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Greta Garbo, the “Furious Lesbian,” and a Classic Hollywood Love Triangle

In this exclusive excerpt from her new biography of the silent star, author Lois Banner explores the period in the early 1930s when Garbo was entangled with both the acting coach Salka Viertel and the glamorous writer Mercedes de Acosta.

BY LOIS BANNER

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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reta Garbo began her acting career in her native Sweden and moved to Hollywood in 1925, where she quickly became one of the industry’s most beloved stars. She was in a relationship with her frequent co-star John Gilbert, who also served as her acting coach. At the dawn of the 1930s their relationship was over, but Garbo’s star remained on the rise.

After the break with John Gilbert, Garbo had no acting coach. In April 1930, a year after she and Gilbert parted, she found a new coach at a party at the director Ernst Lubitsch’s home, a center for the Hollywood German community, where she met Salka Viertel, a Berlin stage actress. Garbo and Salka spent most of the evening talking on the terrace. Salka, who was sixteen years older than Garbo, found her “hypersensitive, although of a steely resistance,” while her opinions about people were “just, sharp, and objective.”

Salka had come to Hollywood in 1928 from Berlin, at the age of thirty-one, with her husband, Berthold, and their three sons, David, Peter, and Christopher. Fox studios had hired Berthold, a writer and director known in Germany. Salka had been a successful actress in Berlin, but she was rarely cast in roles in Hollywood films; she was, she said, “too old” and “not beautiful enough.”

Garbo and Salka Viertel in a scene of the German version of Anna Christie (1930).BY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER/DE CARVALHO COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES.

Salka had a sensual glow. For several years she had an affair with her next-door neighbor, Oliver Garrett, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, who helped her navigate the ebbs and flows of Hollywood. She then had a long affair with Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of Max Reinhardt, the Berlin theatrical impresario. Gottfried was twenty years younger than she, but he was stocky, with a solemn manner, and they didn’t seem that different in age. The Viertels had an open marriage, and Berthold was so often in Europe and with other women that Gottfried often lived in her home and functioned as her husband. He worked as an assistant producer at MGM.

In 1929 the Viertels moved to a large house in Santa Monica Canyon, near the beach. Salka held Sunday afternoon get-togethers, with coffee and homemade cake, conversation, ping-pong, and walks on the beach. Garbo didn’t always attend Salka’s salons, partly because of attacks of shyness, but also because eventually she sometimes went to other Hollywood gatherings—at Vicki Baum’s home in Pacific Palisades, for example, a few miles up the coast from Santa Monica, or at director George Cukor’s home in the Hollywood Hills. Baum, from Berlin, wrote the novel on which Grand Hotel was based. Cukor, who was homosexual, held luncheons for gender-crossing friends. His home was a showpiece, with six acres of gardens terraced up a hill.

Salka often joined Garbo in hiking in the hills or swimming in the ocean early in the morning. Following Swedish practice, they swam in the nude. When together, they discussed films, the theater, literature, and their lives. Both Garbo and Salka wanted to return to Europe, but they felt they couldn’t. Garbo had her screen career and her drive to be financially independent, while Salka and the boys were dependent on Berthold, still employed by Hollywood studios. Jacques Feyder suggested that Salka play Marthy, the prostitute in Anna Christie, in MGM’s German version of the film, which he was to direct, and Garbo agreed. She and Salka grew close; Salka was the mother Garbo wanted; Garbo was the daughter in Salka’s family of males.

Fred Zinnemann, Berthold’s assistant, later an eminent Hollywood director, described Salka as “one of the world’s most generous and opinionated women,” and she dominated Garbo. At their meetings, Salka was the star and Garbo the audience. After reading a biography of Sweden’s Queen Christina, Salka suggested to Garbo that she play the queen in a biopic. Garbo agreed—and suggested that Salka write the screenplay. Salka wasn’t a writer, but Garbo knew that, at her request, Thalberg would partner Salka with MGM’s best writers. Garbo gave Salka a career—as a writer and an acting coach. Salka participated in writing the screenplays for Queen Christina and most of Garbo’s subsequent films. Deeply impressed by Salka, Garbo developed an abiding love for her. But Salka was never certain how she felt about Garbo.

Mercedes de AcostaBY NICKOLAS MURAY/ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES.

In the summer of 1931, while Garbo was making Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Salka was persuaded to introduce Garbo to Mercedes de Acosta, who had come to Hollywood to write a screenplay for Pola Negri—and to seduce Garbo. Mercedes had heard through the lesbian grapevine that Garbo wasn’t a lesbian, but she could easily become one. De Acosta, openly lesbian, had a reputation for skill as a lover, and she was on a mission to turn prominent actresses into lesbians. It’s not surprising that she wanted to meet Garbo, but Salka was worried about what might happen if that meeting took place.

Mercedes de Acosta, born to parents descended from the Spanish nobility, was raised in a wealthy section of New York’s West Side. She met celebrities through her sister Rita Lydig. Eighteen years older than Mercedes, Rita was a fabled beauty, a leader in New York high society, and a reformer who worked for women’s suffrage and birth control, as well as labor rights. The de Acosta family once had money, but Rita’s and Mercedes’s money came from their wealthy husbands.

Rita introduced Mercedes to her famous friends: the actress Sarah Bernhardt, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, Jack and Ethel Barrymore of the famed Barrymore acting family, and others. Raised a Catholic, Mercedes attended Catholic schools. In 1914 Vogue featured her as a New York debutante, and in 1920 she married Abram Poole, a New York society painter. She followed Rita into feminism, working for women’s suffrage and then for the Lucy Stone League, formed to persuade women to keep their maiden names after marriage, following the example of Lucy Stone, a leader in the nineteenth-century U.S. women’s movement.

Like Rita, Mercedes wore distinctive clothing, but she had her own style. She often wore capes, tricorne hats, and pointed shoes with silver buckles on them, looking like a pirate. She was also known for wearing a dark coat fitted at the waist, with wide lapels and a full skirt, designed by the Paris couturier Paul Poiret. Garbo liked the coat so much that she had a copy of it made for her. Mercedes dyed her hair black, painted her face white, and wore blood-red lipstick—prompting some people to call her “Madame Dracula.”

Mercedes wore only black and white clothes, so Garbo and Salka called her “Black and White.” Aldous Huxley described her as “a small but most exquisite woman, both in features and figure, and in the manner of her dress.” She was five feet four inches tall. Close to Cecil Beaton, she provided him with information about Garbo to use in his writing about her, until he and Garbo became close friends in the late 1940s.

Mercedes lived a dramatic life, engaging in what Cecil Beaton called “glorious enthusiasms.” She also had periods of deep depression. Until she was seven and saw the male sex organ, she thought she was a boy. Discovering her mistake devastated her, until she formed romantic friendships with girls and studied ancient Greek ideas of sex. She interpreted those ideas as suggesting that everyone has a masculine and a feminine side. She took up lesbianism as a cause. Cecil Beaton called her “a furious lesbian.”

