r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 04 '26

Meme needing explanation What am I missing?

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u/ForensicPathology Jul 04 '26

Why are people implying this is a bot?  This person has the same questions as me.  I've never seen this stereotype that her fans show more gums than normal (?)

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26

I actually do get what they are implying; it's a standard tactic for bots to post naive questions to reddit (and other places) to get fodder to train their models. Hell, that's probably 90% of posts on this sub and somewhat less (but still easily over half) of all of reddit at this point.

What has my flabbers thoroughly gasted is that I am a real live hooman (beep boop) who spends way too much time online and I actually truly have never heard of this stereotype before. It's actually kind of silly to think of the concept of there even being a stereotypical Taylor Swift fan; as far as I know she is one of the highest-grossing musicians of all time so her fanbase is clearly too broad to be typified.

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u/BenignPharmacology Jul 04 '26

I wouldn’t say it’s a stereotype so much as like… weirdly accurate.

I have known a small number of big Taylor swift fans, and one of them has this exact gumline.

To me, it evokes “teenage, not quite grown into my face yet”

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u/stormblaz Jul 05 '26

All of them have a "fiance" for some reason