You may have noticed, dear reader, that the implications of these pop cultural conspiracy theories are shrinking in scope as we go on. We went from Tupac faking his death so he could later rain down with great vengeance and furious anger on his enemies to an arcade game that was addictive for some reason to, now, the theory that Taylor Swift has been a long-time user of online forum and internet hate machine 4chan. What I think has heightened as we've gone on, however, is the ridiculousness of the conspiracies we are uncovering. To wit: who cares if Taylor Swift uses 4chan? A lot of people, apparently, as it's become a fervently researched and investigated topic, originating with an anonymous post by someone claiming to be one of the "50 richest people in the world" offering to take any questions, besides their name. Since the evidence has been put together by the forum's /b/ board members proving that this mysterious celeb was in fact the "22" singer and not only that, but she uses the message boards pretty frequently. I mean, it's not impossible, just implausible. Surely the singer has better things to do than fart around in a web community that has hijacked events of hers for the worse, getting her to play a gig at a deaf school and forcing her into a meet-and-greet with a middle aged perv? 4chan's founder, Moot, has even poo-pooed the claims, pointing out that it could easily be someone pretending to be Swift. If it was true, though, it would be...well, pretty weird. But weirder things have happened. Such as...
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