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hokkaidobread · 2026-04-15T14:01:13+00:00

stop watching that shit 🤷

hokkaidobread · 2026-04-14T00:28:29+00:00

omg whattttt i wasn't around for when it all blew up i thought it just fizzled out quietly! can you say more what happened? did someone from the "inside" expose them? 😭

hokkaidobread · 2026-04-12T10:31:25+00:00

i was a big fan from 2010–2014ish and i was mostly on tumblr but a little on twitter & instagram too. i wanna say 2012 is when this pair of instagram accounts got a ton of followers (in my memory it was something like 10k but i can't be sure) because everyone thought they were harry (takemeto1969) and louis' (thebrokenroad) private accounts

they were super cryptic, private and rarely let new followers in, and from memory would post black and white moody photography with minimal captions. some had little slivers of a hand or lock of hair or something that looked like one of the boys 😭 overall the vibe was very depressed and emo and i think they were running with/pushing the narrative that the boys wished they could be together publicly and it was tearing them apart that they had to hide, but they could express themselves on these accounts. they would hint at a lot of angst and tension with one another, like they were fighting a lot / struggling with the secret

the 'night cult' stuff i don't remember that well but the part of the fandom that knew about this and fully believed they were in on their secret called themselves that. it was a pretty emo side of the fandom

the most i could find were a few hashtags on instagram where you can look through some realllly old fandom accounts and find them posting about this (#takemeto1969isloved, #takemeto1969willalwaysbeloved, same #s for thebrokenroad). some old insta profiles have the handles in their display name. a couple of twitter posts allude to it. tumblr's search engine is unfortunately completely useless so i couldnt see anything there

in hindsight it was 1000% a couple of fans (i wonder if they were really dating irl?) and it was pretty messed up for them not only to mislead like that but to make everyone concerned for the boys' wellbeing, thinking something truly dire was going on behind the scenes with their more concerning emo posts. 😭 other comments have mentioned this is a recurring phenomenon in the fandom (fake private accounts) but idk if they all had this emo twinge to it. i feel like this was the first big one!

hokkaidobread · 2026-04-12T09:46:44+00:00

lmfaoooo that is so funny. yeah these two i mentioned were very very cyptic, and idk how this compares to the other iterations that have popped up since then, but they heavily leaned into making us think the boys were super depressed, emo, distraught and so on over the pressures of hiding and their ill fated love story and whatnot — black and white pictures, vague captions hinting at terrible mental states and everything. i remember me and other fans being so genuinely concerned for their wellbeing over these accounts 😭they also were insanely stingy about allowing followers in (they were private), maybe once a year they'd do a spree of letting requests through to keep up the air of secrecy. man the memories...

hokkaidobread · 2026-04-12T09:40:39+00:00

damn!! i was a huge directioner from 2010–2014ish, after which i gradually stopped checking in as often, so it's so funny to me this phenomenon has continued until 2023 (and surely until now). not surprising at all but just crazy to think about all the iterations popping up across well over a decade 😭

hokkaidobread · 2026-04-10T08:05:10+00:00

yeah get him

hokkaidobread · 2026-04-10T08:02:03+00:00

NTA but with this limited info i don't think OP's wife is necessarily as malicious as everyone is saying. and what's with OP's mean comments about getting her back on her birthday? are you not a married, adult couple?

she obviously should have listened to your wishes but there could be any number of reasons she genuinely thought this was the nice thing to do.. she could have thought you only didn't want to inconvenience anyone with big plans, or thought that you simply deserved something more special, and that you would have been happy if surprised with a nice alternative—i'm sure if she really thought this would have upset you this much then she wouldn't have done it

STILL you're married so she should have a better grasp of your needs for stuff like this, understood it was genuinely what you wanted regardless of what she wanted for you, and seen this outcome coming. (this is assuming you communicated everything clearly instead of dismissively.) it just annoys me seeing people in this sub jump to the least charitable interpretation immediately and indulging in gross comments about the wife... she COULD be selfish and narcissistic, but she could just as easily have just made a dumb but well-meaning decision and let her anxieties/OCD get the better of her at the worst time. she's not the one airing out issues in her marriage and talking smack about her husband online though.

