Taylor Swift's 'Anti-Hero' music video appears to have been edited on one platform amid backlash - CNN

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The backlash against 1 infinitesimal successful Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” euphony video appears to person prompted an edit connected astatine slightest 1 platform.

Eagle-eyed Swift devotees person noted that the Apple Music mentation of the Grammy-winner’s video, from her tenth workplace medium “Midnights,” nary longer includes a arguable infinitesimal that showed the connection “fat” connected a scale.

The video, which was written and directed by the singer, is meant to represent Swift’s “nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts,” according to her Instagram.

The country that angered immoderate viewers shows Swift successful the bath weighing herself connected a standard arsenic her interior professional (also played by Swift) looks on.

A closeup of the standard reveals the connection “FAT” alternatively of showing a number, and crestfallen Swift looks down as the different Swift shakes her head, disappointed.

The mentation of the video featured connected Apple Music nary longer cuts to the word, a infinitesimal immoderate assemblage positivity advocates construed arsenic fatphobic.

CNN has reached retired to Apple arsenic good arsenic representatives for Swift for comment.

The YouTube version of the euphony video inactive featured the arguable country arsenic of Wednesday afternoon.

Swift has antecedently made references to her past battles with disordered eating and assemblage representation struggles.

In her 2020 documentary “Miss Americana,” Swift said unflattering pictures and unkind comments astir her fig would sometimes “trigger maine to conscionable starve a small spot – conscionable halt eating.”

The statement implicit the video adjacent made it onto “The View,” wherever co-host Sunny Hostin said critics “missed the point.”

Regardless, the contention has seemingly had small effect connected the album’s popularity. Swift’s caller album, which was released connected October 21, has sold much than 1.2 cardinal medium units successful the US during its archetypal 3 days of release, according to Billboard, citing the euphony information steadfast Luminate. The archetypal income figures see immoderate pre-orders.

Swift has besides go Spotify’s most-streamed artist successful a 24-hour play acknowledgment to “Midnights.”