It was 100% astroturfed. I saw this first hand in my immediate circle. Several women, whose relative intelligence I had previously respected, became retarded teenage fangirls overnight.

These are women I have known for decades, who had never betrayed even the slightest interest in Swift until the very recent “organic zeitgeist”. Suddenly they needed to fly across the country just to see the only Taylor Swift shows for which they could score (massively overpriced) tickets.

These are not rich women who should be spending thousands on one concert night - and they never had before now. So this was a phenomenon that could not be explained by some hidden love of Swift’s music. The only explanation that fits is social contagion.

It’s a depressing realization. The elites can manufacture insane behavior on an industrial scale because our society is now dominated by the women and feminized men who prefer comfortable consensus over freedom or critical thinking.