Taylor Swift fans are feuding with Lestat from Interview With The Vampire

This past weekend, AMC showed off a teaser for the upcoming third season of Interview With The Vampire, based on baroque, homoerotically charged bloodsucker books by Anne Rice. The upcoming season will be based on Rice's book The Vampire Lestat, when the titular brat prince (Sam Reid) becomes a rock star. He's acting like a spoiled rock diva in the teaser above, delighting fans everywhere. I loved the first two seasons of Interview and will watch the gunk out of the third.

Anyway, one fan on Twitter posted pictures of Lestat from the teaser alongside images of once-in-a-generation singing megastar Taylor Swift, complete with a lyric from Swift's song "Blank Space": “I’ve got a long list of ex-lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane.”

Cute, right? In the case of Lestat, the line refers to his exes Louis and Armand, both of whom have very complicated feelings about the guy. As for Taylor, it's known that some of her songs are inspired by her ex-boyfriends, who include the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas, John Mayer and Harry Styles.

What a funny little post comparing a fictional vampire to Taylor Swift. Surely the internet won't make a thing of it. You must be new here. Although the original post has been deleted, as have some of the angry retweets from Taylor Swift fans, the screenshots remain. For example:

So here we have a collage comparing Lestat and Taylor Swift, I assume because the poster loves both of them, and then we have a Swiftie calling Lestat "hideous" and opining that punishment should be meted out for putting this "ugly white man" next to Taylor Swift. Over two thousand likes for the clapback to the retweet of the collage. Another:

Some of these Swifties allude to "ugly bitches in the quotes" and "male obsessed lunatics" saying bad things about Queen Tay Tay in response to the original post; it's hard to confirm since that post has been deleted. But even assuming the worst, that original post is obviously a "Ha ha, isn't it funny that Lestat and Taylor both have exes" kind of tweet, right? The escalation. Far too much.

This reads like stan culture run amok. This is singer Chappell Roan purposefully trying to pump the brakes on her rise to fame because too many of her fans are giving off "stalker vibes." This is people saying they'll die for a celebrity, meaning it sincerely, and not thinking that's at all weird.

It's also something that the chaotic Lestat would 100% endorse, so I'm going to try and take a page from his book and enjoy the mess. Whenever he comes back to TV, I'll be watching. And not that she needs my endorsement, being the most successful singer in the world and all, but rock on, Taylor Swift, as well.

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h/t Polygon