Taking a Stan
An interview with the anonymous owner of @LegitTayUpdates. She’s a nineteen-year-old Taylor Swift fan in Israel — and she just finished a two-month prison sentence for refusing to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces.

Young members of the Israeli Defense Forces pause in a park near the Old City on November 28, 2014 in Jerusalem. Spencer Platt / Getty
The proprietor of @LegitTayUpdates, a satirical Taylor Swift fan site with almost twenty thousand followers, went viral recently when she laconically revealed she’d just spent two months in prison for refusing to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF):
