#did not mean to write a 2 paragraph rant about chants but alas

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you know I just saw a Facebook thread about "annoying chants at Eras shows" and I feel like 1, 2, 3 LGB vs all the tiktok nonsense - and the new fans not even understanding where the former came from and that making it worse - really like, sums up the difference between the fanbase then and so many fans now. like, people now want to create something with the intent of it going viral and it getting them Noticed, and 123LGB was just something that happened. a funny moment and an inside joke that grew within our community, and that's WHY it's so fun. Not some influencer sitting down and saying, "I would like to do something to get Taylor's attention" and shoehorning random phrases into the show wherever they can squeeze them.

and this is gonna sound so dumb probably but like, so many comments were like, "older fans decided to make 123 a chant, we can't make chants now?" and it's like. that's the damn thing. no one decided to make this. and you not even understanding that no one decided to make this, like you just hearing something related to Taylor and projecting what you would do onto it, without caring to learn where it actually came from, really sums the tiktok fanbase up doesn't it. I just miss things existing because they were fun, and not because people are trying to have a Moment. things weren't always like that. and hearing those new chants shouted, even if some are cute, just feels like I'm helping a tiktoker get attention, not that I'm participating in an inside joke bigger than one of us.