Jaime King Takes a Cue From BFF Taylor Swift and Urges TV Streaming Services to Pay Actors

However, the actress decided to take her social media plea down

By Bruna Nessif Jun 23, 2015 12:27 AMTags
Jaime King, Taylor SwiftMichael Kovac/Getty Images for EJAF

Friends should inspire, right?

That certainly seemed to be the case with besties Taylor Swift and Jaime King. The actress applauded her celeb BFF after the singer penned a plea so convincing that she managed to make Apple Music completely change their tune on artist payouts, and seemed to take a cue from T.Swift and kinda start her own petition for TV actors.

We say "kinda" because she deleted the post.

But, the text was saved before her IG went ghost (thanks, Internet!), so here's what she had to say:

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There's no word as to why King opted to take down her post, but it seems as though she may have faced some criticism, and that may have something to do with it.

A user took to Twitter to note that she was blocked by the actress on social media after giving her difference of opinion on the matter, to which the star responded, "I am pregnant, I don't want to be surrounded by negativity & you were mean & rude. You have free speech & I free choice."

Swift's plea seemed to have a warmer response. The "Bad Blood" singer wrote an open letter to Apple Music Sunday criticizing the company for not paying royalties as part of its streaming service. "I'm not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months," Swift, 25, wrote on Tumblr. "I find it to be shocking, disappointing and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company."

Hours after her open letter went viral, Apple's senior vice president of internet services and software Eddy Cue announced that the company will pay artists, even during the 90-day free trial period. "We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple," Cue tweeted.

Now if only Taylor could solve all of these other problems we're having...