tobethemselves

[tobethemselves]

🏳️‍🌈king🏳️‍🌈

[tobethemselves]

Cancún | August 6, 2019

[tobethemselves]

Daily Mail (04.08.2025)

(x)

[tobethemselves]

Daily Mail (22.07.2025, 1:16 PM BST)

(x)

[tobethemselves]

Some new Art

[tobethemselves]

Harry changed name to his finsta, I guess the little stunt to convince people he and O were "serious" backfired, and got sooooo many requests. This is the name now instagram. com/scottysakamoto/ I'm not a sketchy anon, I just noticed it because I kept colazione8 in my recent researches on ig. He also went from following 133 people (the day we noticed the O follow) to 136, it was at 131 a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, the new icon is so funny. Petty Harry.

Okay. So here’s the new bio and PFP:

the photo is from a set of photos described this way (emphasis mine):

In 1963, photographer John Dominis visited the Palm Springs home of Steve McQueen and his first wife, Neile Adams. Over the span of three weeks, the photographer shot more than forty rolls of film, capturing intimate photos of the couple daily life that reinforce why the actor continues to be upheld as an interesting paradigm of masculinity. 

https://www.manmadediy.com/1735-at-home-with-steve-mcqueen-newly-released-intimate-photos-from-1963/?chrome=1

Harry has mentioned a photo of Steve McQueen before here: https://theface.com/culture/harry-styles-quick-fire-interview

Is this a prelude to the anticipated ~private photos leak~ ? We’ll see.

As for the name? Sakamoto means “Japanese : written two ways, both meaning ‘(one who lives) at the bottom of the slope’, this surname is common in all parts of Japan, but especially in the west and the Ryūkyū Islands. It is listed in the Shinsen shōjiroku, and so some bearers have connections with ancient nobility.” - https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=sakamoto#:~:text=Japanese%3A%20written%20two%20ways%2C%20both,have%20connections%20with%20ancient%20nobility.

there are two imdb’s when you look up scotty sakamoto, both seem to ahve no connection to h: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3006223/, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757097/

If you want to tear something reaching, there’s a composer who has collaborated with Haruki Murakami, writer of Norwegian Wood and The Wind Up Bird... https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/international/8476331/ryuichi-sakamoto-reissue-bttb-album-liner-notes-Haruki-Murakami/

I think, more likely, he picked a Japanese name because he likes japan, like he used italian for his previous profile info.

[tobethemselves]

stevesane instagram stories 8/8/25

* caption on the first story which is now deleted :

28

[tobethemselves]

Zara posted a video filmed at Louis' London house 8-8-25

[tobethemselves]

in case you have any doubts about "mcdomlinson"...

february 18: louis followed zara on IG.

february 28: 28 clothing launch party. the jacket zara later used was launched here.

march 1: louis liked a post of zara.

march 6: louis talks about 28 clothing for outlander. electric brixton show.

march 8: zara and harry attended the same sabrina carpenter show.

march 9: zara joined a live on IG of a person talking about larry.

march 10: first articles of zara dropped. on the 17th, the sun posted the first pic + confirmation. we also find out louis was gonna be at soccer aid.

march 25: louis posted and deleted twice a pic of a studio.

march 27: AOTV IG and tiktok began posting clips of the documentary.

march 28: pics of louis and zara. she was using a 28 clothing jacket.

april 1: louis posted and deleted a pic of his guitar. he also liked zara's post.

april 2: louis liked and unliked a random post where she was tagged.

april 3: twitter reply spree, LT3 teasing.

april 11-13: louis at coachella. zara was also there.

april 16: first pics of them kissing.

april 25: AOTV finished posting the documentary on tiktok and IG.

may 1: louis arrived in costa rica.

may 9: 28 clothing was certified a Private Limited Company.

may 7: twitter reply spree. more LT3 teasing. he also liked and commented zara's post about her new documentary.

may 10-13: louis added and removed stuff from his bio.

may 11: 3 songs were registered.

may 24: louis posts pics about him being in the studio in costa rica, captioned "pura vida".

may 30: louis left costa rica. zara had been there a few days before.

june 13: soccer aid interview where louis mentioned harry.