Mercedes studied Hindu and Buddhist texts and followed Eastern mystics; her knowledge of Eastern religions was part of her attraction to Garbo, who continually looked for a spiritual path and never seemed to find one. And Mercedes always knew about the latest healers and remedies. She consulted Dr. Henry Bieler, who promoted vegetarianism. Not long after she met Mercedes, Garbo consulted Bieler and became a vegetarian.

Mercedes knew the two great dramatic actresses of the turn of the twentieth century: Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. She had had affairs with prominent female performers, including Isadora Duncan, a founder of modern dance, who promoted dress reform; the English actress Eva La Gallienne, with whom she exchanged wedding rings; and the Russian actress Alla Nazimova. When Nazimova came to Hollywood in 1916 to act in films, she formed a Sapphic circle, which some say was called “the sewing circle.” Isadora Duncan wrote passionate poems to Mercedes, extolling her sexual ability and writing paeans to her beautiful white hands.

Once Salka introduced Mercedes to Garbo in July 1931, Garbo initially fell for this aristocrat, with her tales of famous friends, knowledge of Eastern religions, and skill at sex. After finishing Susan Lenox that summer, Garbo took Mercedes to a cabin on an island in a lake in the High Sierras, where they swam, caught fish, talked, and began an affair. Mercedes was known for her sexual skill and Garbo for “the unbounded freedom of her life.”

After her trip to the High Sierras with Mercedes, Garbo displayed deep feelings for Salka, which suggests that the Sierra trip was a failure, that she was comparing Salka and Mercedes as friends and lovers, or that she was forming a triangle with the two of them. On September 18, which was Garbo’s birthday, she seduced Salka, who described what happened in a letter to Berthold—her confidante as well as her husband. Greta decorated her house with white gardenias, a symbol of femininity and of secret love. She served Champagne and played Sapphic songs on the gramophone. It was, according to Salka, “a gigantic temptation apparatus.” She concluded: “So we were together—it was harmonious and beautiful.”

By the late fall, Salka’s infatuation with Garbo had dissipated for a time, as Garbo became demanding. She was filming Mata Hari and spending time with Mercedes, in the first flush of their romance. Then, looking at Garbo one day, Salka realized that not only did she slouch but she also had a hump on her back. Salka wrote to Berthold, who was in New York, about the hump, but he replied that she should forget it because Garbo had influence in Hollywood and could damage his career. Salka stayed with Garbo as a close friend and mentor but kept her at a distance by having affairs with men, first with Oliver Garrett and then with Gottfried Reinhardt. After the episode of sex in 1931 between Garbo and Salka, there is no further evidence of sexual relations between them.

Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina and John Gilbert as Alexei Vronsky in a scene from the silent movie Love (1927). FROM BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES.

Even before Mercedes appeared in Garbo’s life in the summer of 1931, there were references to Garbo’s presumed lesbianism in the Hollywood trade journals and in movie magazines. In 1929, Variety’s review of Garbo’s movie The Single Standard slyly referred to Garbo’s free love views. In January 1931, in a review of Garbo’s movie Inspiration, a Variety writer called her “one of the strangest personalities of all the freaks or odd ones that have littered Hollywood for years.” And Mercedes persuaded Garbo to become more open about her masculinity. The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood’s first tabloid, was launched in 1930. On August 21, 1931, a month after Mercedes and Garbo met, the tabloid noted that “Greta Garbo has a new love.” On September 23, 1931, the tabloid referred to “an ambidextrous foreign star.” (“Ambidextrous” means being able to use either hand for tasks; it was then a common circumlocution for lesbians, homosexuals, and bisexuals.) The tabloid also referred to “the two Garbos.”

But Garbo was ambivalent about Mercedes. After Salka, in her subtle, poetic way, informed Garbo that they could be close friends, but not lovers, Garbo turned to Mercedes for sex. That action unleashed Mercedes’s obsessive nature, expressed in constant demands for deep expressions of love. After several months, Garbo fled to New York to get away from her. When she returned to Hollywood after a month away, she found Mercedes living in a house near hers. Ever after, when Garbo moved, Mercedes moved to a nearby house. Garbo wrote to Hörke Wachtmeister, a close friend in Sweden, that Mercedes made her nervous. She also disliked Mercedes’s love of gossip, and she was incensed when she learned that Mercedes told Cecil Beaton about her doings, which he then used in writing about her.

Mercedes and Salka didn’t like each other, which isn’t surprising. Mercedes didn’t attend Salka’s salons; she formed one of her own, which may have been a continuation of Alla Nazimova’s “sewing circle.” She also had an affair with Marlene Dietrich, Garbo’s major Hollywood rival. Garbo eventually forgave her this breach of faith; free-love principles permitted it and forbade jealousy. And Mercedes was lavish in spending on Garbo; she once had an elaborate gate built overnight around her mansion when Garbo mentioned a need for it.

Mercedes’s husband divorced her in 1935 and married his mistress, but he didn’t cut off his large stipend to Mercedes for years. It was her major source of income, financing the mansions she rented and her largesse to Garbo. But she was indomitable. When the stipend ended, she managed to find jobs editing and writing for small magazines, moving between New York and Paris. She became friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and was often a guest at their Christmas celebrations. But when she died in 1968, she was destitute.

Garbo didn’t permanently break with Mercedes until her autobiography was published in 1960. Even though Mercedes hid their affair in a cloud of circumlocutions in the memoir, she included a photo she had taken of a topless Garbo on the island in the High Sierras. And her description of her research methods for the autobiography must have alarmed the perfectionist and secretive Garbo. Mercedes’s major source, she stated, was her memory. She had kept neither a diary nor a datebook, and when she wrote her appointments down on scraps of paper, she promptly lost them. She did keep letters written to her and other memorabilia; they are in her collection in the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia. The biographer can figure out a lot about their relationship from that collection, but far from all of it.

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Commons Vote

On: Armed Forces Commissioner Bill Report Stage: Amendment 2

Ayes: 76 (81.3% LD, 5.3% Ind, 5.3% PC, 5.3% Green, 1.3% APNI, 1.3% UUP) Noes: 349 (95.7% Lab, 2.6% Ind, 1.4% DUP, 0.3% TUV) Absent: ~225

Day's business papers: 2025-01-21

Likely Referenced Bill: Armed Forces Commissioner Bill

Description: A Bill to establish, and confer functions on, the Armed Forces Commissioner; to abolish the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman; and for connected purposes.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 3rd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (61 votes)

