Recently I read a tumblr post by a user who still believes in Larry in the year of our Lord 2024. I felt like one of those biologists who finds a frog that was thought to have gone extinct in the last century
@@LynnHermione Pls the worst part is, Tae and Jungkook have implied that this blatant shipping impacted their personal friendship with each other because people would show up in their VLives or in their faces to talk about it. Despite that, the crazies don't stop. I hate TaeKook on principle because why do that to an idol you claim to love? 😭
Reminds me of my favourite book series where a comedian goes to his first session with his psychologist. The psychologist is dressed like Pippi Longstocking, uses her pigtails like sockpuppets and is generally really weird and unhinged. At the end of the session she asks if he feels better and he say "Well, I feel really normal now." She answers "Great, that's the goal of my therapy approach." But ofc he actually hates feeling normal more than anything. That's exactly what I feel when I read things like these. I'm not a comedian, but I, too, hate feeling too normal.
@@nlATL777 The Kangaroo book series by Marc-Uwe Kling, originally in German. It's about a Comedian in Berlin living together with a Communist Kangaroo. It's very popular in Germany but internationally obscure, that's why I didn't mention the origin.
I make my 15 year old cishet brother watch strangeæons for this exact reason. Did he want to learn? No. Did he choose to learn? No. But did he reference dashcon to our grandparents without thinking about it and then look like he had witnessed the end times? Yes. Education. Isn’t it wonderful
5:24 are we just gonna ignore the fact that this Hobama fanfic has "Joe Biden/Louis Tomlinson" and "Shrek/Harry Styles" in its tags too? A masterpiece, surely.
I'm guessing you haven't looking into the CEO and founder of Scent Bird. Maria Nurislamova has gone off the deep end with fringe right-wing 'new age' stuff. She's said that H*tler wasn't such a bad person saying “Do you know how many millions of souls have benefited from learning from the the experiences that he has created?..." and that the H*locaust was “One of the greatest sources of knowledge of 3D planet earth warfare, and that is benefiting so many different souls on their evolutionary path”.
The quotes from the Larry Stylinson book confirm for me that Larry Stylinson is the male, British, brown-haired version of Kaylor (Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift).
there was a fair amount of overlap in people who shipped both because if Taylor was gay then it ~proved~ she had been a beard for Harry and therefore Larry was rEaL ... Larry came first and kaylor was maybe two/three years after. and yes I know that remembering all this just means I was wayyyy too online in that era 😅
@@sonny423 kaylor WAS separate from larry in that you could be a kaylor & believe that harry was real, most kaylors DID believe she was secretly seeing diana argon. there's fringe theories that diana and harry and louis were ALL real relationships with significant overlap (you know: typical messy bisexual situationships). i remember this because i WAS a kaylor, and i was the one who created the fringe theory in 2014 because i a bisexual sick of the biphobia. everyone in the swiftie fandom hated me btw
I've never heard of Harry x Obama, but I've been on tumblr long enough to remember when people thought Obama x Biden were the cutest thing ever. That's how I learned who Joe Biden was in the first place... (as a non US resident)
I watched D'Angelo's video on gen z slang the other day, and only just realized why I feel as if I have never not known what brainrot is. It's because I come from tumblr
Maybe it’s just like slang in my friend group (we come from Twitter fandom) but I think everyone is using brainrot in a completely different way than we ever did and continue to use it to mean. I don’t have TikTok but it seems to mean closer to chronically online ie having xyz brainrot. Which I guess works with how fandomly you might say “I have x ship brainrot”. But we as a group of 5 ish people use it to mean “discussing an idea that we’ve had stuck on our mind” closer to the idea of brainworms. We would be more likely to say “brainrot this au with me” “guys are you awake I need to brainrot”. I’m trying to work out it out usage evolved from soemthing more similar to the classic tumblr idea which I’ve thought of as being like brainworms. Or if it evolved independently because were whump and body horror fanfic writers who have been discussing more literal brainrot and lobotomising our faves (I’ve written fic about birds eating our blorbos brain) so maybe it jsut sprung up from that in our own little group. TLDR me and my friend group use brainrot mostly as a verb
I think an often under discussed element of "babygate" is that the woman Louis had a baby with was not the long term girlfriend he'd very recently broken up with but what seemed to be a random hookup. This went against the image a lot of fans had of him which made them even more willing to believe a crazy conspiracy!