june 14: louis liked zara's post wishing her mom a happy birthday.

june 24: louis liked and unliked a post about fake tan.

june 29: louis liked and unliked a larry reel at glastonbury, where harry also attended (zara went with louis). we found out later that day that harry was stunting.

july 1: louis liked zara's post about her new documentary.

july 9: ejekt festival. blue and green merch.

july 10: the afhf25 info was leaked. it ended up not being announced.

july 11: zoacity festival. "this one's for everyone whinging there's too many one directions song in me set".

july 14: louis tweeted about "conspiracies".

july 16: louis liked zara's post about her new brand.

july 26: lodz festival. he said he was done recording LT3.

july 28: lt discord was launched.

august 2: louis liked and unliked a sabrina carpenter post.

august 3: louis followed zara's brother (apparently) and someone from her team.

august 4: zara posted a picture kissing louis on IG.

august 8: zara at louis' public house.

... i call this mutual "promo" 🤷🏻‍♀️

[tobethemselves]

Can you just stop giving attention to her. Louis wants her to do these all to attract new fans to sell album. That's it. Larries already knows it's fake. Why these negative attention... She has to earn her benefit from this mutual beneficial fake public relationship......

Look, I have to reblog this because I’ll include it in my timelines if you’re annoyed by it or don’t want to see it either block the tag #mcdomlinson stunt

Or feel free to block or unfollow me. I don’t mind!

But don’t come to my blog and tell me what to put on there

[tobethemselves]

About the Zara promo thing I just … it’s so fucking blatantly about her work.

This is the post that was at the top of her IG the day the news of her and Louis dropped - a post that was made that day. Fans rushing to see who she was are introduced to her like THIS. This is the impression Zara and her team wanted to give to Louies/other people coming to investigate who she is. I’m not gonna include the pics of her but she’s holding a camera in both shots. She’s presenting herself as a Serious Filmmaker.

This is the post Louis commented on. Again. It’s about her working. Her photo AGAIN is her working (look she edits her own documentaries! That she also films! She works so hard! She cares so much!)

Louis could have commented on any of her other posts between that time, and there were a few! But they all were much more typical IG fare and that’s not what she wants Louis fans to focus on. She didn’t pay for Louis to give her compliments about how hot she is.

She paid for Louis to comment “proud of you x” on a post about her FUCKING WORKING. BECAUSE THIS IS PROMO. ABOUT. HER. AND HER WORK. HER VERY SERIOUS WORK SHE WANTS YOUNG WOMEN TO WATCH. PROBABLY BECAUSE SHES INCREDIBLY PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS.

[tobethemselves]

Let's look at the hard numbers

There are so many questions swirling about this stunt: Why now? Why her? Is it to level up his profile for the release of LT3? Is it to promote her projects? Is it for Soccer Aid promo? Is it to help promote Louis’ sisters’ projects (the new make-up line for Lottie and a possible reality show for the twins)? Aren’t people more wise today to how fake this type of celebrity promotional “strategy” is?

People who are smarter than me and have been around this fandom a lot longer than me have put out some good suggestions as to why this type of stunt is still happening in 2025.

I thought it would be helpful to examine some of the metrics surrounding the stunt and I think I will start with Zara. Let’s see if from my (somewhat limited) visibility of her online metrics, this stunt has helped her and the visibility of her brands. Just to be clear, these are social listening numbers only. These charts include mentions on social accounts like X, Tumblr, Reddit,etc, but exclude tabloid articles or TikTok. BUT it would include any posting and sharing of the tabloid articles and their sentiment on social.

So when this stunt “officially”  launched - March 2025, this is what Zara’s daily mentions looked like across social channels. She had a total of 3.7K mentions in the month between Feb 1 and March 3. An average of about 125 mentions per day. 

You can see that on March 1, she had a huge spike - around 525 mentions - because this was the day that Louis liked her post of her in a white dress.

One of the smaller spikes in that chart on Feb 19/20 was the day that Louis followed Zara on IG. 

There are a couple of other smaller spikes between those two dates that correspond with some tabloid articles about why she and Sam broke up that were talked about on social. (They needed to make sure everyone knew the break up was official before the big reveal/follow.)

