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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.
PHOTOS: AFP, HONG@HONGPHOTOGRAPHY.ART/INSTAGRAM
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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”.