Adam Dance Al Pinkerton Alex Brewer Alison Bennett Alistair Carmichael Angus MacDonald Anna Sabine Ben Maguire Brian Mathew Calum Miller Cameron Thomas Charlotte Cane Chris Coghlan Christine Jardine Claire Young Clive Jones Daisy Cooper Danny Chambers David Chadwick Helen Maguire Helen Morgan Ian Roome Ian Sollom James MacCleary Jamie Stone John Milne Josh Babarinde Joshua Reynolds Lee Dillon Lisa Smart Liz Jarvis Luke Taylor Manuela Perteghella Marie Goldman Martin Wrigley Max Wilkinson Mike Martin Monica Harding Munira Wilson Olly Glover Paul Kohler Rachel Gilmour Richard Foord Roz Savage Sarah Dyke Sarah Gibson Sarah Green Sarah Olney Steff Aquarone Steve Darling Susan Murray Tessa Munt Tim Farron Tom Gordon Tom Morrison Victoria Collins Vikki Slade Wendy Chamberlain Wera Hobhouse Will Forster Zöe Franklin

Independent (4 votes)

Ayoub Khan Iqbal Mohamed Jeremy Corbyn Shockat Adam

Plaid Cymru (4 votes)

Ann Davies Ben Lake Liz Saville Roberts Llinos Medi

Green Party (4 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

Alliance (1 vote)

Sorcha Eastwood

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Noes

Labour (331 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Al Carns Alan Campbell Alan Strickland Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Sobel Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy McDonald Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna McMorrin Anna Turley Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Baggy Shanker Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Bell Ribeiro-Addy Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Cat Smith Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Bryant Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Lewis Connor Naismith Dan Aldridge Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Lammy David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor David Williams Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diane Abbott Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Lewell-Buck Euan Stainbank Feryal Clark Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Fred Thomas Gareth Snell Gareth Thomas Gen Kitchen Gill Furniss Gill German Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Hilary Benn Ian Lavery Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Naish Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Josh Dean Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Katrina Murray Keir Mather Kenneth Stevenson Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Lisa Nandy Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Lorraine Beavers Louise Haigh Lucy Powell Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Luke Pollard Margaret Mullane Marie Rimmer Marie Tidball Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Creagh Mary Glindon Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Navendu Mishra Naz Shah Neil Duncan-Jordan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Nick Thomas-Symonds Noah Law Olivia Bailey Pam Cox Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosena Allin-Khan Rosie Wrighting Rupa Huq Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Edwards Sarah Hall Sarah Owen Sarah Russell Sarah Sackman Sarah Smith

Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Sharon Hodgson Shaun Davies Simon Opher Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephen Doughty Stephen Kinnock Stephen Morgan Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Reed Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Tahir Ali Taiwo Owatemi Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Terry Jermy Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Tulip Siddiq Valerie Vaz Vicky Foxcroft Warinder Juss Will Stone Yuan Yang Zubir Ahmed

Independent (9 votes)

Alex Easton Apsana Begum Ian Byrne Imran Hussain John McDonnell Mike Amesbury Rebecca Long Bailey Richard Burgon Zarah Sultana

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Carla Lockhart Gavin Robinson Gregory Campbell Jim Shannon Sammy Wilson

Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)

Jim Allister

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jcm is the ship name we made up for joey/chandler/monica. it gets its name from jbm, of course. i love what you found though tell me more

ahh that makes so much more sense XD I am fully on board the good ship jcm, that is 100% a dynamic I would love to see play out. now as for the rabbit hole that is the apparent John Mayer crusader, I found this post on reddit and basically I'm obsessed with this person

There are so many gems, but for me it's a toss up between the pairing of 'fingernail painting emoji + getting clowned on in the comments', and the "think before you speak next time, swiftie." I need study this reddit user like a bug in a terrarium.

#I didn't even know john mayer HAD a subreddit tbqh

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minha obra de arte favorita do mundo em exibição no museo de arte latinoamericano de buenos aires

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finaguide · 10 months ago

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Villes de Mexique

Mexico est une ville qui surprend par ses contrastes : gratte-ciel de verre et musées modernes, pyramides et palais anciens, nombreux jardins, immenses places et cathédrales - toutes les vacances ne suffiront peut-être pas à tout voir !

Que voir : Palais des Beaux-Arts, Chapultepec, Palais de Chapultepec, Musée National d'Anthropologie, Maison-Musée Frida Kahlo, Cathédrale, Parc Alameda, Place Zocalo, Avenue Paseo de la Reforma, Pyramide du Temple Mayor, Place de la Constitution, Place des Trois Cultures, le musée Franz Mayer et bien plus encore.

Guadalajara est la perle baroque du Mexique, et tous les connaisseurs d'architecture devraient venir ici. Le centre historique - avec des places, des cathédrales, des églises, des jardins, des théâtres, des musées... En général, la ville ressemble un peu aux capitales européennes. Et c'est pourquoi il convient à tous ceux qui aiment visiter les musées, voir des sites antiques, se promener tranquillement dans les jardins et les parcs.

À voir : Église de l'Assomption de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie, parc Rotonda, musée-atelier José Clemente Orozco, églises de San Francisco et de Santa Monica, parc Agua Azul.

Mérida est une ville "blanche" et chaleureuse de la péninsule du Yucatan, où se déroule chaque année le plus grand carnaval du Mexique, et chaque soir, elle ravit les invités et les résidents avec des concerts, des soirées créatives, des spectacles en plein air. Il y a aussi beaucoup d'européens à Mérida, y compris son propre amphithéâtre, où des spectacles basés sur des œuvres anciennes sont encore mis en scène aujourd'hui ; rues avec des maisons colorées à deux et trois étages, des places, des cathédrales.

#voyage #lesvues #pays #apprendlemonde #temps #bonjourvoyage #repos #joie #plaisir #environnementinconnu #faitsintéressants #finaguide

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forgottenbones · 11 months ago

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Douyin was launched by ByteDance in September 2016, originally under the name A.me, before rebranding to Douyin (抖音) in December 2016. Douyin was developed in 200 days and within a year had 100 million users, with more than one billion videos viewed every day.

While TikTok and Douyin share a similar user interface, the platforms operate separately. Douyin includes an in-video search feature that can search by people's faces for more videos of them, along with other features such as buying, booking hotels, and making geo-tagged reviews.

ByteDance planned on Douyin expanding overseas. The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, stated that "China is home to only one-fifth of Internet users globally. If we don't expand on a global scale, we are bound to lose to peers eyeing the four-fifths. So, going global is a must."

The app was launched as TikTok in the international market in September 2017. On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked first among free application downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. TikTok has been downloaded more than 130 million times in the United States and has reached 2 billion downloads worldwide, according to data from mobile research firm Sensor Tower (those numbers exclude Android users in China).

In the United States, celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and Tony Hawk, began using the app in 2018. Other celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Will Smith, and Justin Bieber joined TikTok as well as many others. In January 2019, TikTok allowed creators to embed merchandise sale links into their videos.

On 3 September 2019, TikTok and the U.S. National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year partnership. The agreement occurred just two days before the NFL's 100th season kick-off at Soldier Field, where TikTok hosted activities for fans in honor of the deal. The partnership entails the launch of an official NFL TikTok account, which is to bring about new marketing opportunities such as sponsored videos and hashtag challenges. In July 2020, TikTok, excluding Douyin, reported close to 800 million monthly active users worldwide after less than four years of existence.

