At what point is this considered a mental illness?
Of course Taylor Swift has the most hardcore (that’s a nice way of saying insane) fanbases out there, with the Swifties going crazy for anything having to do with the pop star. So it’s no surprise that her recent wedding to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce turned into a total circus after it was revealed that the two would be tying the knot at Madison Square Garden.
The ceremony was, predictably, a giant spectacle that resulted in streets being shut down around New York City and giant crowds of Swifties forming outside of Madison Square Garden – despite the fact that they couldn’t see anything that was going on inside the arena.
Other than a few leaks (like the napkins that featured a questionable Taylor Swift lyric), the details of the wedding have remained pretty locked down thanks to NDAs and strict security measures put into place by the couple and their teams. But that hasn’t stopped Swifties from trying to get their hands on a piece of Taylor’s big day – even if it’s just the garbage.
A New York City artist came up with what now looks like a brilliant idea, and collected the trash from outside of Madison Square Garden after the wedding to sell to Swifties so that they could have a souvenir for the event.
And just to be clear: This isn’t trash that was dumped outside of MSG from the wedding itself. This is stuff like cigarette butts, straws, a Ring Pop, plastic bags, a single left AirPod, and even an ovulation test kit – all picked up from the street outside of MSG from fans who gathered during the wedding (or potentially even from random New Yorkers who happened to be in the area at the time).
The brilliant idea was conceived by artist Justin Gignac, who collected the trash from outside the venue and then packaged it into small cubes to sell as souvenirs from the wedding…well, from just outside of the wedding.
And before you laugh at the thought of selling random garbage, remember: Swifties are insane, and Gignac has already sold out of the 50 cubes of “Pocket Garbage” that were available for $25 a pop. That’s $1,250 for some trash in a small plastic cube emblazoned with “JUST&T MARRIED.”
Why can I never come up with something like that?
Gignac says that the area outside of the arena wasn’t as dirty as he was expecting, but he’s hoping to create 89 cubes in total in honor of Swift’s birth year, 1989. And he also admits that there’s no way to authenticate the garbage as coming from outside of the wedding.
Honestly though, it would be way funnier if it’s just some random trash anyway. I mean, talk about the ultimate social experiment: Can I get Swifties to buy literal garbage by telling them that it’s connected to Taylor?
Turns out the answer is yes.
