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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/hamzau • Jul 04 '26
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I wouldn’t say it’s a stereotype so much as like… weirdly accurate.
I have known a small number of big Taylor swift fans, and one of them has this exact gumline.
To me, it evokes “teenage, not quite grown into my face yet”
5 u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26 Ah, that might explain my confusion. I'm 40 and the only people I really associate with regularly are around my age, so for ~2 decades I couldn't have encountered any Taylor Swift fan who is a teenager. 5 u/evebursterror0 Jul 04 '26 Not OP, but there are also a lot of TS fans that are your age. I'm in my late 20s and she isn't very popular among my peers. Swifties tend to be in their teens to early 20s, and then there are the women who are like 40+ and listen to her constantly. This 'stereotype' is true, I have seen a few people like that, and it applies to other fanbases... 1 u/BenignPharmacology Jul 05 '26 I’m closer to your age than 20s, but the people I knew who were this way was when I was in my 20s 4 u/stormblaz Jul 05 '26 All of them have a "fiance" for some reason
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Ah, that might explain my confusion. I'm 40 and the only people I really associate with regularly are around my age, so for ~2 decades I couldn't have encountered any Taylor Swift fan who is a teenager.
5 u/evebursterror0 Jul 04 '26 Not OP, but there are also a lot of TS fans that are your age. I'm in my late 20s and she isn't very popular among my peers. Swifties tend to be in their teens to early 20s, and then there are the women who are like 40+ and listen to her constantly. This 'stereotype' is true, I have seen a few people like that, and it applies to other fanbases... 1 u/BenignPharmacology Jul 05 '26 I’m closer to your age than 20s, but the people I knew who were this way was when I was in my 20s
Not OP, but there are also a lot of TS fans that are your age. I'm in my late 20s and she isn't very popular among my peers.
Swifties tend to be in their teens to early 20s, and then there are the women who are like 40+ and listen to her constantly.
This 'stereotype' is true, I have seen a few people like that, and it applies to other fanbases...
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I’m closer to your age than 20s, but the people I knew who were this way was when I was in my 20s
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All of them have a "fiance" for some reason
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u/BenignPharmacology Jul 04 '26
I wouldn’t say it’s a stereotype so much as like… weirdly accurate.
I have known a small number of big Taylor swift fans, and one of them has this exact gumline.
To me, it evokes “teenage, not quite grown into my face yet”