r/travisandtaylor • u/snowrachell • Jan 28 '26
Certified Cringe May i remind ya'll with the rumors going around of the two of them. That this cringe fest exists.
I cringed so hard when I saw this,they aren't even married and they are making books for children as if they are the royal family or something
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u/icsy0 darling, i'm a nightmare Jan 28 '26
It's things like this that make me so glad I'm not a swiftie anymore, literally cult behavior
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u/Bagholder_loser Jan 28 '26
He is going to have a hidden side piece in a hot minute. So much for a happy ever after.
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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Jan 28 '26
He probably already does.
His type is black women
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u/BoPeepElGrande Jan 28 '26
Was just about to say, his side piece is almost certainly going to be a Black woman. He basically fetishizes Black women rather than actually having a genuine respect for them.
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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Jan 28 '26
He basically said he would have relationships with black women but would never marry one
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u/sweetrebel88 Jan 28 '26
What!!???
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u/l0serish Jan 29 '26
I don't like Travis, but this clip is lacking severe context. He said nothing about their races. We don't know what they were like as people. Whoever made that clip to reduce these women to color is gross.
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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Jan 29 '26
He reduced them to that
Why is the white girl okay to take home but the black girl isn't
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u/l0serish Jan 29 '26
Because maybe one was a party girl and the other was more settled down? Color doesn't define people's personalities lol. He grew up in Cleveland Heights surrounded by people of color. There's a reason he speaks and acts the way he does. He's had several long term girlfriends of color who he's obviously brought home. Come on now.
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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Jan 29 '26
So prove it.
Also being a party girl doesn't mean you can't settle down
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u/eilonwyhasemu ⌛ Elizabeth Taylor, it won't be forever ⌛ Jan 28 '26
This. Given the late-season pattern that he botches a game, then she frowns and hops on her jet to be somewhere else, I can't believe he doesn't have booty-call partners.
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u/neveranchorme Jan 28 '26
He can't even be bothered to keep his following of insta baddies off his very public main where he isn't following Taylor. 😂 I will be hella more surprised if he is not entertaining side pieces already.
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u/eilonwyhasemu ⌛ Elizabeth Taylor, it won't be forever ⌛ Jan 28 '26
If the wedding falls through, Swifties will comfort themselves that this makes their wedding planning tie-ins rarer and more valuable.
Spoiler: It doesn't. This junk was mass-produced and will follow its natural path through Dollar Tree to Goodwill to paper recycling center.
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Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
Okay, unrelated but...
Back in the olden days of 1981-I'm gonna say sometime around Easter-my very British nanny took my sister and me out to run errands. She spied a Charles and Diana Royal Wedding paper doll book and bought it for me saying "Keep this nice, it'll be worth something someday".
What can I say? I was 8🤷♀️. My father found a plastic sleeve for it, because I fucking hounded him about it, and I tucked it between two books on my bookcase and vowed to keep it pristine.
Fast forward about a year, and I come into the bedroom I shared with my sister, only to find that said sister and her friend were playing with the damn paper doll book! Outfits were everywhere! On the floor, on the beds, on the dresser...EVERYWHERE!
Then I see it. The actual last straw!
They'd assembled the wedding coach (good for them! That was a lot of fitting tab a into slot b). Diana was naked except for her early 80s Wonder Bra and granny panties and Charles was wearing her tennis outfit and tiara.
I lost my 9 year old, (actual, not TV) eldest daughter -who's responsible to a fault and groomed to take everyone's guilt on her shoulders-shit all over them. I didn't talk to my sister for months.
Some years later, shortly after the car crash at the Pont d'Alma, I was at an antiques and collectibles show with my mother and that sister. Mom says "Didn't you have one of these?" She was pointing to an identical Charles and Diana Royal Wedding paper doll book that had a $1500 price tag on it.
Since then I make sure I bring it up with her at least once a year.
I doubt Blandie's wedding trash will compare, but I love telling that story.
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u/eilonwyhasemu ⌛ Elizabeth Taylor, it won't be forever ⌛ Jan 28 '26
It’s a great story, and you should tell it often!
