Taylor Swift fans have been clamouring for every detail of the pop superstar's The Eras Tour since she debuted the show expected to make her of all time in March. last month purported to show Swift had published a poster on Instagram sharing a slew of new international dates. The poster is fake. Swift has not announced any of the dates on the poster.
from @allswifted was made on April 19 and said, "international dates are here and my country is there we won (sic)."
The post was accompanied by a cropped image purporting to show Swift had shared a new tour poster on Instagram. It advertised that Swift would make her way to Wembley Stadium in London in August, then visit Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, later in the month and Toronto's Rogers Centre for shows on Sept. 1 and 2.
The poster also advertised stops at Ireland's Croke Park, Australia's ANZ Stadium (now called the Accor Stadium), Brazil's Allianz Parque, Singapore's Singapore stadium, New Clark stadium in the Philippines and Tokyo Dome in Japan.
It said Gracie Abrams, OWENN, beabadoobee and GAYLE would be "special guests" on some of the dates.
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Swift's Instagram page does not show the poster @allswifted shared and the tour dates listed in the image are not on , which encourages fans to "stay tuned" for international dates. The dates are also not on any of the arena pages or Ticketmaster, which she used to sell seats for her current run of The Eras shows.
The poster uses a misspelling of São Paulo, Brazil, and Wembley Stadium has already scheduled , when the image alleges Swift will visit on Aug. 18.
Live Nation, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, is the events company for The Eras Tour.
When emailed the tweet and poster, Tonisha Bath, director of communications and venue marketing for Live Nation, said, "Confirming this is not a Live Nation tour."
Swift's label did not respond to requests for comment.
A second poster
The user behind @allswifted did not respond to a request for comment from The ºÃÉ«tv Press, but after the attempt to reach the user, on April 27.
The second poster, sub-headed "Asia & Europe 2024," added more dates in additional countries including the United Arab Emirates, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Austria, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Wales and Romania. Special guests Phoebe Bridgers, the 1975, Haim and One Ok Rock were added, too.
However, this time the user captioned the poster, "Taylor would NOT go to an international tour of this magnitude, we’d be lucky if we get half the amount of US shows."
Following tweets from users questioning the poster's authenticity, @allswifted replied "This isnt real" with a skull emoji and then "This is fake" with a crying face emoji.
The truth behind the tweeter
The user behind @allswifted does not share their full name online, but in tweets says, "you can call me Ren." Their profile says the person running the account, opened in March, . Links it provided to bearing the same name say he is located in the Philippines.
That YouTube account features explaining how he "tricked the entire Swiftie community" by using audio software to alter some of her songs, then posted them on Twitter. He claimed they were leaks of Taylor's Versions, a term Swift uses to label after her masters were sold to music mogul Scooter Braun. Investment company Shamrock Capital has since from Braun.
In a caption on his video, @allswifted admits the posts were "fake 'leaks.' "
"It was wild and so many people believed it even when I said it was fake at the end of the threads," he wrote, adding a crying face emoji. "Pls dont feel offended ahaha this was all for harmless fun!"
On other occasions, he has about being responsible for "rapid spreading of misinformation across swiftie media."
The email account listed on the YouTube page did not respond to a request for comment about the tour poster.
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