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Maybe the lack of HL interaction is /the/ fan service. It's akin to watching a movie where you're sure the two lead actors love each other but they just wouldn't touch, or kiss, or admit their feelings, and you're hooked watching the movie until they do so. That may be how some fans interpret the whole "H & L hate each other" drama. And management must have somehow figured out they can convert the fans' clamor into profit or attention at least, because as your anon pointed out, Larries abound.
In spring 2012 I watched an interview in which the boys were asked who was single, and Harry didn’t raise his hand—at which point the other boys freaked (look at Zayn in particular), and then after answering a couple of questions Louis ended the interview by moving people along. This was also the start of Harry desexualizing questions about girls, surprising the interviewer by answering the question ‘how are the American women' with 'they are very polite'. At the same time Harry and Louis were acting very sexual on stage, but for the most part subtle, in the back, hard to notice if you don’t have a camera to produce footage for you to analyze. It was showing up all over youtube in fan-shot videos, but was always censored out of official dvds, and absolute, thunderous silence from the press. With the exception of this, leading to this public statement by Harry.
But what fans were seeing on stage was enough to get them worked up to a screaming fit that they were about to come out—and that was the week we entered our current world of closeting. Suddenly, the boys went on Much Music and did a non-denial denial of their relationship, Eleanor was brought out and fans saw them peck in public, to Harry’s visible discomfort, the boys did interviews in all possible combinations except H&L—and there was a sudden change in stage behavior. Suddenly Louis was stationed away from Harry, with a couch or other boys in between—although Harry and Louis generally interacted anyway—and the other boys suddenly started acting intimate together, and acting incredibly stiff and awkward about it. When Zayn or Niall tried to act that way with Louis, he glared at them or pushed them away. But everybody remembered the H&L interactions on stage and were very much looking forward to seeing them again when they went on tour a second time for TMH. What actually happened was that there were a few small interactions, especially Louis giving Harry loving looks from afar, but these eventually went away. And the interactions became less and less until we got to the point of zero. I could tell ahead of time that the motivation was to give fans no ‘larry moments’ at all, because that entire fall we witnessed them trying to shut it down, and that’s exactly what did happen. The strategies they used in the last month of UAN—separation of Harry and Louis, gay baiting from the other boys—was now instigated from the very beginning of the TMH tour, and more effectively.
The effect of all this on the fans was to frighten them into passivity, self-censorship, and great aggression against other fans to force censorship on them too. Fans became frightened to say what they really thought, for fear that the boys would hate them—print quotes from Louis said that he found larry fans ’fucking annoyance’ and they were ruining his life and relationships—other fans would hate them and they would become the target of a mass bullying campaign, and they would be personally responsible for 1D breaking up as a band. Fans were afraid that if they acknowledged what they were seeing, or if they acted happy about what they were seeing, then they would be responsible for the boys being punished and for the fans being punished. I had a very odd moment last year when an anon told me that they had grown up under a dictatorship in South America and the atmosphere of fear and passivity in the 1D fandom reminded them of that. And another person started screaming at that person that they were being disrespectful to those who grew up under a dictatorship. There was a major disconnection there. It was very odd.
This year I’m grateful that we are getting closet-weakening stuff through official channels that had to have institutional blessing—I most certainly would not want to go back to 2013 conditions just to prove to you a point.
Is it really, really that hard to believe that the band’s management wanted them to be closeted but the boys themselves did not want to be closeted? That different people can have different interests and agendas?
I agree with everything Angela said, and this is not directed at the anon, who I think is just trying to struggle through an illogical argument like the rest of us.
But it got me thinking and I wanted to add that believing “Larry” is a form of fan service is putting the cart in front of the horse.
At what point did they go from genuine feelings between each other to exploiting fan feelings?
Was it here, when the only thing the knew was that they were going to be put into a band together and continue in the competition?
When did Harry and Louis subscribe to this “fan service” theory? Because they are the most important actors in this scenario. Without their active participation, the “service” itself couldn’t be executed.
Was it here when they thought they weren’t on camera?
Then, you have to wonder at what point the “fan service” theory went from totally a 1DHQ-sanctioned marketing plan to a form of interaction that became damaging to the brand and fandom as a whole. Why did Harry and Louis sell the “fan service” theory so well to the point they are they no longer able to make eye contact on stage and act disappointed in the situation. Are they disappointed in their own competence when Louis does things like this?
Furthermore, you have to wonder why, if this is just a “fan service” thing between two friends and colleagues, can’t Harry and Louis act believably interested in other supposed romantic interests? If it is just “fan service” and nothing more, why can’t either of them convince anyone their relationships are real? They can certainly sell fans that they might be romantically involved with other other.
Finally, I don’t know where people get the idea that affirmationsthrough negative experiences are an enjoyable and fulfilling journey in which we, as Larries partake. Why choke off the “fan service,” if it was 1) just that and 2) so wildly successful to begin with? I know a lot of people have entered the fandom in the last 12 months, but there’s always been a lot of people entering this arena. During the good times and the bad.
In the end, the real folly of 1DHQ in managing this relationship was trying to redefine it as solely something it is clearly not.
And if you ask me, Harry and Louis also know this and have their own statement on the matter:
✱ Jihoon always calls Taeil cute and small but this time he called him
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[ENG] 131222 - THE BUSKER Block B talks about pairings and fanfics
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2/50 edits (or gifs) of why taepyo is the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.
Watch this omg Taeil was singing his solo and then Pyo cut in, singing along, and then they sung the song together.
TaePyo ♥ Oldest and Maknae ~~ This couple is very cuuutte
(literal transcription of Pyo interviewing Taeil on the HER set)
Pyo: We're meeting Taeil, main vocalist of Block B. What kinds of women do you think are attractive?
Taeil: I like a girl who smiles with her eyes. I mean someone whose eyes become this shape while smiling...*gestures*
Pyo: Like half-moon?
Taeil: Yes.
Pyo: And no sound while smiling?
Taeil: *laughs* Pardon?
Pyo: No laughing sound, but only with eyes. ...A girl smiling with her eyes.
Taeil (amused): A girl smiling with her eyes.
Pyo: In addition...
Taeil: I like red lips.
Pyo: Red lips. Taeil likes red lips. Then, what about an attractive man?
Taeil: An attractive man...*pause* A man who can get reputation in the field he works in.
Pyo: A professional guy. (Taeil nods.) Then, is Ukwon playing basketball there - is our team member Ukwon an attractive man?
Taeil: Yes, he is.
Pyo: Then, our main vocalist Taeil, are you an attractive man?
Taeil: I am.
Pyo: Well, when we drink together, then...
*Ukwon literally dances up to them as they laugh*
Ukwon: I HAVE A TAP IN MY EAR! *runs off*
Pyo: Here came Ukwon. Taeil is -
Taeil: You must experience me.
Pyo: The guy you must experience...What am I saying? We've just met attractive guy Taeil. Thank you for your reply. *shakes hands*
Taeil:
Pyo: *loves it*
Whoever does the subs for Block B dvd’s is the best
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