larry updates and friendship narrative timeline starting after L left syco; an thread with dates for reference

note: i will be updating and adding on to this thread as more stuff happens

July 23, 2020• L followed H (and Z) on instagram

July 24, 2020• on a tiktok of a cover of Falling, Mark (L’s stepdad) commented “I’ll show H”, signifying that their families are in communication (and close enough to call eachother by nicknames)

July 25, 2020• Anne reposted L’s 1d anniversary insta post on her story (just L’s, none of the other boys!)

July 30, 2020• the first neutral article referencing larry is published; the article overall was about why the 1d fandom hates cowbell and has a section about if he possibly tried to cover up larry

August 2, 2020• Lottie loudly played Watermelon Sugar on her insta story (as opposed to a few months before when she had to immediately end a livestream when Lights Up started playing)

August 10-13, 2020• within these 3 days, 4 neutral articles about L & H possibly having met up in Italy last year are published...without damage control. plus their pr teams would have stopped more articles from being published/taken them down if they didn’t want them happening

August 13, 2020• L blocked an ANTI larry account on instagram! (literally an account named “larry.isfake1”) this is my screenrecording of the videos the anti account posted proving that L blocked them

August 24, 2020• Helene (1d’s old and L’s current vocal coach) reposts a larry story w/ a very suggestive caption (& bluegreen hearts uhm...) after saying both their songs were played at a cafe, & one of L’s bandmembers posts a pic wearing H’s merch (and tags him too)

August 25, 2020• the official oBviOuSLy larry denial (dan wooton) is confirmed to be deleted from youtube (could have been a few weeks ago but still recent) & Armstrong Martins followed a larry account & sang sweet creature on his story (link to thread abt that in comments) https://twitter.com/tomlinfartz/status/1298318430970544129

August 29, 2020• an article about H and L's relationship, showing pictures larry moments with descriptions is published. it VERY MUCH pushes the friendship narrative https://www.j-14.com/posts/harry-styles-louis-tomlinson-relationship-moments-interactions/

IM SORRY BUT LIKE SIDENOTE ITS HILARIOUS THEY ARE TRYING WAAAY TOO HARD WITH THIS FRIENDSHIP NARRATIVE THING IN THIS ARTICLE- LIKE "ONE TIME H,ARRY EVEN PRETENDED TO KISS L,OUIS" BITCH HE WAS LITERALLY MAKING OUT WITH HIS NECK

September 7, 2020• another larry article pushing them still being very close is published. know that "larrybaiting" never existed before, but lately is being generalized as a normal media strategy. wonder why
https://twitter.com/capaldislarrie/status/1303045088688431104?s=20

September 9th, 2020• On the late late show, J,ames shows throwbacks to the 1d carpool karaoke day, and introduces it by showing tweets on the screen, one of which is a very obvious larry tweet and another from a larry account. https://twitter.com/offbeatlarrie/status/1304055677959110656?s=20

September 10th, 2020• L's guitarist responds to a question about his favorite song of H's, even though months ago nobody associated with L could mention H