A curated setlist isn’t enough to accuse Joe Alwyn of cheating on Taylor Swift; however, many of her fans have leaned into the popular fan theory. The original tweet has racked up over 39,000 likes, but the responses are even more revealing. “I didn’t wanna believe it, but the evidence just keeps stacking up now,” tweeted one fan. “What’s crazy is that if he did cheat, joe is the one that cheated while he was dating THE TAYLOR SWIFT,” wrote a second fan. Meanwhile, a third fan implied that Swift was trying to lay Alwyn’s infidelity out plain for fans. “Not a coincidence. Taylor probably went lurking and saw everyone trying to look over all the clues she laid out for us,” tweeted the fan.
Whether or not Alwyn was actually unfaithful to Swift, it definitely doesn’t seem that she was happy towards the end of their relationship. On February 19, two days after her concert medley, Swift implied that she was lonely during the COVID-19 quarantine that she supposedly spent with Alwyn. “[I was] imagining that, instead of being a lonely millennial woman covered in cat hair drinking my weight in white wine …” started Swift during her tour (via Cosmopolitan). “I instead was a ghostly Victorian lady wandering through the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder, and I wrote only on parchment with a feathered quill. And that was in my mind, what I thought I looked like writing ‘Folklore.'”
