what is the 5 holes in the fence theory? im hella confused
I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU DONT KNOW THE FIVE HOLES IN THE FENCE. We're about to go on a wild ride!!!!
So first of all, Taylor had a really dark instagram aesthetic and it was mostly rep tour. She suddenly starts posting colors like this and we all thought something was up:
But starting with the wrapped up cat photo, she started posting on a daily basis. The palm tree photo was accompanied by a caption that was just "🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴". 7 palm trees. 7 palm trees in the picture. It was not Taylor's normal type of post so we all assumed it was a hint for ts7. People were going insane. They were counting the stars. They were trying to find if this was a real place. People were making edits with it. They wondered if it had something to do with the Meredith (the cat) photo.
Then, the staircase photo happened the next day. Everyone was trying to connect the picture to ts7. Her hand was on the seventh step. She was sitting on the sixth step but people were desperate for this to be ts7 so they ignored this for now. Then someone realized "hey, notice how there's 8 indents in the couch. This is a countdown." But like,,, it was all circumstantial. It wasnt an obvious 8 like how it wasn't an obvious 6 steps. If there was one more photo, it would prove it.
Then came the 5 holes in the fence:
There were very, very clearly 5 holes in this fence. The day before, she was sitting on the 6th step. The day before, there were 7 palm trees. The day before, there were 8 indents in the couch. This WAS a countdown. It wasn't even a theory at this point. We looked at the fence and we KNEW.
This all counted down to Friday March 1st. Taylor was rumored to be on the cover of Elle Magazine which she had previously done before album releases. Taylor had nothing new happening to talk about if there was no new album.
At the same time of all this, Taylor had released a 2019 calendar with assorted stamps.
Everyone assumed stuff was happening on those days. With the countdown all but confirmed, everyone assumed the album would be released on April 13th. Lead single March 1st. But then,,, disaster struck.
Taylor did NOT post on what should have been day 4 of the countdown. People were saying "She FORgot to post." Then the next day, Taylor published another cat photo that said "she just read all the theories". (People were trying to count to 3 still but nothingwas obvious.) We were distraught. But the clowning was not over. We WAITED. March 1st comes. All day we wait in anticipation. Nothing happens. We say "well, March 1st is day 1. March 2nd is day 0. Something will happen then." We wait all day March 2nd. Nothing happens. We had been CLOWNING. And when it all ended, all we could say was "but there were 5 holes in the fence".
Taylor never forgot this clowning. She releases the Me! video and tells us to "count everything" and "everything is an Easter egg". Our pain was a game to her. She references it twice. Once for YNTCD and one 5 days before Lover.
"There were 5 holes in the fence" is used to reference either are biggest clownery or Taylor's biggest letdown. There is absolutely no reason in the Taylor Swift world that that SHOULDN'T have been a countdown. But it was all a lie. We convinced the whole world something was happening and we will never live it down.
