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This past weekend, seemingly every Taylor Swift fan in America (besides me) flocked to a movie theater to check out the already-massive and award-nominated hit Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
As someone who miraculously scored tickets to one of her sold-out concerts earlier this year, I wasn’t dying to re-experience her three-hour musical extravaganza on the silver screen just yet. Plus, the videos that emerged from various screenings were their own source of sidesplitting and somewhat staggering entertainment. There were Swifties doing what looked like Midsommar rituals in front of seats. Others looked like they were having some sort of religious experience. One Swiftie bolted out of a theater with a giant cardboard display for the movie like Tom Cruise in a Mission Impossible movie.
All of these clips have prompted an onslaught of jokes and criticism, with Twitter (now called X) users decrying Swifties’ lack of theater etiquette. However, one video from The Eras Tour’s opening weekend, not about Swift’s main demographic of screaming young girls, has managed to thoroughly haunt me for three whole days: Taylor Lautner doing backflips and kick-ups for a gaggle of moviegoing, ostensible teens.