Sun 27 Jan
The predicted Louis ski holiday picture that was foreshadowed by the Geneva airport photos has manifested on Eleanor's Instagram, which they got all warmed up and ready to go for this with her random post last week, as is often the case. Anyway it's a close cropped picture of her and Louis (who is not tagged) in ski gear, and let's hope it's really working for the general public cause wow a lot of the fandom is PISSED OFF, citing this business as usual approach at a time when they were hoping instead for changes and music. People are mad at management, mad at Sony, mad at fans who aren't mad, and some are even mad at Louis. On the other side you have fans who don't particularly care about the photo, on the grounds that it's just business as usual and irrelevant to the main point of interest- music release.
If you, like many, find seeing them together distressing, just take comfort in how laughably fake it all is. Like, you can clearly see in the reflection in their glasses that she's holding a phone out in front of her, but the screen is dark which maaaaybe she's taking the picture blind from the back of her phone or something (can you use the side keys for camera shutter on the newer iPhones?) but like. Probably not. And, did you know that on this exact date in 2014 they posted almost the exact same picture? Anyway you can believe he went skiing with Eleanor or you can believe he secretly spent Freddie's birthday with him, but you can't have both! A true conundrum, I'll go with neither.
MOVING ON, we got an unseen picture of Louis with Harrysson, a child who you may remember as having been photographed with Louis and a truly massive bowl of fishsticks backstage at the X Factor as his MakeAWish wish. His mother is trying to reach Louis because Harrysson has been asking for him; she tweeted the picture with a plea for help reaching Louis.
We got another unseen of Harry at that children's birthday party and learned that he personally handed out gifts to all the kids present which is inspiring way less squeeing than I would have expected, does the cardigan really bother y'all that much? Well that's fine, we got Niall squeeing plenty, about golf, giving us a level of enthusiasm and emoji use more often seen by young women @ boybands, which was charming enough to bypass even my usual golf related narcolepsy.
Liam posted from a Davido concert- honestly I will never get over how far away from the stage VIP boxes always are! It just doesn't seem that great to me but I wouldn't know I guess. Icarus Falls passed 400 million streams on spotify and inzayn continued to lobby heavily for votes for the iheartradio award.
Matt Colon, unfortunately named manager of Steve Aoki, liked a tweet suggesting that he would be a better manager for Louis than L's actual team. He was an active promoter of both Steve and Louis as individuals during and after Just Hold On promo and retains much fandom goodwill, but is this just a grass is greener situation? Would he be able to do better with whatever the current situation is? If I, an updater, could make a wish for Louis' management it would be good promo by someone who wasn't named fucking Matt for a change! Please, it's confusing :(
And in what would be some real news if I thought it was, in fact, real news, someone got Harry's face tattooed ON THEIR FACE! Happily, this terrible idea appears to be merely a publicity grab by an aspiring musician. She should have put it on her pretty neck anyway! Think it through next time, a real harrie would have gone for the cheap joke. In the unlikely event that this is an actual thing that happened YIKES and also wow that isn't even a good tattoo DOUBLE YIKES
And finally, fear not, rumors of the bears' phone's demise were greatly exaggerated- you can still text the rainbow bears.