A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Aug 21, 2017 at 8:00am PDT 
 
 Swift shared a video to her Instagram and Twitter accounts on Monday, however the return is just as mysterious as the disappearance of posts. More: Taylor Swift erased from social media and fans can't shake it off 
 
 Joseph Kahn, Swift's go-to music video director, quoted her tweet with a smiley-face and cracked a joke about Monday's solar eclipse, with many Internet commenters speculating that the two events were related. She's just excited to get back out there.” 
 
 See the best reactions to Swift’s video teaser below: 
 
 
 
 
 
 #SolarEclipse2017: A complete eclipse only happens once every 30 years, everyone will tweet about this- 
 
 
 
 Taylor Swift: pic.twitter.com/R5Jv2w0dFY — summer (@slaylorstan) August 21, 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
 Haters: Taylor Swift is a snake 
 
 
 
 Taylor: *Embraces it* 
 
 
 
 Hater: pic.twitter.com/ToX7gdGgOp — Dayton / 7 (@hesotall_) August 21, 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
 eclipse: "finally, 38 years later it's my time to shi—" 
 
 taylor swift: pic.twitter.com/5Q9Y1DsanD — Maxwell Dunn (@maxwdunn) August 21, 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
 RT IF YOU’RE PROUD TO SAY THAT YOU STAN A LEGENDARY SNAKE NAMED TAYLOR SWIFT 🐍🐍🐍🐍 — ‏َ (@idwlfdeluxe) August 21, 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
 Taylor Swift deleted all of her social medias because after a snake sheds it's skin, it comes back better than before. — Justin Mikita (@JustinMikita) August 21, 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
 Taylor swift announces game of thrones cameo pic.twitter.com/drnWuJaaSA — Shitty Watercolour (@SWatercolour) August 21, 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
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– First, Taylor Swift blacked out her entire online presence. Then, on Monday, she returned to social media—but all she shared was a mysterious video of a snake. The internet is going nuts trying to figure out what she's up to: CNN speculates the snake video could be some sort of reference to the "Taylor Swift is a snake" meme beloved by her haters. Of course, the most obvious possibility is that Swift is building up hype for a new music release, and one of her collaborators, Joseph Kahn, seemed to confirm that possibility by retweeting her snake video along with a smiley face, Just Jared reports. Kahn has directed music videos for Swift including "Bad Blood" and "Wildest Dreams." Us points out that Swift's social media blackout took place exactly three years after she announced her most recent album, 1989. The gossip magazine previously reported she's been working on an album to be released in the fall. Music lyrics site Genius posted lyrics for a new song supposedly from Swift called "Timeless," but the page has since been taken down. Still, that hasn't stopped multiple outlets including Marie Claire from reporting that must be the name of her upcoming single and/or album. (And this might be the website for it.) The Ringer overanalyzes the snake snippet and offers up ideas for what it could be teasing, including an upcoming "peace summit" with (former?) rival Katy Perry. A number of outlets including USA Today are rounding up fan reactions to the snake video.