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Skye = @anticonspiracist / @yessoupy

Lisa = @unicornamy

Lisa is a One Direction fan in her late forties who has gone by several Tumblr usernames and is also in charge of a charitable organization that raises and donates money to various progressive causes on behalf of the fandom.

When I asked her to speak with me for this book, she declined to be interviewed and said, “Everyone hates us until they need us for something.”

She fields questions nearly every day from new Larries who don’t have the same knowledge of a decade’s worth of lore—if she’s in the mood, that is. Otherwise she might simply command them to “scroll down.”

Her bio explains that she has been part of the fandom since 2012 and a Larrie “since day 1.” She offers commentary on every event in the wide world of Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson—noting the movements of their friends, acquaintances, romantic partners (“stunts,” as in PR stunts), and anyone else who could be believed to know anything about them.

She does not engage with people like Skye. “We don’t talk to them. For ANY reason,” she wrote in an exasperated response to a question about the Anti crowd, and Skye specifically. “I’ve been here a billion years … anything they want to ‘learn’ about is probably within the bowels of my blog, which they are on 24/7 anyway LOL."

Lisa does not believe that Briana Jungwirth was ever pregnant, but she has entertained thought experiments about the possibility. She meticulously re-created the pregnancy timeline, starting with Tomlinson’s arrival in Los Angeles on May 4, 2015, then rattling off each night that he was photographed out with Jungwirth (May 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 22). From there, she offered piecemeal calculations of a stranger’s menstrual cycle.

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[Larries] were soon passing around what they thought might be Briana's sex tape, and publishing photo collages intended to prove that she’d gotten lip fillers and a nose job while pregnant. They refer often to her “new face,” and imply that she is using Tomlinson’s money to keep it up.