Taylor Swift fans spot huge Reputation easter egg in VMAS montage

30 September 2026, 12:44 | Updated: 30 September 2026, 16:19

By Sam Prance

Is Taylor Swift releasing her Reputation Vault tracks soon? Here's why Swifites are freaking out.

Taylor Swift just dropped a major Reputation easter egg in the VMAs montage for her Artist Director Honors award.

Ever since Taylor Swift announced that she now owns her masters, fans have been left wondering what will happen to Reputation (Taylor's Version). In a letter, Taylor explained that she "kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it," before sharing: "It's the one album in that first six that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it."

However, Taylor did tease that fans might still be able to get their hands on her Reputation vault tracks one day. She wrote: "There will be a time (if you're into the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch."

Taylor is still yet to announce whether or not she's going to follow though on the Rep vault tracks but fans think they spotted an apparent easter egg at the MTV VMAs...

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Taylor Swift Receives the MTV VMA Artist Director Honors | 2026 VMAs

Ahead of receiving her Artist Director Honors award, a montage of Taylor's self-directed music videos aired and it included the well-studied scene of Taylor standing in front of the graffitied wall from 'The Man' video.

However, fans were quick to notice that the graffiti wall had been edited.

The wall famously features a sign saying "Missing: If found return to Taylor Swift" alongside graffiti of her album titles Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation, as well as two 'Karma' tags.

At the time, Taylor didn't own her masters and the wall appeared to be a nod to the fact.

Now, in the VMAs montage, fans have spotted that Reputation was missing from the wall.

So what does this all mean? Well, certain fans have speculated that the removal of Reputation could be a hint that we are getting the Vault Tracks sooner than we think.

Someone also spotted that the 'S' on the gravestone featured in Taylor's 'Patient Zero' video is in the shape of a snake.

Alternatively, Taylor could have removed it from the wall because she is never releasing Reputation (Taylor's Version) as she has already said before. This could even mean that she's scrapped the Vault tracks.

As it stands, Taylor is still yet to release the Taylor's Versions of her debut album and Reputation.

October 24th 2026 marks 10 years since Taylor released Taylor Swift and November 10th 2027 marks 10 years since Taylor released the original version of Reputation. Could she be tying the releases into those dates?

What do you think the easter egg means, Swifties?

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