how do you grow up and decide that Larry was never a thing? like, I get feeling like they're not together anymore, not caring, or feeling like it's not your place to have an opinion

but how do you grow up and decide "Yeah those interactions in the early one direction days was just them being friendly"?

I'm 22 and at 13, I thought maybe that's just how people were with their friends, now I'm like.... wtf they were kind of embarrassingly public about it and it's a testament to the internalized homophobia of the world that people refuse to acknowledge how gone they were for each other. like...I get second hand embarrassment from the shameless flirting

I truly don't know. I think people sometimes succumb to groupthink and peer pressure. Larries are mocked everywhere, and maybe they just are easily influenced. I find it completely bizarre that people who were here through H*ylor, here for the dagger tattoo, here for the tattoo timeline, here through not that important, here for MITAM promo, here through babygate, and so on, and were active larries, can actually say with a straight face that they now think Louis is a dad, Harry PR relationships were actually real girlfriends, and all the rumors about him sleeping with everyone and their grandmothers are also true, that Larry was never serious blah blah blah.

Look I know there are so many things about hshq/ the way his solo career has been formed that had pissed people off. So many things, and I understand the annoyance, and the disappointment some of you might have felt especially in fl era, it's ok, just know that you're free to drop him/unstan him or anyone whenever you want but the thing that I dont understand and absolutely can't stand (honestly it makes me feel sick in my stomach) is lying, lying to urself and ur followers.

Why do u even keep pretending you're still a larrie when you clearly aren't, you don't even stan harry or like him anymore, not really. The only time you ever mention him or put him/his content on ur blog is to criticize him, not that people aren't allowed to do that but if you were a fan for real, you would have gotten excited for his stuff, and overall do so much more than this thing you are doing rn, like the rest of us, but you dont really care about him do you? You're not really a fan if you care about him only in the concept of the relationship you think they had.

It's kinda funny to me, we, louies are so vocal about how much we hate larries who don't really care about louis unless it's about the ship, but then it seems like it's ok with us when someone does that to harry... but no, it's not ok with me, if you're one of those people, that likes to believe Harry's behind all the shits that happen to louis, or he chose himself and his career over his relationship with louis, and has already unstanned him, at least have the courage to say it, say that not only I'm not a larrie anymore, I don't care about harry too.

Being a larrie is like being stuck in the denial stage in the five stages of grief. The grief of Harry and Louis not being close friends anymore.

Next step is anger, maybe the rads belong in this group, or angry ex-larries who blame the boys for fooling them somehow. Or maybe you’re angry at yourself for believing a conspiracy theory.

Then comes bargaining. Here is the step a lot of us go through with like “maybe they broke up, or maybe they just had a fling. At least they had crushes on each other” before entering the next stage:

Depression. So you’ve come to realize Larry isn’t real and you’ve wasted a heck load of time on being wrong. Maybe you feel bad for all the shit you’ve said and how easily fooled you were by other larries. Some step away from being a fan completely in this stage.

The final stage is acceptance. Accepting that we were wrong and the boys have a very different life to what we thought. Some come back to the fandom in this stage, either as fans of one of them or both, or just to relive old 1D memories.

That list was a target. The intent was to harm.

Maybe people don’t remember, but the NRA once made a graphic list of political opponents with their faces superimposed on gun targets. The intent was clear: get rid of these people, even if you have to hurt them physically. Then they backtracked, “It was a metaphor! We can’t prevent every nut job from acting crazy and shooting people!” Then doctors who performed abortions got shot and killed. Mission accomplished.

Lists are targets. Whatever the stated intent is, the de facto intent is clear: to get rid of people who stand in the way of a rigid mindset. To get rid of dissent with fear. To use every means possible. “Don’t go to these blogs and harass them!” is the same as “We can’t prevent every nut job.” It’s a cover-your-ass disclaimer.

Unfortunately it sounds an awful lot like the person whose Twitter you’ve been send links to the last couple of days

This whole description reminds me of someone I used to know in this fandom who was a larrie but was insanely jealous of more popular blogs. She wrote fic, but was always angry about other fics getting more notice. She made posts, but was always annoyed hers didn’t get the traction she wanted.

Until she became a Harry hater. Suddenly her inbox was full and people were paying attention to her. That’s really what she wanted. She wanted to feel important.

I think people who spend their time stirring up controversy really do it for the attention. They’re addicted to the feeling of people seeking their opinion and giving them some sense of importance.

It’s sad.

Hi, love. That blogger is a complete crackpot. They spend all their time yapping away about how they know everything and how they are smarter than everyone else and how they can see through the conspiracy. If they have any valid points to make, they’re lost in the endless nonsensical babbling that surround them.