Linguistic

“Blank Space, baby,” “red lip classic,” “look what you made me do,” a million allusions to lost scarves—across subreddits and Twitter, Taylor Swift fans communicate in code. Lots of stans…

“Open your eyes,” the online post began, claiming, “Many in our govt worship Satan.”That warning, published on a freewheeling online message board in October 2017, was the beginning of the…