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  • Katy Perry knows just how to score points with her fans.

  • After she dropped her Taylor Swift diss track "Swish Swish," she released a star-studded

  • music video featuring some of the internet's most popular traditions.

  • But with so much packed into a 6-minute feature, it's easy to miss the details that make this

  • video such a hit.

  • Here are some of the must-see moments in Katy Perry's latest music video.

  • The secret society

  • For years, conspiracy theorists have suspected Katy Perry might be a member of the secret

  • power society known as the Illuminati.

  • She has regularly fueled those rumors by expressing an interest in joining the fabled hush-hush

  • group, constantly wearing things with eyes on them, and layering her videos with its

  • most recognizable symbols just for fun.

  • So any time a new Katy Perry video comes out, fans start using their own big eyes to search

  • for Easter eggs related to the Illuminati, and with "Swish Swish," she didn't disappoint.

  • In the beginning of the video, she can be seen sitting atop a pyramid of basketballs,

  • which is a pretty direct reference to the Illuminati icon.

  • And with that, the suspicion about her allegiance to the covert cult lives to see another day.

  • The nuggets

  • Perry wasted no time roping in internet celebrities for her music videothe first being that

  • NuggsForCarter kid.

  • For those who don't remember this guy's claim to fame, college student Carter Wilkerson

  • became a viral sensation after asking the fast food chain Wendy's how many retweets

  • it'd take to get free chicken nuggets for a year.

  • The price, the company responded, would be 18 million retweets.

  • And while he didn't get that far, he did rack up enough engagements to break a Twitter record

  • and earn his free food.

  • So, that's why you can see him chowing down in "Swish Swish."

  • And as a bonus, Carter got to hang out with Perry's own pup whose name just so happens

  • to be Nugget.

  • That's hardly a coincidence.

  • And Carter wasn't the only web celeb to make the team, either.

  • The winner's circle

  • Perry's social media followers may remember that, ahead of the "Swish Swish" video release,

  • she'd teamed up with DanceOn to launch a dance competition for a spot in her video.

  • Fans were told to upload a video of their choreography to select platforms with the

  • hashtag #SwishSwishChallenge.

  • The winner was kept a secret until the release of the "Swish Swish" videoduring which

  • dancer Amanda LaCount made her debut.

  • She can be spotted toward the end of the video during the big celebration scene.

  • That's a buzzer-beater for the ages.

  • The familiar faces

  • Perry called on a few other famous friends to join her in the "Swish Swish" video, too.

  • Her teammates in the vid include YouTuber Christine Sydelko, Glee actress Jenna Ushkowitz,

  • Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo, model Dexter Mayfield, and viral sensation Russell

  • Horning, better known as "Backpack Kid."

  • Meanwhile, former Saturday Night Live star Molly Shannon plays the hopelessly incompetent

  • Tigers coach, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Terry Crews appears as the angry muscle-head coach

  • for the Sheeps.

  • Captaining the other team, too, is "The Mountain" from Game of Thrones, with real-life sportscasters

  • Bill Walton and Rich Eisen coming in to provide commentary.

  • Other faces you might recognize on the court are the stars of Netflix's female wrestling

  • series GLOW, the West Hollywood Cheerleaders, bodybuilder Iris Kyle, hot dog eating champion

  • Joey Chestnut, New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski, basketball pro Karl-Anthony Towns and Instagram-famous

  • dog Doug the Pug.

  • Making things even more interesting is the team trivia contained in some of these appearances.

  • If you look closely at the Tigers' stats, they're full of little jokes and references

  • relating to each specific team member.

  • Gaten Matarazzo's, for instance, notes that he hails from Hawkins, Indiana, which is the

  • setting of Stranger Things.

  • Christine Sydelko's card, on the other hand, lists her hometown as "Made in Texas," which

  • is a reference to the vlogger's uniform T-shirt that bears a similar phrase.

  • As for Perry, her card mentions that she's a "Miley Cyrus impersonator," which appears

  • to poke fun at Perry's short blonde 'do that many have compared to Cyrus' hairstyle.

  • The memes

  • As evidenced by all of the internet-famous faces spotted throughout her video, Perry's

  • a pretty big fan of web culture.

  • So, she made sure to include a couple popular memes in her "Swish Swish" music video as

  • well.

  • Notice the crowd's signs featuring a crying Perry?

  • Well, they're a reference to the Crying Jordan meme that featured a teary-eyed Michael Jordan.

  • It also plays into the video's apparent homage to the movie Space Jam, which stars none other

  • than Jordan himself.

  • Perry also did her own take of the Shooting Stars meme, which has featured people, animals,

  • and cartoons falling through space to the tune of Bag Raiders' "Shooting Stars."

  • Considering her Super Bowl performance spawned her own shooting stars meme, this seems like

  • some expert trolling on Perry's part.

  • The throwback selfie

  • While there were plenty of big name cameos in Perry's video, one of the most surprising

  • appearances is made by Kathy Beth Terry, Perry's persona in her music video for "Last Friday

  • Night."

  • While Terry isn't played by Perry this time around, she's still recognizable for her familiar

  • denim vest, tape-wrapped glasses, and dental headgear.

  • And, just like "Last Friday Night," "Swish Swish" also features a dance number in conjunction

  • with the popular video game Just Dance.

  • The wolf

  • The reference that's most likely to have people talking is her dig at Taylor Swift.

  • In the basketball-themed video, Perry plays on the Tigers' team, which is an obvious connection

  • to her past video for "Roar."

  • Her opponents, on the other hand, are the Sheep.

  • But they're not the cute farmyard versions of animal.

  • Their mascot is actually a wolf hiding in sheep's clothing, which is probably a reference

  • to something she'd said about Taylor Swift in the past.

  • As fans may remember, Perry once tweeted out, "Watch out for the Regina George in sheep's

  • clothing" as a digital diss about Swift, and the two have had a nasty feud ever since.

  • So, it looks like Perry's claims about being done with the drama were premature; these

  • singers still definitely have bad blood.

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