As Sylvia Plath famously once said, “I will literally fight the bitches who misquote me on the internet,” attributing false famous words to inappropriate individuals is a risky business. But when a stroke of inspiration emerges, and you realise that Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and Stalin share the kind of sentiments—through similarly flowery lyrical proclamations—with innocent Taylor Swift, who’s to stop you from capitalising on that internet gold mine? No one, that’s who.
Legend providing the service nobody knew they needed, Emily Pattinson took to Pinterest to show that dictators, genocidal maniacs and sweet country folk gals aren’t so different after all. Naturally, when the internet realised that slamming Hitler’s “Providence has had the last word, and brought me success” in a curly red font across T-Swift was incredibly convincing Tumblr fuel, it went a bit nuts. For some reason, I think Taylor Swift was kind of pissed, and rejected the phenomenon spectacularly.
Anyway, the board is thankfully resurrected, and here’s two highlights from Taylor Swift’s frighteningly believable misquotations:
