Are you even on the internet if you haven't been following all the Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal drama?
For the uninitiated, these two stars dated way back in the early 2010s - but it's all come back to haunt the actor after Swift, 31, dropped Red (Taylor's Version), last week. The re-recording of her seminal 2012 album included an extended 10-minute version of 'All Too Well' — a heartbreak anthem that Swifties quickly deduced was about her fling with Gyllenhaal.
With all the easter eggs about lost scarves to damning comments about the pair's age difference, Swifties are obviously having a whale of a time with it online — and Gyllenhaal, 40, is not being let off lightly.
Here's a breakdown of the pair's relationship to the present day...
2010 — Rumors of Romance
A 20-year-old Swift and 29-year-old Gyllenhaal sparked romance rumors after attending Saturday Night Live together back in October of 2010 to support host, Emma Stone.
Several weeks later, during the Blank Space singer's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she sidestepped questions about the actor — cryptically saying, "I'm always optimistic about love."
The following month, the pair went for a walk through New York City while visiting Gyllenhaal's sister, Maggie, for Thanksgiving. Commenting on the now-infamous date, Gyllenhaal told US Weekly in December of 2020 that having Swift over for dinner all those years ago was "great."
December 2010 — Swift and Gyllenhaal split
The fling reportedly ended in December of 2010, with a source telling US Weekly that the Nightcrawler actor "wasn't feeling it anymore" and was "uncomfortable" with all the press attention they received. Swift, on the other hand, was apparently "really upset."
"Jake just told her it wasn't working out. Taylor is really upset and hurt. She feels really burned by him," the insider alleged.
2012 — Taylor releases Red
One year later, Swift released her fourth album, Red, which fans quickly determined was loaded with references to her romance with Gyllenhaal.
In particular, during the original five-minute track 'All Too Well', Swift sings about a road trip to upstate New York, and losing a scarf — which fans believe she wore while attending Thanksgiving at the Gyllenhaal household back in 2010.
"Left my scarf there at your sister's house / And you've still got it in your drawer even now," the lyrics read. "Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone, But you keep my old scarf from that very first week / 'Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me."
In the ensuing years, Gyllenhaal has been pictured several times wearing a scarf that looks almost identical to the one that Swift claims to have lost.
His sister, Maggie, was even asked whether the infamous accessory could still be at her home during a 2017 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. "I never understood why everybody asked me about this scarf. I am in the dark about the scarf. It’s totally possible, I don’t know," she said.
2012 — 2021 — Swift and Gyllenhaal skirt around the issue
Swift and Gyllenhall have always been tight-lipped when it comes to speaking about their brief fling. Case in point: three years after Red was released, Jake was asked about 'All Too Well' when on The Howard Stern Show. "Do I [have a song]? I don't know," he replied, adding that the songstress was a "beautiful girl."
On Instagram in June of 2021, Swift opened up about her time as a "heartbroken" person when she wrote originally wrote Red, and announced that a new version was incoming. "Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end," she wrote.
"Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators."
She also teased that 'All Too Well' would be released in its complete 10-minute glory, and later said that a short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien would be going along with it. Tellingly, many fans pointed out that the two stars were the same exact age that Swift and Gyllenhaal were during their relationship...
2021 — All Too Well 2.0
Then, earlier this month, Swift finally dropped the full 10-minute version of 'All Too Well', and the fallout was intense for her former flame.
Adding more details to the story, she sang: "They say all's well that ends well / But I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind / You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine / And that made me want to die," she sings, confirming that the relationship was shortlived.
"And I was thinking on the drive down / Any time now, he's gonna say it's love / You never called it what it was / Til we were dead and gone and buried / Check the pulse and come back / Swearing it's the same / After three months in the grave."
Fans took to Twitter to roundly roast the Zodiac actor:
Of course, much of the focus was on the missing scarf, and even celebs can't help but wade in on the drama.
Now, even Dionne Warwick is demanding that the actor return Swift's property. "If that young man has Taylor's scarf he should return it," the singer jokingly tweeted on Monday. "It does not belong to you. Box it up and I will pay the cost of postage, Jake."