In May 2021, TikTok appointed Shou Zi Chew as their new CEO who assumed the position from interim CEO Vanessa Pappas, following the resignation of Kevin A. Mayer on 27 August 2020. In September 2021, TikTok reported that it had reached 1 billion users. In 2021, TikTok earned $4 billion in advertising revenue.

In October 2022, TikTok was reported to be planning an expansion into the e-commerce market in the US, following the launch of TikTok Shop in the United Kingdom. The company posted job listings for staff for a series of order fulfillment centers in the US and is reportedly planning to start the new live shopping business before the end of the year. The Financial Times reported that TikTok will launch a video gaming channel, but the report was denied in a statement to Digiday, with TikTok instead aiming to be a social hub for the gaming community.

According to data from app analytics group Sensor Tower, advertising on TikTok in the US grew by 11% in March 2023, with companies including Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon and Apple among the top spenders. According to estimates from research group Insider Intelligence, TikTok is projected to generate $14.15 billion in revenue in 2023, up from $9.89 billion in 2022.

On March 8, 2024, President Joe Biden said he would sign into law a bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok within 180 days. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously, 50-0, to advance the bill on March 7, 2024. ByteDance launched a congressional lobbying campaign mobilizing TikTok users in response.

On 9 November 2017, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, spent nearly $1 billion to purchase musical.ly, a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California, U.S. Musical.ly was a social media video platform that allowed users to create short lip-sync and comedy videos, initially released in August 2014. TikTok merged with musical.ly on 2 August 2018 with existing accounts and data consolidated into one app, keeping the title TikTok. This ended musical.ly and made TikTok a worldwide app, excluding China, since China already had Douyin.

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During the duration of 1995-2000, the Indian IT Marketplace has recorded a C.A.G.R. (Compounded Annual Growth Level) of greater than forty two.4 p.c, which is sort of double the growth charge of IT industries in most of the produced international locations. For Specifics Call AMCHAM National Secretariat, New Delhi Foreign corporations specifically American businesses have performed a significant job in making India an emerging IT Tremendous energy on earth. These MNCs account for almost 22 for each cent of Indian software package exports. In accordance with the hottest NASSCOM estimates, in 2001-02, multinational infotech firms exported software program truly worth Rs. 6500 crore from India. Country's complete software export was pegged at Rs. 29400 crore. Regarding expense and progress, U.S. providers like Cognizant Systems (most significant export earnings earning MNC) IBM, Oracle, GE, Cisco, Compaq, Intel amongst Some others direct the MNCs in the data Engineering sector. Nine away from best twenty Indian IT companies are from United States. These account for more than 37% from the turnover of the best twenty firms running in India. Even with their important contribution to your IT sector, these organizations have to face many procedural and operational problems in India.

However, the amount of e-commerce, in India, is much down below the amounts realized in USA, which was about 1 percent of the overall GDP in 1999. Even more, the expected volume of e-commerce in India in 2001 (US$ 255.3 million) is likewise below the amounts predicted to generally be obtained, which in comparison to Australia (US$ 3 billion), China (US$ 586 million), South Korea (US$ 876 million) and Hong Kong (US$685 million) is sort of fewer.

Time has adjusted the way in which businesses are carried out. What was purported to be known to several and limited to the house towns, appears to generally be an historical methodology of carrying out the operate. The existing working day brands work on globe broad scale, that is certainly They can be thriving in not simply a person certain region but have deepened their roots to all the corners from the world which you can visualize.

Information Know-how is exactly what constitutes the most important sector in the existing working day development of finishing up company. It truly is since you can not be existing all over the place to watch the do the job, but with networking and communications, it is possible to always remain in connection with one other company internet sites of yours.

ICT Methods of India

A spate of reforms-submit-1991 economic disaster-have presented impetus towards the Indian economy, specifically into the ICT sector. As Element of the reform agenda, the Indian Federal government has taken key ways to market ICT including the development in 1988 of a Entire world Industry Policy, with a target computer software enhancement for export; telecommunications policy reform; privatization on the national lengthy-length and cell phone markets; and improvement of a far more in depth method of ICT. While India's achievement is commanding increasing attention and expenditure, it has however to lead to the distribution of social and economic Positive aspects throughout a broader base of the population. Troubles-including the perception of an unfavorable regulatory climate, an overloaded judicial technique, very poor infrastructure and costly accessibility, and constrained usage of ICT-remain. The rising shift in authorities approach, toward knowledge-intensive services, has made a climate much more conducive to addressing business, domestic infrastructure, instruction and using ICT to fulfill improvement requirements.

Coverage: India's target self-reliant industrialization within the 1970s and 1980s continues to be replaced with reforms aimed toward positioning India on the globe financial system: the foreign direct expenditure course of action has actually been streamlined, new sectors happen to be opened around international immediate investment and possession, and the government has exempted the ICT sector from corporate income tax for five years. These reforms have aided India to become ever more integrated into the global overall economy by means of advancement in the export of program and talent-intense application solutions, like contact-centers.

In 1986, the Indian federal government declared a completely new software coverage intended to serve as a catalyst to the application industry. This was followed in 1988 with the globe Market Plan as well as institution of your Software package Technology Parks of India (STP) plan. Therefore, the Indian application sector grew from the mere US�a hundred and fifty million in 1991-1992 to the staggering US$5.seven billion (which include in excess of US�4 billion well worth of software exports) in 1999-2000-representing an yearly growth rate of over fifty %.

The institution in the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was a essential stage towards helpful implementation of telecommunications reforms. In 1992, the cellphone sector was opened up to non-public operators, in 1994 the fastened providers marketplace followed, And at last in 1999, national lengthy distance operations ended up opened to non-public Levels of competition. Ahead of these reforms, the Office of Telecommunications were the only provider of telecommunications services.

On top of that, to appeal to overseas immediate expenditure, the government permitted foreign fairness of up to one hundred pc and obligation cost-free import on all inputs. Govt-established technological innovation parks also presented Experienced labor services to consumers, a cost-powerful program for India because ICT labour is so reasonably priced by world wide specifications.

Infrastructure: Teledensity in India has achieved three.five per cent of your inhabitants. Approximately one percent of households have fixed line connections, as compared to ten p.c in China. The mobile sector has somewhere around three million consumers, rising at one hundred pc for every annum, and is predicted to outstrip the fixed line industry during the around upcoming. The number of World wide web accounts is all-around 1.five million, growing at 50 per cent for each annum. India also has incredibly substantial penetration fees of terrestrial Tv set, cable and radio. Voice and knowledge wi-fi alternatives, for both domestic and export markets, are increasingly created and applied domestically.

Use of telephones in Indian villages has improved in the final five to six several years in the introduction of the Public Phone Business office (PCO) run by community shopkeepers. Much more than 60 percent from the villages in India have at least a person cell phone. This also includes above 800,000 Village Public Telephones (VPTs). Worldtel is undertaking a pilot in four states to secure financing to upgrade the Village Public Telephones so they will before long be World-wide-web-available.

