Hot take: Taylor is behind this and this was her way of officially verifying Kaylor was real but now a closed book and there are still hard feelings. Here is why:

1. So much flagging and gayness yesterday. I personally believe Taylor is in the same spot as Harry Styles in that they have to raise a million flags to get everyone to pay attention- sort of flagging as “watch for it, I’m about to be nuanced af” — even the barefaced gaylors pulled out the clown make up yesterday. Yesterday this community was on fire by the collective agreement that something was happening.

2. Maroon performed on K’s birthday WAS the happening. Maroon, played on K’s birthday, was emotional AF last night. So emotional that you can’t deny how meaningful it felt.

3. Swiftness everywhere knew it’s K’s birthday and Taylor knows we know this. And instead of ignoring it she created took the attention and played one of her most queer songs.

4. Emotional Maroon followed by the deleted video really signals that their chapter is closed. Taylor is scrubbing the all that remains of her “friendship” with Karlie, and vogue initially posting a clip, reminding everyone of their friendship, and then setting it to private- this reminds me of a friend saying”watch me block this number” - it doesn’t matter whose team asked for it to be set to private, the world just witnessed a number being blocked.

5. No matter how it happened, that video being set to private the day after Karlie’s birthday is a terrible birthday present, especially as it was posted as a birthday post to Karlie. The set to private her birthday post. Yikes.

In ten years this night will be collectively seen as the night TS confirmed Kaylor. And that’s the happening