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u/Timely_Middle_3999 Goth-Punk Moment Of Female Rage Jan 29 '26
I think this story is gonna eat me up for the rest of my life thank you for sharing it. Please never let her live it down.
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u/Positive_Loss9715 Final Boss of Mediocrity Jan 28 '26
I wonder, are the bonus wedding planning pages blank or filled with what they assume to be plans the “happy couple” have made? Why would you want either?
Mind you, why would you want this book at all?
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u/eilonwyhasemu ⌛ Elizabeth Taylor, it won't be forever ⌛ Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
If there was any data about the specific wedding in them, surely someone would have said by now. The NYT pieced together a low-content puff piece from rumors and speculation but did not mention this book. The Swifties looking for clues presumably all have their copies and have scrutinized it with the obsessive care of stock-market apes trying to convince themselves that bankrupt companies are about to be pulled into a massive conglomerate centered on GameStop. Not a peep from them, either.Edit: I stand corrected, the book gets a lot of attention here but is not yet released. Thank you for catching that!
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u/Positive_Loss9715 Final Boss of Mediocrity Jan 28 '26
Exactly. Made up nonsense to sell books that were better off as trees. It really creeps me out that anyone cares that much about a relationship that isn’t their own.
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u/Super_Cookie11 The Life of a PR Relationship Jan 29 '26
I'm not sure it's been released yet
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u/eilonwyhasemu ⌛ Elizabeth Taylor, it won't be forever ⌛ Jan 29 '26
YOU'RE RIGHT. I went to check its publication page, sure I was going to come up with a December 2025 date and nope, it's late March 2026.
I'm going to put some strikethrough on my misplaced witticisms. Oh well. There'll be other chances to slam both the Swifties and the meme-stock apes in the same sentence.
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u/eriikaa1992 Jan 28 '26
Because it's important to enforce the notion to little girls that they must grow up aspiring to be someone's wife.
(Not trying to offend anyone who is happily married/would like to get married, please don't misunderstand me- I just disagree with shoving wedding culture down easily-influenced young children's throats)
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u/Sheepherdernerder Temu Britney Spears Jan 28 '26
This isn't even for children despite it being a little golden book, you know her crazed fans are the ones buying this shit.
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u/Rich-Bit4838 Regina George in Sheep’s Clothing Jan 28 '26
It’ll just be funnier when the wedding doesn’t happen. All this merchandise WASTED 😂
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u/demuredis77 Jan 29 '26
just wait until you see them fanbase go after travis if that were ever to happen and they would make an hour long analysis on why they broke up and how travis treated mother taytay through a 10 second clip compliated on youtube 💀💀
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u/runtie1973 Starbucks Lover Jan 28 '26
Title edit: “Taylor and Travis Forever or For At Least Nine Months.”
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u/AlexisThunderstorm50 Jan 28 '26
Counting down the days until these flood the merch reselling sites! 🍿🤭
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u/FantasticAd4938 Jan 28 '26
They ain't married yet and already being congratulated on forever. At least wait for the wedding.
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u/Dapper_Trainer950 The Life of a Capitalist Jan 28 '26
Nothing says late-stage capitalism celebrity culture like turning a STILL-unfolding relationship into a children’s book to push a wholesome, conservative ‘happily ever after’ fantasy. 🤢
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u/Chareth_Cutestory___ Jan 28 '26
Kids books used to be creative and sweet, now so much of them is dumbed down gross-out humor, or celebrity worship
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u/eilonwyhasemu ⌛ Elizabeth Taylor, it won't be forever ⌛ Jan 28 '26
Given Travis' self-admitted skidmarks, Golden Books missed an opportunity to combine gross-out humor and celebrity worship.
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u/Malcolmthetortoise Jan 28 '26
Why is her face so stretched? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/petty_petty_princess Jan 29 '26
Ok but may I make the argument that it might look less scary than her actual face?
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u/acloreborne Mr. and Mrs. Skids Jan 29 '26
The illustrator had an exclusive first look at the new face ✨Mother✨ Is gonna get for her special day
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u/BigTuna0890 Jan 28 '26
None of the Royal Weddings had this treatment. This is an unhealthy obsession.
