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She's the target of memes because just recently she tried to shut down the guy who tracks her jet. Streisand effect. Nobody was talking shit about her jets(well a lot) until she screamed to the world leave my jet alone.
Didn't she get put under the super microscope after she told her followers to register to vote? That got the Fox news tribe to do their double standard selective outrage thing and now all of a sudden republicans care about fossil fuels and emissions.
I seem to remember a similar list a while back, and they got rented out a lot. I can't think of many other reasons to have two of the fucking things.
I'd be surprised if a lot of private jet owners don't rent them out tbh. They're not cheap, and even if you're a super duper important rich cunt, how often do you really need to use them?
The original numbers were put out by a marketing agency and have been criticized as inaccurate. Other attempts to quantify private jet usage do not show Taylor Swift in the top 30. Travis Scott, Kim Kardashian, Elon Musk, Beyoncé & Jay-Z, and Bill Gates hold the top 5.
If you distribute the emissions on all the consumers, the concert goers then it's probably negligible. And their fault. So we should attack people who go to music concerts. But really we should attack celebrity culture. Much less funny meme though
I mean, by definition she is an individual. A really bad individual when it comes to see CO2 emissions.
If you're interested in improving things. Then all the Taylor Swift posting is actually working against you. You're basically spreading the vibe that Taylor Swift alone is the problem or that people who travel a lot in private jets are the problem. Which is not a useful truth in that there are way bigger polluters.
What would be great is if we got a bunch of funny memes about industry producing a huge amount of fossil fuels. That would be more productive.
Ignore all of the actual billionaires' and the real issues. Lets instead focus on a random scapegoat in the form of a woman redditors like to shit on :D!
Damn I really love big oil and gas companies, glad TS doesn't work for any of those :).
I'm just wondering, okay coming from Japan to the Superbowl she was in a tearing hurry, so not the best example, but normally, how many people are usually in that jet with her? (Separate question maybe: When she's touring, how do the roadies and equipment get from city to city?) She's got quite a large entourage, especially when you add in her friends and family and cats and someone to help herd the cats. I wouldn't want the price or availability of my vacation tickets affected by them all piling on my flight. And touring is her job. She's going out to entertain the masses, not herself (she seems to be having a good time but still). Would it be better if she stayed put and they all traveled to see her? A few do follow her around but most are pleased to see her show up in their local area. I'm just not convinced it's the worst waste of resources. Now, the Pope....!
I think it depends on need vs want. Does she need her cats, friends and most of the crew? No, she just wants them. Most large venues are able to povide staging crew, for instance. I can see a 'need' for a stylist or lighting director for example, since a local placeholder just wouldn't be able to re-create the exact style or look that they want.
But that's not enough people to warrant a private jet. I think it'd be more justifiable for the plane to be fitted with regular passenger seating and for those seats to be sold to the public as commercial travel
I would think you'd want crew who had trained on the show, who knew exactly where and when the lighting/pyrotechnics/scenery/instruments/costume/etc. changes need to happen, in order to minimize tech rehearsals. And if you're Taylor Swift you can afford that, rather than muddle through with whoever is available at the venues in each town of each country. It might even be more cost effective, by way of the Vimes Boots Theory of Economics. And it would pay off in a clean, safe show every time.
As for friends, in a touring lifestyle how would you have any if they can't come with you, at least sometimes?
Now that suggestion about selling tickets for the rest of the plane is intriguing. She could make a bundle selling them to fans, OR, she could give those spaces to people who need and deserve them. Cancer kids or whatever. Although with the crazy hate out there for her, it would be a security risk...
If you didn't have to arrive 2 hours early to get through Security, nor limit your liquids, nor take off your shoes, nor take out your cat so its carrier can be scanned, nor wait to board the plane, nor wonder if your baggage made it onto your plane, and you could be sure ahead of time that you'd like the food, and the whole airplane would get quiet if you wanted to sleep, and no crying babies unless you bring one... What would you choose?
And there's definitely people who want to kill her.
But that doesn't include her mom or her friends or her stage crew or bodyguards or publicity people.