DISCLAIMER: though the events of this timeline are accurate to real life, swiftbridgers is a completely satirical conspiracy theory that i made as a joke in december of 2022 before completely forgetting about it until may of 2023, i am very aware that both taylor and phoebe have boyfriends that are 6’5” and could squash me like a bug
that being said, please enjoy:
It all starts with a song.
A song called sidelines.
A song about a man named Paul Mescal that was used in a TV show starring a man named Joe Alwyn.
At the time of the songs release, these two men had (alleged) fiancés named Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor Swift, and these (alleged) fiancés have a song together, that song is called Nothing New.
Although, in December of 2022, the news that Phoebe and Paul have broken up is revealed by the one and only Daily Mail, which resulted in a lot of tweets like these:
As at the time of the news breaking, Paul and Joe had just recently been on Variety’s Actors on Actors together, and about a month earlier it had been announced that Taylor and Phoebe were going on tour together in May of 2023, which gave us the first real photos of them together, which fans have affectionately nicknamed the “prom photos”
(keep May 2023 in mind, the bulk of this will take place in May)
Time-skip to March, 2023
On March 27th, Phoebe presented the innovator award to Taylor at the iHeartRadio awards, and not too long later Taylor posted about the release of Phoebe’s band boygenius’s album, the record. Unfortunately I can’t find screenshots of this anywhere, so this ask I sent to Jaime the other day and my memory are the only evidence I have
On April 8th, 2023, news broke that Taylor and Joe had split up after having been together 6 years. Some time later, on a date I have apparently completely repressed from my mind, news came out that Taylor was dating Matty Healy of the 1975.
I can’t remember if this was before or after the news broke, but whenever it was, I sent this to the discord
And so it began
May on Eras brought us a months worth of content revolving around the following:
Taylor backing away from Phoebe whenever she got within a certain distance of her, them staring longingly into each others eyes while singing the most devastating song you’ve ever heard, and most importantly, MEMES!!!
At the last show of Phoebe’s run on Eras, Taylor wore one of Phoebe’s Catbird necklaces, (and continued to do so pretty much until Travis Kelce entered the scene). In Taylor’s tweet about the MetLife shows she says, “@/phoebe_bridgers, I’ll miss you out here my dude, thanks for the duets and the dressing room heart to hearts 💕”
Since Taylor stopped wearing her jewelry, the only public interactions between the two have been via Phoebe’s Instagram Story (she posted “Slut!” on 1989 TV release day and Back to December on Taylor’s birthday) and that one time they went out to dinner in October or November.
so uh. yeah. there you have it! the complete swiftbridgers timeline. the seth meyers interview was left out on purpose because it doesn’t really link to all the rest of this. please refer to the powerpoint if you haven’t already!!
one of the funniest moments on eras was when phoebe was trying to tell taylor something but taylor couldnt hear her so she got closer and taylor backed up like phoebe was gonna kiss her or something 😭
i was like oh i should try to swiftbridgers the statue if diana as a joke because phoebe was a greek titan and i looked up the roman equivalent of phoebe and IM AJSHDGGDSHSJS
