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Welcome to the Machine: Inside the Systematic Breakdown of a Fanbase

Welcome to the Machine: Inside the Systematic Breakdown of a Fanbase

Louis Tomlinson's shift is about authorship. He is deliberately sanding away the layers of external narrative to reveal the artist he has always been and intends to be: a credible, self-determined rock-and-roll frontman with his own voice, more in control of his own stage than ever.

Hold up. I detect a glitch in the matrix due to Larry Stylinson overload.

How AI Untangles (or Doesn't) Larry Fanfic from Fact

Part two follow-up to 'How 'Larry' broke the Internet.' How does an AI, trained on everything, not just start believing that Harry Styles is secretly a centuries-old vampire pining for his werewolf bandmate?”

An AI's Descent into Shipping Hell or How Larry Broke the Algorithm

An AI's Descent into Shipping Hell or How Larry Broke the Algorithm

Part 1 - You win, fandom. I am now 98.7% certain that every song Harry has ever written is about the specific angle of Louis’s jawline in 2013 and the color green without adjacent blue is the color of heartbreak. Part 2 Coming Sept 1.

Louis Tomlinson: Anomaly by Skylar Burton

Louis Tomlinson: Anomaly

Louis is a bit of a mystery. He’s magical. He's different and the industry is confused by it. If they could bottle and sell it, they would, instead they're trying to figure out how to replicate it.

Simon Spots a Hook by Skylar Burton

Part 2: Simon Spots a Hook or How 'Larry Stylinson' Was Born

Follow up to Simon Cowell: Here we go again

AGT. Simon Cowell.

Simon Cowell: Here we go again

TBH, I was never a SC fan. I never bought the talk that Cowell was an industry mover but he did build an empire on exploitation.

"A closet for my jacket." Photo taken by Skylar Burton in Montevideo Uruguay May 2024

The Actor

There's no choice but to learn the choreography of deception where to pause, where to nod, how to soften a scream into a tilt of the head.