--- title: Taylor Swift Snake Video Shared to Twitter: Fans Respond description: After Swift shared a ten-second video clip of what might be a snake, the Internet went into overdrive with excitement and confusion. canonical: https://time.com/4908923/taylor-swift-snake-tweet/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-21T15:48:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:39.041Z og:title: The Internet Is Excited About This Cryptic Taylor Swift Video og:description: Twitter's response to the strange video does not disappoint og:url: https://time.com/4908923/taylor-swift-snake-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Excited About This Cryptic Taylor Swift Video twitter:description: Twitter's response to the strange video does not disappoint twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Is Very Excited About This Cryptic Video Taylor Swift Just Shared > Sponsored content. 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No website, no Tumblr, no more wholesome celebrity friend Instagrams, not even a profile photo on her Facebook page. The move came just a few days after a judge threw out a [lawsuit](http://time.com/4898020/taylor-swift-groping-trial-david-mueller-lawsuit/) filed against her by a Denver DJ and a [jury decided](http://time.com/4900754/taylor-swift-david-mueller-groping-lawsuit/) that he had, contrary to his claims, groped her four years ago before a concert. But on Monday at 11:00 a.m. EST, the pop idol shared one cryptic piece of content on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: a dark, glitchy, ten-second video of what appears to be an unfurling snake or other animal tail. Some even speculate it could be [a dragon](http://time.com/4905542/game-of-thrones-ice-dragon-viserion/); the Internet is at pitch [_Game of Thrones_ fever,](http://time.com/4908285/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-review/) after all. As could be expected, fans erupted into curiosity, confusion and anticipation over the latest tidbit. Swift’s most recent music release was back in January, the _Fifty Shades Darker_ single [“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”](http://time.com/4648633/taylor-swift-zayn-50-shades-video/) with Zayn. Her last album, _1989_, came out in 2014\. Since 2016, Swift’s spare social media presence and lack of new music broke a consistent every-other-year album release cycle, although she did [upload her catalogue](http://time.com/4812203/taylor-swift-online-streaming/) to music streaming services this summer. As a result, fans are chomping at the bit for Swift to return to the spotlight, and many are taking this video as a sign that the comeback is imminent. > [](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/899647503859032065) > [](https://twitter.com/GleekAmber/status/899647847913541634) > [](https://twitter.com/spacedswift/status/899647720922595328) > [](https://twitter.com/Flor%5FBelieber5/status/899647895866974209) > [](https://twitter.com/alisa%5Fpeace/status/899649222105890817) > [](https://twitter.com/PointlessBlog/status/899648840365506560) > [](https://twitter.com/RickyPDillon/status/899650600501104641) > [](https://twitter.com/raphablueberry/status/899648559137476611) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4908923/taylor-swift-snake-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4908923/taylor-swift-snake-tweet/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Very Excited About This Cryptic Video Taylor Swift Just Shared","datePublished":"2017-08-21T15:48:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:39.041Z","description":"After Swift shared a ten-second video clip of what might be a snake, the Internet went into overdrive with excitement and confusion.","url":"https://time.com/4908923/taylor-swift-snake-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","viral","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4908923/taylor-swift-snake-tweet/","name":"The Internet Is Very Excited About This Cryptic Video Taylor Swift Just Shared"}}]}] ```