--- description: Bonny Barker and Emily Hunt have gained an online following making videos about Taylor Swift, turning a fun side hobby to a full-time career. title: The Swifties Who Turned Their Fandom Into a Career image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt192d2410d6d020e2/698a55cab3fce338b80cd0ea/EU_THUMBNAIL-copy-133.jpg?branch=production ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Music](/tag/music/) ## Music Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Swifties Who Turned Their Fandom Into a Career by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) and [Jeannie Kopstein](/author/jeannie-kopstein/) Apr 18, 2024 6:03 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) and [Jeannie Kopstein](/author/jeannie-kopstein/) Apr 18, 2024 6:03 PM CUT Bonny Barker and Emily Hunt have gained an online following making videos about Taylor Swift, turning a fun side hobby to a full-time career. They discuss the community their channel has fostered, why Swift and her music mean so much to them and their supporters, and what it was like to get noticed by Taylor herself. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6968735/swifties-turned-fandom-into-career/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6968735/swifties-turned-fandom-into-career/"},"headline":"The Swifties Who Turned Their Fandom Into a Career","datePublished":"2024-04-18T18:03:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T13:23:08.970Z","description":"Bonny Barker and Emily Hunt have gained an online following making videos about Taylor Swift, turning a fun side hobby to a full-time career.","url":"https://time.com/6968735/swifties-turned-fandom-into-career/","keywords":["Music","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt192d2410d6d020e2/698a55cab3fce338b80cd0ea/EU_THUMBNAIL-copy-133.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeannie Kopstein","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeannie-kopstein/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt192d2410d6d020e2/698a55cab3fce338b80cd0ea/EU_THUMBNAIL-copy-133.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"EU_THUMBNAIL-copy-(133)","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/music/","name":"Music"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6968735/swifties-turned-fandom-into-career/","name":"The Swifties Who Turned Their Fandom Into a Career"}}]}] ```