Moby. Photo: Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images

Dating: The word means something different to everyone! And yet, whatever it was that transpired between the Natalie Portman and Moby was decidedly not that. Portman was forced to clarify this fact after the famed vegan, who is 16 years her senior, tried to claim that they were once A Thing. And, in response, many celebrities were quick to pick a side. (Not Moby’s.)

In his new memoir Then It Fell Apart, Moby writes that he and Portman once kissed “under the centuries-old oak trees” at Harvard, and that this relationship culminated in her bringing him back to her dorm room to “lay down next to each other on her small bed.” Portman remembers things differently. “I was surprised to hear that he characterized 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,” she said an interview published in Harper’s Bazaar on Tuesday.

One day later, Moby doubled down and posted to social media a photo of himself, shirtless and grinning widely, with his arm around a palpably uncomfortable Portman — an odd way to attempt to vindicate oneself from claims of creepiness, but okay.

Since then, many celebrities tweeted about being either perplexed or outright disgusted by Moby’s apparent gross behavior, tweeting sentiments as succinct as “ew moby.”

ew moby — jenny lewis (@jennylewis) May 22, 2019

I would like for men to learn that being insecure doesn't mean they don't have power, and that the capital of desirability that is briefly granted to young women is not the same as powerhttps://t.co/bc0vTI7kOu — Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle) May 22, 2019

FUCK THE MOBY — The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) May 22, 2019

Oooof this Natalie Portman VS Moby story is wild... — Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) May 22, 2019

Moby. No. Absolutely not. — Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) May 22, 2019

If every guy I let kiss me when I was 18 because I was scared and couldn’t figure out how to get out of the car/ apartment/ party w out pissing them off thought we were ‘dating,’ then this *awakening* of men to what situations are like for girls is going to take much longer https://t.co/MJchxVU1Sw — Liz Phair (@PhizLair) May 23, 2019

Moby made me a lesbian. — Heather Matarazzo (@HeatherMatarazz) May 23, 2019

In other corners of Twitter, Moby was getting the meme treatment, with celebrities announcing unprompted that they also never dated the singer when they were teenagers and he was in his mid-30s.

I, also, deny ever dating Moby — Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) May 22, 2019

i also deny ever dating moby — Pete Holmes (@peteholmes) May 22, 2019

for the record, i also never dated moby when i was 18. — DANIEL GILLIES (@danieljgillies) May 23, 2019

I however DID date Moby. He was a big Eminem fan. Loved me in Stan. — devon sawa (@DevonESawa) May 23, 2019

I, also, deny ever dating Moby — Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) May 22, 2019

And to think, we let this guy stick around for nearly 18 years after he insisted that we could win the War on Terror by dropping a pamphlet of a debauched Osama Bin Laden — made by “the best graphic designers” — over Islamic countries.

This post has been updated.

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