#tinhats

I really didn't think Sam and Steph would see each other again until Sam's book tour ended. I thought they'd wait until the holidays because that's been Sam's M.O. in the past, BUT things are VERY different this time. Steph is DEFINITELY with him in New York!!!!!!!!

Here's what happened. Earlier tonight, Sunday, December 14, 2025, I got DMs from a source in New York City. I couldn't post until now, almost four hours later, because I was at a holiday event. Ugh. I hate when real life gets in the way of source info! Hahaha.

Anyway, I'm back home and here are DMs from the source. 👇

Well, I would NOT have posted this if the source had not sent me PICTURE PROOF. There's no way I thought Sam and Steph would be back together again so soon. I really didn't think it was going to happen. BUT, I AM posting this sighting because it's TRUE! The source showed me the pics!

You guys, they were walking hand in hand, all cozy together, literally with a TON of people everywhere. Walking around all normal like, without a care in the world. I am 100% CONFIRMING this info. And I would swear to it in a court of law and I would take a polygraph test. I still can't believe it! #stepham together AGAIN. 💘

Soooo, these two are IN LOVE for sure. The kind of love where you can't bear to be apart and want to spend as much time together. I'm so happy for Sam!

I'm really bummed the source won't let me share the pics. But she has a good reason and it's related to her work. I'm sorry, guys. But be happy knowing they were holding hands and were out in a crowd being a normal couple. Albeit, a gorgeous one. They are SO gorgeous together. She's so tall!

PS. Those who know I have posted accurate source info for 11 years will know I would ONLY post this if I actually saw the pics, and they will believe me. Those who are haters or shippers won't. There's nothing I can do about that. 🤷‍♀️ But the truth remains and I'm so giddy about it! 😀

PPS. For the inevitable haters/shippers who will gnash "she left her daughter to go be with Sam!" So? Just like every other single mother who goes and spends the weekend with her boyfriend and leaves their child with the child's father or a trusted family member or friend. Literally, normal. And, as we've seen, Steph HAS brought her daughter to spend time with Sam on other occasions. It seems Steph is balancing things out: some time with Sam when her daughter joins her, and some adult alone time. Again, normal and healthy.

PPPS. I'm hearing chatter from the delulus that I'm a PR plant and that it's "suspiscious" I'm the one getting all these sightings and pics of Sam and Steph. Hahaha. Loosen those tinhats once in a while, and the neurons might connect properly, you dopes. All I am, and have ever been, is the PURVeyor of source info that sources can TRUST to send me info, and I won't reveal their identities unless they give me permission. It really is as simple as that. Truly. 🤷‍♀️

It won't be just one anon sending fake concerning trolling asks to insanityclause

There are hundreds of these racist IG accounts against Hash and their child

“do PR teams cater to tinhats?”

they don’t plan for them. but sometimes they respond to them. especially when the chaos spills outside the fandom.

how many times have we seen one of Luke’s relatives post a cozy pic with Antonia, the fandom explodes, and then the post vanishes? some of that may be accidental. some might be bait. either way, it shifts perception. and once that happens, someone will try to manage the fallout.

but I don’t think this rollout is controlled. it feels like damage control stitched together week by week.

Luke may have found a rhythm with his partner, but once the hate kicks in, there’s pressure to "show" the relationship. even if no one’s convinced. even if the execution is messy. (and it has been).

so we get the weird middle: just enough visibility to say "we exist", not enough to make it land.

the result? less hate, maybe. but also less trust. and more confusion.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the strategy, if we can call it that, kept changing. under pressure. under contracts. under panic. maybe someone even thought: if this tinhat army won’t go away, maybe we can use it?

plenty of fandoms live off that kind of ambiguity and speculation. Hannibal ended a decade ago and Mads still jokes about Hugh at cons. fans eat it up. I get it. better to lead the chaos than get dragged by it.

(yes, that’s from Bryan Fuller’s own story. he knows exactly what he’s doing)

but I don’t think anyone expected this much noise. now they’re stuck with it, trying to "neutralize" the chaos without a real plan. maybe they’re keeping the grey zone on purpose. could be useful for season 4.

also, the baby theory? everyone talks like the relationships are confirmed. and maybe it is, just not by them.

and if you’re wondering why they still haven’t addressed the baby theory, same. which leaves enough space for every theory, including the wild ones. and maybe that’s intentional.

but mostly it looks like improv.

and I do love the little coincidences. Luke and Nic buy theatre tickets in different countries on the same day, just to make sure no one thinks they’re even on the same continent. or maybe they’ve just got a shared signal from the PR-cosmos.

it’s not strategy. it’s reaction. and the fandom filled the silence the way fandoms always do — obsessively, creatively, and a little chaotically. 🌀

so what now?

if you’re still here, maybe just enjoy the ride. it’s already theatre. might as well find the parts that entertain you. and who knows — you might still get the ending you’re hoping for.

as for the actors, and the teams quietly watching it all unfold: consistency wouldn't hurt. plan. pace. pause. the basics. don’t vanish on a wave of hate, then resurface with cryptic chaos. separate the personal from the professional — before the internet does it for you.

Uno Racing blurred bjyx banners on their GT race video 🔥 There's literally no possibility that it wasn't consulted with Yibo and team 🥴

I hope one day tinhats will understand that they're not wanted 🤞

Update 250327:

It turned out that in the first version of the video Uno forgot to blur a phone cover with bjyx stuff. When it was pointed out to them, they corrected it immediately, blurring the cover 👇

Uno: Thank you for your careful inspection. Although our specialty is racing, it is also our responsibility to protect the rights of artists. Thank you again!

