Penn Badgley’s First TikTok Is His ‘You’ Character Doing Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Challenge

Penn Badgley is a certified Swiftie, making his TikTok debut by taking part in one of Taylor Swift's trending challenges. The 35-year-old You star posted a video Tuesday (October 25) to her song "Anti-Hero" off her new album Midnights.

Inspired by the concept for the song’s music video, Badgley ran to his front door while the track played in the background to find his creepy You character Joe Goldberg on the other side. Goldberg sings, "It's me, hi! I'm the problem it's me," to a surprised-looking Badgley. The TikTok has received nearly 800,000 plays and over 200,000 likes. Swift even commented on the video, "OMG!!!!" with a starry-eyed emoji, while Badgley replied with the popular pleading face emoji.

"screaming crying throwing up," one user wrote in the TikTok comments section, to which Badgley replied with a second video where he pretended to spill his guts into a silver bowl. "me too," he captioned the clip in response.

"I'm on TikTok now. You have @nnnava & @scribbledbysophie to thank…. And of course @taylorswift . Btw my handle is @iampennbadgley," he announced to his four million Instagram followers while reposting the video on the platform.

Following the release of the "Anti-Hero" music video Friday, Swift shared a series of behind-the-scenes photos to Instagram of her directing and starring in the video. She wrote in her caption: "Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time."

Since the release of "Anto-Hero," the audio has been trending on TikTok with over 84,000 videos using the song as the track continues to go viral. Swift herself has even taken part in the trend on YouTube Shorts with the hashtag: #TSAntiHeroChallenge, showing a photo of her beloved cat with the text: "Thinks her cat is her son" over the image. Another shot of Taylor full clothed in a bathtub has the text: "Self-imposed isolation" written over the video. Finally, Swift shows the number 13 written on the back of her hand with the text: "Triskaidekaphilia (obsessed with 13)" written over the clips.

Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated 10th studio album Midnights dropped today (October 21) and fans have been going wild on social media. Swift surprised fans with seven bonus tracks when she dropped  Midnights (3am Edition) at 3 am. They include "The Great War," "Bigger Than the Whole Sky," "Paris," "High Infidelity," "Glitch" "Would've, Could've, Should've" and "Dear Reader." As promised, she released the music video for track 3: "Anti-Hero." Per her Midnights Manifest schedule, lyric videos to the album will be released at 8 pm ET Friday.

Directed by Swift herself, the award-winning singer-songwriter dropped Easter eggs and cinematic parallels throughout the whole video, calling back to previous eras. Here's a thread pointing out all of those hidden details from the mastermind herself. As always, Swift took to Instagram to debut some behind-the-scenes pictures from the “Anti-Hero” music video shoot. The singer introduced the video by writing, “Watch my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts play out in real time.”

Watch the “Anti-Hero” music video below.

Swift wrote of her bonus tracks, "Surprise! I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13. I’m calling them 3am tracks. Lately I’ve been loving the feeling of sharing more of our creative process with you, like we do with From The Vault tracks. So it’s 3am and I’m giving them to you now."

One of the bonus tracks in particular was noticed by Swifties as being a dig at Taylor's ex-boyfriend John Mayer. She already wrote "Dear John" about him on her Speak Now (2010) album. The two dated briefly between 2009 and 2010, when she was 19 and he was 32. Now, track 19, titled "Would've, Could've, Should've" seemingly calls out Mayer once more, firing up Swifties once again. The song's chorus features lyrics: "I damn sure never would've danced with the devil / At nineteen / And the God's honest truth is that the pain was heaven / And now that I'm grown, I'm scared of ghosts / Memories feel like weapons." Following that, Swift's lyrics are: "If you never touched me, I would've / Gone along with the righteous."

"Taylor really put Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, a song directly about her relationship with John Mayer when she was just 19, as TRACK 19 ON THE ALBUM. SHOTS WERE FIRED," wrote one person on Twitter. "john mayer was sleeping peacefully but was awoken at 3am with a chill down his spine" wrote another. "something tells me john mayer just jumped out of his sleep with a gasp. i know he felt a shift," wrote one person. Another found it amusing that Mayer was called out, writing, "i cant stop laughing taylor really said actually i don't want to wait for speak now taylors version to be released to drag john mayer i need him to suffer NOW."

Check out the songs from Midnights below: