QAA Podcast - The Great Gaylor Disappointment (Premium E303) Sample

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Megastar Taylor Swift and three time Super Bowl champion NFL tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement in one of the most-liked Instagram posts of all time. Naturally, we wondered how the Gaylor community is handling the news. Back in premium episode 235, Liv introduced us to the Taylor Swift fans who believe that the megastar is secretly queer and closeted, and that she has hinted at this through lyrics, visuals, timing, and public friendships. On this episode Travis, Liv, Jake and Julian examine reactions from the community, ranging from acceptance, denial, bewilderment, and rage. Plus, Jake treats us to a story about secret occult practices and the magical year of 1989. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media and binge the entirety of our new show Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: https://cursedmedia.net Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Thank you. If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 303, the Great Gaylor Disappointment. As always, we're your host, Jake Rockatansky, Liv Egar, Julian Fields, and Travis View. Back in Premium episode 235, Liv introduced us to the Gaylor community. This was, I found very fascinating. So these are Taylor Swift fans who believe that they Megastar is secretly queer and closeted and that she has hinted at this

through her lyrics and some visuals and timing and public friendships. Oh my God, another cis, white male who's appropriating gay culture. Now, some in the community don't take it that seriously. They kind of treat it more like a harmless fan theory or just a queer reading of art,

but some take it very, very seriously. So I thought it would be worth revisiting that theory in light of the fact that just this week she announced her engagement to future Hall of Fame NFL tight end, Travis Kelsey. We're going to get white babies, folks. We're making the babies white again. Well, I saw that actually.

Online, that seemed to be sort of the conservative discussion was they were like, this is going to inspire people to have children again. This is going to make women want to let me nut in them. It was so bizarre. Zero shot that this is going to revive, like make a baby boom or whatever. Like, I don't quite understand that. But do they like Taylor now that she's going to have white babies? Oh, wait, yeah, because they hated her so much.

Oh, yeah. That was a big culture war thing. I think they just forgot, I guess. I guess so. I mean, who wouldn't, right? Like, how are we supposed to remember who's on what side? It's all arbitrary, yeah. Yeah, that's true.

It's actually, like, legit, I get why you wouldn't remember because it doesn't matter. It's not articulating a real schism. No. I feel like there was a brief period where, like, 4chan weirdos were, like, doing some fantasy about how, like, Taylor Swift's of some sort of Aryan queen. Like, she was, like, secretly based. But then she wound up, like, endorsing Democrats repeatedly. And then, like, you know, she endorsed the Harris candidacy.

So that was shot down. There was a conspiracy theory that she was posting on Fortune secretly, like, a decade ago or whatever. With, you know, it's like, oh, if you look in the background of this white woman posting who's faceless, you can see it kind of looks like, you know, Taylor Swift's apartment or whatever. So I think it's an extension of that. Yeah, I think I remember that one. So Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey announced their engagement on Instagram. Kelsey's Instagram handle is Killetrave, by the way, which is great.

Oh, man, I feel, I wish you had that, Travis. That's such a good name for you. Taylor Swift and Keelotrav made an Instagram post. It's so funny. X, X, X, X, Kila, Trav. So, yeah, we can see it's this lovely garden, absolutely laden with flowers. And the caption here is, you're in. English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married and a little dynamite.

I'm told that that was like some people theorize as actually TNT for Taylor in Trav. Oh, no. I would like to TNT this entire event and everyone who attends it when it happens eventually. So as you can see here, the song on our Instagram post is So High School, which comes from their double album edition of her most recent album, the Tortured Poets Department. the anthology. Of course she used her own song. Bro, using your own song, I know. That's, come on.

Why don't you give someone else a shot, huh? I don't. I don't know. She has quite a catalog of music, and I don't know. I feel like it would be strange if she chose anyone else's. Wait, Taylor has like two albums, right? Oh, Jesus, dude. How many albums does Taylor Swift have?

Twelve, twelve. Yeah, her 12th is coming out this year. Oh, that's a lot more than I thought. Yeah. So I feel like I should mention. just generally. Travis Kelsey, in addition to being a great football player,

is an interesting tweeter. I mean, Julian brought me some highlights from 2010 and 2011. He's awesome. And these are like other people that posted this online. I want to be clear,

but God damn, man. I love him so much. So this one, the first one from 2011 said, women that have a great sense, if humor, that's I-F-U-M-E-R, hashtag plus.

