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In Taylor Swift’s most recent music video, “Anti-Hero”, she battles her own sabotaging self-doubt by portraying it as the titular anti-hero version of herself. In one part of the video, the refrain of “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me” is sung in a bubbly voice as Taylor stands on a scale. Beside her, the anti-hero version shakes her head in a judgmental way. In the original video, the camera cuts to the scale, which simply reads “Fat”. The backlash from this one word was immediate. People online labeled Taylor as fatphobic. The hate was so strong, Taylor had the video edited to remove the glimpse of the scale.