--- title: Ryan Reynolds Gives Fan Advice for Revenge on boyfriend description: Ryan Reynolds just gave this fan a masterclass in revenge. canonical: https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-06T13:16:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:21:58.829Z og:title: Ryan Reynolds Told a Fan How to Get Revenge on Her Boyfriend og:description: It's hilarious og:url: https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4387484d5da39058/6988ca9e656a3f6899bcfb68/ryan-reynolds-time-100-gala-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Landon Nordeman for TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Reynolds Told a Fan How to Get Revenge on Her Boyfriend twitter:description: It's hilarious twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4387484d5da39058/6988ca9e656a3f6899bcfb68/ryan-reynolds-time-100-gala-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Masterful Ryan Reynolds Told a Fan Exactly How She Should Get Revenge on Her Ex-Boyfriend > Sponsored content. 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The whole family came out to support Ryan Reynolds Thursday!_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 6, 2017 1:16 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 6, 2017 1:16 PM UTC True superhero living among us [Ryan Reynolds](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736221/ryan-reynolds/) has dispensed some excellent advice for one fan after she pulled an equally excellent move after a breakup only days after prom night. The student Gabi Dunn wanted revenge against her prom date after their breakup, so she did the reasonable thing and edited the hilarious A-lister [Reynolds](http://time.com/4759276/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-john-legend/) onto her ex-boyfriend’s face. She shared the evidence to Twitter and tagged the _Deadpool_ actor, who knows a thing or two about the theme of revenge. “My boyfriend and I broke up a few days after prom, so I decided to ‘edit’ the photos a little @VancityReynolds,” she tweeted on Tuesday. Reynolds was all over it and even thought of the perfect next move. “We should photoshop me over his yearbook picture next. #DontMessWithGabi,” Reynolds responded, with a very choice hashtag. Dunn is now a graduate of the Ryan Reynolds school of sweet revenge. This is truly a masterclass in the art of retribution, and this young fan is clearly going far in life. > [](https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/882797487353765892) > [](https://twitter.com/gabidunn99/status/882353475572690944) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/"},"headline":"Masterful Ryan Reynolds Told a Fan Exactly How She Should Get Revenge on Her Ex-Boyfriend","datePublished":"2017-07-06T13:16:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T09:21:58.829Z","description":"Ryan Reynolds just gave this fan a masterclass in revenge.","url":"https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","High School","relationships","Prom","Ryan Reynolds","relationship advice","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4387484d5da39058/6988ca9e656a3f6899bcfb68/ryan-reynolds-time-100-gala-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4387484d5da39058/6988ca9e656a3f6899bcfb68/ryan-reynolds-time-100-gala-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Landon Nordeman for TIME","caption":"Landon Nordeman for TIME","creditText":"Landon Nordeman","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/","name":"Masterful Ryan Reynolds Told a Fan Exactly How She Should Get Revenge on Her Ex-Boyfriend"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Make First-Ever Public Appearance with Daughters: See the Adorable Photos!","description":"The whole family came out to support Ryan Reynolds Thursday!","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/qcNLPQEF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-12-15T22:17:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qcNLPQEF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/","duration":"PT39S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4846816/ryan-reynolds-revenge-boyfriend-tweet/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```