#also bc those ppl r usually weird abt june being a thing which is usually some kinda flag. bc its gotta be j/hn to be not gay erasure

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also i almost never block specific ships bc i dont give a fuck if it isnt explicitly weird but ones been getting on my nerves lately for almost no reason

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ok this is gonna be a bit long I think sjdj

so initial premise: the Taylor I'm talking about is the one that was like at her peak of exposure which imo is the red/1989/rep era and I talk about it in the terms of how I saw it all as someone who was in the go at the time and for harry I'm also talking about the gp

so I think they have a LOT of similarities:

they became really famous around the same time which was also the peak of fandom and pop culture as it used to be in the past decade

let's be honest a lot of the exposure to the go they got was due to their high profile relationships and exes

both made sure to use those relationships for exposure/popularity/selling stuff as much as possible and their music is heavy on the details about their exes

both of them were very clearly "meant to he successful" from the start (meaning a lot of money was spent in making sure that happened)

both of them were wayyyy overhyped imo like yeah I listen to both their music but like imo the praise Taylor got back then/harry gets now is overproportionate to what they actually do and this imo impacts the way they are seen because the more you hype something the more its gonna be evident/disappointing when they don't deliver

re the last point: this is highlighted even more by the fact that their most popular songs are definitely not their best ones

both are white and pretty

in the same vein as the music hype, they also get a lot of praise for "political things" and again, in both cases it showed how much that was inflated when you look at what they actually are doing/saying and both often end up looking like the usual dumb white rich people

both have been heavily shipped in gay ships and have a BIG part of their fanbase thinking they aren't straight which generated an equal and opposite reaction in normal people (I think maybe in the gp there's more people who think Harry is actually not straight but still, the shipping stuff is heavily made fun of in the gp) I mean I remember during this June when Harry Taylor (and louis) were all in the top 10 artists that were mentioned in the #pride ashtag and the comments were all like 🤦🏻‍♀️ skdj

Taylor back then and harry now created a lot of overexposure (they were/are literally everywhere) and that gets pretty annoying pretty soon

both of them have very annoying and loud fanbases when u see it through the gp's eyes

OK I think that's it (something is probably gonna come to my mind later sjdj) but yeah like imo based on all this harry is getting closer and closer to being seen as the way she has been seen since like 2014.

although I have to say I think Taylor realized a lot of this stuff in the past years and fixed some things a lot like the music has gotten better, the relationship is not high profile and not splashed everywhere anymore and she's also not as overexposed anymore and imo it's really working well for her! but I don't see harry getting there any time soon dkkdk

OK I hope this made some sense??

YES this makes sense. the part about them both being meant for success, i can't talk much abt taylor bc i wasn't ever invested in her (but i think someone close to her was from the music industry itself ?? this info again is from a ts post, i know nothing abt her 🧍‍♀️) but harry yeah 100%. like, out of 1D he was very obviously singled out for success, but like, not much happened till fine line (which is weird bc imo hs1 was a much better album). fine line was when his fandom grew soo much, god. (and i don't understand why ppl chose wms of all songs to blow up. it isn't a 'bad' song but i literally can't listen to it bc of how overhyped it is.)

and the last para yeah.....for harry rn, there's no music out. fans understand he's acting now but even that's getting overshadowed with holivia being shoved into their faces every 3 days rip. (also gonna say, a lot of his fans r here only bc of the Harry Styles™ image. [here im speaking from personal experience bc some of the 'die hard harries' i've met irl haven't even heard any songs of his outside of the popular ones- wms, adore you, sott)] and like the moment focus shifts a good part of his fanbase that's here only for the Image & not the music will vanish 😐)

LIKE, the way he's being portrayed (no actual relation to fans- his main bond w fans was during tour, he has literally no social media presence & to add to that this mess with the tickets + him not wearing masks during a pandemic etc), it'll soon become only harry lovers or harry haters, no in between. and they're gonna attach smth to him like they attached 'feminism' to miss swift 🚶🏻‍♀️