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Taylor Swift’s Teenage MySpace Has Resurfaced, And It’s Simply Too Much

"It serves NO purpose but to make me look FUGLY" XD.

by Jared Richards  19 January 2021
Taylor Swift's old MySpace comments and pictures resurface

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A handful of posts and pictures seemingly from Taylor Swift’s old MySpace from the mid-2000s have resurfaced, offering an insight into another time and pre-fame era, filled with cringe-inducing ‘inside jokes’ between high schoolers.

While the posts first popped up in 2016 thanks to BuzzFeed, they’ve again gone viral thanks to a Twitter thread by Swiftie @folkmoreloverrep.

First up, the pictures ooze mid-2000s: the digital camera mirror selfies! The overuse of Photo Booth filters!

Each photo belongs overwhelmingly to its time, except for one — there’s a wonderful shot of Swift with black hair looking tremendously emo, but unfortunately, it’s from a 2009 episode of CSI that she starred in. It was too good to be true.

But it’s the collection of comments a teenage Swift left on her friends’ walls that feels the most ’00s — remember how people used to have whole conversations in virtual public and reference bizarre inside ‘jokes’ in front of everyone to seem cool?

Of the bunch (and there’s a lot), our favourite has to be where Swift asks for a friend to take down a photo of her because it’s ‘gross’: “It serves NO purpose but to make me look FUGLY”, which also stands for a whole business model of paparazzi shots. Foreshadowing?

Find the lot here, and cringe at how familiar it all is.

Unfortunately, we can clarify that the second post — the one where Swift appears to be asking a boy out — is fake, but the rest appear to be real.