Reasons Why Larry Is Real

THE HARRY+LOUIS TREATISE

Denials and management

OR: how to convince everyone you definitely, certainly, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES have something to hide

So first, let’s deal with the Twitter/print denials. The short story is that I no longer trust anything I read about these boys because everything surrounding them is so shady.

It all kicked off in Sept. 2012 when @Louis_Tomlinson (we know that we can’t trust Louis’s Twitter account — we’ll get there in a sec — so I’ll refer to his Twitter self this way) had the following exchange with a fan (who didn’t even include a mention to Louis’s Twitter handle in her tweet??? weird???):

Fan: funny that no matter what happens they will never deny larry

@Louis_Tomlinson: Hows this , Larry is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever heard. I’m happy why can’t you accept that.

We know this as the bullshit tweet. You can read a good summary of the whole thing here (here's a better gifset of the first post-bullshit concert, though).

So first, we have plenty of evidence that the boys are not the only ones with access to their Twitter accounts (and other social media). Which obviously makes their accounts less than credible. Second, some of the stuff @Louis_Tomlinson tweets runs so counter to who he actually is in person and on video — it’s just very questionable. @Louis_Tomlinson doesn’t hesitate to insult entire groups of fans, but real-life Louis is so respectful and kind to his fans though??? So not a homophobe? So aware of gender-related things that no one else notices?

There have also been a number of print denials. Like @Louis_Tomlinson, print!Louis is pretty forceful. Here is a good example. Now, if Louis ever said anything like this on video, where we could analyze his body language and tone and everything else, maybe I would finally believe it. But he hasn’t. So I think a couple of things could be going on here. First, quotes like this could be totally made up (by management, I would say). I don’t know how common this is in the entertainment industry, but I assume it happens. Second, Louis could actually have said those things. I don’t like that idea very much, but it’s obviously 1000% easier to lie believably in print than on video. So it’s possible that they save all the actual denials for print!Louis, and actual Louis just sucks it up and lies.

If nothing else, I find it suspicious as anything that the only flat-out denials we’ve gotten (besides a couple half-assed “no”s you’ll see in the links in the paragraph below) are in print or on Twitter. Louis has specifically said on video that he and Zayn are not together. Would it be so hard to say the same about him and Harry on video as well? It makes me suspect that either the boys refuse to straight-up deny their relationship, or management knows it would be even less believable than the video denials they’ve done so far.

That brings us to the video denials. I’ll let these people do most of the talking (also let us note that one of the “denials” happened on this day, so hahahahaha). To my knowledge, there has been only one on-video “denial” since those posts were written (there are plenty of print denials I’m omitting, but as I said, I no longer believe anything that is written about these boys — believe none of what you read and half of what you see, and all that). Here it is (2:12) — you will notice that once again, they deal with it by deflecting, except where they’re actually asked a direct question (and give a totally unconvincing response) and Liam says a hell of a lot more than Harry. (And they all react so weirdly???) Harry can’t lie for shit (there’s a reason Louis did all the others, even though he’s honestly terrible at it too), and he’s so flustered that he can’t even laugh when Liam makes a joke. Also, this. Seriously, the denials only make me MORE certain that this thing is for real.

As for management/PR. They are not well loved in this fandom (Louis doesn’t like them either — look at his face in this speech when Liam thanks Modest [their management company] — AMAZING). Even a lot of non-Larry shippers dislike 1D’s management — there are a lot of good reasons to believe that the boys’ whole team is just generally doing a shitty job. Here are some examples of them controlling (or at least certainly being involved in) the boys’ behavior, or the boys referencing management in some way:

This is from the same person who talked to the interviewer of one of the denials.

Just. Listen.

Louis was a little out of control this whole interview. At 4:09, he looks off camera, is obviously being told off, and shows Harry what they’re telling him.

There are a few interesting moments in here. Not sure whether Louis really does say “baby” at 27:11 (I don’t think I hear it), but it’s interesting to consider. Most interesting for present purposes is the moment a bit later (27:51) where Louis says “Thank you Modest!” sarcastically. Modest! Management is their management company. And I think Liam and Niall’s reactions say it all. The desert island conversation at the end is also very curious.

Miming a handshake??? Harry waiting to be told how to approach Louis after just a dumb little on-stage competition???

Okay so none of their handlers actually appear in this gif but do not try to tell me that Harry steps back for any reason other than he’s under instructions to restrict interaction with Louis. Similar: here and here.

I love this one and it seems very important? (Magee, by the way, is one of the head dudes at Modest.)

"Management have been telling porky pies." This one is recent.

Some very blatant separation on 1D Day.

Booooooo.

Just going to remind you again that “They Don’t Know About Us” is the only song from their (regular edition) second album that 1D has never performed live. NOW JUST LISTEN TO THE DAMN THING, I MEAN HELLO. A SONG ABOUT A SECRET RELATIONSHIP, WOW. I don’t know who all is involved in decisions about their set lists, but this sure is a shady omission.

Just go through this whole tag for a lot more interesting incidents.

So everyone knows that Harry and Louis acted very differently toward each other in 2013 than in 2012 and before. As I said above, anti-Larry shippers say that they were forced to change their behavior (and maybe the nature of their friendship) because it weirded them out that people were shipping them and they had to prove it wrong. Harry/Louis shippers say that that’s ridiculous and obviously their behavior is being more tightly controlled by management — there’s way more on the line (they’re a billion-dollar boyband now) and they’re way more famous and thus have to be way more closeted. And honestly, well before I was remotely a fan of 1D, when I heard rumors about Harry/Louis and accompanying/tragic behavior changes, even though I assumed they weren’t actually together, I just assumed that their management was calling the shots. It seems like the obvious conclusion to me if you think about the entertainment industry for even two seconds. Anyway, here is a good collection of painful closeting moments (this is the song the post references — Harry wrote the lyrics for it and a rough recording was leaked last summer).

Also, it’s very important to remember that the entertainment industry really is built on lies. Though many, many people in the 1D fandom would like to believe otherwise, that is not a debatable proposition — it’s simply reality. A LOT of fans choose to believe that the boys do not lie to us. They are wrong. Recognizing that the boys do sometimes lie is not passing judgment on them. It is not calling them immoral or bad people. It is just acknowledging the realities and requirements of their chosen industry.

fuete: http://theharrylouistreatise.tumblr.com/post/83783271970/denials-and-management

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