You underestimate middle schoolers. They’re the biggest memers for their hyperfixiation. You give them the freedom to create and you get some funny shit. Reason why I like working at a middle school.
A true banger as always! It would be cool to hear you do a breakdown of the start of real person fandoms in the 60s and 70s! Eg. the band Led Zeppelin has a super interesting history in this regard (the fandom still goes relatively strong btw)! This resulted in several full lengh novels and a 42 volume manga in the 70s which are basically band fanfiction. There's even fanfiction for the manga and the verse the novels spawned, to the degree that people were reading spicy stories about the pseudonymes 'Tris & Alex' without knowing who it originally refers to. I'm sure some other real person and music fandoms have interesting history as well!
when i clicked on this video i vaguely remembered seeing hobama stuff back in 2016, and was NOT expecting you to say that ppl are STILL posting about it, and in fact posting about it MORE
I recently got one of your Tapestries and hung it above my bed and as I sat down to watch this video it fall off the wall and on my face. I think it was trying to save me from whatever I just learned was a thing
Here I was, thinking that the edits of Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy 15 crying and being hugged by Former President Barack Obama was peak, but now I stand WILDLY corrected. Hobama for life.
I saw the video and I was like, Ah! Father Strange! And I just... clicked automatically. But then As I clicked, the title hit my brain and it took me a few moments to process what I was reading... it took me a little longer to puzzle out what ship name "Hobama" could possibly be... and then I realized she was reading an excerpt... and it hit me, with dawning horror and realization...
I did a video on this last year! It feels kind of awesome that someone who covers similar material to me, who I really admire, got around to it. great video!
The fact that it only took me a few seconds to remember what 'Hobama' stood for makes me want to hide in my bed in eternal shame. I suppose an unexpected silver lining to Musky's... everything, is that Twitter is now an almost 4chan-level cesspool so I've just dropped it entirely. Much better for my mental health, tbh.
This might be the earliest I've ever been to a strange video! Wonderful and interesting as always. Also for anyone reading this if you are interested in fandom history and culture I'd recommend checking out fangirls the musical as I went to see it and it was incredible! It touches on some really interesting themes
Sometimes a crackship just takes off. In Chinese fandom, apparently for like a decade people avidly shipped Voldemort with Lin Daiyu (Dream of the red chamber). Voldy was only recently dumped when that new game came out and people have gravitated towards Sun Wukong and miss Lin.
I've straight up never heard of Hobama lol .. I remember when people were shipping One direction members but I figured it was just homophobia about men interacting in a friendly way
Most videos I'll walk in and out of the room and leave it playing but I always pause your videos when I leave the room because I can't afford to miss a single detail of whatever outrageous thing you're covering this time.
I was unaware of this whole thing until today. I'm so overwhelmed that all I can think is "But does Harry enjoy watching Danny and Arnold play video games the same way Obama does?"
Did noone notice the "their love for WATERMELON" comment? Is that a reference to the 2014 watermelon comic or just their own independent micro aggression
The flat nothingness behind his eyes at 10:14, before you see the littlest quirk of a smile. Like “yeah it’s so ridiculous, it’s a little bit funny, I guess”
despite being a tumblrina in that era, i can confidently say i somehow, unfortunately, didn't know hobama was a thing until recently. wish i did, i would have absolutely been making edits for the hell of it. still can, but doing it in picsart doesn't hit as hard as when i had a cracked version of photoshop and would spend hours downloading png edit asset packs, risking malware for some cute tumblr aesthetic hearts with edgy words on them.