We have replaced the video on other platforms beyond the official account.

My comment:

This isn’t the first time bjyx materials have been identified as violating Yibo’s rights (let’s not forget the well-known Lyfen lawsuit), and certainly not the first time bjyx content has been blurred by platforms or entities associated with him.

What makes this instance even more telling is that Uno has no reason to act this way - except for their genuine belief that bjyx content conflicts with Yibo’s rights. Uno isn’t a brand contractually tied to him, nor a government body that could be accused of homophobia or ignorance of the situation. Uno is Yibo’s own team, a group of people working closely with him and likely knowing far more about his reality than any of us do.

If bjyx behavior were acceptable to Yibo - or if their claims held any truth - Uno would have had no reason to blur those banners or any other bjyx-related items.

I don't know if you've heard of the Ohm-Nanon fans going to Nanon's concert wearing Ohm masks but it happened? (I don't know how to end that sentence.) (Sorry, English isn't my first language.)

You have written about parasocial relationships so I wanted to ask why are people still involved in Ohm-Nanon? Bad Buddy ended so long ago and they are still doing all this. What makes Ohm-Nanon so special? We haven't see such huge bad behaviour from other pair brands.

Please never ever apologize for how you sound in English which is a dumb broken language anyway lol fr you're English is great

anyways um, what in the fucking purge?? lmao sorry the masks thing is just taking me out I'm imagining it and the image in my head is giving kdrama to the max with the discord music and everything lmaoooo

I had not heard of that b/c I don't follow actors like that at all this is very much Brand New Information.gif for me whew wow

Soft disclaimer here I am not an expert behavioral science or anything related so like, anything I say in regards to this is based only on what I've read, can link to from experts in the field, and speculation.

I don't think OhmNanon are necessarily "special" tbh like this behavior is extreme but I wouldn't call it "new".

In western fandom you had or still have fans behaving like this we just call them "tinhats".

Like, take Larries for instance, Louis just spoke about it in an interview that nothing he can say will deter the conspiracies theorists so he's kinda stuck. This article from VOX is old (2016) but it features a pretty clear cut timeline of the theories, and obsession tinhats have with Larry. Even before Larry there was J2 (Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki from Supernatural):

I want to note that One Direction stopped being an active band in 2016, almost 8 years ago. And neither Harry nor Louis have been spotted like, hanging out~~ in public for almost that entire time. Meanwhile Jared and Jensen have been been married to their wives since 2010, almost 15 years.

To play fair, Caitríona Mary Balfe (best known for Outlander) is also at the root of a tinhat conspiracy with her costar Sam Heughan. Caitriona has been married since 2019.

Western fandom likes to pretend this environment of fan entitlement, and obsessing over costars relationships is an East Asian entertainment only thing. I thoroughly disagree, and I'm sure the people involved in these various tinhat conspiracies, many who have been thoroughly and ruthlessly harassed along with their spouses, family, friends, and anyone else caught in the crossfire would also disagree.

For me the only arguable difference between like MewGulf and Larry is MewGulf played up skinship as a means of capital and for work, while Louis and Harry were just two dudes in a band.

[I even watched the old school MewGulf videos of them during Peak Fanservice Era and I gotta say it's all so obviously hilarious fake and played up I would have never taken them seriously as a true blue couple. They reminded me more of Adam Lambert making out with his bassist during his FYE tour (Tommy, who from what I remember is straight but idk 100%) for the fun and rock n roll of it all.]

I'm getting off track, I don't think OhmNanon are "special" by-the-by because I've seen this entitled and obsessive behavior with other tinhat ships. The length of time doesn't really matter, what matters is sunk cost fallacy:

"the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial."

Fans have invested time, love, and literal money into Ohm and Nanon, therefore giving them up - and thus giving up the "community" they've build with other Ohm and Nanon fans - is unthinkable and painful.

Combine that with general fan entitlement towards public figures, the para-sociality of believe you, individually, know what's "best" for this person - aka this STRANGER - and there's a belief that you can change or force an outcome that suits your needs and wants.

There's a lot of dehumanization involved in fan entitlement, ppl stop viewing public figures - especially actors and musicians - as products rather than people. And with a product if you leave a bad review, and enough bad reviews the company will fix and change the product.

But people aren't products, and you can't force them to do what you want or be who you want them to be just because it upsets YOU individually.

So at the end of the day, what's gonna happen with Ohm and Nanon? Well, they'll probably just keeping doing what they do. Filming their individual shows, maybe one of them will do another BL - I think Ohm already has one in the works? - and try to move on with their lives. They're coworkers and from what I've seen seem fine being coworkers. I'm not interested in speculating what their relationship is, or was, publicly, they've said they're fine with each other so I'm very es lo que es about it.

For fans, well they're probably slowly taper off eventually with only a core group of "true believers" or whatever like some MewGulf, BrightWin and others have. As fans I think the only thing we can do is discourage the behavior, and be empathetic towards the people being harassed.

Now I'm gonna leave you with my favorite debunk of a tinhat post:

95% of their content isn’t staged. The people who have their PR set stuff up are very low tier celebs trying to get their name out there

Celebrities don’t call Backgrid to take their pics

Gives two examples of paparazzi following celebrities and spending hours chasing down content. Sometimes they’ll spot celebrities while they were staking out another celeb

They don’t employ photographers. These paparazzi are freelance and they work together with Backgrid to sell their photos to media outlets

They have to pitch a story to the media outlets in order for them to want to buy the photos and make an article

Celebs using the attention their relationship is getting to their advantage, doesn’t mean the relationship is fake

There are certain hotspot restaurants where celebs know they’ll be papped (just names a few in LA)