why the rep tv announcement is coming this friday (august 2nd, 2024) a thread 📎 https://t.co/fKu6DjLo8A

so, to begin, we all know the 175 theory, and how important the number 13 (and numbers that add up to 13) is to taylor swift, but if you need to fully recap on how August 2nd falls into the theory, this thread has all the info! https://t.co/0MIjxetsYd

a highlight of that thread: there were 175 days between 1989 TV and TTPD 175 days from ttpd is the date of October 11th, which is the inverse date of the original reputation release date of November 10th (11/10 - 10/11). this leaves that date as a candidate for the release date

therefore, if we use this 175 day estimate as a predictor for the release date, we may be able to predict when the announcement is based off of the other albums announcement-to-release schedules: 1989 tv - 79 days ttpd - 75 days

this was a little shorter for midnights and speak now, which were 62 and 68 days, but still in this 2-3 month period

if an announcement came this friday, 70 days is not an irrational time frame between announcement and release

but hey, lets say that 175 theory isn't true! what other reasons could we point to august 2nd being the rep tv announcement date?

firstly, there has been rep in the air recently. hayley williams, dressed in black, asked the crowd "do you feel... ready for it?" during her munich opener

noteably, this exact opening set was streamed by taylornation on youtube. the stream was seemingly out of nowhere, and ended as abruptly as it started a full 13 minutes after it was HD quality using multiple angles and cameras, almost as though they were testing something 👀

coincidentally, the last 2✌️ times taylor went live were when she sang "i don't want to live forever" from the fifty shades soundtrack, a song that was released during the reputation era in 2017. in the past, taylor has gone live for her various album announcements

taylor today posted her munich recap with 2 pictures from the reputation setlist notably the 8th slide included a rep photo of her holding a ✌️ sign (a handsign she has prior used to signal towards album announcements and easter eggs), signalling towards 08/02 or night 2, warsaw

additionally, kanye west is dropping an album on 08/02. as a shade towards him and the irreparable damage he has done to her, it's not without reason that she might coincide her rep tv announcement with his album, to shift attention away from it

this is not the first time that taylor has been involved in (albeit playful) album releases to coincide with other relevant dates. such as when folklore so happened to fall on the 10th anniversary of her ex's band (which may have shaded his album dropping on her birthday in 2019)

another interesting point which hints towards an 08/02 announcement: https://t.co/N8mnalcncV

taylor’s next instagram post will be number 666, an infamously “evil” number. the theme coincides with reputation as an era, which painted her as a villain/devil in the eyes of the world

a little rebuttal for the argument of “but we are still in ttpd era!” i’d like to remind you that taylor continued to release midnights music videos even after speak now tv was announced. ttpd era doesn’t end when rep tv announces. we will still get ttpd stuff!

AND THERE’S MORE! today, taylornation posted this tiktok about taylor’s cat meredith meredith is often joked about having “gone missing” by swifties as we do not often receive updates on how she’s doing

returning back to october 11th being the theorised release date for rep tv based on 175s meredith (named after the character meredith grey) shares a birthday with three character’s irl actress ellen pompeo which just so happens to be november 10th, the original rep release date

now, in order to tie this all together, we must return to the ttpd timetable that was published during ttpd release week. this video showed a walkthrough of the ttp-department, and panned to this wall of images: one being the timetable, another being a certain cat…

but the photo is actually flipped! with meredith and taylor appearing on different sides to the original this may link back to the flipped date theory, with the rep tv release date being the inverse of meredith’s birthday and the original reputation release date

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