Taylor Swift’s recent revenge single Look What You Made Me Do has fans convinced that upcoming album Reputation will be a collection of songs pulled from the deepest recesses of Tay’s burn book. And, well, it probably will be.

But the fan-made “leaked” (fake) tracklists are funnier than anything Swift could come up with. Ranging from songs called Dragging Kimye to fantasy collaborations – a cover of Spice Girls’ Headlines with Katy Perry anyone? – very specific parts of Taylor’s public image have been turned into song titles. Her pretentious statement about her feud with Kanye West turns into I Would Like To Be Excluded From This Narrative, while the fact that the album’s Jack Antonoff-produced lead single sounds like BFF Lorde becomes a track called Lordy Lordy Lorde (feat Lorde). Basically, whatever the album sounds like when it comes out on 10 November, you’re probably going to be upset there’s no song called You Stole My Shark, I Stole Your Wig.

Virtual unreality ... a fan-made tracklisting for Rihanna’s Anti.

Reading any “leak” is only setting yourself up for disappointment. Earlier this year, there was the actually-very-on-brand claim Kendrick Lamar’s recent album would feature a track called Paranoia, Is Love Stronger Than Death? (it’s not, and it did not). These hoaxes range from incredibly detailed – the Photoshopped CD case for Jay-Z’s 4:44 that (accurately) listed Beyoncé as The Queen – to overly hopeful. Iggy Azalea has been the subject of two “leaked” tracklists: one claiming she’d be on Rihanna’s Anti; the other saying 2001’s biggest rapper, Ja Rule, was making a comeback on Azalea’s upcoming album. The joke being that not even a rapper whose career has been going downhill for 15 years would appear on an Iggy Azalea album.

Now that everyone has got Photoshop on their phones and something can go from fan-fiction to fact in 500k retweets, things can get out of control fast. In 2010, David Bowie called rumours – started by a Lady Gaga fansite – that he was collaborating with Gaga on her new album “a hoax”. Instead, we got a Gaga/R Kelly duet, which is like waking up on Christmas morning to find coal in your stocking.

But the most tantalising “leak” was a fansite’s claim that the second volume of Beyoncé’s self-titled album would feature a track called DONK with Nicki Minaj. Just imagine what it would have sounded like: inspired by the UK’s 2008 donk scene, all bouncy techno, the Blackout Crew on the remix, Minaj in the video looking confused on Wigan pier. Fans and your fake tracklistings, please stop; your reality is far more interesting.