Hey, I'm Candice Lim.

And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why am I.

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Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And Candice, have I ever told you that I have met Taylor Swift?

Uh, no.

Tell me more.

Yeah. Sometimes I forget, too, because it was such a blip, but I went to reputation, but I went to reputation as press.

And so we got to do a little meet and greet beforehand.

And my coworker and I went together, we actually decided to, well, we asked, we were like,

maybe there was this meme that was kind of going around or like a viral series of photos because Taylor would do these meet and greets.

And in one case, a couple had gotten engaged during the meet and greet and there were these

like photos capturing taylor's reaction and it was like kind of among swifties going viral because

it was just like a little moment so this had just happened and me and my coworker were like

would you want to recreate that with us uh and she was down like she, yeah, let's go do it. She took us back to the

meet and greet area. We recreated it. I have all the photos. And it was just like a cute

little thing and I had posted them. But you'll notice on my Instagram, they're all gone.

Oh. And here's why. Because my coworker is a woman. And we weren't thinking about this at all when we did the stunt.

We were just like, oh, funny, let's just recreate this bit with Taylor Swift.

Right.

When we posted it, it went bananas.

Oh.

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