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⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ effective vs ineffective closeting, part 1
(or as an alternative title dare i say ziam’s closeting vs larry’s closeting) :
(or as an alternative title dare i say ziam’s closeting vs larry’s closeting) :
tw // mentions of closeting and slight homophobia
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this thread will contain a lot of mentions of closeting and slight homophobic remarks, so if you are triggered by it, i advise you to not read furthermore.
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this thread will contain a lot of mentions of closeting and slight homophobic remarks, so if you are triggered by it, i advise you to not read furthermore.
first of all, i would like to say a big thank you to @HTPOLARI for helping making this thread, if it wasn’t for her i don’t think i would’ve finished making this thread at all. thank you g, i love you.
.ೃ࿔ disclaimer !
if you don’t want to believe in ziam then it’s okay but please don’t qrt a bunch of arguments, because i won’t bother reading them. i believe in ziam and that’s that, but if you want to look in further into ziam then continue to read. please be nice.
if you don’t want to believe in ziam then it’s okay but please don’t qrt a bunch of arguments, because i won’t bother reading them. i believe in ziam and that’s that, but if you want to look in further into ziam then continue to read. please be nice.
also loads of credits go to deathwish-koala on tumblr, as i based most of my thread on their masterpost which i will link below. https://deathwish-koala.tumblr.com/post/128767200145/why-larrys-closeting-didnt-work-and-ziams-did
Media Repression
Ineffective closeting: modest learned its mistakes from larry. the world went crazy over larry and management let them. management let interviewers ask the boys about larry, allowed them with their speculations. That combined with ‘genuinely they think we’re in
Ineffective closeting: modest learned its mistakes from larry. the world went crazy over larry and management let them. management let interviewers ask the boys about larry, allowed them with their speculations. That combined with ‘genuinely they think we’re in
+ a relationship’ as an answer which only known to them back then, was never convincing for any of us. this led to more speculations.
Effective closeting: making sure management blacklists any questions related to ziam and combine it with some media repression, so headlines
Effective closeting: making sure management blacklists any questions related to ziam and combine it with some media repression, so headlines
+ won’t make it, and people will start ignoring or moving on from the topic.
Normalization of touch
Ineffective closeting: if you look into the x-factor video diaries, larry was very touchy and couldn’t keep their eyes off of each other. It’s pretty obvious that people would notice that something is off when management all of a sudden makes them sit
Ineffective closeting: if you look into the x-factor video diaries, larry was very touchy and couldn’t keep their eyes off of each other. It’s pretty obvious that people would notice that something is off when management all of a sudden makes them sit
+ apart, make changes in the way they interact, distance them a bit, but with larry management did it all of a sudden.
Effective closeting: making sure the same interaction and behavior is shown throughout the course of their ‘friendship’. totally bro pals since the start. very
Effective closeting: making sure the same interaction and behavior is shown throughout the course of their ‘friendship’. totally bro pals since the start. very
+ platonic touches and interactions so that people won’t suspect a thing.
Perception
Ineffective closeting: Harry was potrayed as the ‘womanizer’ or the ‘flirt’ of the band. Louis was potrayed as the ‘skater punk boy’. but from the FOUR era, there’s been a shift in Harry’s portrayal/image. he became more flamboyant, wearing woman’s jeans, floral
Ineffective closeting: Harry was potrayed as the ‘womanizer’ or the ‘flirt’ of the band. Louis was potrayed as the ‘skater punk boy’. but from the FOUR era, there’s been a shift in Harry’s portrayal/image. he became more flamboyant, wearing woman’s jeans, floral
+ shirts etc and ppl thought that he was more free. putting it out there that ‘it’s not that important’, he started becoming more like him. With Louis, he was forced to be less flamboyant and open about himself to the point where he looked so uncomfortable and stiff in everything
+ that he was doing or when he was in public.
Effective closeting: management took liams traditional masculinity, used it, and made him look even more masculine so that no one would ever doubt that he’s gay. make him tweet about duck dynasty. and zayn, he was potrayed that
Effective closeting: management took liams traditional masculinity, used it, and made him look even more masculine so that no one would ever doubt that he’s gay. make him tweet about duck dynasty. and zayn, he was potrayed that
+ mysterious guy, or the player like a typical bad boy with a leather jacket. Having tattoos of his so called ‘girlfriend’ and cigarettes. these images made ppl assure with the fact that they’re not gay at all, just straight up dudes or bros. I mean Liam was in the cover of a gay
+ magazine, but no he’s definitely not gay, nobody would suspect anything bc sadly he doesn’t ‘look’ like it.
Bearding
Ineffective : Harry, a member of the biggest boyband in the world gets paired up with Taylor, one of the biggest female artist of the world which made this a high profile bearding, where a lot of eyes focused on their so called relationship. High profile bearding, a
Ineffective : Harry, a member of the biggest boyband in the world gets paired up with Taylor, one of the biggest female artist of the world which made this a high profile bearding, where a lot of eyes focused on their so called relationship. High profile bearding, a
+ celebrity getting a beard that is also another celebrity often fails due to the fact that each of them have a career of their own that is show cased in the public eye. Interviews will be done, headlines will be make, and thus they are able to slip up or screw up the stunt in a
+ whole because of the status they hold in the industry. One little slip up could destroy the credibility they were building, since major outlets may have already picked up on the slip up and spread the news around.
Effective : Liam and Sophia, as fake as it is, it worked well.
Effective : Liam and Sophia, as fake as it is, it worked well.
+ While Liam may have been a member of the biggest boyband in the world, Sophia was just an unknown person who did her part well. She posts a few pictures on social media, participate in pap walks, but other than that there’s no word from her whatsoever. Liam plays along, at
+ least social media wise. And then if people ever questioned their relationship, they would simply respond with “they are a private person/couple who doesn’t like being in the eye of the public”. This works because the beard in question is showed to the public as a private
+ person who doesn’t like to be interviewed and stuff, thus minimizing their interaction with the public and keep the lie from being slipped up or give away, and when asked they can simply say “private”. They also manipulate the social media accounts of a celebrity, since they
+ themselves can’t be trusted to convincingly sell it. Then allow the public’s straight-is-the-norm goggles to do the rest.
continued in part two https://twitter.com/1950scripted/status/1336328363581968386