Is that even required? It's just a good edition. If Humair. If Humair. Oh, he's so good. And then say here, we've got another one here. I like the series of ones about a restaurant, if you know what I'm talking about. Yeah.

Yeah, that was coming out. But there's one, a somewhat sacrilegious one, said, Happy Easter to all. Hashtag shout out to Jesus for taking one for the team. Ha ha. He rules. He rules, dude. Being raised religious in the States, especially like in this day and age,

is just such a funny combination of shit, you know? Right. And seeing Jesus is sort of like, you know, the sort of ringer on your tea on your sports team, because these are analogies that make sense to you. Yeah, he's like the guy who like snapped his leg getting you the Super Bowl. And of course, yeah, I also have the ones about his favorite restaurant here. Could you take these ones, Julian? So these are three tweets all from 2010 within like three months of each other.

The first one says, hashtag Chipotle will always. always be a great choice. The second one says, Def appreciate everyone's birthday wishes from yesterday, had kind of a rough day, but everything's all good. Think I'm ahead to hashtag Chipotle, though. Chipotle. And finally, I really want some Chipotle now, but a day full of college football it is. Yeah. Just repeatedly misspelling it. Great. No, but I love the use of the hashtag. Like his understanding of hashtags, I would fucking love to understand. Does he think he's like contributing to the conversation about Chipotle and yet spells it wrong every single

time. I love that. The American football system is so cool where like these guys have to pretend they're actually getting through like college. Like fairly like this guy has a humanities degree. Yeah. I'm almost certain that whoever wrote these tweets would profit from CTE. Like I think that it would actually like make them smarter.

In fact, he probably was able to date Taylor Swift because C. the Chipotle tweets, he got hit a few too many times in the head. A big reason why Taylor Swift is relevant to this podcast is that decoding meetings of messaging and finding clues uncovering Easter eggs is a big part of Swifty culture. Now, for her first five albums, she deliberately placed secret messages in the liner notes. Like the decode at first was fairly simple. So all the lyrics were in lowercase, but some of the letters were in uppercase. And when the uppercase letters were placed together, they spelled out a clue.

It's crazy. Like, honestly, I thought that this is like a really cool way to do kind of viral marketing. But I did think that one album where it just spelled Kill Yourself was a questionable choice. So, for example, on her 2012 album read, the uppercase letters spell out Maple Lates. Oh, God. So again, so kind of cryptic, ooh, what does it mean? So if you Google Maple Lates Taylor Swift, you would be brought to a 2010, people, People magazine article headlined Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal share Thanksgiving

maple lattes, which may offer some confirmation about the relationship that inspired the songs. Only this kind of baking would lead you to like a people magazine article. Yeah. God, maple lattes. Like if I decoded something and that's what I got. But it's Taylor giving you secret information about her relationships that you want to know. You want to be parisocial with her.

And she's telling just you because you've dedicated so much. much of your time to decode literally everything she's saying. It's kind of sociopathic, like, the more you think about it, that she's, like, encouraging this sculpture. Like, it being a latte, but not just a latte, like a fucking flavored latte, makes me so depressed for some reason. You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast. For access to the full episode, as well as all past premium episodes and all of our podcast

miniseries, go to patreon.com slash QAA. Travis, why is that such a good deal? Jake, you get hundreds of additional episodes of the QAA podcast for just $5 per month. For that very low price, you get access to over 200 premium episodes plus all of our miniseries. That includes 10 episodes of Man Clan with Julian and Annie, 10 episodes of Perverts with Julian and Liv, 10 episodes of the Spectral Voyager with Jake and Brad, plus 20 episodes of Trickledown with me, Travis View. It's a bounty of content and the best deal in podcasting. Travis, for once, I agree with you.

And I also agree that people could subscribe by going to patreon.com slash QAA. Well, that's not an opinion. It's a fact. You're so right, Jake. We love and appreciate all of our listeners. Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude, maybe? That's not true.

The part about be crying, not me being grateful. I'm very grateful. Thank you.