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I could understand One Direction somewhat because stan culture and boy bands have been a thing for like 50 years. I don't know why so many people are horny for like Niall Horan and Harry Styles and shit, but the whole boyband megasensation thing fits into an established social pattern that I'm familiar with.

Harry Styles as an individual media personality? I've barely heard shit from him, and even the big chart toppers people got so excited about like Watermelon Sugar barely registered in my sphere of influence. I heard Watermelon Sugar for the first time recently and it's so bland that I retroactively got kinda bothered about how big it got. It was something I heard infinitely more about than I actually heard.

And he's gotten all this praise for blurring the line between male and female, queering fashion and gender identity - and fwiw, he can wear what he likes and I get the good in what he was trying to normalise. But he never actually looked good in what he was doing. It came across as a bit of a disaster gimmick, with sites like BuzzFeed stepping to the fore to call it brave and confrontational to speak to this pointless fucking cult of personality he has from being in One Direction. It was mostly kind of ugly, and it felt cheap and performative more than anything.

There's a social media post going around saying that Lil Nas X is doing what cis people thought Harry Styles was doing, and I couldn't agree more. His hype was not grassroots at all, and I think more than anything, he's been bland and tryhard for his entire solo career. I genuinely don't get what this milquetost motherfucker's deal is.