One other thing to note: As we can see on this screen grab on the day that Louis followed her, she had approximately 2M followers. 

Let’s examine how her numbers are faring now, 1 public dinner, 1 kiss (I guess that’s what you could call it?) in the driveway of a rental house in Malibu, 1 romantic trip to Tesco on Easter Sunday, and 1 trip to hang out with the lad crew in Costa Rica.

Drum roll please…

Here are her social mention stats as of today:

As you can see, she is still sitting at the 3.7K mentions in a month’s time frame, the spikes are just distributed differently. She had a spike on April 23 - the romantic date to Tesco, then the spike in early May for the “kiss heard round the world” and then this weekend’s Costa Rica public outing. But, people, all this work and she hasn’t even broken 600 mentions in a day. This includes her non-Louis content like when she talks about her clothing brand, when she promotes different products, her documentaries, her work as an ambassador, etc. 

Also, her follower count hasn’t increased in any significant way. As of today, she is still at 2M followers. It’s safe to say this stunt has done nothing to level up her profile in the last couple of months. 

I wanted to add one more bit of info. Below is her sentiment chart for the last 30 days. Sentiment measures what the corresponding emotions are tracking at for the social mentions.

In this chart there are three lines. The gray neutral line shows social mentions that just talk about what happened but doesn’t give any opinion or emotion with it. This would be when a tabloid posts on social about the event or promotes their article about it. These are just records of what happened. The green and red lines chart when different social accounts talk about the event on their channels - X, Tumblr, etc. - and then express their opinion about it, good or bad. 

When her mentions spiked in early May for the pap pictures of the kiss, we saw some positive sentiment along with a high spike of negativity. This past weekend, however, when her mentions spiked due to the fan coverage of their Costa Rica appearance, the positive sentiment didn’t spike but the negative sentiment was even higher. 

This indicates that people are more negative about this recent appearance than they were about the past sightings. So negativity about her and the “relationship” (stunt) is increasing. If I had to guess, I would say I don’t think she has a team like Louis has a team. I think she probably has an agent advising her and maybe some PR/marketing help, but she is probably managing this on a day to day basis on her own for the most part. But she, or whoever is looking at this for her, should pay very close attention. This is not a good trend.

If she were my client, my advice would be to quit while you’re ahead. Go under the radar for a while because this negative trend could only get worse and it will negatively affect your brand. 

These numbers are very clear but no one really knows what will happen next. Louis and his team are betting his reputation and future album and tour success on this promotion campaign, but have no real idea where public sentiment will go from here. But, it’s not looking good. Next I will look at his numbers. 

What are your thoughts about it?

[tobethemselves]

Did they seriously put photos of her and her friends on the dresser? 🤣🤣🤣

Did they really do it? Oh God, I haven't checked, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. She had already posted a video where you could see a photo of her and Louis behind her.

[tobethemselves]

https://www.tumblr.com/voxina/791313446690029568

Hahahah, I didn’t even recognise it as his public house. Do we actually have photos of El from the same spot?

I probably was too busy cringing over the necklace she has to show of all the time. They really give teenage vibes! 😭

I'm still laughing, anon! I did a quick search and this is the best I could find, and although the house has undergone some renovations, you can see that it's the exact same spot El used to post a lot of her selfies from.

[tobethemselves]

Re the pointing, I think it is significant when he is pointing he is singing about the man he is now…I think really seeing all the flags has been comforting to him. TPTB have always tried to alienate him from the community and the narrative around his “public persona “ was made to alienate the LGBTQ fans but those fans are front and center in front of him at the concerts.

I just said something similar to @lovingstheantidote he pointed during the line “Was the day that I became the man that I am now” and then he yells SING IT after pointing at a sign that says “Sing Walls if Larry is real”.

[tobethemselves]

I think every larrie everywhere is the person screaming “What the fuck?!?!?!” in this video. 😅😅😅

Thank you @alarrylarrie for sending this to me. You can really clearly see how he looks a couple of times in the direction of the sign first, and then smiles, points, and gives the thumbs up with a head nod. Then points again and stays pointing as he sings. I’m just… Overwhelmed

[tobethemselves]

Louis down barricade at Lodz Summer Festival - 26.07