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26 | all things taylor & horror 🔪 | 🏎️🏁 🍃

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

Women have spent their whole lives playing male characters without complaint. Give you one female protagonist and you cry like babies. So pathetic.

[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.

[𝒩𝒶𝓃𝒶 ⸆⸉ 🫧 @lilysith]

addiction so bad, i took the week off work for the gta 6 release

[𝒩𝒶𝓃𝒶 ⸆⸉ 🫧 @lilysith]

@kubaswift did she ever go on this trip? i can’t find anything 😭

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift’s record contract could lead to millions of dollars being paid to artists as UMG prepares to sell half of their equity stake in Spotify.

When Swift signed her contract in 2018, she negotiated a clause stating that any sale of UMG’s Spotify shares would result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.

Her “non-recoupable” clause ensures that artists receive that money even if they still owe advances to the label that signed them.

(https://t.co/a6vxKX98qo)

[sophia⸆⸉ ❤️‍🔥☁️ @illicit8affairs]

when you’re still a believer but you don’t know why

[Riley @RileyRilesRiley]

was bored so i edited syd matters obstacles over the max and chloe reunion scene #secretsofcaledon

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour generated $2 billion, and she rewarded her staff with $197 million in bonuses—from dancers receiving $750,000 each (five times their annual salary) to truck drivers getting $100,000 each, matching a typical yearly wage.

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

This needs to be said — if you are a man and you are not consoling the special woman in your life about Punch-kun the abused monkey you are going to be very sorry

[augustine @housewench_]

funny I don’t see any think pieces about this. But when Taylor Swift sells a necklace with a lightning bolt on it, she automatically becomes a literal Nazi.

[✮ CVR @adasfile]

72.88 GB

[𝒩𝒶𝓃𝒶 ⸆⸉ 🫧 @lilysith]

old

[illusionist 🕷️ @mentaylly_ill]

waking up to taylor swift being outed as a man hating feminist, an extremely loyal friend, and the youngest female Songwriter's Hall of Fame inductee

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift made donations to seven organizations during the month of December, including:

• Feeding America
• American Heart Association
• MusiCares
• ACM Lifting Lives
• CMA Foundation
• Operation Breakthrough
• Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

[Gene Park @GenePark]

Expedition 33 team freely admitted using AI and just won the most awards ever in The Game Awards history.

[august slipped away ❤️‍🔥☁️ @speaknow37]

I swear leftists and haters expect more from Taylor Swift than their elected government officials cuz WHAT DO YOU MEAN she should lower the cost of living and replace the social welfare programs that the current government is cutting????

[˖ 𖥻 Louie ⁉️ 🇧🇷 THE JIMA IS REAL @rednoodleboy]

kojima reaction fucking killed me