natalie portman

Recording artist Moby is on the receiving end of some major Twitter heat following a very weird and creepy Instagram post regarding an alleged relationship with Natalie Portman. Moby had written of a relationship with the actress in his memoir, Then It Fell Apart. In the book, Moby describes a brief 1999 romance between himself (33) and the "20" year old Harvard student. On May 21st, two weeks after the memoir's release, Portman denied the claims in an interview with Harper's Bazaar. Her account is far more damning: 

"I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.

He said I was 20; I definitely wasn't. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. There was no fact checking from him or his publisher – it almost feels deliberate. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me. It wasn't the case. There are many factual errors and inventions. I would have liked him or his publisher to reach out to fact check."

Yesterday, Moby opted topost a bizarre and public "call out" of Natalie following the interview. The text, accompanying a shirtless photo with the young actress, reads as very defensive. 

"I recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we'd never dated. This confused me, as we did, in fact, date. And after briefly dating in 1999 we remained friends for years. I like Natalie, and I respect her intelligence and activism. But, to be honest, I can't figure out why she would actively misrepresent the truth about our(albeit brief)involvement. The story as laid out in my book Then It Fell Apart is accurate, with lots of corroborating photo evidence, etc.

Thanks, Moby

Ps I completely respect Natalie's possible regret in dating me(to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too), but it doesn't alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history" 

Many people on Twitter and Instagram felt this was an inappropriate response, and began roasting the star for his creepiness "calling himself out." Other Twitter users have opted to parody his post, sharing photos with celebrities (or photoshops with celebrities) with similar claims of romantic relationships. Leave it to Twitter to use humor to address a pretty appalling issue. Natalie Portman has yet to respond to Moby's social media antics, but hopefully she's enjoying the internet coming to her defense. 

We're not sure if we love or hate how completely ridiculous these Star Wars shitposts are, but we're going to let you be the judge. We're still busy being amazed that the terrible prequel films have been reborn in meme form. We're here for it.

When they first came out, the Star Wars prequels were completely destroyed by critics for myriad reasons. Jar Jar Binks comes to mind, and terrible dialogue. Today, they've become the subject of some of the most celebrated memes on Reddit. 

If you've been on the internet over the past week then you've probably heard about the "how hard did aging hit you challenge," in which people on social media compare photos of themselves from 2009 with a current photo from 2019. The challenge started on Facebook and quickly gained popularity on other platforms, also inspiring some people to make satirical then-and-now posts.

Scroll down to see some major glow-ups!

Star Wars fans, rejoice! We're coming at you with another freshly harvested batch of prequel memes.