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‘Taylor Swift is my mother’: How parasocial mania has overtaken pop culture

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Local Swifties attend a Taylor Swift-themed event on June 11.

Local Swifties attend a Taylor Swift-themed event on June 11.

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SINGAPORE – It is no longer strange to believe that a global popstar raised you.

At least not for some hardcore Taylor Swift fans on TikTok under the hashtag #swifttok, who fervently believe the American mega popstar has a real and living connection to them, along with being their “mother”.

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