People Are Calling Taylor Swift Out For Not Stepping In And Telling Her “Rabid” Fans To Stop Bullying Her Ex Joe Alwyn Online

Last April, Taylor Swift fans were left stunned when it was announced that she had split from her boyfriend Joe Alwyn after more than six years together. Also around this time, Taylor’s publicist, Tree Paine, posted a tweet that not only denied speculation that Taylor and Joe had been secretly married before their split but also said that the rumors were causing “pain and trauma” for Taylor.

Considering all of this recent discourse around Taylor’s last relationship, it’s unsurprising that when she announced her upcoming album earlier this month, Joe was at the forefront of everybody’s mind.

Others appeared to be a little more pointed, including “Fresh Out the Slammer” and “But Daddy I Love Him,” which Swifties respectively claimed were going to be about Taylor feeling imprisoned during her relationship, and giving up her voice for a man.

And it has now been revealed that Swifties have even created an AI-edited video of Joe to paint him in a negative light — and then manipulated a community note that exposed the fact that the clip isn’t real.

Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, one Taylor fan shared an old video that somebody secretly filmed when walking past Taylor and Joe in a New Orleans restaurant, writing: “Streets are saying Joe said ‘You don’t get to tell me about sad’ here.”

Please note: The audio in the below video has been AI generated and is not real.

Streets are saying Joe said “You don’t get to tell me about sad” here pic.twitter.com/jA1AuQ1t4U

— Mai ⋆｡°✩ (@Maitaylorsver) February 23, 2024

Discussing the situation on a Reddit forum, people called Taylor out for not making any effort to reign her fans in. One person wrote: “Even if I absolutely hated my ex, if people were treating him this maliciously, I would release a statement asking them to stop.”

And Joe is far from the only one of Taylor’s exes to have been targeted by Swifties over the years, with Jake Gyllenhaal also getting the villain treatment after Taylor wrote about their short-lived 2010 relationship.

And in 2021, John Mayer — who briefly dated Taylor in 2009 — revealed that he was still receiving death threats from her fans on Instagram more than a decade after they broke up.