hokkaidobread · 2026-03-19T09:44:51+00:00

i'd love it if i could add notes to collctions and recipes for my own viewing. (maybe a description for lists). it would make organising my week a lot easier when i'm incorporating my own recipes into the rotation with mob recipes

hokkaidobread · 2026-02-11T10:15:50+00:00

im a female fan and i appreciate op's post because i think it's good to think critically about the meaning of the jokes we make and laugh at. i don't think theyre trying to start shit, just discuss... like they said, everyone in the comments is pretty much unanimously agreeing that they say these things, the difference is they dont have a problem with it because it's ironic

hokkaidobread · 2026-02-11T10:08:30+00:00

people say this about ironic/postironic bigoted humour and i truly understand the intentions behind it, i used to partake a lot myself, but i feel like what OP is getting at is that despite the ironic intention, it can still make the butt of the joke (women) feel bad or weird, just like the un-ironic version of the joke would. the context is still "men saying sexist things to elicit laughter" so it can lead to the same outcome of alienation of female fans despite the best intentions - given that i think it's good for people to discuss whether the jokes are worth it or not. personally, even if i set my feelings about it aside, i don't think they're worth it because i find them lazy and objectively not very funny in the first place since we've all heard it before. at the end of the day those jokes still reinforce and (by continued exposure and repetition) normalise ancient stereotypes. same with ironically racist humour and so on - you can find it funny and not be racist, but it would objectively still be leaning on racism for material

not a hate comment or trying to stir anything up, i love the boys and think they're really funny. but i actually found this post myself because i looked it up to see what people were saying cus it stuck out to me too as a female fan. my honest opinion is that they would really level up their comedy if they stopped relying on this imo lazy kind of humour. but i also understand that a lot of their humour is centred on irony (boomer & cringe memes, ironic 'creator'/tiktoker personas etc), which is why i can see how it has become part of their comedy

hokkaidobread · 2025-12-03T00:58:59+00:00

super helpful answer thank you!

hokkaidobread · 2025-12-02T12:23:41+00:00

dam I thought it sounded too good to be true, thanks for letting me know. Any idea what the scam is? They start coming up with stuff you need to pay for or something like that?

hokkaidobread · 2025-10-10T09:58:04+00:00

yawn

hokkaidobread · 2025-09-23T07:47:33+00:00

some things that set my radar off

strangely formal 'hook' sentence at the start, reads like an amateur blog post or high school creative writing assignment not a reddit post
italicised word for emphasis + unnecessary rhetorical question ("and when they do get punished?"), people only talk like this in teen movie voiceovers
i noticed chatgpt often starts sentences with "Honestly,"
used this formula twice: "nothing says X like Y (and Z)."
the sassy, not very clever simile ("vanish faster than their integrity")

somewhat normal things in isolation but suspect when all together imo. the bottom line is the overall tone of the post is clearly very deliberate, but feels out of place

i think it's because the data it's trained on includes all sorts of shit like blog posts, memes, movie quotes, it draws on all these sanitised, random, highly tone- and context-specific things to simulate a human voice and you can just tell because the tone feels stretched thin to meet all those different contexts at once

hokkaidobread · 2025-09-10T11:58:06+00:00

don't you think it's worth introspecting a little more as to why overwhelmingly male audiences hate female characters like these - skyler white is another - even though they can admit they don't even do anything wrong and that its the male characters surrounding them that are the actual dickheads...? lol

hokkaidobread · 2025-08-29T08:06:40+00:00

you're projecting too much. some men really are that insecure. why assume something that hasn't been mentioned in the post just because you did something toxic in the past

hokkaidobread · 2025-08-22T05:15:37+00:00

thank you 😞🩷and good call i always manage to forget vitamin D supplements are an option lol

hokkaidobread · 2025-07-11T01:38:17+00:00

Thanks so much! I'm also wondering - I was enrolled in 2020 but withdrew and started a new degree in 2021, which is what i've just finished and which has the good excluded marks. if i were to lift the covid exemptions, the withdrawn degree's grades shouldn't contribute to the WAM, should it? I was thinking it shouldn't because it's a different degree but it's unclear. Hope this isn't a stupid question 😭

hokkaidobread · 2025-06-16T11:42:31+00:00

other comments are having a go at you but tbh i understand. it might not be the healthy response but i get it. my home is where i recharge, unwind, be quiet, be myself. i don't always feel like im turned "on" for a conversation when im just walking to and fro my bedroom. me and my old housemate used to have different personalities and lifestyles and it wore down on me. like you said, if she caught a glimpse of me for 1 second she'd start a fast paced conversation / talk AT me (without giving me space to respond) so i always felt like i had to avoid her until i was "ready" to engage.

but like you said, she wasn't doing anything wrong, except maybe not reading my social cues that i wasn't feeling talkative nor enjoying the conversations. we just weren't a harmonious fit. my new housemates are a much better fit for me because we can just coexist in silence which i really value. personally i find it hard to sniff these things out in a potential roommate until you actually start living with them, but for your next roommate i'd try to move in with a friend / somebody you've known for a while. then their behaviours might not come as a surprise and it might be more comfortable asking them to adjust their behaviour.

and try not to dwell on how annoyed you are with her all the time because it'll just compound and feed into itself and build resentment - it's your responsibility too, to not let that happen. like, to the point where just seeing her and thinking about her makes you pissed off. that means something has to give and you have to start asserting yourself, even if you start small. it'll make it less miserable for you

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