ALRIGHT SO I was reminded of this today by a lovely mutual when we were discussing the crazy times of early larry. This⌠well⌠this was a great time to be in the fandom. It was chaos. Iâll link the original post I found of this back on my blog from 2013 as well, but I want to add my commentary throughout this post just to explain to all you newer larries what the HELL happened here (and that original post is missing one VERY important pictureâŚ)
So⌠if you think we are excellent detectives now, back then we were constantly finding things because there were so many things happening. The boys and their mothers used Twitter as a place to openly chat and talk shit and Jay and Anne were always tweeting each other about larry and everything⌠but, these tweets were still in the public eye. It just was a different time, and larrry content was still high on Twitter.
However, there were many more platforms available that the boys could use without being directly in the fandomâs eye. This included Pinterest / Blogspot.
Now, we only ever found Harryâs, and we searched for the other boys ones but couldnât find anything and I doubt they had them. It was very on brand for Harry to have a Pinterest, so, letâs have a little look, shall we?
I screenshotted the first picture below today. This is Harryâs blogger account. This is still up, although the account hasnât been active since 2013.
The below photo is from the original post about this whole Pinterest thing. We all clicked on it. It was verified and I saw it with my own eyes. Itâs not photoshopped
So anyway, letâs start with his blog before we jump into Pinterest. His blog is adorable! There are more articles than just the one below (screenshot taken today, the link to this blog is here)
So anyway, back in the day, he really didnât receive many comments or anything. It was a pretty quiet little blog, that sadly, didnât last that long.
So letâs have a squiz at his Pinterest, shall we?
It was lovely to find his Pinterest. Seeing all the things that he liked, that sparked joy for him⌠it was truly lovely and such a cool way to connect to our boy. Obviously, by the follower count, it was a little more well known when this screenshot above was taken. However⌠the earlier screenshots from his Pinterest were a⌠a time to be alive. When we first found it, we went through his boards, and some photos heâd uploaded and pinned. Have a lookâŚ
And so⌠we were all kind of like okay. Wow. What if this is really him? ButâŚ. Thereâs nothing proving itâs him. And then, we got this photo (which I never see floating around anymore, and we hadnât seen it prior to this). AHEM WHAT IS THIS SIR THIS WAS TRULY WILD
We lost our minds. There was so much stuff on his profile, a picture of a curly haired kid in suspenders, a lot of pride and larry and Louis stuff in a folder called âbe happyâ, but alas, the mobile app will only let me post 10 pics. But, there was also this little cheeky dig at you know who, which I loooooove
And oh!!! Remember louisâ black tie 21st that Harry threw??? THIS was one of his boards before Louis had turned 21. There was no way a fan guessed heâd be having a black tie 21st.
BUT everything Louis related, whether it be his 21st or that chihuahua or the photo of them together, got deleted soon after we found it. Obviously we freaked out, tumblr had a meltdown, we had some pretty solid larry evidence on our hands. But the old stuff and anything related to Louis or Harryâs sexuality, got deleted and Harry continued to use it for a little while after. Then, the whole acct was deleted. Which⌠interesting⌠why would you bother deleting the whole acct? There wasnât just larry stuff, there was a heap of things that Harry shared and pinned and loved and it was really cool. Would have been a nice little archive. But the larry evidence was too strong. So it got deleted and we only have screenshots, unfortunately.
But, I can assure you, we all clicked on that Pinterest link and we all saw it with our own eyes. It was verified. It was him. This was real. I scrolled through all of those photos. We also found a tumblr very similar, under the same username, but it disappeared around the same time too.
However, the blog didnât have anything larry on it, so itâs still up. But yeah. There you have it. Some more larry lore that I forgot about until today. Hehe. Original post with some more commentary from my tumblr in 2013 here
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