Why larry is real

Harry tweeted "Louis' first ever cooking experience ; " in with a link to a picture of Louis cooking. Every time Louis is asked about the most romantic thing he has ever done for a girl he says that he is not a good cook but the first ever meal he cooked was chicken stuffed with mozzarella wrapped in parma ham with a side of homemade mash and gravy. Louis met Eleanor Calder in mid Larries interpret this as Louis cooking for Harry because it was his "first ever cooking experience" and that he is just saying that it's about a girl.

An Interviewer asked, "What's the last thing you do before you go on stage? Larries interpret this to mean that Harry is the last thing Louis does. Harry was asked, "when was the last time you kissed a girl" to which Liam replies, "When was the last time you liked it? They also note that Harry, after a couple of seconds of thought, answers "yesterday" then proceeds to not reveal who it was.

Louis denied Larry Stylinson in a video. Larries think that he is lying. They also note the fact that it takes Louis nearly 35 seconds to say that there is no truth to it and that before that he talks about how it is like the i-phone conspiracy which amusingly turned out to be true.

Harry in a concert sung the words, "Cause I can love you more than Stan. Larries interpret this to mean that Harry loves Louis more than his best friend. When asked about Elounor Harry says that he doesn't really want to talk about it. Larries interpret this to mean that Harry is irritated with Elounor. Lairport Larries think they got to spend time together and that is why Harry's shirt was more ripped when the plane landed than when it took off.

The " butt plug " interview Larries theorize that Harry has a butt plug in and Louis is messing with it when he reaches behind Harry. They think that is the reason Harry makes such a dramatic face. Some think that Harry is even mocking the idea Louis messing with a butt plug and that's why his reaction is so visible. Tattoos This is a masterpost of all of Harry and Louis' tattoos and the approx date they got them.

Harry's tattoos Louis' tattoos Why Larries believe they are complementary Harry has a tattoo that says "Hi" on his forearm. June, , Unknown Artist [5] Louis has a tattoo that says "Oops!

It is also theorized to be their first words to each other because Harry and Louis met in an X-Factor bathroom and Harry tweeted this on November 30, , ""I'm glad I was stood next to you at the urinals..

Late December 18 - early December 19, , Freddy Negrete [7] Louis has a compass pointing to the word "Home" on his arm. Late December 19, , Freddy Negrete [8] The prevailing theory among Larries is that they are complementary because a ship needs a compass to guide it home. Harry got a butterfly on his torso.

January 23, , Liam Sparkes [9] Louis has an "It is what it is" tattoo on his chest. March 25, , Liam Sparkes [10] Someone found a post Liam Sparkes, the artist who made both tattoos had made in January on flikr. One of the designs had the words "It is what it is" and under that a butterfly. Larries think that these were originally meant to be one tattoo but that Harry and Louis split it and had half tattooed.

Harry has a rose on his arm. Mid-September, , Unknown Artist [11] Louis has a dagger. November 25, , Bondi Ink [12] The dagger and rose are in the exact same place but on opposite arms.

Larries had been theorizing that Louis would get the dagger tattoo for about a year because a rose with a dagger is a common tattoo. It is almost impossible that Louis was unaware that this tattoo would spark Larry rumors but he got it anyways. Harry has an anchor without a rope on his wrist.

June 24, , a Maryland tattoo shop [14] The tattoos are on the same wrist but opposite sides just like the rose and dagger. Usually, but not always anchor tattoos have a rope attached because without a rope the anchor is lost when it gets tossed off a ship. The first time after Harry got that tattoo that Louis was seen he was wearing a shirt with an anchor on it [15].

Harry has an anatomical heart on his upper arm. February 18, , Liam Sparkes [16] Louis has an arrow across his inner arm. March 8, , Freddy Negrete [17] Less than three weeks after Harry got his heart tattoo Louis got the arrow. Larries think that the anatomical heart and arrow were likely one design of an arrow through a heart but spread across two people.

Still months on reading ridiculous conspiracy theories. It's upsetting that I have to read them daily. Thank god for the lovely people on here". I'm happy why can't you accept that.

This blog was born from the belief that, as fans, through the use of social media, we can show that we are not homophobic but supportive. Not by outing celebrities against their will. Not by waging war on their management and pr companies, But by organizing ourselves, by consistently calling out homophobic statements by media, celebrities and fans, and by educating them on what a tolerant and supportive fanbase looks like.

In this way we can slowly but surely tilt the balance in favor of tolerance and support. Amongst the fanbase, at first, in the media, and, ultimately, in the industry itself. Fans have commented that there is no inherent harm in believing: Honestly, though, as long as you aren't contacting them about it or doing the 'girlfriends are evil beards! I tend to take the halfway position of 'I don't think they did, necessarily, but I also wouldn't be surprised to find out I was wrong', personally.

