The concerts were measured at a 2.3 on the seismic magnitude scale, an expert said.
      • LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 years ago

        It’s celebrity news regarding a known white supremacist, her fanbase is notoriously disgusting and racist and often attacks people of color.

        This community doesn’t need that kind of garbage, there’s plenty of it on reddit

        • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world
          36·
          2 years ago

          I don’t follow Swift or her die-hard fans, but this white supremacist" bit is news to me. Is this a real documented fact, or the usual overblown internet reaction to an assumption based on an extrapolation from a decade-old retweet?

            • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
              14·
              2 years ago

              From a quick search, it appears that a bunch of white supremacists revere her as something like a goddess, and the feeling is absolutely not mutual - in 2019, she unambiguously and firmly denounced white supremacy and alt-right stuff in general in a Rolling Stone interview.

          • Bipta@kbin.social
            16·
            2 years ago

            Taylor Swift speaks out against that kind of shit in recent years and is about to tour with Paramore who are adamantly anti-white-supremacy and the like, so… Just your average internet idiot.

            Report as trolling and/or misinformation and move on.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
          26·
          2 years ago

          So you’re saying it’s not news to you that a rock concert could cause an earthquake? Because it’s sure as hell news to me. Does it matter who was playing at the concert?

        • Carnelian@lemmy.world
          16·
          2 years ago

          known white supremacist

          Woah, really? I’m hearing about this for the first time, upon googling it she says she disavows the alt right and finds white supremacy repulsive. Do you have a source?

          • zalack@kbin.social
            6·
            2 years ago

            He doesn’t. White supremacists clinging to celebrities they desperately want to believe support their views only to be slapped down in disgust is a tale as old as time.

            I seen to remember the documentary about her covering the decision to publicly voice her political beliefs for the first time. There’s this one scene where she’s in a room full of white men telling her not to do it because it would damage her brand and her mom being the only person in the room to support it.

            She went against all her business advisors and did it anyway, which should tell you enough about where she stands.

        • CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 years ago

          The kind of garbage this community doesn’t need are your blatant lies.

          What nonsense. If Lemmy is gonna be full of shit like this, maybe it’s not for me.

        • smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          7·
          2 years ago

          Yeah I don’t follow or give a shit about Taylor Swift. But I am interested in hell if her fans create seismic activity

      • young_broccoli@kbin.social
        5·
        2 years ago

        Seismic activity caused by large groups of people moving together is a well known and documented phenomenon.

        The focus of the article is that her quake was bigger than other previous man-made quakes during massive events in the same location and is presented as a proof/show of how popular Taylor Swift is and how passionate are their fans. (much wow).

        If you think “Fans of X celebrity are very “energetic”” is a news article that should be posted here its fine, its news after all and people seem to like it, but lets not pretend this is a scientific article in any way.

        • rekliner@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          See, this is the data that’s interesting, and i do think it belongs here. I’d be curious if this is unofficially a record. A certain seismic measurement that is a certain distance from an event, entirely generated by people. This is assuming their movement created a bigger reading than the sound equipment, which is entirely plausible with people stomping in time.

          You know the lab is well aware of the venue. The artist doesn’t matter. It’s the event they were impressed with.

  • Bumblebb@kbin.social
    28·
    2 years ago

    That’s not uncommon or unexpected.

    Many decades ago I worked at the sierra natural history museum in california. It on a college campus and it has a Richter scale within the confines of the museum

    Classes more or less released for lunch at the same time every day past a certain point due to teachers union agreements. The Richter scale would always register a seismic event just from students migrating from the classrooms to the various food venues and seating areas. We had to make a note on the printout (yes I’m that old)