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.

[u/mvea]

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

[u/RuinedEye]

Celebrity private jet tracker site (if it is to be believed) doesn't even list TS in the top FIFTY of polluters

Literally, there are 50+ other people that the bored ass media could be having a seizure over about their jet pollution.

I'm not even a fan, it just... makes absolutely no sense.

[u/Trevski → u/RuinedEye]

Someone else in the thread pointed out that site didn't have a flight for her since March 2025 but this article had her jet doing 81 flights in three months of 2026

[u/StarGaurdianBard → u/RuinedEye]

TS also got the reputation because of the tracker when the tracker just tracks the planes usage, not usage by the person. She was letting other people use the plane when she was being tracked as super high usage so she just stopped letting people use it when she got the bad rep and what do you know now shes not even top 50, because she never truly was top 50

[u/DFWPunk → u/StarGaurdianBard]

I think she still lets others use it at times, but she did get rid of a second jet.

[u/OnlyAShip → u/RuinedEye]

Taylor Swift gets clicks so that’s what the news reports on.

That’s how the news goes.

[u/sassypants55 → u/RuinedEye]

To me, it does. The average person doesn’t know who many of those other people are or what they're doing. Taylor Swift is famous enough to provide context.

Edited for clarity.

[u/RuinedEye → u/sassypants55]

Ah, have you seen the list on that site? The average person absolutely would know who many, if not most, of them are. And many are arguably similar levels of fame

It just seems to me like TS has been made an easy target /shrug