#you know lois wasn't messaging people who tweeted they lost their whole savings just to be like bummer dude sucks for you

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Mon 8 March ‘21

Louis liked (then unliked once it had been sufficiently noticed) an angry tweet about Football Index, a gambling site that screwed a lot of people out of a lot of money. The account whose tweet it was posted thanking him for drawing attention to them, and offered an explanation of what was going on-- “last tweet for the 1D stans that don't understand what's going on a football betting company that is designed to look like a stock market crashed because of horrendous mismanagement and now people have lost thousands of pounds overnight” (that’s pretty good but the sports tweeter who summed it up as simply “in this scenario FI are Modest Management” really brought it home for the emotional appeal) and then very cleverly sicced the fan mob on the people in charge of the site that screwed everyone over with instructions on how to bother them and proceeded to make a lot of excellent memes about the unmatched firepower louies bring to bear. Smart lads, no one can run a twitter harassment campaign like stans, that’s for damn sure!

Meanwhile Louis was still out there and in the thick of it, liking other tweets about the situation for just long enough to signal his approval and sending DMs to multiple people who were screwed out of their money to check in on them and sympathize (and help out I would bet you), inspiring football fans to post about how lovely he is and that they were checking out the album and loving it, which later turned into loads of football betting twitter just going all in and changing their bios and urls to say ‘louie’ and announcing their new status as Louis stans and hailing him as a hero. Tweets included “One day they’ll make a Netflix movie about how Football Index traders and Louis Tomlinson fans came together to fight the evil corporation and get the amazing album Walls to number #1”, ”kill my mind...raise my body back to life and I don’t know what I’d do without you NOW! almost feels as if this song was written about us and Football Index,” and rewriting 1D lyrics to be about losing their money to FI (“my money’s gone, gone tonight, the bids beneath my bets are open wide…”). Sign the petition to support and they say they’ll get Walls to #1! I believe it; uniting two huge fandoms like this, we could take over everything probably!

Liam, mostly MIA just as he told us he would be (I hope the songwriting and time off are going well!) popped up to write a sweet post for International Women’s Day and for Unicef-- “today and every day let’s celebrate women and girls around the world. Here’s a special thank you to all the women on the frontline during the pandemic, women who have worked tirelessly to ensure vital services for children have continued, and to all the inspirational young women and girls that unicef supports. Thank you for your hard work to keep children happy, healthy, and safe.”

And there’s been a lot of speculation about what TPWK choreographer Paul Roberts was up to filming recently in London and whether it was for the Grammys but it looks like it was something else-- a dance challenge for Comic Relief! There’s a video out today teaching Harry’s dance part for the opening sequence (“now-- big Harry Styles cheesy grin!”) and inviting people to post their version. Lizzo said she was excited to hear Harry perform at the Grammys and that she talked to him today (living the dream!) The tabloids confidently announced that Harry’s was one of the prerecorded performances, whether or not the TPWK choreography was involved, but they also said a lot of stuff about where he’s been when that seems wildly speculative (and that he’s dating Olivia lol) so why should I believe them? Still, sure why not-- many of them are, Harry’s might be one such.