In some urban spots, India's Software package Engineering Parks (STPs) deliver infrastructure, properties, electric power, telecommunications amenities and high-speed satellite links to aid export processing of program.

India also has a variety of progressive computerized networks in position, like a inventory exchange, the Indian Railways Passenger Reservation System, along with the Countrywide Informatics Centre Community (NICNET), which connects govt organizations in the central, state and district concentrations.

Business: India's very well-proven framework for shielding mental property legal rights has actually been a vital inducement to organization financial commitment: nicely-recognised international trademarks happen to be shielded by Indian regulations, even every time they were not registered in India. In 1999, main laws was handed to protect mental assets legal rights in harmony with Worldwide techniques and in compliance with India's obligations less than TRIPS.

Substantially of your initial domestic demand stimulus for ICT and ICT expert services industries in India has come from federal government: 28 per cent of complete IT expending to this point can be attributed to government and public sector expenditure. Major places of presidency expenditure consist of: economical companies, taxation, customs, telecommunications, training, protection and community infrastructure. On account of the growth in ICT use in India, the ICT business itself has also greater its domestic economic activity, for instance, quite a few ICT firms have designed accounting and phrase processing offers in Indian languages. The opportunity effects of the progress over the domestic economic system is way broader than establishing software package for export only.

Human Ability: In spite of comparatively very low literacy charges among the the overall population, India has numerous critical strengths in human money: a sizable English-speaking populace and globe-course training, study and administration institutions-a direct result of expenditure in self-reliance in science and technology. Together with developing Indian Institutes of Know-how in different metropolitan areas all-around India to create a large pool of technical capabilities, the government has a pc policy to really encourage R&D in individual desktops. The IT coaching sector continues to mature in a quick amount: overall training revenues in 1998 had been estimated at US$225 million, thirty p.c up within the previous 12 months. Having said that, one among the most significant challenges to your Indian software package marketplace continues to be The issue in attracting and retaining gifted gurus.

Articles and Programs: India has a big populace with good linguistic range. Building and maintaining locally appropriate written content for a rustic with 418 languages is usually a obstacle. Even so, nearby language material is slowly but surely generating ICT more applicable and available into a broader cross-portion in the inhabitants. For example, India's Center for Advancement of Innovative Computing has recently released a scheme identified as iLEAP-ISP to create a absolutely free multilingual term processor to get created accessible to all World-wide-web subscribers. On other fronts, some states like Tamil Nadu have launched their own initiatives to aid the standardization of local language software through interface programs that could be adapted to term processors, dictionaries, and commercial keyboards for use in schools, colleges, authorities places of work and homes.

An emphasis has also been placed on the event of suitable e-govt apps in India. Some states for example Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh have started to introduce purposes which allow citizens to have speedier plus more transparent usage of federal government services-for example, the provision of knowledge on regulations and rules, and the procuring of licenses and official files online.

Strategic Compact: Public-non-public partnerships, catalyzed from the IT Ministry, have played a vital job in India's ICT-relevant enhancement. On the list of constructive final results of this exertion continues to be the IT Act of 2000, which was based upon the recommendation on the Countrywide IT Process Drive, and aims to set the overall technique for that IT sector. Additionally, the government and the personal sector are beginning to arrive with each other to foster ICT progress. For example, a joint exertion by the pc Science Automation Office on the Indian Institute of Science along with a Bangalore-based personal organization have formulated Simputer-an affordable micro-Computer system that enables illiterate users to browse the online market place.

India's progress and contribution in environment's facts technology sector is of best standing. Metropolitan areas like Bangalore are getting to be the favourite(most chosen) Places of all the massive banners like HSBC, Dell, Microsoft, GE, Hewlett Packard, and several other Indian multi national firms like Infosys Systems, Wipro, and Microland who've build their workplaces in town. It truly is as the city gives superior infrastructure, with large flooring Room and fantastic telecom services. This can be judged on the basis with the higher expansion studies of India along with the altering outlook of the businesses towards India .

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It's due to this development quite a few well-known brands which have not but Create up there rigid workplaces while in the region are which makes it quick to have a place in India far too. As an example, Sun Microsystems, a world IT key, announced in Bangalore to double the existing workforce of the company's Sunlight India Engineering Heart (IEC) from the current one thousand to 2000 in the next two decades time. IEC, which happens to be the most important R&D Middle for Solar outside the house the US , would also center on creating products in India to accommodate the wants of the Indian sector, which might be benchmarked globally.

This fast expansion of IT Sector is without doubt a result of the endeavours of Indian governing administration and the other developments that took in another parts of the globe.

The region has seen an period when after the IBM shutted its store in India in 1950, the mainframes which were imported into the country were being all from Russia . Western Laptop couldn't be imported on account of an American embargo on export of significant-technology tools to India , which was regarded as an ally of the Soviet Union .

Slowly and gradually, With all the time the nation could build its 1st powerful parallel Laptop or computer in 1991 known as CDAC, by connecting collectively a string of less strong pcs.

With time and the continuous advancement around the world, the state ongoing battling and arrived up as the world chief in Data Engineering Sector.

The marketplace has grown up to US $ 5.7 billion (which includes over $4 billion worth of software package exports) in 1999-2000, While using the yearly advancement level not sliding underneath fifty p.c considering the fact that 1991.

It exports software and services to almost ninety five nations https://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=hollywood movies worldwide. The share of North The usa ( U.S. & Canada ) in India 's program exports is about sixty one for every cent.

The Indian labor is not only affordable but is technically experienced also to the whole world course degree. It is as a result of Indian Education and learning Technique that features in its training course curriculum the sensible understanding of the most up-to-date technological innovation which is formulated in environment together with the fluency in English Language that imparts compatibility within an Indian technician to speak and work by means of out the globe.

Further more the geographical place of India serves it the benefit of currently being particularly halfway spherical the world in the US west coast, which can be one more reason why India is chosen destination of many major manufacturers.

Also, The presence of a large number of Indians, Specifically engineers, while in the US gave India an uncomplicated entry into the US application sector.

What adds more into the dominance of India in Information and facts Technologies Sector is the government policies like the enactment of cyber legal guidelines to shield and safeguard the curiosity of software program providers in India .

Starting from the Software Technologies Parks of India (STPI),

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Mónica Mayer, b. 1954 Lo Normal / The Normal Mexico (1978) Photographs and ink on card Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM [Source], [Source], [Source]

The artist says:

These were a series of postcards presented in 1978 in a feminist art exhibition in Mexico City called “Lo Normal (Normal).”

They are like the kind of tests one finds in women’s magazines. My face shows different reactions and there are instructions in the bottom for people to fill it in according to how they feel about a phrase that changes in each postcard answering the statement: I want to make love with:... Each postcard had different answers such as: with my father, in a packed theater, with myself, and get paid, etc.

It’s cute to see they were actually quite shocking at the time.

#Mónica Mayer #Monica Mayer #mexico #1970s #woman artist #latinx #latin america

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#music #spotify #reminds me of the start of New Light by John Mayer #In Uh Breeze #monica riskey

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Marc Bolan performing at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica on August 11, 1973.

