Taylor Swift is surely living a dream life beyond anything she could have imagined. Yet at the same time she is living in the stupidest timeline imaginable — one she herself is helping to create:

The video for Taylor Swift's song Anti-Hero, the lead single from her new album Midnights, has been altered days after its initial release to remove the word "fat" from one of its scenes.

In the original clip, directed by Swift, the 32-year-old singer and songwriter steps on to a bathroom scale whose dial spins to the reading "Fat". In the new version of the clip, viewable below, Swift steps on to the scale, receiving a look of disapproval from a doppelganger also played by Swift, but no reading is shown.

The edit comes after some fans and commentators criticised the scale scene for perpetuating "fatphobia". On Twitter, eating disorder therapist and body positivity blogger Shira Rosenbluth said the clip "reiterated yet again that it's everyone's worst nightmare to look like us," while Teen Vogue writer Catherine Mhloyi described the scene as "lazy": "In having the word ‘fat' appear on the scale, she made a choice to explicitly name her demon, the fear of being called fat, which is fatphobia in its most literal sense."

I'm just gonna go ahead and say this: It's okay to admit that it's unhealthy and/or undesirable to be...

Like, it's fine to be honest about that.

That doesn't mean we should shame fat people for being fat.

But it's fine to not want to be fat; it's fine to show obesity as something negative and undesirable.

Of course, that wasn't even the point of Swift's video!

She was making a stylized commentary on body image and/or eating disorders, not on fatness directly.

But obviously the subtle indication here is that being fat is a sub-optimal condition.

And she's right!

The next time some identity-based social justice warriors come after her, Swift needs to take her own advice: