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| {{Cite book |last=Tiffany |first=Kaitlyn |title=Everything I need I get from you: how fangirls created the Internet as we know it |date=2022 |isbn=978-0-374-53918-4 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=381EEAAAQBAJ&dq=|oclc=1264273710|publisher=]}} | *{{Cite book |last=Tiffany |first=Kaitlyn |title=Everything I need I get from you: how fangirls created the Internet as we know it |date=2022 |isbn=978-0-374-53918-4 |location=New York |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=381EEAAAQBAJ&dq=|oclc=1264273710|publisher=]}} | ||
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The Larries are a group of shipping conspiracy theorist fans, centered around the idea that the former members of the boy-band One Direction, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, have some sort of secret romantic relationship. A fundamental part of this idea is that the couple has been closeted by homophobic corporate interests.
Since One Direction's early years, a group of shipping conspiracy theorist fans, often called "Larries", has been dedicated to proving that Styles and Louis Tomlinson, name blended as "Larry Stylinson", are secretly a couple that has been closeted by a homophobic music industry. Academics Clare Southerton and Hannah McCann connects the fan-group to phenomena like queer reading, queerbaiting and slash fiction. The "ship", according to Vox in 2016 "one of the largest elements of the One Direction fandom, which itself is one of the largest fandoms on the internet", proliferates on social media and has led to online bullying and harassment of Styles' and Tomlinson's girlfriends and, according to Tomlinson, hurt their friendship.
Further reading
- Tiffany, Kaitlyn (2022). Everything I need I get from you: how fangirls created the Internet as we know it. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-53918-4. OCLC 1264273710.
References
- McCann, Hannah; Southerton, Clare (1 March 2019). "Repetitions of Desire: Queering the One Direction Fangirl". Girlhood Studies. 12 (1): 49–65. doi:10.3167/ghs.2019.120106.
- ^ Romano, Aja (2016-04-18). "Larry Stylinson, the One Direction conspiracy theory that rules the internet, explained". Vox. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
- ^ Southerton, Clare; McCann, Hannah (2019). "Queerbaiting and Real Person Slash: The Case of Larry Stylinson". In Brennan, Joseph (ed.). Queerbaiting and fandom: teasing fans through homoerotic possibilities. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 9781609386726.
- Lucas, Jessica (2022-05-10). "Meet the TikTokers obsessed with Harry Styles' 'secret' love life". Input. Retrieved 2022-06-11.