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When your contract with them is over please please please do a deep dive video on the Scent Bird CEO I would love to listen to it while I draw 🙏🙏
@@yuzufruit6505i agree that scent bird ceo is insanneeee
Can you please not promote this neo nazi affiliated brand? 🙏
I need that full reading of my immortal, your voice gives me the art zoomies.
Recently I read a tumblr post by a user who still believes in Larry in the year of our Lord 2024. I felt like one of those biologists who finds a frog that was thought to have gone extinct in the last century
Oh larries are very much alive, they just moved on to harass kpop idols instead. 90% of taekookers are former larries
there was something of a larry renaissance amongst teens stuck at home on tiktok during quarantine, apparently
@@LynnHermione your comment just sent me down a rabbit hole of what a taekook is and god... the horrors
@@LynnHermione Pls the worst part is, Tae and Jungkook have implied that this blatant shipping impacted their personal friendship with each other because people would show up in their VLives or in their faces to talk about it. Despite that, the crazies don't stop. I hate TaeKook on principle because why do that to an idol you claim to love? 😭
@@surabhiranjan5737 thats like... literally exactly what harry and louis said as well. history rlly does repeat itself unfortunately
i know where harry got his shoelaces…
holy shit
“i would never buy a normie” or whatever the fuck the quote is
Omg you’re right
You made my YEAR with this comment 🤣
This side of the internet makes me feel like a ordinary human being.
Reminds me of my favourite book series where a comedian goes to his first session with his psychologist. The psychologist is dressed like Pippi Longstocking, uses her pigtails like sockpuppets and is generally really weird and unhinged. At the end of the session she asks if he feels better and he say "Well, I feel really normal now." She answers "Great, that's the goal of my therapy approach." But ofc he actually hates feeling normal more than anything.
That's exactly what I feel when I read things like these. I'm not a comedian, but I, too, hate feeling too normal.
@@Tessa_GrWhat series is it?
@@nlATL777 The Kangaroo book series by Marc-Uwe Kling, originally in German. It's about a Comedian in Berlin living together with a Communist Kangaroo. It's very popular in Germany but internationally obscure, that's why I didn't mention the origin.
@@Tessa_Gr Ok thanks
@@Tessa_Gr You are on the money my dude
So that's where the inspo for Red White and Royal Blue came from.
Underrated comment
😂😂😂
equating harry to a prince 😭
I’m dying 😂
my one direction phase ended years ago, but i can never truly escape hobama
why would you want to
This was unironically one of my favorite Tumblr memes just because of the obscurity of it, thank you for taking the time to talk about it lol
i got a kamala harris presidential ad with obama in it on this video 😭
kamala harry styles
These fanfics exist in the context of all that came before
2 seconds in I thought this was going to be ANOTHER weird-ass Harry Potter subculture LOL
Me too I was like harry… styles?!
NO BUT SAME
ME TOO
I thought it was going to be prince Harry.
YESSS
i choke-laughed so hard at the tomato fic tags that my face turned red
much like..... no. i shan't say
this comment means so much to me
Still not sure why Dokibird is involved in this tbh
i love how you make me aware of things i would've preferred to never know about and i'm not even mad about it
Thank you for describing my feelings perfectly.
Same. I didn't even know about this 😆
Someone tweet this to Obama so we can see HIS reaction
I make my 15 year old cishet brother watch strangeæons for this exact reason. Did he want to learn? No. Did he choose to learn? No. But did he reference dashcon to our grandparents without thinking about it and then look like he had witnessed the end times? Yes.
Education. Isn’t it wonderful
5:24 are we just gonna ignore the fact that this Hobama fanfic has "Joe Biden/Louis Tomlinson" and "Shrek/Harry Styles" in its tags too? A masterpiece, surely.
I'm guessing you haven't looking into the CEO and founder of Scent Bird. Maria Nurislamova has gone off the deep end with fringe right-wing 'new age' stuff. She's said that H*tler wasn't such a bad person saying “Do you know how many millions of souls have benefited from learning from the the experiences that he has created?..." and that the H*locaust was “One of the greatest sources of knowledge of 3D planet earth warfare, and that is benefiting so many different souls on their evolutionary path”.