Because, yeah--they are a bit If you want to tinhat, do so privately. Leave the boys, and anyone associated with them, out of it. By his own admission, his friendship with Harry, especially in public and maybe in private, has changed and not for the better.

It kind of happened naturally for me and Harry because a certain amount of the fans drew up this conspiracy. When it first came around I was with Eleanor, and it actually felt a little bit disrespectful to Eleanor, who is my girlfriend now.

So it created this atmosphere between the two of us where everyone was looking into everything we did. It took away the vibe you get off anyone.

It made everything, I think on both fences, a little bit more unapproachable. I think it shows that it was never anything real, if I can use that word.

I think I've developed a phobia of the larry ship, I've been feeling so angry and betrayed and guilty and ashamed and disgusted by the shittiness I used to be part of as a larrie, that coming across larry stuff footage, manips, fic, etc now just infuriates the fuck out of me.

Like, I wish larry had never interacted ever, that larry should never have existed. Commenting on the Eleanor twin idea, Tumblr user stylinsoncity said, I think we Larry supporters need to all sit down and have a nice chat and come to an understanding once and for all that there is no Tina Calder.

The fact that this is even still a theory stuns me. I totally ship Larry. After first hearing about their supposed love affair, I sort of went from 'Ha, yeah right,' to 'Well, that would be cute,' to 'OK, I don't think it's real but I see why you might think that,' to 'Man, I really wish that was real,' to 'OK, OK, I think that there's a decent chance that it's real but I'm still not sure but holy shit am I into it.

It's a risk the higher-ups surely wouldn't want to take. Believing in 'Larry' is still a conspiracy theory, [but] the fact that someone keeps them apart in light of the rumors — whether it's management or their own choice — is a fact. See, I'm always trying to convince myself. See the Babygate page for more information. See also: Larry Stylinson - Example Fanworks Examples Wanted : Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Elounor offline, see archived link [45] by cujoy on LiveJournal Aug. You can read the version here , Archived version. The original comments are now deleted, so they may have changed their minds. Accessed 14 March See also Tumblr fan im-on-fire-now's post Pay attention , archived , posted June 14, See also comment thread between a former Narry tinhat and a former Gryles tinhat.

For a recent example of Ziam conspiracy theorizing, see this post , archived , February 1, Occasionally, this is embarrassingly obvious, such as when "Niall" tweeted, and then tweeted again to say he'd been asleep or when Liam tweeted a picture of Louis asleep on a plane at pm then Louis' twitter account tweeted EleanorJCalder Love YOU!

Larries found this extremely suspicious because people don't tend to wake up and go on twitter four minutes after they are documented being asleep even if they are woken up. Larries took this as Louis' management reinforcing his closet and tweeting his girlfriend for him. However, some Larries use this fact to discount any tweet that contradicts Larry. See also eleveninches ' August 22, LiveJournal post This is the greatest thing to ever happen to her me archived. See also the Tumblr reblog of the screencapped tweet.

Where you can't argue, have differing opinions, or debunk tinhats without being told to kill yourself. Wow, i actually had faith in you, you fake bitch. Welcome to Narnia, there is a way out , Archived version , posted to tumblr 27 April You know, anti-larry blogs, debunking all the larry "proof" and arguing with people. Telling people to die because you disagree with what they believe you need help. Elounor x Larry rant by Emily , Jun 23, I just want her to leave my family and friends and the boys I love alone.

Originally posted on 17 July by wholelotofhislarrie. Me and Harry are best friends, people look into our every move, it is actually affecting the way me and Harry are in public, we want to joke around but there seems to be a different rumor every time we do anything.

Pay attention , Tumblr post June 14, Tumblr post , 7 August Accessed 19 January Last modified on 18 May , at Fanlore Mobile Desktop Privacy. Click here for related articles on Fanlore. Harry told and interviewer that "My first real crush was Louis Tomlinson" then stated that "It's mutual" and that they had discussed it. Larries hear the words "Lou can I give you a blowjob" "I'd love it if you'd just wait" out of the interaction, and view Niall's response as gentle ribbing of his friends who are in a relationship.

Larries interpret this to mean that while Louis is drunk he let it slip that Harry is his boyfriend. Harry failing to confirm or deny that Sweet Creature is about Louis Tomlinson after a rude interviewer asked. Larries interpreted their answer as innuendo about Harry and Louis' sex lives because Louis responded "I think we kind of share that really," then elaborated.

