Why do people like swifty

To date, she has been nominated for 32 Grammys, and won 10, becoming one of the top-selling female artists of all time. Swift has been able to build a lasting connection with fans because she is really good at coming off like she is one of them, Hernsberger says. Particularly at the beginning of her career, she built her image as the girl next door, hiring her mom as her manager and singing songs about her real-life best friends and boyfriends.

She confessed to feeling like an outcast in high school. She made YouTube videos about her cats. There are millennial men who feel a deep connection with Swift, too. Adam Aquilina, age 30, listens to Swift on his drive to and from the hospice where he works in Ontario caring for people at the end of their life. He mentions his Swift fandom on all of his online dating profiles, he says. See you later. Swift has always excelled at reaching out to her fans and making them feel connected, Hernsberger says.

I mean, who else does that? No one. A few weeks ago, Swift started counting down to her next big release. The singer seems to have designed this release specifically for her most loyal fans. The initial announcement was subtle: She changed her profile picture on Instagram and linked to a website that hosted the countdown.

Ever since the announcement, Swift has been dropping hints on her social media: enigmatic, pastel-tinted pictures of briefcases and bicycles and tulle. Swifties have, in turn, been struggling to decode them.

While an exception was made in this case, accountholders who intentionally participate in events that contribute to realm instability will be subject to significant account actions, up to and including a permanent vacation from the game. Please keep discussions related to this action within this thread.

Have fun and please remember to play responsibly. Bashiok responds to Swifty ban. None at all. We took appropriate measures to review existing suspensions and address them appropriately, and as stated in the original message, anyone found to be involved with intentionally disrupting the service will be receiving the appropriate action taken against them.

I think there are situations where people are very loud about something, they happen to be right, and we address those situations appropriately. But one doesn't influence the other. We're more than willing to make unpopular decisions if they're the right ones to make. Bashiok comments on Swifty unbanning. It looks like there's some confusion regarding our original message -- in large part due to some poor word choice.

Just to clarify, the decision to change some of the bans to suspensions was actually a correction, not an exception. We reviewed the activity and felt that based on the evidence, the original decision to roll out the ban hammer was incorrect, and the appropriate action, for those bans that were undone, would have been to issue a suspension. The key words are "based on the evidence," not "based on the activity.

However, we tend to base the degree of disciplinary action on the evidence we have indicating to what degree the account in question is involved. That was not done for some of the accounts that initially received a full ban, so we corrected the initial mistake and reduced the ban for those accounts to a suspension.

For those concerned with this particular issue, I hope this clarifies things somewhat. I've edited the original post to hopefully avoid similar confusion moving forward.