Best reactions to Taylor Swift’s 10-minute version of ‘All Too Well’

Taylor Swift fans are reading Jake Gyllenhaal to filth after the re-release of ‘Red’. Here are the best reactions, from memes to club nights.

By now you’ll be well aware that Taylor Swift’s own version of ‘Red’ was released on Saturday (November 12 in the USA). You’ve probably even had it on repeat.

While there are (obviously) some serious bops on the album — including new songs and collaborations with the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and Ed Sheeran — the real buzz is how a re-examination of her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal does not paint the actor in a good light.

The pair dated in 2010 when Swift was 20 and Gyllenhaal was 29 — an age gap that barely raised eyebrows at the time, and is still quite common to see in Hollywood relationships, but is definitely raising questions now.

While we’ve had several social movements since these two were a couple that have made us all aware of the uneven power dynamics and other factors that make this age gap a little ‘ick’, the truly damning evidence was in the 10-minute version Swift released of ‘All Too Well’ (a song widely considered to be written about Gyllenhaal, along with ‘Moment I knew’) and the accompanying short film featuring Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink and Teen Wolf’s Dylan O’Brien — two actors with a very similar age gap between them as Swift and Gyllenhaal.

With lines like “I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age” and a whole lot of gaslighting from O’Brien’s character, it’s no wonder people took to social media over the weekend to read Gyllenhaal to filth. Here are some of the best reactions.

Swift fans dance to 'We're Never Getting Back Together' while Jake Gyllenhaal cries on a big screen. Image: TikTok / @_toxicnoodle

TikTok user @_toxicnoodle recorded part of their night at Club 90s LA, as Taylor Swift’s ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ while displaying videos of Gyllenhaal crying on a giant screen.

“This was a Taylor Swift night organised by @club90sla with no affiliation to Taylor in order to celebrate the release of her album Red (2012),” the creator explained in the comments of the since-deleted post.

The video ends with a shot of the infamous Mean Girls ‘Burn Book’ with Gyllenhaal’s face and Regina George’s description — a pretty clear message sent there.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, users were pointing out the Gyllenhaal probably needed to stay away from the internet for a while.

jake gyllenhaal disappearing from public eye for the rest of the year now that red tv is out #RedTaylorsVersionpic.twitter.com/p9it7LHcrU

— michael (@hemswcrthy) November 12, 2021

jake gyllenhaal trying to go anywhere in public now that #RedTaylorsVersion dropped: pic.twitter.com/jsnHSJgxuy

— Katya (@EhresmanKatya) November 12, 2021

what if you were jake gyllenhaal and you wanted to go to heaven but god said nah remember when you missed taylor swift’s 21st birthday party

— paige hettinger (@404paigenotfnd) November 12, 2021

While others were just expressing relief and not being the ones who had to deal with the whole hot mess.

How Im sleeping tonight knowing I’m not Jake Gyllenhaal’s publicist pic.twitter.com/otDuPs1MGJ

— maya (@allmychampagne) November 11, 2021

Some even comparing the next few months of Gyllenhall’s life to that of Pete Davidson after Ariana Grande release Thank U, Next.

All of Jake Gyllenhaal's friends tomorrow hearing 10 whole minutes of All Too Well pic.twitter.com/MR6cCPWEQr

— Thicc-ery Binx 🐈‍⬛ (@tootsdeville) November 11, 2021

While others took the whole thing as a green light for them to be as dramatic as they wanted about their own failed relationships, and here, here.

if taylor swift can write All Too Well after dating jake gyllenhaal for only 3 months then im also allowed to be as dramatic as I want

— sara (@sarahanebutt) November 4, 2021

Originally published as Best reactions to Taylor Swift’s 10-minute version of ‘All Too Well’