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Yeah… She’s really not great at all. I tried scentbird before all of that stuff was known and it wasn’t even great in itself, so 🤷🏻
Oof, strange should see this
Yeah I’m shocked this isn’t more well known already
Oof, boosting
The quotes from the Larry Stylinson book confirm for me that Larry Stylinson is the male, British, brown-haired version of Kaylor (Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift).
there was a fair amount of overlap in people who shipped both because if Taylor was gay then it ~proved~ she had been a beard for Harry and therefore Larry was rEaL ... Larry came first and kaylor was maybe two/three years after. and yes I know that remembering all this just means I was wayyyy too online in that era 😅
@@sonny423 kaylor WAS separate from larry in that you could be a kaylor & believe that harry was real, most kaylors DID believe she was secretly seeing diana argon. there's fringe theories that diana and harry and louis were ALL real relationships with significant overlap (you know: typical messy bisexual situationships). i remember this because i WAS a kaylor, and i was the one who created the fringe theory in 2014 because i a bisexual sick of the biphobia. everyone in the swiftie fandom hated me btw
@DUELISTKlNGDOM Powerful energy, good bait&Switch no notes
well… loads of people think taylor and harry’s relationship was a coverup for both larry and swiftgron (taylor and diana agron)
@@DUELISTKlNGDOM this is WILDDDD
I love how unhinged this is
Obama chuckled "...you mean, the Chaos Emeralds?"
Out of curiosity, I decided to look up Hobama on AO3 and I gotta say the tags on these fics are WILD and got me dying
examples?
So what I got from this video is that Larry Stylinson is to mid 2010's straight teenage girls what Gaylor is to Gen Z TikTok lesbians
the girls were also gay back then too 😆
definitely not mid 2000s lmao this was like around 2012 onward. also people have been gaylor speculating since like 2010(? idk im not an expert)
@@engagingathena9965if you look a few comments up, the person who created that rumor is in one of the reply sections
Perhaps, we need a new crack RP ship to counter Karlor. Perhaps, we need…Karmala.
which is why as a detox there needs to be a Tamala meme ship if she gets elected.
I've never heard of Harry x Obama, but I've been on tumblr long enough to remember when people thought Obama x Biden were the cutest thing ever. That's how I learned who Joe Biden was in the first place... (as a non US resident)
When politics turns into a joke, we like to make it gay at least.
Im so glad RUclips threw Strange Aeons at me for no reason 2 years ago lol
It certainly took my brain a while to process what “Hobama” could possibly mean, even after looking at the thumbnail lol
Nothing could have prepared me for the 'ketchup as lube' tag on that fic 😭
Man i was just going to look up bauhaus songs and this thumbnail cockslapped me in the face
Hello fellow goth
Hobama walked so The Idea of You could run
10:07 you can see his soul leave his body
THE GOBLINS HAVE BEEN FED
I watched D'Angelo's video on gen z slang the other day, and only just realized why I feel as if I have never not known what brainrot is. It's because I come from tumblr
unexpected d'angelo mention !!!! that video is so good
Maybe it’s just like slang in my friend group (we come from Twitter fandom) but I think everyone is using brainrot in a completely different way than we ever did and continue to use it to mean. I don’t have TikTok but it seems to mean closer to chronically online ie having xyz brainrot. Which I guess works with how fandomly you might say “I have x ship brainrot”. But we as a group of 5 ish people use it to mean “discussing an idea that we’ve had stuck on our mind” closer to the idea of brainworms. We would be more likely to say “brainrot this au with me” “guys are you awake I need to brainrot”.
I’m trying to work out it out usage evolved from soemthing more similar to the classic tumblr idea which I’ve thought of as being like brainworms. Or if it evolved independently because were whump and body horror fanfic writers who have been discussing more literal brainrot and lobotomising our faves (I’ve written fic about birds eating our blorbos brain) so maybe it jsut sprung up from that in our own little group.
