Joe Alwyn is understood for holding a low profile, however he appears to be doing issues a bit in another way this yr. After greater than 5 months, the British actor (and Taylor Swift’s ex) simply made his return to Instagram with a really cryptic photograph dump.

On February 19, 2024, Alwyn took to Instagram for the primary time since September 2023 to share a 10-slide captionless photograph carousel. The primary image within the publish is a B&W mirror selfie within the woods — which, might we add, may be very Taylor Swift-coded. The shot is adopted by a snap of a canine at a pub, a meme from the unique The Workplace, an image of himself with Scottish actor Brian Cox, as effectively numerous nature panorama pictures.

Why is Alwyn simply now selecting to make his return to Instagram? Nicely, it may very well be only a coincidence, or it may very well be one thing else. If we’re going the speculative route, Alwyn has been the speak of the city since Taylor Swift introduced her upcoming eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, throughout the Grammys 2024 earlier this month.

As quickly as the primary particulars about The Tortured Poets Division dropped, followers speculated the mission may very well be about Joe Alwyn. For starters, the album’s identify appears to be impressed by the identify of a gaggle chat the actor shares with Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. Followers have additionally discovered clues within the tracklist that counsel Alwyn may have served as inspiration for Swift, notably in songs like So Lengthy, London and My Boy Solely Breaks His Favourite Toys.

As quickly as followers began speculating about the subject material of the album, an nameless supply near Alwyn talked to the press to attempt to clear the air. “Joe has no cause to consider but that she goes to diss him or their relationship [in the new album],” the supply mentioned. “She writes about her previous utilizing code and factors of reference. It could simply be that she is reflecting on their time collectively and he’s hoping it’s nothing extra. If it’s a diss album, that’s shady. He helped her with track writing on her previous album so it can actually come as a shock to him if she talks about their breakup, as it’s one thing he has not spoken of in any respect.”

Nevertheless, the hearsay mill began churning as soon as once more after Swift lately admitted to feeling lonely whereas engaged on her 2020 album folklore, which got here out in the course of their six-year-long relationship and notably boasts writing and producing credit by Alwyn.

“[While writing folklore, I was] imagining that, as a substitute of being a lonely millennial lady lined in cat hair ingesting my weight in white wine, I used to be a ghostly Victorian woman wandering by way of the woods with a candle in a candlestick holder, and I wrote solely on parchment with a feathered quill,” Swift mentioned throughout one in all her Eras Tour concert events in Australia. (Once more, that is all hypothesis, and it may all be only a huge previous coincidence or not even associated in any respect, so take all the things with a grain of salt.)

It is price noting that whereas Alwyn has been away from social media for nearly half a yr, he has been seen attending a number of public occasions in that point. In late 2023, he attended the GQ Males Of The 12 months Awards occasion in London. In January, he sat entrance row on the Emporio Armani fall-winter present as a part of Milan Males’s Style Week, and simply this week, he made his strategy to the British Vogue And Tiffany & Co. Have a good time Style and Movie Occasion, the place, very like Boygenius on the Grammys, he sported an Artists4Ceasefire pin on his lapel.

This text initially appeared on Teen Vogue.