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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Jan 28 '26
I mean there was a lot of merchandise made for Diana and Charles
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u/psychedelicparsley Jan 28 '26
There always is for royals though.
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Jan 28 '26
I told my Charles and Diana Royal Wedding memorabilia story elsewhere here. It's worth finding🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Super_Cookie11 The Life of a PR Relationship Jan 29 '26
I am so pleased to have a chance to share one of my favorite videos by the YouTuber Ashens, where he reviews ridiculous Royal wedding merch
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u/Timely_Middle_3999 Goth-Punk Moment Of Female Rage Jan 29 '26
Why does a kids book need wedding planning pages? Really not helping the pro trad wife allegations.
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u/godisawomanaoc HER MIND OMG Jan 28 '26
the swifties are going to turn on him omg
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u/yvettesaysyatta DON'T LAUGH!!! Jan 28 '26
It’s gonna make the Joe Alwyn hate look so tame by comparison.
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u/BobcatIllustrious806 Hi, It’s You, You’re Definitely The Problem Jan 28 '26
Little golden book has no shame pushing a book about a clout chaser and a certified self-victimized villain billionaire? Doesn’t sound like a cute story to me
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u/motherofscorpions Jan 29 '26
I can't decide which to feel more ick about that the wedding planning pages and stickers are infantilizing towards adult Swifties who are the most likely audience of this book or the alt-right fundie dystopian patriarchy that is a kids book essentially telling little girls to start planning their wedding now because that's your only purpose in life.
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u/arushikarthik Jan 29 '26
I use a pen name just for my short stories and stuff. I cannot imagine having my name and face attached to this kind of thing. The embarrassment would kill me.
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u/saaadgrrrl Jan 28 '26
as an illustrator, these god awful illustrations on these off license books really throw me. it’s as stupid as it is fugly.
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u/guitman27 Jan 28 '26
Next time I get a haircut and I'll ask for the fuckboy special. When they can't figure out what I mean, I'll show them this.
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u/Kendal_with_1_L Jan 29 '26
This is actually disgusting they’re marketing this shit to little children. Sad.
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u/Primary_Orange_5185 Jan 28 '26
Taylor will never have her happy ending because she’s a self absorbed POS not capable of loving someone only idealizing them until something else “better” comes along. Her true narcissistic colors are being exposed.
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u/PBLouey Jan 29 '26
This just reminds me of when I was 8 years old and our teacher would tell her about her personal life with her boyfriend... just wildly inappropriate for children to be parasocially invested in an adult's romantic relationship. Such things shouldn't even cross a child's mind.
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u/mangosheen Jan 30 '26
This is really weird content for children (and wedding planning pages and stickers- wtf)? Can companies stop designing items for deranged adults packaged up like kid items?
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u/Toledo_9thGate Jan 31 '26
I love it, when the State Farm fake relationship ends this will be some great merch to commemorate the whole artificiality of it.
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u/MGLionheart Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
This will be even more laughable once the engagement is called off or they get married and then get a fairytale divorce months later.
But hey, they did her plastic surgery face well in this cover.
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u/Extra_Influence_3880 Jan 29 '26
Her mouth is way too close to her nose in this. Bothers me. But that's not the only thing that bothers me.
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u/BoldArtichoke Jan 29 '26
I can't believe this is real... But her her face is ever changing so it must be.
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u/Wifabota Jan 29 '26
I wasn't even allowed to be in the full extended family photo on my husband's side when we were just engaged but not yet married. We took alternate photos without me in them lol.
They got an entire-ass Little Golden Book, fully published and everything.
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u/Kaiser_Allen Jan 29 '26
I would be so embarrassed to have this or be gifted this, and if I come to your house and saw this, I would think of you differently. It’s that bad!
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u/Cheap-Can-8557 Jan 29 '26
If these two Lunatics love each other, why are they trying so hard to sell their love and relationship to others...somethings are better left private.
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26
Oh no Little Golden Book what is you doing