Katelyn🌻

29. she/her. I hope you like Taylor Swift 🌙

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

god life used to be fun and full of color and life and now we gave ai and mass surveillance

[James @james_enchanted]

People are complaining about Taylor's charity saying "it's not enough". So here's a breakdown.

Taylor made $202M last year. She donated $26M. That's 12.87% of her gross income.

The median household income in the US is $84k, so that would be $10.8k. Have you donated that much?

[megs❤️‍🔥 @alltoomeghan]

from the bottom of my heart, i hope it was the most magical day of her life and everything that she had ever dreamed of

[Holly 🩷 @fightindragonsx]

New fear unlocked: being asleep when Taylor Swift posts wedding photos

[tumblr @tumblr]

and we were never the same

[tumblr @tumblr]

20 years of taylor swift💚✨

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

It was a Monday in early August 2023. The exhausted truck drivers of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour thought they were heading to a routine production meeting before the Los Angeles shows.
They had no idea what was coming.
Scott Swift walked in. Taylor's father didn't say much—he just began handing out envelopes. When the drivers finally peeked inside, some thought the check said $1,000. Others read $10,000. The third driver stared at his and said out loud: "This has to be a joke."
It wasn't.
$100,000.
Each driver. Nearly 50 of them. The industry standard bonus from the biggest stars? $5,000 to $10,000. Taylor had given them more than ten times that.
But here's what made it matter most: these drivers weren't wealthy. They lived in truck cabs. They hadn't seen their families in 24 weeks. They were people who would never own homes—until now. Until that envelope.
That moment of shock and tears? It was just the beginning.
Across the entire Eras Tour, Taylor quietly handed out $197 million in bonuses. The dancers. The band. The riggers. The lighting and sound technicians. The caterers. Every single person who built the show—they got bonuses, handwritten notes, and wax-sealed letters. When dancers opened theirs on camera in her docuseries, they broke down crying. Some couldn't believe she was real.
"If the tour grosses more, they get more," she explained simply. These people work hard. They deserve it.
But the crew bonuses weren't the only quiet revolution happening.
Starting in March 2023, in every city where the tour touched down, a call came to local food banks. Taylor wanted to donate. No press conference. No announcement. No photo op. One donation fed 75,000 meals. Another provided hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh produce. Across the tour, the total reached millions of meals—possibly more—all delivered in silence.
She never posted about a single one.
And it wasn't new for her.
In March 2020, when the pandemic locked down the world, Taylor scrolled through social media posts from fans who were breaking. A photographer about to lose everything. A person staring down eviction. She sent direct messages with rent money—$3,000 here, $13,000 there. Some fans got enough for months of bills. She read the Washington Post. She noticed the names. She helped.
She never announced it.
Years later, in October 2025, a two-year-old named Lilah—fighting a cancer so rare that only 58 families in America had ever known it—was filmed by her mother dancing to a Taylor Swift song. Lilah called Taylor her friend. A few days later, the GoFundMe received a $100,000 donation.
The note said: "Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor."
Mike Scherkenbach has worked with the wealthiest people in music. He's seen the bonuses. He's seen the behavior. He's watched billionaires guard their money jealously.
What he saw with Taylor was different.
The biggest tour in history grossed $2 billion. The artist behind it became a billionaire from her own songwriting. And then she signed her name onto hundreds of envelopes by hand and sent enough money back to the people who built her dream that they cried opening their letters.
That isn't strategy. That isn't a publicity stunt.
That's what happens when someone, somewhere along the way, remembered what matters.

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

The fact that he is so good at this really puts into perspective how cartoonishly evil the average politician is

[Lowkeyhurt @uhtriad]

me at work trying to be grateful that I have a job

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Pay a bill. Pay a bill. Work. Work. Work. Change your oil. CARD DECLINED! CARD IS LOCKED! Change your password. 2 step verification. PERIOD! Unload the dishwasher. Change tire. 4 TIRES! WAKE UP! Work. Work. Work. Food is bad. Apple $9.99. Skincare. Sunscreen. Protein. Protein. Pay a bill. Pay a bill. Always somebody’s birthday. “Are you coming?” RENT IS DUE! I’m so EXHAUSTERWELMULATED with life right now! 😩😭

[Katelyn🌻 @kateryn96]

so um hehe 😋💜💎 #RSD2026 @taylornation13

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The forest service does lots of things, but they're the frontline in fighting wildfires. There is literally no issue Republicans aren't maximally evil on. You cannot hate them enough.

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Work. Work. Work. Stay hydrated. Go to the dentist. 10,000 steps. “What’s for dinner?” Insurance. Drink water. Pay a bill. Pay a bill. Smile. Credit Score. Check engine light. Go get gas. ALLERGIES! TAXES! STUDENT LOANS! Phone storage full. Email. Email. Apple $12.99. Apple $9.99. Subscriptions. Subscription. Overdraft. Laundry. Fold. Text. Text. Text. Clean the house. “I haven’t seen you in a while.” Doctors appoinment. Hair appoinment. Nail appointment. RENT. WAR! GOVERNMENT! POLITICS! THE PRESIDENT!!

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.

[MileyCyrus PRESS @CyrusPRESS]

people my age are on baby number 2 and i’m over here crying about this

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:

TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more

This is oligarchy.

[Harram @_harramm]

i’m so sick of old, white men destroying a future they’ll never have to face

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

AMERICA ONCE IMPEACHED A PRESIDENT FOR HAVING CONSENSUAL SEX WITH A WOMAN... BUT THEY WON'T IMPEACH A PRESIDENT FOR HAVING NON-CONSENSUAL SEX WITH CHILDREN... MULTIPLE CHILDREN.... WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH AMERICA 😡😤

[Libriscent @libriscent]

anyone else immediately feeling the urge to cry the second they sit down at their desk because work feels so stupid and pointless when you’re this burnt out and overwhelmed and your nervous system hasn’t known peace in a decade??? no? just me?

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

the trauma response of never fully decorating ur space is so real