Larries think they got to spend time together and that is why Harry's shirt was more ripped when the plane landed than when it took off. The " butt plug " interview. Larries theorize that Harry has a butt plug in and Louis is messing with it when he reaches behind Harry. Harry has a tattoo that says "Hi" on his forearm. June, , Unknown Artist [5]. Louis has a tattoo that says "Oops!

November 9, , Freddy Negrete [6]. Harry has a ship on his shoulder. Late December 18 - early December 19, , Freddy Negrete [7]. Louis has a compass pointing to the word "Home" on his arm. In the band's early years, Styles spoke openly about the "Larry Stylinson" label and said that he and Tomlinson had talked about moving in together later in life due to their friendship.

This tweet of endearment from Tomlinson to Styles is the second most retweeted post in Twitter history:. Yours sincerely, Louis. Some One Direction fans view this affection as an obvious sign of more than friendship.

The anonymous blogger behind Sex at Oxbridge , a well-known tell-all blog run by a something student in London, found herself drawn to the Larry ship in , totally by chance and purely on the strength of Styles and Tomlinson's interactions with one another.

Speaking to Vox via email, the blog's author — known on the web only as SAO — said she was shocked when she realized they weren't actually a couple:.

I saw their video for "Best Song Ever" and really liked the song, so it was only by chance that after the video ended on YouTube one of the suggested videos was about Larry Stylinson and when I watched it I was like, "Oh, cute - two of them are together. I didn't know that! THEN I realized that wasn't the case and basically that is when I began to look deeper into what was going on. I basically absorbed all the information about Larry and One Direction humanly possible in a weekend, including blogs and videos with arguments that Larry wasn't real and at the end of it all I just looked at things that were unexplainable for both outcomes and there was a lot more that couldn't be explained if you accept that Larry is not real.

Because the Larry ship is so huge within the One Direction fandom, the list of exhaustive , detailed manifestos full of signs that Styles and Tomlinson are in love is virtually endless.

The following video in particular has long been known as the Larry "bible" — a compilation of evidence of their love for each other that's so compelling that many fans believe you can't come away from it unconvinced:.

Styles and Tomlinson's tattoos, in particular, have been analyzed and decoded and interpreted as a breathtakingly detailed map of a years-long secret romance. Fans believe they often get matching tattoos or tattoos that symbolize the milestones of their relationship. For Jorie and Courtney, the tattoos were the smoking gun. Because it is one thing to have a best friend tattoo, but they have multiple matching romantic tattoos … the tattoos are definitely what got us both to not even question it.

Most, but not all, ships concern fictional characters, and in many parts of fandom there's an understanding that if you're shipping real people, you're only shipping the idea of them being in a relationship. Often, however, a ship that's built on the idea of real people getting together quickly spawns a subgroup of truthers who firmly believe the couple has already gotten together — that the idealized relationship is being conducted in secret in their real private lives.

There have been many iterations of these subgroups in various fandoms over the years. For example, fans of The Lord of the Rings have theorized and speculated about clandestine relationships between cast members; the same is true for the TV series Supernatural.

And it's a fairly common occurrence with ships involving touring bandmates and members of pop groups. To give credit where it's due, sometimes the conspirators turn out to be entirely correct, such as when Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson revealed they were dating in secret after working together on the set of Twilight. The conspiracy theories put forth by these fandom subgroups employ nearly identical explanations for why we never hear about the theoretical relationship in public.

They unfailingly involve the band's management, or the TV show's producers, or the agents in charge of managing the two people involved in the relationship. It's usually suggested that whoever controls the pairing's purse strings has embarked on a massive micromanagement conspiracy to prevent the couple from revealing their love to the world.

Their motivations usually involve a number of reasons based in reality — like a film studio or record label being reluctant to alienate fans by revealing that one of their idols is off the market. This is actually a common practice among Asian idol groups, many of which have strict no-dating clauses in performers' contracts. Another commonly cited motivation for secrecy is the potential for homophobic backlash; if the ship isn't heteronormative, studios and labels may fret about alienating less open-minded fans.

Because these shipping conspiracy theories tend to follow such similar patterns, the ways in which fans who subscribe to them respond to real-life events also wind up being very similar. If one or more members of a gay pairing has a girlfriend, fans will insist she's a beard — usually one who's been hired by the pairing's managers.

This belief is usually accompanied by the assumption that as soon as a major significant milestone like a movie release or a successful world tour has passed, the pairing will be free to come forth and declare their love — like an end-of-days prediction, but usually gayer. Fandom has dubbed the practice of forming elaborate theories and then fitting news events and occurrences into them "tinhatting," a name meant to evoke tinfoil conspiracist hats.