Photos by Jeffrey Mayer

#marc bolan #t. rex #trex #1973 #1970s fashion #1970s #1970s music #glamrock

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The Complete Taylor Swift/John Mayer Timeline aka John Mayer Is An Asshole

May 5 2008 Taylor and John meet at the Met Gala. “I was starstruck by the fact that he came up and introduced himself to me. I just respect him so much, I was rattling off quotes that he said in his blog, and he was probably like thinking that I’m a stalker. But he was amazing and sweet.”

“Mayer, 30, returned the compliment by telling the young singer that he’s enjoyed watching her career blossom. “I was like, ‘what, you know my name?'” said Taylor. “I’m such a fan of his writing and everything so it was really cool to get to meet one of my heroes.”” (link)

February 8 2009 John and Taylor are photographed talking backstage at the Grammys.

March 2009 John tweets “Waking up to this song idea that won't leave my head. 3 days straight now. That means it's good enough to finish. It's called Half of My Heart and I want to sing it with Taylor Swift. She would make a killer Stevie Nicks in contrast to my Tom Petty of a song."

May 22 2009 John performs with Taylor at the Staples Center on her Fearless tour (White Horse) (Your Body Is a Wonderland)

May 23 2009 John tweets a photo of Taylor with the caption “I couldn’t get Taylor Swift on my record so I found the world’s greatest impersonator, Laura Jacksheimer.”

June 2009 Taylor in the June issue of Elle magazine: “I freaked out when I heard, because I've been such a big fan of John for such a long time. I'm really excited about just the idea that he would even mention me in his Twitter!" (link)

November 5 2009 Half of My Heart leaks on Perez Hilton (link)

November 17 2009 John’s album Battle Studios, featuring the collaboration, is released

John gives an interview to Access Hollywood about Taylor (link)

December 8 2009 Taylor and John are photographed together at the launch of VEVO, where they are seen “chatting it up in a booth.” (link)

December 11 2009 Taylor and John perform Half of My Heart at Z100’s Jingle Ball (video)

December 29 2009 Us Weekly announces Taylor Squared have broken up (link). “It wasn't really developing into anything, and wasn't going to, so they decided they were better as friends. There was no chemistry."

“He liked her more than she liked him. He went everywhere he could to see her, but she didn't travel much to see him.”

January 6 2010 OK Magazine reports “Did John Mayer break up Taylor Squared? Probably not, but John Mayer asked Taylor Swift to sing on his single “Half of My Heart” and a ‘pal’ says he has a crush on her. In a daring move, Swift rejected Mayer’s advances, but Taylor Lautner is still ‘devastated.’” (link)

Taylor and John have dinner together in Los Angeles. Star Magazine reports “Fresh off of her breakup with Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift shared an intimate dinner with serial heartbreaker John Mayer…They were spotted at Italian bistro Il Ristorante di Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica on January 6, following Taylor’s win as Favorite Female Artist at the People’s Choice Awards.” (link)

“They came in together and got a private table in a corner of the restaurant. They seemed to really enjoy each other’s company.”

“The pair lingered for almost two hours, with John sipping wine. The duo headed out into the night together around 10 pm.”

“They definitely looked like a couple. John was telling stories, and she was hanging on every word!”

January 19 2010 John’s interview with Rolling Stone is published. He talks about how much he masturbates and finding “the Joshua Tee of vaginas.” (link)

January 24 2010 the two enjoy dinner in Nashville with a group of friends (link)

January 25 2010 John and Taylor get coffee in Nashville (link)

January 26 2010 Taylor attends John’s taping of a CMT Crossroads special (with Andrea) According to Lainey Gossip: “Taylor Swift attended amid speculation that she and Mayer are now dating. My sources tell me she was backstage before the show, totally crushing on him, very “smitten”, flirting, like a young girl intoxicated by attraction to an older man, too young to separate artistry from douchery.” (link)

“On Monday night, Taylor and Mayer went out for dinner with a large group. I’m told this is how she gets around her mom. Momma Swift is a wary parent and some say Taylor arranges their time together in crowds so as not to hear it from her mom later on. There are some rumours that John was seen at her place afterwards. This has not been substantiated.”

“At the performance however her affection for him was undeniable. She was cheering enthusiastically in the audience, making hand hearts at him constantly, and the buzz among industry insiders and crew is that they’re definitely dating. Some have even told me that this is why she called it off with Taylor Lautner. Because while there was no spark with Tom Cruise’s mini me, she was compelled to explore the intensity of her feelings for John.”

February 1 2010 Lainey posts “Finally...about this business with Cory Monteith – they sat together at a pre-Grammy party on Saturday after being spotted out for dinner last week so now of course she’s totally going to marry him…More likely however – it’s a conveniently cutesy coverup for the f-ckery that’s happening with John Mayer. I’m told they went out for coffee together in Nashville, she and John, the morning after a group dinner with friends when he was alleged to have been seen at her house. If she’s smart enough to stay away from that douchebag, all the offkey business is totally forgotten.” (link)

February 2 2010 HollywoodLife reports, “Taylor and John are absolutely more than ‘just friends.’ They aren’t ‘boyfriend and girlfriend’ or anything as provincial as that, but they have taken their friendship to the next level.” (link)

A second source says, “Cory is just a decoy. She isn’t really dating him. They’re friends.”

February 5 2010 In Touch reports that John told a friend that he and Taylor hooked up in January in Nashville. “According to a source, the couple met up several times, in public and private, and were first seen getting cozy in a recording studio. “She was sitting on John’s lap, her arms were around him, and she was talking in his ear,” says the source. They were acting like teenagers.””(link)

“That night, John, 32, and Taylor, 20, dined at the restaurant Cabana and were joined by friends afterward. The couple left alone and went back to The Hermitage Hotel, where they arrived in the loading dock to avoid being spotted and were escorted to John’s suite, the source claims. Both of their reps deny the story. But the source claims, “Taylor spent the night and enjoyed mid-morning room service before leaving his suite the next day.””

“Though the source says that Taylor “adores” John, it seems the womanizer is up to his old ways, involving yet another starlet in boosting his career. When asked by a friend how his night with Taylor went, John laughed, and boasted, “How do you think it went?””

The National Enquirer reports Andrea confronted John about his relationship with Taylor at the CMT taping. (link) “Andrea pulled John aside and told him point blank to back off. She said a friendship was fine, but there was no way he’d get close enough to Taylor to break her heart if she had anything to say about it."

“With a string of ex-girlfriend…along with his reputation as a partier and pot smoker, John is hardly Andrea’s idea of a dream date for her little girl. John did not help his cause with Andrea when he recently appeared shirtless on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and made shockingly candid statements about casual sex.”

“Right after John performed, Andrea pulled him aside and basically told him to keep his hands off her daughter. She’s all for music collaborations, but she couldn’t get past his baggage."

"All John could do was to offer Andrea a compliment on raising a lovely daughter. He said he understood completely, and it was an honor enough to call Taylor his friend."

