In case you were enjoying a long night of thrilling REM cycles during which you dreamed about having lunch with Jessica Chastain on a terrace overlooking the Eiffel Tower as her three-legged dog gently nuzzled your calf while all this went down last night, here’s a one-sentence recap: Kim Kardashian Snapchatted footage of Kanye West receiving Taylor Swift’s permission to use her name in “Famous” last night, and Swift responded on her Instagram saying she never cleared the line, “I made that bitch famous.”
The message was written in Notes, the app most celebrities use to share long-form personal news, but some of Instagram’s more observant users noticed a potentially damning detail about this particular screengrab: the breadcrumbs take you back to “Search,” not another folder, meaning she may have drafted this note days/weeks/months ago in order to prepare for Kim’s inevitable reveal.
If, in fact, the note was drafted before Kim brought the receipts Sunday night, there are two ways to interpret it:
1. Taylor knew her enemy, Kim Kardashian, would release the video eventually, and was planning ahead. This is the likely explanation, as Kim claims Taylor not only knew of the footage’s existence, but once had her lawyers demand they destroy it—a move that could be based on California’s notoriously strict “two-party consent” law regarding the recording of phone conversations. Taylor, a master (but not the master) of control, was just planning ahead like any smart person would.