EXCLUSIVE: Some Taylor Swift Stans Are Ganging Up On “Gaylors,” a New Report Says Researchers from the social media firm Graphika found that harassment runs amok in the fan community — and it can teach us a lot about how people behave online. Story:
According to the report, while both Gaylor and Anti-Gaylor accounts are antagonistic toward the other groups, Anti-Gaylor accounts outnumber Gaylor fans and “play a key role” in how the theory is presented to mainstream audiences. The research also adds that the outsized number of Anti-Gaylor supporters — the group represents 28 percent of accounts in the sample in comparison to Gaylors’ 9 percent — means that Gaylor fans can often find themselves “exiled” from neutral fan spaces.
“It’s very easy to dismiss what happens within fandoms as not important or as not serious,” Lopez. G says. “But the doxxing is real and the harassment is real, and oftentimes this harassment has really homophobic connotations. And it is affecting real life, like people who were outed because they had posted about this theory. We wanted to take both communities equally seriously to see what their behaviors really do.
While the Gaylor and Anti-Gaylor rift focuses on the baseless theory that Swift is queer, opinions and fan theories about her romantic relationships can vary even within the same groups. But on Saturday, after Swift and her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwynthat the news did little to shake core beliefs online. Instead, the two say while online groups are always aware of mainstream news, it is often twisted to fit community narratives.
“We are still tracking the activity of these communities and you can see a gigantic spike — the activity doubles for both groups — the night that news came out,” Lopez G. says. “This is a community that is incredibly dynamic, incredibly responsive to real-life occurrences.” “Real-world occurrences are just fodder for existing narratives,” Chandra adds. “And in communities where narratives are identity, the identity in the community is not going to change. When something in the real world happens, it becomes a starting point for more conversation, but the ultimate aim is to maintain the community. And as long as that is being fulfilled, very little else matters.”
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