February 9 2010 John tweets “What's that song that goes "It's a quarter after one, I just huffed a can of ceiling paint and I need you now?" I like that one.” (link)

Lainey reports, “I can assure you that many Nashville insiders saw them making out in town while he was there for Crossroads. Many.” (link)

February 10 2010 John’s hectic, racist Playboy interview is published (link)

March 4 2010 Taylor’s April Elle interview, conducted in December (a few weeks before she broke up with Taylor L), is published (link). She plays the MASH game with the writer and names John as one of three hot guy candidates. “Now for the tough part: Three guys you think are hot? “Like, how do you mean?" she asks, scrunching up her face. She knows how I mean. "Um, well...Taylor Lautner," she says finally, a certain nervy resolve in her voice.””

“Back to the game: Swift name-checks John Mayer and Carter Jenkins, another Valentine's Day costar, as her remaining hotties.”

March 23 2010 On break from touring, Taylor goes bowling with friends including Cory and Selena Gomez (video)

March 24 2010 Taylor has lunch with Andrea, Taylor L, and their publicists. (link)

Lainey Gossip points out John is performing in LA at the same time and says it isn't a coincidence Taylor is in town. (link)

April 19 2010 Lainey reports “My sources tell me she’s still seeing John Mayer on the low whenever they get the chance.” (link)

April 30 2010 Star magazine reports they are still on: “Friends say that Taylor Swift is still having a love affair with notorious ladies’ man John Mayer – and they fear she’s bound to get hurt! And so will her “legit” love, Glee star Cory Monteith, who has no clue that Taylor has been flirting with John for months.” (link)

“Taylor will drop anything to see him. They’ve been meeting up all over the country!”

“And all John has to do to get Swifty to come running is text her, says another source – no matter what time it is!”

“Sometimes they meet in Hollywood or Beverly Hills… Taylor doesn’t like going to his house in LA. He always has his buddie staying with him and there’s no privacy.”

“She used to be infatuated with him. When she was 17, she used to tape his pictures to her wall and stare at his face.”

“Taylor’s mom isn’t happy about Taylor’s relationship with this “too old” Mayer, and “Taylor’s friends tell her he’s too old, but she says she’s an adult and wants to see where things go. She hopes this will turn into something real. She’s trying to guard her heart, but if John dumps her, she’ll be devastated.””

June 9 2010 Taylor and John are both at the CMT Awards, and Taylor writes The Story of Us based on this event. “She says Dear John and The Story of Us are about the same person. And her lyrical code for the latter spells out "CMT AWARDS," where she and Mayer both performed in June.” (link)

"The Story of Us is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.”

Lainey says “Swifty has been extra extra careful about whatever undercover business she has going on with John Mayer the last few months. They are super stealth about their movements, smart not to let anyone catch them connecting, but I’m told last night there was an arrangement for after. Keep you posted on whether or not they pulled it off.” (link)

June 17 2010 John presents Taylor with an award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame, saying "You could put her in a time machine in any era and she would have a hit record. Don't confuse everybody loving one thing as hype. Sometimes that's everyone agreeing that it's fabulous." And that they were like two black swans. (video)

June 21 2010 Half of My Heart is released as a single

October 17 2010 the New York Post quotes Taylor, “There’s actually no surprise person on this record. I will be excited for you to hear that song, though.” (link)

October 18 2010 Taylor’s interview with Yahoo Music’s Chris Willman is published. She says her songs aren’t hard to interpret: “They’re all made very clear. Every single song is like a roadmap to what that relationship stood for, with little markers that maybe everyone won’t know, but there are things that were little nuances of the relationship, little hints. And every single song is like that. Everyone will know, so I don’t really have to send out emails on this one.” (link)

“But, I said, by necessity of her fame and that of her recent boyfriends, she is past the point of using proper names in the lyrics now.

"Um," she responded, "there's still names that I used. Wait till you hear those."”

Willman publishes lyrics to Dear John in the article, which is followed by many articles about the song lyrics and her relationship with John.

October 19 2010 Taylor tells People magazine, “A lot of times when people’s relationships end, they write an e-mail to that person and say everything that they wish they would have said. A lot of times they don’t push send. This was a tough one to write, and I guess putting it on the album was pushing send.” (link)

October 20 2010 Taylor tells the New York Times “I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life. I couldn’t put the sentence together the way I could put the song together.” (link)

October 21 2010 PopEater reports, “Everyone knows John "loves publicity and lives for this" type of situation, a giddy friend of John's tells me.” (link)

"She can bet that right now he is sitting in his apartment thinking of some witty way to respond. Writing a response to 'Dear John' called 'Dear Taylor' would be too obvious, so expect something much bigger than that."

“And although John's friend has no idea exactly what the crooner will do, his history with the ladies should give Taylor reason to worry.”

"Sure Taylor has a right to say whatever she wants but she needs to know she is playing with fire.”

October 25 2010 Speak Now is released.

June 6 2012 John talks to Rolling Stone and says that he was “really humiliated” by Dear John.“It made me feel terrible. Because I didn’t deserve it. I’m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.” (link)

“I never got an e-mail. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?”

When asked about the song’s line, “Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with?” Mayer says, “I don’t want to go into that.”

“I will say as a songwriter that I think it’s kind of cheap songwriting. I know she’s the biggest thing in the world, and I’m not trying to sink anybody’s ship, but I think it’s abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, ‘Wait till he gets a load of this!’ That’s bullshit.”

June 7 2012 The New York Post reports that on the day the article was published the two had a run-in in Los Angeles. “According to the New York Post, Swift walked into the hangout and noticed Mayer, who was there with a friend. "Taylor very visibly — in front of the entire restaurant — demanded to be moved to the other side," the eyewitness said. "The bar's usually an oasis of calm and privacy for celebrities and power players, but this was drama central." But according to a Swift source who spoke with Gossip Cop, there was no nasty confrontation and while the singer was at the bar, it's not even confirmed whether they saw each other.” (link)

Us Weekly reports “A Swift pal scoffs at Mayer’s counterpunch. “I can’t believe he is trying to play the victim!”” (link)

““John was a player and treated her like s–t,” another source tells Us. “He looked at her as a conquest.” After the Rolling Stone interview, “Taylor is going to think even less of him now!” the source adds.”

September 30 2012 Taylor’s November cover story for Glamour is published and she has the following exchange with the writer:

Glamour: And "Dear John," also about a failed relationship, still seems to be resonating strongly. Does that surprise you?

Taylor Swift: I think that song really hit home with a lot of girls who had been through toxic relationships and had found their way to the other side of it. I've never looked out while singing a song during a concert to see so many girls crying.

Glamour: You never identified who it was about, but John Mayer recently told Rolling Stone that it was him.

Taylor Swift: How presumptuous! I never disclose who my songs are about.

Glamour: He said he felt…

Taylor Swift: No! I don't want to know, I don't want to know.

