I’m sorry, larries think solo Louies are bigger bullies than h**ries? What world do they live in?H**ries are incredibly rude and often homophobic. They attack Louies and larries but they also think larries are mocked all the time by h*rry and his team (which they are). And larries in turn attack and drive Louies out of the fandom. Because they’re bigger in number. If you think about it logically, it makes sense in a depressing way. The specific sub fandom with the bugger numbers bullies the smaller sun-fandom. That’s what happens in stan culture. Of course there are Louies who are rude and homophobic as well, because people are people and can be homophobic, but h**ries as a group just seem to be incredibly rude and abusive people. Larries just don’t really matter to most of them except as a joke - although they really are obsessed with Louis - because they have a much bigger fan base than larries. And why do they insist they did a lot of work for Louis when hld had a clear bias, especially for their main account, the account that had the most followers? A fair few Louies are accepting of the possibility Louis is in the lgbtqia community, they just don’t only stan him because of a ship. We know why Louis unfollowed, or at least it’s the thing that makes sense, because I remember people saying on Twitter when they heard about the super follow option that Louis wouldn’t like that, he would see it as fans taking advantage of other fans. And that is not something Louis likes at all.
Let me go through this post point by point.
Let’s start with this straw man argument: “Of course you’d find Twitter Larries who constantly see Larry signaling and then there’s Twitter Solo Louies who constantly find new reasons to justify their cyber bullying against Larries.” So this is the false premise: Signaling vs. Cyberbullying (instead of both being … fans of Louis.) Got that?
The reasons cited as triggering bullying behavior: 1. Bringing rainbow flags to Louis’ concerts. This has NEVER HAPPENED. Solo Louis UAs repeated post rainbow projects. 2. Singing Harry’s songs at Louis’ concerts. You’re not at a 1D concert? What if people sang Justin Bieber songs at Harry’s concerts? You’re not serious. 3. People supporting Isaac Anderson… please, these “fans” are not even joking. They think Louis waited six years to tour to showcase his session musician???
“If I wanted to bring my love for Louis to a Twitter Solo Louis UA, I know the comment section will beat my ass for having a Larry pfp, a Larry Twitter banner, a Larry Tumblr blog.” As far as I know, a solo Louis UA has NEVER made unprofessional comments about Larries in their accounts on Twitter or Tumblr. Please point out ONE instance this has happened. Unlike the many times Larrie UAs updating on Louis have made unkind and derogatory remarks about “Rads,” Solo Louies etc. on their UA accounts. Please show me evidence to the contrary.
“It’s circle jerk behavior amongst Twitter Solo UAs with zero impact on Louis’ career or the people the charity money was for… oh wait, the impact was to lessen the success for both, but hey it’s worth it because these UAs feel better about themselves.” As far as I remember, the only time that a project has been repeated questioned, bullied, and fans told not to boycott a charity project for Louis was the TRUE COLORS PROJECT — where Larries held a witch hunt to see who organized it.
“And Larries inviting Louis’ fans to listen to Harry’s songs to understand their music as corresponding work of art goes both ways.” The problem is that Larries interpret Louis’ breath, life, clothing, words, actions as SOLELY in relation to Harry, but it doesn’t go both ways— Harry is allowed to have his own friends, his own hobbies, his own dreams, his own life. He is allowed to have an entire complex personality, imagination, creative independence. This is never allowed for Louis. When was the last time they sang a Louis song at a Harry Styles concert, to “convert” some Harries? Yeah, I thought so.
“Finally, I’d very much prefer if we could stop telling each other what being a real fan means.” Doesn’t this blogger repeatedly call Louies toxic bullies? So they don’t want other fans to judge the sincerity of their fandom experience, but feel very free judging others. I see!
