The Case of the Best Friend Heart 🧐
I'm coming back to this, because it's almost 6 months later and people are still resorting to Olympic level mental gymnastics to give a logical reason for a man to include another man, in a Valentine's collage for his long-term gf, a collage that was supposed to "hard launch" her to the public no less. Let's take a look at some of the comments and dissect some of the gymnastics shall we. 👇🏽
No, absolutely not. If that's your long-term girlfriend, you stand ten toes down and just post her. Respectfully and I'm including myself in this, but who gives a fuck about the Fandom if this is truly your partner that you've been with since Heck was pup? Why would you need to reassure the Fandom that you love your best friend on Valentine's Day in a post for your girlfriend. Especially, because as I've mentioned in a previous post, he could've just shown Connor love on Connor's birthday which was also in February, something Connor's other best friend Bailey actually did. There truly is no other reason besides the obvious to have included Connor.
Again no. You don't joke like that in a post for a long-term partner on a romantic holiday. People really love being obtuse because they know good and well if their partner tried some shit like this, they'd be at least a little upset, confused, if not outright pissed. If you want to even begin to make this argument, then wouldn't it make more sense to use a friend he's known a long time like Zack, or Kalem, people she's also known for a long time. Not the new best friend Hudson has only known for a few months and that we all know because we watched them play intense lovers in an extremely popular show? Also, I checked Aika's story that day and she had a cute post with her wife, she didn't include Hudson in it and that's her new bestie, right? Big G and Little G? My best friend since childhood posted her boyfriend on IG stories for Valentine's Day too and do you think I or any of her other friends were in it? No.
Ah yes, my favorite, "You guys are weird and being parasocial OMG!" argument. Questioning things is never weird, and blind acceptance because you're afraid of appearing weird or wrong is dangerous. I've often said that we've only arrived at this point of discussion because of Hudson and Connor's actions, and I don't mean that in a negative way either. The question shouldn't be why we are discussing Connor being included in this collage and coming to the conclusion that people are weird for having said question. It truly should be what the OP posted. Why include Connor with a heart around his head in this particular collage. Like I said the answer is obvious, and we wouldn't still be thinking about it almost 6 months on without Hudson putting it in our head in the first place, and then of course repeating it again post CSA's.
We don't know Hudson personally; however, a repetitive behavior would seem to indicate a certain intention. Just like everything we've seen lately has been designed to convey one thing about H/K's relationship. I think drawing a heart around your "best friends" head after including him in a Valentine's Day collage for your long-term gf, and then doing it again, after sharing an award with the Honorary Canadian, who wasn't even present at the Award Show might mean something. Because on the surface yes, you could say he just wanted to include his best friend to show his love (Valentine's Day) or to show his appreciation and gratitude (since Connor couldn't be nominated for the same award), but both could've been done in different ways that were more explicitly platonic.
So, the mental gymnastics continue but thank God for screenshots and long memories, because I've never been in any other Fandom that tries this hard to convince people that they haven't seen what they've seen. It's Twilight Zone levels of crazy.