Glamour: You don't? [Mayer told Rolling Stone that he was "humiliated" by the song, and that Swift's releasing it was "a really lousy thing for her to do."]

Taylor Swift: I know it wasn't good, so I don't want to know. I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can't handle.

October 22 2012 Taylor has an interview with Katie Couric. Katie brings up John “feeling humiliated” “Oh come on!” Taylor retorts. (video)

“Do you ever hear from these dudes, like ‘Yo Taylor, guess what, I didn’t really appreciate this.’ Do they ever get in touch with you?” Well some of them like to write really long emails.”

April 7 2013 John and Taylor separately perform at the ACM Awards

April 16 2013 Grazia reports “Sources claimed to Grazia that they spotted each other on the red carpet and were later "deep in conversation" at an after party. (link)

"They snuck off to a corner and were all over each other. At one point she had her hands on his knees, with him holding her waist – they were so deep in conversation."

“‘Taylor spotted John on the red carpet, but it was only at the party that they got talking,’ a source told Grazia magazine.” (link)

“It allegedly turned into an all-night reunion as Taylor invited John for breakfast at her hotel room at The Orleans.”

Taylor’s camp issues a denial: “There is no truth to this... whatsoever.”

April 22 2013 Us Weekly reports “One insider says Swift, 23, put on “a stink” about her ex-boyfriend’s performance. “She said she had to go on earlier than him,” the source tells Us of the songwriter.” (link)

“The country star got her way in the end, but a second insider says Swift “was just really bitter that night” — especially after she didn’t win anything. Adds another source: “John just being there irked her.””

June 18 2013 John releases Paper Doll, an apparent response track to Dear John (link)

July 5 2013 John performs Paper Doll on the Today Show. When asked "There's been some speculation from the press that it might be about someone. True or false?" He responds “Yeah, songwriters write songs because of people, about people. Anything someone else wrote is their reception of a song; I don’t get involved in it. It’s none of my business.” (link)

October 7 2013 Taylor and John (and Katy Perry) both spend the day at Disneyland but don’t have any run ins (link)

August 20 2014 both dine at the Chateau Marmont. HollywoodLife reports “When Taylor saw John it was as if she saw a ghost. She was horrified and, for a moment, contemplated leaving. Cooler heads prevailed and she acted as if she didn't see him but she totally knew he was there and was uncomfortable."

“Our source goes on to confirm that the two are “in no way dating, and they didn’t share any conversation at all.”” (link)

February 7 2015 hosting the Late Late Show, John jokes in his monologue “You can see me at the Grammys doing what I do best: being avoided by Taylor Swift. That won’t make the internet at all.” (video)

March 6 2015 John tells Ronan Farrow “We have to be able to talk about Taylor Swift professionally.” (video)

“Artists need the person with the loudest voice to speak for them. You can go to the Met Ball. That’s great. That’s a great way to use your voice is to go ‘I’m wearing Valentino.’ Or you can use your voice to give things.”

On Paper Doll: “The song never got listened to as a song. It became a news story because of the lyrics. I’m not in the business of telling people what the song’s about. Now I can just go, ‘Look, I can say the name Taylor Swift.’ She’s an artist. I’m an artist. Everybody stop, nobody’s got cancer. We’re rich people who get to live out our dreams. Let’s just stop it. I’m a musician who’s bigger than one song or one record.” (video)

April 28 2016 both attend Gigi Hadid’s birthday party (link)

October 23 2016 both attend Drake’s 30th birthday party (link)

October 24 2016 Page Six reports, “[Taylor and Katy] were put on opposite sides of the room and didn’t even look at each other. Taylor came through the front door with Karlie Kloss and the Haim sisters while Perry entered through the back with a gang of friends, who were inappropriately dressed for the formal affair. Katy and John chatted, but Taylor avoided both of them.” (link)

December 13 2016 John tweets "Tuesday, December 13, may be the lamest day of the year, conceptually." Deletes it, and follows it up with "NOPE. No. Nuh-uh. People I am 39. I am deleting those tweets. Come right at me for doing so. Absolutely no shade." He deletes that tweet and then tweets a screenshot of the original tweet. (link)

December 6 2017 John likes tweets defending Taylor’s Time Person of the Year cover (link)

October 25 2018 during a concert John tells fans that he “was thinking about reputation” when working on his song New Light. “Not the album, but that’s still fine. That’s a fine piece of work.” (link) (video)

November 17 2019 A week after his Lover remix is released, Shawn Mendes participates in an instagram live with John, who mocks the lyrics to Lover. "[It's] insane. Everyone keeps their Christmas lights up until January. And I go, 'Can you really?' Because normally I take my Christmas lights down on December 29. We can keep the Christmas lights up 'til January. And then about January 5, we'll take the lights down. And then we'll put 'em in a box and we'll label that box 'Christmas lights.' Yeah, we'll put 'em in the attic until next December. Well, that's a crazy love, I'll tell you." (link) (video)

February 22 2021 Andy Cohen asks John "If an ex of yours comes out with a song, do you ever wonder is that about me?" John replies, "Sometimes, I hope it's about me. Sometimes, it's a really good song. I don't think it's a dirty admission. Sometimes, a song is so good, I go, 'Man, I hope that's about me.'" (link)

March 1 2021 John joins Tiktok and the Swiftie response is not great (link)

November 15 2021 a particularly aggressive Swiftie sends threatening DMs to John and he responds. They post the messages in a tiktok. (link)

November 16 2021 Life & Style magazine reports that a source said “Even though [John is] a pretty open minded guy, he disagrees with the way Taylor goes about targeting exes in her music, especially with all the online trolling and bullying that goes on these days. He acts like he doesn’t care but of course he finds it hurtful.” (link)

After Red TV’s release on Friday, November 12, “the insider noted that Mayer has “no time” for Swift and that they “aren’t friends” at the moment.”

“John is extremely wary of Taylor. He‘s convinced that she’s trying to bring him down. Whenever she’s about to drop a new song or album he becomes nervous that it could be about him. It’s a horrible feeling.”

Us Weekly reports “John is trying his best to avoid the attention he’s been getting from Taylor’s new album. He’s not going to make any public comments directly related to her songs or album.” (link)

“Mayer has “been through it all” after being bombarded with comments from Swift’s listeners in recent days, the insider tells Us. “It’s like he’s faced with the humiliation [of the split and song about the drama] all over again.” “[He] would prefer he was left out altogether,” the insider tells Us, noting that Mayer “hasn’t spoken to her in forever, so he learns about her feelings towards him through her music. What’s new to everyone else is new to him.” The Connecticut native “said what he needed to say years ago and is trying to just let bygones be bygones,” the source adds.”

December 15 2021 DeuxMoi publishes a fanfic tip that John will play guitar on Dear John (Taylor’s Version). It is shortly debunked when a fan tweets “i’m so tired of seeing that stupid screenshot about john on dj (tv) why are y’all ACTUALLY falling for it or even sharing it… este haim would fucking never” and Este likes the tweet, as well as the Haim band account.

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