being worked out, and turning them into an exploitative machine aimed at the fans.

an exploitative machine aimed at fans that just can't help themselves from buying shit

(also it is incrementally better. you are just the bernie bro of ticket sales systems.)

What is wrong with you?

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Mr-Krabs-Blur-Meme.jpg

xp eh, I am not trying to be too harsh here, Fred, as we are talking about taylor swift concert ticket dispersal systems.

and you can marvel at how grumpy i've become but this shit is maddening:
"the CD costs $60"
"the CD costs $15"
"you must pay $60 to guarantee getting it on release day"
"you can buy it in stores on release day"
"but that might not boost my progress bar"
"you can buy it on itunes on release day and boost your progress bar"
"i want a CD that costs $15 or less and is available on release day and boosts my progress bar"
"you sound like a ridiculous human being with v specific consumerist desires that you expect to be fulfilled, but it looks like you can buy it at target on release day and then enter a code on her website to boost your progress bar."

how much is taylor paying you

You mean how many points?

Do you think if there were a clothing alteration shop called Swift Tailor she would sue them? How about Tailor: Swift.

i'm only half-following this but i'm sure someone has mentioned that amazon can send you new releases so they arrive on their release day if you preorder for free (or prime shipping at worst) which makes any defense of express shipping an album via ups for $$$ completely absurd.

taylor is paying me in pupusas (from a shop, Swift Pupusas, which she acquired in a lawsuit)

her commercials have her in a bathtub full of pupusas (which is pretty rad for snack iconography)

god bless the pupUSA

Man, if Swift sold pupusas I would be so there (for points, at least). That's creeping toward Shakira country, though, so there might be some beefing.

only victims are the actual fans who buy a bunch of merch they can’t afford and still don’t get good concert tickets, imo

people who paid a shitload to scalpers, or as they’re known today in the era where stubhub and its peers are owned by ticketmaster/etc, “resellers” will still be rich and capable of paying for resold tickets. some of those tickets will be from people who bought merch on this pay for access treadmill, so the money makes it way back to the artist/merch people instead of being pure scalper profit

the private booths, VIP areas that are venue-owned, will keep scamming. this isn’t a huge change in the concert tickets game, it’s just a different gaming of it, and it’s not a system contrived by Taylor Swift’s people!

the pupusas are delicious

I should say only *new* victims, the real people who are losing out are the fans of artists who can’t afford tickets because the prices are out of control, while some seats are left empty because the system doesn’t care if seats are filled, only tickets sold

they’re as screwed as they’ve always been

only victims are the actual fans who buy a bunch of merch they can’t afford and still don’t get good concert tickets, imo

She's the biggest pop star in the world. this will be a lot of fans.

imo the only solution is playing venues with only general admission tickets, and letting people who are short, kids, or need to be seated at the front, followed by people in order of height so they can all see

I was doing some math and I realized the vast majority of people in the world, billions, will be locked out of seeing Taylor, let alone snagging good seats. Taylor Swift, if you are reading this, make this right!

by my math she could squeeze in a couple shows in the evening per day by hopping on a jet outside the venue and flying enough time zones west to do another 7pm show

Or just build a giant Earth-sized stadium.

Josh's ardent defense of Swift's Ivory Tower obliviousness is bizarre. She is the biggest pop star in the world: she has a responsibility to use that power in a benevolent or, at the very least, benign way. It can't be repeated enough that Swift has said nothing about Trump, Black Lives Matter, equal rights, marches, protest. Beyonce uses her power. So does Kanye. Plenty of musicians with young fans setting very good examples right now. To see Swift emerge for the first time in the Trump era with this stale schtick and repulsive self-referential meta-thing is so disappointing. I really like her pop records. Exploiting your fans and having absolutely NOTHING to talk about but yourself is fucked up.

Um.

You got the wrong guy, I'm innocent, there are witnesses.

yup

flappy bird has opened my eyes. i ate the red pupusa.

Tay practices proper security culture, and always masks up before engaging in protest.

Beyonce uses her power. So does Kanye.

lol

Kanye and Taylor are basically mirrors of each other at this point

i wonder if she's taken one look at what Katy Perry is doing and gone "nah.. "

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/22/23/3D8B76FA00000578-4250766-image-a-36_1487807325664.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qPWkjk5nNc

Boy do I regret naming my two girls Katy and Taylor.

i'm only half-following this but i'm sure someone has mentioned that amazon can send you new releases so they arrive on their release day if you preorder for free (or prime shipping at worst) which makes any defense of express shipping an album via ups for $$$ completely absurd.

FYI, I've pre-ordered a few new releases from Amazon and never gotten the physical disc on release day. In the case of the last Metallica album, it didn't hit my PO box until about 10 days after street date. They did give me MP3s of the album on release date, but it took forever to ship and they never offered an explanation.

in this topic: people shocked that an artist with roots in the country scene is not denouncing the president half their fanbase loves

Didn't you hear the news? That Taylor is dead. RIP Old Taylor

This would have been the perfect opportunity to slap on a fake mustache and do a Sasha Fierce/Chris Gaines. Then she could have charged for a PPV special setting the two against each other in a cage match, whose conclusion reveals they were the same person all along. And then you have to pay a fee to turn it off, otherwise it will just keep charging you, like a power meter or a promotional magazine subscription that sneakily renews itself.

I feel frustrated whenever it becomes a discussion about what Taylor 'should' do. Taylor has proven herself time and time again to be a pop-star exemplar of the white female Trump voter, a woman of privilege who chooses to hold on to her power by self-victimization and lashing out at others, to the point that her first single (her major artistic thesis!) is an expensive and useless takedown of her perceived rival-- a black male auteur. I wish her work would be observed as more of a window into the mindset that produces this kind of North American entitlement rather than people armchairing their own versions of how Taylor could be a better progressive

boom

I like that take, which recasts her rivalry with the self-consciously awakened Katy Perry in a new light.

Well, "wokeness" is just white people learning the language of progressive politics in order to maintain white supremacy, and Katy is the new best-cultural-example for that idea since Paul Haggis' "Crash", but whatever

hell yes

irony meter just flickered, TH ;)

My lack of ironic quotes around "awakened" was mostly do to me typing and walking, I don't think Perry's "progressive" politics are worth a shit, I think she's just as facile as Swift, and ultimately just as mega pop star neo fascist (in the "We Will Rock You" Queen sense).

but really fgti's take there seems excellent and not just because it justifies my steadfast, never-wavering suspicion and dislike of dead dead dead-eyed taylor swift and her dead-eyed music

I just meant that Swift not saying shit about shit beyond herself is the flip side of Perry saying specifically that she is saying shit about shit beyond herself, even if ultimately both reach the same dead eyed end.

Ha, dead eyed xpost!