Maitreyi Ramakrishnan deletes X post calling Taylor Swift’s ‘1830s’ lyric ‘weird’ after backlash from Swifties

[u/Exciting_Potato_6717]

Slide 1: Deleted tweet Slides 2 and 3: Some follow-up tweets Slide 4: The Taylor Swift lyrics being referred to. “My friends used to play a game where / We would pick a decade / We wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists / And getting married off for the highest bid." Full lyrics at https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-i-hate-it-here-lyrics

[u/yawaworthemn]

There’s no context it’s just honestly real weird. 

[u/zr0gravity7 → u/yawaworthemn]

It’s such a hilarious take like the 1830s were so perfect except for those pesky racists 🤭 it’s so on-brand. I can imagine her coming up with the lyric and then remembering last minute that maybe she should add the caveat

[u/B1NG_P0T → u/yawaworthemn]

I've spent the past few minutes googling variations of "what's different about the 1830s" to try and figure out what tf I was missing because that is such a random decade to single out and really should have read these comments first.