Neighborhood terrified over ‘cryptic’ gang signs on houses discover hysterical truth
A Chicago neighborhood thought they were being terrorized by a local gang, only to discover they were just victims of living in a neighborhood full of Swifties.
TikTok user Olivia Roberts posted the hilarious misunderstanding to the platform, revealing some concerned neighbors posted in the local Facebook group, trying to find out if they were being targeted.
“Does anyone know what this symbol is?” she read aloud.
“We saw it a few weeks ago at our house in orange chalk, we wiped it away, and now it’s back in the same spot, the same symbol in blue chalk,” she read, adding the people posted anonymously for safety.
Helpful neighborhood warriors chimed in when asked where they thought the mysterious symbol might have come from.
A Chicago neighborhood thought they were being terrorized by a local gang, but discovered they were just targets of Taylor Swift fans
βI was going to say tdm, a tagging crew in Chicago, but if that’s the case, they definitely didn’t do a good job. I circled it in red in the photo,β one user commented.
Olivia then dramatically revealed the symbol β which was TTPD β or the symbol used for Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.
“Be careful guys, there’s a gang of Swifties terrorizing the South Loop,” she joked.
‘No one is safe.’
In response, Olivia explained that the symbols were written in chalk and that there is an elementary school three blocks away, which could explain why it keeps appearing.
Taylor Swift fans loved the hilarious reveal, with more than 1,000 people commenting on the misunderstanding.
“I laughed when you revealed it, but I really understand that if you don’t know what it is, it’s scary when it shows up in the same place again, especially if that area has a gang problem,” one user commented.
“I fully expected this to be the ‘mark your house for a burglary’ route but was pleasantly surprised that it went towards ‘beam me up in a cloud of sparkling dust’ instead,” laughed another .
Olivia revealed the symbol β which was TTPD β or the symbol used for Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department
Taylor Swift fans loved the hilarious reveal, with more than 1,000 people commenting on the misunderstanding
The 14-time Grammy winner debuted The Anthology double album edition on April 18, all 31 songs simultaneously charting in the top 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in chart history
‘This is a great troll. I need more people to do this in their neighborhood FB groups and report on this,β said another.
Others pointed out the hilarity of the situation, while acknowledging that it would be concerning if someone continued to put the same symbol on their home, especially if it signaled that someone was about to rob it.
βHonestly, it’s really scary when someone tags your building twice in the exact same place with a symbol you don’t recognize. Yeah, it turned out weird, but I’d be nervous too…,β one user wrote.
The 14-time Grammy winner debuted the double album edition of The Anthology on April 18, with all 31 songs simultaneously topping the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in chart history.
‘The Tortured Poets Department [is] an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting and fatalistic moment β ββa moment that was both sensational and sad,β Swift β who has 551.3 million social media followers β wrote in April.
‘This period in the author’s life is now over, the chapter is closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once the wounds are healed. And upon closer inspection, a large number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.
‘This writer is convinced that our tears become sacred in the form of ink on a page. Once we have told our saddest story, we can be free from it. And then there remains only the tortured poetry.’