Taylor Swift Fans in an Epic T-Shirt Battle

The newest target for Taylor Swift's biggest fans? Indie t-shirt company Bad Kids Clothing Company.

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The electronic music themed t-shirt company recently created a tank top that lists the names of men that Taylor has been linked with. But, what started out as a joke has somehow morphed into a more serious matter. Some of Taylor's fans, who call themselves "Swifties", immediately began their attack by sending in an obscene amount of requests for BKC to pull the shirt from their site.

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Andi Cross and Lex Houser, the 26-year-old creators who run BKC, told YAHOO! Shine they created the tank top as a gift for their friend Matt Doherty (who originally designed it).
"[Matt] was going to the Taylor Swift show on July 13 here in New York and reached out to us because he wanted to create a shirt to wear to the concert," Cross explained. "So, he reached out to us because we have a printer in-house and we created the shirt for him."
Cross said after creating the tank Thursday, July 11, she then took a photo of it and posted on the company's Facebook and Instagram profiles. The next day (July 12) she and Houser woke to messages on all of their social platforms demanding for the shirt to be taken down. Because of all the attention, it was then that Cross & Houser decided to put the tank up on their website and make it available for the public to purchase for $19.99.
"We're going to keep it up because it's bringing tons of traffic and sales to the site," Cross said.
This isn't the first time Taylor's fans have taken to the internet and demand Swift fashions they deem distasteful be pulled down. Abercrombie & Fitch also released a shirt alluding to Swift's many boyfriends. The shirt, which read "# more boyfriend than t.s.", was taken out of stores after Swift's fans flooded the company's public relations office with phone calls and posted their complaints about the shirt on Change.org:
"It's just plain hurtful and insulting. Taylor's private life should remain so. It's unprofessional for such a huge company to insult and poke fun at a celebrity in one of their t-shirts. Besides, none of them knows exactly what goes on in Taylor's private life. She herself said that she's only dated two men in the past two years, which isn't a lot. The media exaggerates Taylor's past relationships A LOT. It's a form of bullying, which should never be encouraged, ESPECIALLY by such a huge company. I'm disgusted and have lost all my respect for Abercrombie and Fitch." - Anushree Jayan, Singapore
However, because BKC is an independently owned brand, they aren't subject to the same rules and regulations as a mass brand such as Abercrombie & Fitch.
And apparently any mention of Swift's former beaus is enough to drive some of her fans into a threatening, name calling frenzy.

A tweet sent to the clothing company from a Taylor Swift fan.
A tweet sent to the clothing company from a Taylor Swift fan.



































"Sending hate messages on the internet is no way to spend your childhood," Cross said. "Cyberbullying is something even Taylor said she doesn't tolerate. You can't attack people and say these horrible things and hope they will do whatever you want."
Why are they so upset? Well, several of Swift's fans have commented on BKC's various social media outlets (including their blog) to say it seems like they are calling her a "slut" by listing all of those guys' names on a shirt.

"I'm a swiftie and I have to admit this shirt did kind of irritate me cause i am a really big fan and when you see a shirt with the names of all of her boyfriends and some other people she hasn't dated at all it seems like you are calling her a slut." - Posted by Swiftie
Fans have also called BKC to express their anger.
"One girl called us and said that we were calling Swift a whore and a slut," Houser said. "We never said that. These kids are putting words in our mouths."
Cross, who said that she had never listened to Swift's music until this debacle, now proclaims her love for it.
"I am a certified Swiftie now," she said, laughing.
Both she and Houser maintain that the shirt was created all in good fun and have no intentions of pulling it from their website; even if Swift herself were to call and ask.
"We are celebrating the fact that [Taylor] has had multiple, attractive boyfriends," Cross said. "If we could, we would tell Swift 'Congrats! You've successfully dated some of the hottest guys in the world'. The overall messaging is that you have to stand up to bullying. It's just unacceptable in any day and age."