This 'have dinner with me' thing is just going to end up being more promo isn't it? Remember when the winner of that one contest Liam did was some influencer asshole who clearly just used connections to win? It's just going to be that, the winner is going to probably be some vapid 'influencer' whots daddy paid for her to have dinner with him so she could get some attention. I swear, I'm not this cynical in real life, just when it comes to the damn boys and all the fuckery surrounding them.
that is very fair tbh (and i don’t blame you one bit for being cynical about it either), but it was also just (generally speaking) a mess...at least for laya anyway (i can’t speak to the others that were on it cause i really only saw brief clips of liam and m from the stream after the fact) but yeah they looked ALLLLL kinds of awkward and there was one super cringey point at the very beginning of their introduction where he tells her to say hi to everyone and it was literally like a dad talking to/instructing their kid on what to do (rather than even remotely resembling a “loving” relationship b/t a committed bf and gf lol) and she was soooo stiff and awkward too. she just looked kinda lost and really uncomfortable or like she had no idea why she was really there or what to do (like in general, but also just with her body lmao which like...not hating on her for that cause i can literally relate, i am awk af in real life too but funnily enough that makes it easier for me to pinpoint when OTHER ppl are extremely awkward and she verryyyyyyy much was, like yikessss lol, it was just so cringe-worthy to watch)
also, as @justapayneaway said, pretty sure they did not actually eat like hardly anything lol, literally just were sitting there pushing food around their plates the whole time and occasionally chewing (was it even real chewing lol?) and looking like they kept STARTING to pick stuff with their chopsticks but never actually quite GOT there lol. i’d be surprised if they even took like two bites of food the whole time IF THAT. they looked more like they were in an obligatory dinner scene on a movie set than a real life dinner (esp a dinner as a supposed couple) and ofc were sitting like 57 feet apart the entire time. lol jk i’m exaggerating on that count obvi but still, just like with liam and cher*l, there was perpetually a weird amount of space b/t them that never really closed and felt more like a ‘we must remain this precise distance apart at all times to be remotely comfortable in each other’s presence’ type of thing to me than anything else lol like they never really leaned into each other or looked at all comfortable even being as close to each other as they were (which again was not that close) and there was even a couple moments where she was glancing over at him/in his direction but actually looked to me almost like she didn’t even wanna fully look at him? like she’d looked over in his general direction and it seemed like her eyes/face weren’t even all the way over at the angle they should’ve been if she was ACTUALLY looking at him, almost as if she was looking off-camera or like behind him or something (and there was even a few times i noticed it seemed like she’d use a spot on his clothes or his hat or something as a focal point to look at instead of his face/eyes) and basically it just seemed almost like she was blatantly avoiding looking at him directly in the face/eyes and it was just really weird and uncomfortable imo
of course i say all this literally having seen a total of probably only about 30 seconds worth of footage. no idea how long the actual stream was for (i’m assuming it was for at least around 20-30 mins if everyone on it was supposed to be “having dinner” together). but the fact that all this was visible just from 30 seconds of actual video footage of them together just goes to show exactly why it was taken down lmao. we’ve literally never seen them interact for any lengthy period of time really outside of still shots/photos or posing for paps and i’m sure there’s a reason for that and that reason was just broadcast to the whole world in a super cringeworthy, failed attempt at anything resembling genuine romantic (or even friendly lol) interaction*
how ANYONE with eyes and two working brain cells in their skulls can view that mess and still call them “cute” and “couple goals” (cause some of the posts/clips i saw were from het stans who literally were describing them that way) is BEYONDDDDD my most abstract comprehension lmao but het stans gon’ het i guess 🤷🏽♀️
