--- title: Taylor Swift Wears 'no its becky' T-Shirt To Honor Internet Meme description: The "Shake It Off" singer showed off her "no its becky" shirt canonical: https://time.com/3430491/taylor-swift-internet-meme-no-its-becky-tshirt/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-25T17:25:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:25.817Z og:title: Taylor Swift Totally Knows About That Tumblr Meme og:description: The "Shake It Off" singer is rocking a "no its becky" shirt og:url: https://time.com/3430491/taylor-swift-internet-meme-no-its-becky-tshirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Totally Knows About That Tumblr Meme twitter:description: The "Shake It Off" singer is rocking a "no its becky" shirt twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Taylor Swift Proves She Totally Gets 'No It's Becky' Tumblr Meme > Sponsored content. 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A post featuring a high-school photo of Swift paired with a caption claiming a girl named Becky died from marijuana use made the rounds on the blogging site after one user replied, “pretty sure that’s Taylor Swift.” One poster’s reply — “no its becky” — become a bigger joke than the caption itself, and now Swift has a T-shirt featuring with those very words. Swift was spotted wearing the shirt [Wednesday night](http://www.mtv.com/news/1942818/taylor-swift-no-its-becky/), and on Thursday, the pop star showed it off [in her own Tumblr post](http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/98389440415/im-kind-of-rethinking-the-album-cover), where she joked about “rethinking the album cover” of _1989_. 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