Like every other conspiracy group, fans who tinhat read and decode secret messages from the members of their ships to both each other and the public. Said fans are convinced that the couple is sending the messages as a way of affirming the love they can't express publicly. Usually tinhatters comprise just a small portion of an otherwise diverse fandom.

But the belief that Larry Stylinson is real has become such a popular and dominating theory among One Direction fans that it often dwarfs other branches of the One Direction community. For more than four years — that's at least as long as people have been quantifying Tumblr's tag usage and noting Twitter's frequently Larry-centric worldwide hashtag trends — the ship has been one of the largest elements of the One Direction fandom, which itself is one of the largest fandoms on the internet.

The result is that Larry fans have constructed an enormous echo chamber of belief around the Larry Stylinson "conspiracy.

The scope of the Larry conspiracy theory is immense and features a number of regularly espoused beliefs, including the idea that One Direction's management company, Modest which Larries usually refer to insidiously as just "Management" , is heavily controlling Styles and Tomlinson's social media images and public appearances at all times.

Management's alleged perniciousness extends to securing beards for both Styles and Tomlinson, contractually forbidding the two to be gay, and regularly distributing fake pictures of their involvement in straight, heteronormative relationships. In addition to all of these "typical" conspiracy tropes, Larry boasts its own set of uniquely weird particulars — starting with two rainbow-colored stuffed teddy bears that accompany the band on tours. The bears, dubbed Rainbow Bondage Bear and Sugar Baby Bear by the fandom, evidently belong to either a band member or a crew member.

Until recently the bears had their own now-deleted official Twitter accounts, which often featured humorous updates posted from the stage and on tour. Because rainbows are associated with gay pride, many Larries see the bears as yet another code for the progression of Styles and Tomlinson's relationship.

Indeed, after news broke in that Tomlinson's friend Briana Jungwirth was pregnant with his child, nine months of intense speculation followed that the pregnancy was fake. When the birth of Tomlinson and Jungwirth's baby was announced in January, fans switched to arguing that the baby itself was a surrogate, a doll, or a complete fabrication, going to staggeringly elaborate lengths to uphold the conspiracy.

They would have you believe all those things than just be like, "Look, that guy loves that guy. Sorry for the confusion. For her part, SAO describes falling so deeply into the Larry ship that she created a BuzzFeed Community account and posted an infamous ship manifesto for the pairing, which BuzzFeed eventually took down, along with all of her previous contributions, after she wrote separate posts insinuating that Tomlinson's baby isn't real.

SAO told Vox that the evidence of Styles and Tomlinson's relationship is so compelling that she's never seriously considered any other possibility:. I have never thought "Okay, well maybe this is all fake. The stark contrast in public narrative vs actions is too disparaging to ignore. I'm a very literal and logical person and I have looked at this situation every which way and each time I do I come to the same conclusion, which is that Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson are in love with each other.

Any Larry shipper will tell you that homophobia is the main reason Styles and Tomlinson are still in the closet. And one of the main reasons Larry shippers are so vocal is that they hate the idea that these two men can't openly express their love.

SAO told Vox she stays invested because "I feel it's a harsh injustice not only to them, but to their young followers, to make it seem like being gay is wrong or somehow makes you lesser. SOA added that the One Direction fandom is full of younger queer and questioning individuals who have been alternately helped and hurt by the Larry phenomenon.

But these good intentions have led to some unfortunate complications. Most of the support for Larry being real is rooted in the way fans interpret the physical intimacy between Styles and Tomlinson. But those who keep the closest eye on such things also note that there's been a sharp drop in their level of physical intimacy. Since , Styles and Tomlinson have gone from joking about posing for photos "with our arms around each other" to rarely standing next to each other in public.

In a interview with Tumblr's now-defunct Storyboard, Tomlinson was blunt about blaming the Larry Stylinson phenomenon for changing his public behavior:. People look into our every move — it is actually affecting the way me and Harry are in public. In other words, fandom's insistence that Styles and Tomlinson's ability to comfortably share physical intimacy with each other means they must be gay resulted in the sad but predictable drop-off of said physical intimacy between them.

Ironically, the movement attempting to liberate them from the closet has essentially forced them to behave unnaturally — to conform to rigid standards of masculinity in order to quash the rumors.

The Larry ship also trades in perpetual misogyny: While Louis was dating longtime former girlfriend Eleanor Calder, she and her family were subject to constant backlash and harassment from fans convinced she was serving as a beard.

Some Directioners were so committed to the Larry cause that they even began harassing a record producer and his son who happened to share Calder's last name.