Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by Matty Healy and Taylor Swift’s earlier romance. Swifties have voiced their disappointment (and afterwards, post-breakup praise) about the former few when they dated around the summer season. When their connection was quick, it might’ve still left a lasting effect on Swift’s Eras Tour movie — and for Folklore hive, not in a pleasant way. The singer noticeably taken off her “Cardigan” overall performance from the movie, and admirers feel it has to do with Healy. Oof, let us look into.

For the duration of the Oct. 11 premiere of Swift’s live performance film, followers who attended the demonstrating discovered the singer made some cuts to the setlist. “Cardigan,” together with five other songs, created the chopping block and that shocked Swifties. A lot of X (formerly regarded as Twitter) consumers started to theorize the reasoning behind the cut, and one particular preferred hunch experienced lovers shook.

Right after the revelation that “Cardigan” was cut, a months-outdated clip of Swift doing the track resurfaced. The second was notorious at the time for Swifties — at her Might 5 concert in Nashville, Swift sent her then-boyfriend Healy a refined shoutout. “This 1 is about you. You know who you are. I like you,” Swift seemed to mouth to the viewers for the duration of “Cardigan.”

Notably, Healy was in attendance at that exhibit and experienced mouthed the precise similar words and phrases at his 1975 clearly show two times earlier. With the ex-duo sharing that second, a new viral principle formed that Healy’s connection to “Cardigan” is what led to the song’s removing from the film.

The correlation isn’t far too significantly-fetched, looking at that Swift and Healy’s romance was not perfectly-obtained. Just one month (and a couple extra Healy sightings) soon after Swift’s “love information,” the duo reportedly identified as it quits on June 5.

A source verified the separation to Enjoyment Tonight, incorporating the two “realized they are not definitely compatible with each other.” While she didn’t find her lavender haze with Healy, it appears she’s uncovered it with her new rumored beau, Travis Kelce.

Considering that Swift has evidently moved on, the “Cardigan” concept would seem to trace the singer may well not want to connect her former controversial partnership to the Eras movie. Other lovers shared a equivalent sentiment, and began name dropping Healy’s identify on X. Just one user wrote: “Why Cardigan.. Matty what did you do,” while a different “fully blamed” the 1975 singer for the track’s best exit from the film. A third enthusiast joked they blocked Healy, more cementing that “Cardigan” has a major stan foundation.

Swift hasn’t disclosed why she condensed the film’s setlist. Nevertheless, one particular thing’s for sure: “Cardigan” will often have a without end residence on Folklore.