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If there is one thing that fans should know about Taylor Swift, it’s that she is going to know everything that is being said about her.
The star has been lurking on the internet and gathering information on her fans since the very start of her career, with this famously culminating in her identifying the most hardcore and dedicated online Swifties and inviting them to her home ahead of the release of her album 1989 back in 2014.
Now, almost a decade later, Taylor hasn’t changed her tactics. In fact, earlier this year she acknowledged a long-running theory that she secretly hates her Grammy-nominated 2020 album Evermore as she dispelled the speculation.
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"I love to keep up with you guys online," she told the crowd during her Eras Tour in March. “You guys are really funny. You have a really good sense of humor; sometimes you like to tease me about things.”
And on Wednesday, Taylor once again proved that she is able to take the things her fans tease her about online in good humor as she acknowledged yet another thing that Swifties have been discussing in recent weeks.
If you didn’t know, at 34 years old, Taylor is first and foremost a millennial — and this certainly comes across in her social media posts, which are always riddled with emojis. And for any millennial reading, I hate to break it to you, but excessive emoji use is considered pretty cringe by Gen Z.
Generally speaking, young Swifties have let Taylor get away with this trait, but they couldn’t hold back any longer when they spotted a comment she’d left on actor Mariska Hargitay’s Instagram post earlier this month.
If you didn’t know, Taylor named her cat Olivia Benson after Mariska’s character in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, so when Mariska revealed that she’d named her new cat after Taylor’s song “Karma,” Taylor couldn’t hide her excitement.
“Are you serious?!!!!” she commented on the post. “Nothing has ever come more full circle ⭕️ LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! 😻”
And fans were floored by Taylor’s use of the circle emoji, questioning whether this particular one had ever been used by anybody before.
And when Taylor’s Time magazine interview came out just days later, some of her quotes led to the star being roasted even more for her millennial ways.
The incriminating quotes in question saw Taylor reference Harry Potter, say that her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s pursuit of her was “metal as hell,” and give a “live, laugh, love”–esque acknowledgment that “trash takes itself out every single time.”
And, true to form, it seems as though Taylor has seen it all. The star took to her social media pages on Wednesday to mark her birthday as well as the streaming release of her Eras Tour film — and she was sure to use more emojis than ever before.
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with youuuu 🫶 Celebrate 34 with me by watching The Eras Tour (Extended Version) including “Long Live” 🐉 “The Archer” 🏹 and “Wildest Dreams” 🩵 at home!” she began.
Taylor then pointedly added, “PS troll me all you want about my excessive and literal millennial emoji use but A) no one’s prouder to be a millennial and B) it’s my bday and today I am exempt! 🎂”
Somebody else wrote, “she knows about the millennial jokes she's always lurking 😭😭”
And one more concluded, “she’s the only millennial i forgive for being a millennial.”
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