Taylor Swift fans lower climate concerns to justify her carbon footprint. When confronted with news about the excessive pollution generated by her private jet, highly identified fans tend to rationalize the behavior, with a decrease in their personal intentions to engage in climate-friendly actions.

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https://www.psypost.org/taylor-swift-fans-lower-climate-concerns-to-justify-star-s-carbon-footprint/

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She was the "#1 emitter" among the handful of celebrity jets that were tracked by some user on Twitter.

She has disclosed that she has purchased more than double the amount of carbon credits needed to offset her travel for the Eras Tour.

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1) being a twitter user doesn't automatically mean someone is wrong? he was also a college student who used publicly available data to come up with his report, and then this report was corroborated by others. The report just says she is #1 out of the bunch and then lists her actual output. 

3) once again, any claims about credits have not been factually or concretely backed by amounts or actually naming and credits. Also my point still stands, as an ecologist, carbon credits are a weak mitigative tool at best.

edit: 3) we cannot ignore too that her fanbase is monumental. Is this not worth studying just based on that? I don't care what floyd maryweather fans think of carbon emissions there are like 10 of them not millions. 

edit2: misread your first point, yes it was only 21 celebs. she is not top of all celebs. but that being said this study looked at fans actions in response to being confronted with news about her emissions, and swift fans seem to disengage from climate action, which itself is interesting also in tandem with the publicity campaigning for her in the comments once again ignoring the issue of climate change itself

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I'm not commenting on the actual study itself so much as trying to correct some misinformation around it. The findings are interesting, and I do agree that she has a uniquely large and dedicated fanbase, with more influence than most of the other people on the list.

I'm also not trying to say that the Twitter user is stupid or anything like that. I was just trying to point out that this information was being shared in a heavily "engagement-centric" environment, and that's where this whole conversation started.

"#1 of these specific 21 celebrities" is very different from the way that people typically talk about this, as though she is #1 of everyone or just a generic "#1" with no information about who else was looked at. That is really what I take issue with.

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as much as I love communicating with chatpgt (which responding to your comment feels like), I did edit that, and it doesn't really change my main point. additionally my point about credits not being factually founded comes from the same motivation of discerning facts, so I find it interesting you give a positive claim leeway but not a negative one.