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[RI Food Bank @RIFoodBank]

In honor of their wedding, @taylorswift13 & @tkelce donated an extraordinary $1M to Rhode Island Community Food Bank! We're overjoyed, as need in RI is at an all-time high. Funds will help stock food for our 137 member agencies. 🫶#TaylorSwift #Swiftie @FeedingAmerica

[Feeding America @FeedingAmerica]

Thank you @taylorswift13 and @tkelce for your generous $2M gift to Feeding America!

Your support brings us all closer to a future where everyone has the food they need to thrive. So grateful to have partners like you in the movement to end hunger. 🧡

[Qwery13 @TShock13_]

@swiftpage13 @taylorswift13 Please notice them and include lots of Chinese cities in your next tour. They love you so much

[TaylorSwiftPage @swiftpage13]

💚In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Taylor Swift’s debut, Chinese Swifties host an event at Chengdu, The event features large scale LED screen displays, a poster exhibition, a live megamix of Taylor’s greatest hits, etc.🇨🇳

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time. Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a @toystory kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.

Thank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film. Thank you to the incomparable @RandyNewman or the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you’ve meticulously woven over the years. You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it.
By we, I mean myself and my pal @jackantonoff. We wrote this with so much adoration for these characters that made us laugh and helped us learn lessons and think outside the backyard all throughout our childhoods. “I Knew It, I Knew You” from Toy Story 5 is out everywhere now. 🤠🐴

https://t.co/2JaaQvxHjp

[orange cat @pearl0812lucky]

真的要祝愿的话，我希望大家能和阴郁的童年告别，和被忽视的青春期告别，和不会爱的父母告别。做一个大人，不是附庸和牺牲品，没有非主观的期冀和被明码标价的欲望。儿童节快乐

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

It’s a *Toy* Story 🤠
You knew it! My new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Disney and @Pixar’s @toystory 5 will be yours on June 5th. I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?
You can pre-order now exclusively at https://t.co/NoneI6kxdH and catch Toy Story 5 in theaters June 19th ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️

[Taylor Nation @taylornation13]

One year of owning the best things that have ever been hers. 💚💛💜♥️🩵🖤 #TheyBelongWithHer

[REY @AOTY2024]

@_rj_creation_ The smallest man who ever lived

[Cinder @SweetYearning]

I’m always reminded of this interview of Stevie Nicks whenever people get mad at her for supporting Taylor:

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[⸆⸉ @cowboylikelovee]

.@finneas say thank you for the food she puts on your plate

[Taydefender @Taydefender1]

I remember Billie eilish making fun of the speech where she mentioned this but this is REAL ACTIVISM for artists rights and NOT Instagram stories!

[mo @everlikeme]

taylor’s impact on the industry is really wild like she changed the whole game

[The Swift Society @TheSwiftSociety]

🚨| Taylor Swift talking about her songwriting for The New York Times

[Paige❤️‍🔥 @bejeweledpaige]

People won't recognize this as activism but she's using her resources to create a legal precedent that other artists will be able to follow without having to spend as much money on legal fees. This is a lot more than most people are doing. Good for her

[Mei Mei @forfunfunny]

Taylor Swift was promoting her album Lover in China. She's the most streamed, most followers, and best selling western artist in China of all time.

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| Taylor Swift has a cute interaction with children at the 2026 #iHeartAwards!

"Are you excited for tonight? It's gonna be fun!"

[𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟 🪄⸆⸉🇸🇦🇵🇸 @WolfyToto]

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

- Taylor Swift

[kris🦋 @perfectlyfine89]

“Is that a child??? It’s very late!”

Oh mother Tayressa 🥹🤏🏼