Riding the Swift Bandwagon

I sincerely hope that this strip was meant as a satiric skewering of all the Taylor Swift hoopla, and not as an even semi-serious attempt to get on the bandwagon with everyone else.

P.S. When I first read the strip, I thought Liniers was in the market for the latest and greatest (overpriced) mobile phone, but when I zoomed in on the fourth panel, I discovered that the last word was “plane”. (I really like hand lettering, but now I wonder who does it for the translated version of the strip.)

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  1. Unknown's avatar

    Imagine a world where celebrity endorsements increased a product’s popularity and potentially made its creator a lot of money. Some pretty sharp satire going on here.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    The hoopla has been going on for far longer than I ever imagined; starting in 2009, Guy Gilchrist wrote nearly a dozen Taylor Swift gags into Nancy (most of them annoyingly juvenile):

  3. Unknown's avatar

    A front-page story in today’s (12/13/2023) Boston Globe is all about how people are celebrating Swiftmas today, complete with Swiftmas trees and gift-giving. It’s Taylor Swift’s birthday.

  4. Unknown's avatar

    The best Taylor Swift thing I’ve seen recently was a headline in The Onion: “Taylor Swift Named Golf Magazine’s Club of the Year”

  5. Unknown's avatar

    I view a lot of YouTube videos, including cooking ones. I had one recommended to me. The thumbnail seemed normal, a pleasant-looking woman in kitchen set. I started reading the title, “Perfect One-Pot, Six-Pan, 10-Wok, 25-Baking Sheet Dinner.” What?! Then I saw the creator was The Onion. Makes sense.

    It seems they made several of these in 2017:

  6. Unknown's avatar

    @ MiB (6) – That’s the reason why Stahler’s panel (@3) is only “semi” synchronous (the date I scheduled for this post was not a coincidence).

  7. Unknown's avatar

    Imagine a world where celebrity endorsements increased a product’s popularity and potentially made its creator a lot of money. Some pretty sharp satire going on here.

    I like to imagine a world where nobody was (or nowhere near enough people were) so vapid and lacking in feelings of self worth that that could ever happen.

    And then reality comes crashing in.

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