Fans Think Taylor Swift Low-Key Confirmed Justin Bieber Cheated on Selena Gomez
Over the weekend news broke that Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber’s manager, has acquired Taylor Swift‘s music back catalog as part of his purchase of Big Machine Label Group. Swift posted a lengthy message on Tumblr about the incident, which she says is her “worst case scenario.”
“Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter,” Swift wrote.
In her Tumblr post, Swift included a selfie that Bieber had shared of himself with Braun and Kanye West and captioned “Taylor Swift what up.” After her response to Braun went viral, Bieber addressed the situation with his own Instagram. “First of all i would like to apologize for posting that hurtful instagram post, at the time i thought it was funny but looking back it was distasteful and insensitive,” he wrote. “I have to be honest though it was my caption and post that I screenshoted of scooter and Kanye that said “taylor swift what up” he didnt have anything to do with it and it wasnt even a part of the conversation in all actuality he was the person who told me not to joke like that.”
He continued: “Scooter has had your back since the days you graciously let me open up for you.! As the years have passed we haven’t crossed paths and gotten to communicate our differences, hurts or frustrations. So for you to take it to social media and get people to hate on scooter isn’t fair. What were you trying to accomplish by posting that blog? seems to me like it was to get sympathy u also knew that in posting that your fans would go and bully scooter. Anyway, One thing i know is both scooter and i love you.”
The move has, of course, caused a lot of chatter online. One fan wrote in a Tumblr post to Bieber, “You cheated on her best friend and then publicly sided with the man who made revenge porn against her. How was she supposed to invite you over for tea?” This fan is presumably referencing Selena Gomez here, whom Bieber dated and Swift is famously close friends with. And the “revenge porn” reference is no doubt about Kanye West’s “Famous” music video, which includes a naked Taylor Swift mannequin. You can see in the screenshot, below, that Swift “liked” this Tumblr post. So is this a confirmation that Justin Bieber did, in fact, cheat on Selena Gomez? That’s what several fans online think.