The internet seized when photos showed Taylor Swift and Y Combinator’s Paul Graham locked in a park-bench summit at Mission Dolores. Swift gestured over Graham’s laptop as he scribbled on a napkin. #SwiftCombinator trended within hours. Memes declared Silicon Valley’s strangest merger was real. “I couldn’t believe it,” said jogger Maria Santos. “Taylor asked about burn rates, then said she’d ‘shake off the competition.’ Paul nodded like she’d invented EBITDA.” Witnesses reported bedazzled notebooks and a three-hour download on funding structures. By morning, Swift launched Swiftcoin to “revolutionize music with blockchain and really good lyrics.” Its white paper offers tokenized emotions and “relationship futures,” priced on your heartbreak history. Graham dropped essays comparing VCs to exes. “Due diligence is the honeymoon,” he wrote. “Inflated valuations. Same delusion.” YC’s Jessica Livingston admitted “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” is product iteration. Marc Andreessen called the duo unprecedented, then begged them not to podcast. Swiftcoin hit a $13 billion cap, a record for bench-side pop-star crypto.