I can give you precise date and source. The precise date is February 26 2017. Louis had just gotten back together with Eleanor and went to Jamaica with her for a few days in late February/Early March (before he was arrested). This day he posted a tweet saying “always” and a selfie captioned “you” signifying that “Always You” was already written and he was dedicating it to his girlfriend who he had just gotten back together with.
The phone call was with lt91updates on twitter:
https://twitter.com/1dinfectionarg_/status/836270665762234369?s=21
The story is that he DMed them and asked them to give him a number so he could do a conference call with them. I was a Larrie at the time and I know the entire sordid story.
Here is a former admin of the account talking about him following them on tumblr:
https://knightchanges.tumblr.com/post/157763110963/to-anons-he-followed-lt91updates-an-ig-i-run
Here she is admitting she’s on a group call…
https://knightchanges.tumblr.com/post/157763158258/u-dont-even-seem-excited-that-louis-followed-u-lol
She simply neglected to include that the phone call was also with Louis and that she wasn’t excited because he was telling them off on the phone. A friend of hers is who told me what he was saying in the phone call. She literally heard the audio that same day. I was lucky (my blog was tiny), most small and non-influential Larries never found out about this until it leaked almost a year later, but I’m willing to bet most big Larries knew exactly what was happening. I unlarried that same day.
Oh wow, thank you so much. Dang, this is good info, I appreciate you tracking this down! And I appreciate so much that it made you unlarry. As you say, most of the big Larries probably heard the whole thing and decided to keep lying to their followers and pretending it was fake.
So let me put together what I've got on The Phone Call, although I'm sure there are even longer recordings that larries have managed not to leak or that I just haven't found:
this sunbabyabby tik tok - with high quality audio of part of the call.
Transcript of the key parts: "So now I can talk to real fans about real shit, right? [UA: Yeah!] You know how much it grates on me daily, genuinely - and there's a lot, there's been shit on twitter before, but it genuinely [inaudible] puts me off twitter because of all these *crazy* lunatic larry fans. Oh. My. God. Guys. [UA: what happened?] I need to know right now if any of you believe in that."
Them saying yes makes things kind of super awkward lmao and Louis is taken aback and says he's "so disheartened" and says the type of person who would believe Larry is also the type of person who would record the call (since other recordings catch him asking them not to record it). (He was right about that...)
Some additional transcriptions without audio - and with extremely pathetic Larrie attempts to deny THE LITERAL WORDS FROM LOUIS'S MOUTH:
this debunkinglarry tik tok - which has caps of one of the admins of the update account saying the rest of the admins talked to Louis and recorded it but she slept through it. It also has some screenshots of Larries downplaying it after it was "leaked" in January 2018, saying that they "kept it quiet because spreading it would have meant playing in his team's hands" and just insisting it was fake with no proof. The person who says she slept through it was defending herself because people were mad at her for releasing the audio - weird to be mad at someone for that if they think it was fake and from Louis's team...
[edit now that this is already being reblogged, whoops - but just to close the loop, the person who slept through it was indeed associated with the same update account referenced below]
I've also seen Larries claim the audio was "indecipherable" and that the transcriptions were fake, which didn't age great now that better audio is out there. It's also telling that the big larries say "haven't we heard this all before" when it had obviously NOT hit the larger fandom before, and they're just remembering when they heard it privately and didn't share it.
And now these sources from the time of the call -
Louis following LouisT91Updates on twitter on Feb 26 or 27, 2017 (some posts show Feb 26th so it could be that, but the person's tumblr archive shows them as from the 27th so it could be a time zone thing):
One of the admins posting on tumblr that they'd gotten followed (weird zoom in an attempt to make it legible and capture the url in the cap lol):
And the same admin that night mentioning that "everyone in the US is on a group call rn (it's been over 40 min)"
Just to be clear these are from 2017, I popped into their archive:
As we know from the various recordings, Louis asked them to keep the call a secret so it makes sense that she wouldn't mention it. And, as my anon says, hearing Louis put down Larries might have muted their enthusiasm to the point where their anons notice...
So there we go. End of February 2017, Louis follows an update account, thinking he's supporting someone who supports him. Calls them on a group call, asks them not to record it, and gets real about Larry. Then some audio and transcriptions maybe leak out here and there in small ways, but it's basically kept under wraps until Jan 2018, at which point various quality of audio starts getting released for real, and we find out that Louis himself talked to Larries and told them how much he hates it.
That is Louis on that call, we know he spoke to this update account, and the way it's trickled out is 100% consistent with horrified Larries trying to hide it.
And yet here we are in 2021 with people still believing in Larrie, and bloggers who know this audio is real still lying to their followers to keep them believing in a lie, keep them falling upon more and more extreme conspiratorial thinking to hold onto this lie, and keep them hoping for a resolution that will never, ever come.
