Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
did taylor swift's team work with rolling stone to make a puff piece about how her critics are actually bots using shoddy evidence? maybe. let's discuss the impact of the presence of bots in online discourse
edited by Danae O.
Links:
Klee, Miles. (2025). "Taylor Swift’s Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack." Rolling Stone.
rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swifts-social-media-campaign-life-of-a-showgirl-1235480646
Gudea's page gudea.ai
Gudea white paper cdn.prod.website-files.com/69370c45ee6946ee05e9618a/6938f591279bf559ec50cd1c_GUDEA%20-%20Taylor%20Swift%20_%20Anatomy%20of%20a%20Narrative.pdf
travisandtaylor subreddit post that i looked at reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/comments/1pj85jr/the_research_cited_in_the_rolling_stones_article
NCRI (2025). "America Last: How Fuentes’s Coordinated Raids and Foreign Fake-Speech Networks Inflate His Influence." networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/America-Last_-How-Fuentess-Coordinated-Raids-and-Foreign-Fake-Speech-Networks-Inflate-His-Influence.pdf
00:00 introduction
02:07 yeah there are bots
03:23 'ridiculous charges'
07:16 'false narrative'
08:51 is this an ad for an AI company?
13:35 vague, misleading language
22:21 a redditor's analysis
25:51 influencers are in on it?
28:05 this paper is bad
31:28 swiftie vindication
33:55 rolling stone sucks now
35:57 what bot usage really looks like
40:27 unpacking the bot problem
did taylor swift's team work with rolling stone to make a puff piece about how her critics are actually bots using shoddy evidence? maybe. let's discuss the impact of the presence of bots in online discourse
edited by Danae O.
Links:
Klee, Miles. (2025). "Taylor Swift’s Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack." Rolling Stone.
rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swifts-social-media-campaign-life-of-a-showgirl-1235480646
Gudea's page gudea.ai
Gudea white paper cdn.prod.website-files.com/69370c45ee6946ee05e9618a/6938f591279bf559ec50cd1c_GUDEA%20-%20Taylor%20Swift%20_%20Anatomy%20of%20a%20Narrative.pdf
travisandtaylor subreddit post that i looked at reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/comments/1pj85jr/the_research_cited_in_the_rolling_stones_article
NCRI (2025). "America Last: How Fuentes’s Coordinated Raids and Foreign Fake-Speech Networks Inflate His Influence." networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/America-Last_-How-Fuentess-Coordinated-Raids-and-Foreign-Fake-Speech-Networks-Inflate-His-Influence.pdf
00:00 introduction
02:07 yeah there are bots
03:23 'ridiculous charges'
07:16 'false narrative'
08:51 is this an ad for an AI company?
13:35 vague, misleading language
22:21 a redditor's analysis
25:51 influencers are in on it?
28:05 this paper is bad
31:28 swiftie vindication
33:55 rolling stone sucks now
35:57 what bot usage really looks like
40:27 unpacking the bot problem
