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By Joshua Tyler | Updated
In the shiny cosmos of pop culture, few stars shine as constantly as Taylor Swift. And something is very strange about it.
Being someone or something means that you are passionate about. Passion comes in waves, peaks and valleys. The stars rise in passionate fans, and then that passion is finally attenuated, and the stars fader. The franchises rise to popularity and then fall, sometimes to rise again another day.
Except that sometimes they don’t. An organic fandom should mean an increase and fall over time. When not, that means something is wrong.
Thanks to Google Trends, we can now track those picos and valleys of passion. Below is a table that shows the rise and fall of the passionate interest of fans in Beyoncé during his career.
Beyoncé’s list is typical of almost all celebrities. Here is that of Kim Kardashian …
They get up, reach their maximum point and then decrease. For the greatest and most successful, the luckiest and talented, like Beyoncé, happens in the course of 10 years and never dies completely, simply dies.
Then there is Taylor Swift. She jumped to fame almost twenty years ago and never vanished. Here is your graph …
It does not contain any of the decreases expected of the flow and flow of the legitimate passion of fans. His fame is stable, and only reaches its maximum point; It never falls significantly. Taylor Swift is not the only example, only the clearest.
Who are these people whose passion acts more as an algorithm than an emotion? Who are fans who seem to love everything that Star Wars does, no matter how bad it is? Or the guy who jumps over all the latest trends without reason and then stays with her?
Some of these are standard slope dining rooms or insecure airport book readers. But some of them are not. Some can be sociopats.
What is a sociopath?
A sociopath is a person with a personality disorder characterized by the lack of empathy, consciousness and remorse. They manipulate, deceive and exploit others to obtain personal gains without guilt, often hidden behind a lovely and calculated facade to mix with society and avoid detection.
4% of the world’s population is what would be defined clinically as sociopathic. That means that of the 8 billion people on Earth, 350 million of them are sociopaths. That is the equivalent of the entire population of the United States. And of those 350 million sociopaths, it is safe to assume that many are Taylor Swift fans.
Sociopats in the Taylor Swift fandom
I do not say that all Taylor Swift fans are sociopaths, far from that. Most of them seem to be well -intentional, generally friendly, medium -sized women. I am not saying something wrong with Taylor Swift. His music is good enough, it is beautiful, talented and reflective about business. But there is something unusual about the consistency of their fame, and sociopats are probably the answer.
In his seminal book about the deal with sociopats, The sociopata next doorDr. Martha Stout examines the way sociopats hide among normal people. She explains that one of her key techniques is a tendency to join non -controversial groups and pretend to be part of them, as a way of making people think they are like them.
Here is an example. Former FBI director James Comey recently published this video, declaring his own Taylor Swift Fandom. If someone were a sociopath, pretending to be a swifty, that’s how it would look …
Taylor Swift’s appeal as a safe, neutral and conventional pop star is commercialized, accessible and identifiable without nervousness. That makes it the most ideal person on the planet for sociopats to hide. Being a swifty is so safe and aggressively normal that it has become almost bored.
How do you see an infested Fandom of Sociopatas
Sociopats do not experience emotion. They have no passion. They feel nothing, but they pretend it and they are really good in that. Sociopats are often the most charming and apparently passionate people in our society. They are lying above all, always.
An infested Fandom of sociopaths would be immune to normal flows and flows of the passionate and emotional behavior of fans. A sociopath who decides something like his way to camouflage his lack of feeling and empathy has no reason to change what they are doing, so they will not. And if I map that type of fandom in a graphic, it could be seen exactly so …
Swift’s popularity peaks, as the explosion of the 2023 period tour, are perfectly aligned with their sales waves and trends peaks, but the baseline consistency? That does not seem organic; It is reinforced by a nucleus of unwavering followers who do not burn like typical fans.
People without emotions create robotic trends
Sociopatas, with their lack of emotional fatigue, could provide that constant engine. They buy mass albums, transmit relentlessly and promote things that others would abandon without the ups and downs of genuine passion, everything to project normality. Unlike the sharp artists who cannot occasionally avoid controversy, Swift’s healthy environment allows them to avoid red flags, holding their empire through a transparent and unwavering calculation.
Swiftys is not the only group that can be infested, just the largest. The next time you see unusually online support reactions, step back and ask yourself if you are witnessing organic passion or collective work of sociopats that hide in view.
