I know there’s another whole discussion going on here but one thing that still confuses me is why Louis and Eleanor got matching tattoos at all 😭 surely it would’ve been easier to get her to wear a ring and call it a day, long engagement whatever and then they split up because he’s too busy touring or something of the sort
So. The reason why they got matching tattoos in that placement is simple - it’s a cheap copy of the real thing, just like the first vacation they went on was a skiing vacation, just like Harry’s and Louis’ first vacation was a skiing vacation.
Harry and Louis got matching tattoos, and Harry got LT tattooed on his hand (and is wearing it around his neck always lol)
So they decided, again, to copy it, bc if it’s proof to the fans (larries) that this is one of the factors that make Larry a real relationship, it should work to convince them Elounor is real (it’s kinda working isn’t it?)
Now, if it is a real tattoo or not, I’m kinda on the fence about. Like. It’s so much effort to reapply it constantly?? Be aware of it? Not leave the house without it? I could see Eleanor not really giving a shit and just getting it, and Louis having it stand for “Edward” instead, idk. The thing that keeps me in doubts about it - and at this point, I’m genuinely asking people to debunk those for me so I can find peace (it being real doesn’t change anything of my view that the relationship Elounor is still a stunt, just a question of how far they’re willing to go to make it look “real”) - but there’s a few things I can’t unsee. For example, right when he debuted it, there was BTS footage of the photo shoot where you can clearly see there’s no E on his hand, and there was a video, too, and the fact you simply can’t find the video anymore is super sus - and the Instagram photo really does have that fucking pixel thing around the E, you can look it up yourself
Then the fact that they hide their hands a lot in sweater paws and their pockets, especially Eleanor, and all the instances where we couldn’t see the L on her finger - like that’s arguable, it could be lighting or position - but the fact she immediately deleted those photos and reuploads them with the L added or just keeps them off is so ???
Then, and this is smth I found myself, last year during the Samsung promo video, I went through it frame by frame bc again lighting and position was ambiguous, but what I found was a stray line in a single frame, like, where did it come from? There was no “vintage filter” over the video the way he likes to use now with his tour igtvs. This only happens when someone loses the line during editing to add those lines accordingly to how the hand shifts in every single frame and forgets to clean it up, bc you don’t see it if the video runs, only if you go through it frame by frame. And yes, as I work in the film industry and have been in editing rooms I’ve seen people edit and correct scenes frame by frame, it’s not uncommon. So. Why?
Like if it’s not real, I’m sure Louis applies it as a semi permanent tattoo with smth like inkbox during tour, and not a sharpie lol and I also think most of the times when fans point out that it’s not there it can be attributed to angles and lighting, but those facts I mentioned, they keep me from being 100% convinced they’re real
So, to conclude - I’m not sure. Either way it’s a PR thing and to me irrelevant to my opinion whether Elounor is real or not, bc it’s not, but yk… it’s just so much effort?