TLDR me and my friend group use brainrot mostly as a verb
5:18 "Ruinited". That's... that's actually kind of a perfect typo, more perfect than the correct spelling.
I think an often under discussed element of "babygate" is that the woman Louis had a baby with was not the long term girlfriend he'd very recently broken up with but what seemed to be a random hookup. This went against the image a lot of fans had of him which made them even more willing to believe a crazy conspiracy!
4:23 Spectacular. This is high art. I keep rewinding so I can make it the most replayed segment.
5:27 “SHREK IS A DADDY” TAG
That thumbnail hit me like a down with cis bus
i am so deep into hobama tiktok, and i just yelled "thats my mutual!!" out into my room at 4:05
You underestimate middle schoolers. They’re the biggest memers for their hyperfixiation. You give them the freedom to create and you get some funny shit. Reason why I like working at a middle school.
this is the history lesson i needed on us politics thank u
seeing this in my notifications brought me way too much joy
less than 10 seconds into the video and it's already so incredibly unhinged
A true banger as always!
It would be cool to hear you do a breakdown of the start of real person fandoms in the 60s and 70s! Eg. the band Led Zeppelin has a super interesting history in this regard (the fandom still goes relatively strong btw)! This resulted in several full lengh novels and a 42 volume manga in the 70s which are basically band fanfiction. There's even fanfiction for the manga and the verse the novels spawned, to the degree that people were reading spicy stories about the pseudonymes 'Tris & Alex' without knowing who it originally refers to. I'm sure some other real person and music fandoms have interesting history as well!
Good music. But let's not start celebrating anew the fandom of well known statutory rapists.
whaaaat?? pls enlighten me what’s the name of the manga? who wrote it? a video about this would be a blessing!!
i pray that hobama never dies its awesome
when i clicked on this video i vaguely remembered seeing hobama stuff back in 2016, and was NOT expecting you to say that ppl are STILL posting about it, and in fact posting about it MORE
Gay obama be like
Now let me be queer
the fact that i had to scroll for this, it beggars belief. how is this not the top comment lmao
I recently got one of your Tapestries and hung it above my bed and as I sat down to watch this video it fall off the wall and on my face. I think it was trying to save me from whatever I just learned was a thing
Thank you for this delicious meal, Father.
I do feel bad for all the shit wattpad and tumblr have put Harry through over the years but this ship is just objectively hilarious
Here I was, thinking that the edits of Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy 15 crying and being hugged by Former President Barack Obama was peak, but now I stand WILDLY corrected. Hobama for life.
@Chilakkuma 😭
quick with it
clicked so fast
I was so happy not knowing what hobama was, until now.
thank you strange we say collectively
THANK YOU STRANGE FOR COVERING MY FAVORITE SHIP. I ADORE YOUR CHANNEL AND I DIDN’T THINK IT COULD GET BETTER. YOU DID IT ANYWAY. THANK YOU
i have never fucking seen this and i'm obsessed. new hoboma truther here
I saw the video and I was like, Ah! Father Strange! And I just... clicked automatically. But then As I clicked, the title hit my brain and it took me a few moments to process what I was reading... it took me a little longer to puzzle out what ship name "Hobama" could possibly be... and then I realized she was reading an excerpt... and it hit me, with dawning horror and realization...
5:46 HUH!!?!!???
13:19 joseph smith
Mr Strange has offered us another tasty goblin treat video for us to devour, I shall enjoy with a White Gilgamesh in hand
Hobama and baekbama live in my head still
But also hobama was something larries joked around with too cause they did indeed run the fandom like the navy
getting an ad with obama asking for campaign donations right before this video :((((((
Donate to his campaign to ask Harry Styles on an expensive date I guess
Once again, something I was blissfully unaware of until you covered it. Thank you.
I did a video on this last year! It feels kind of awesome that someone who covers similar material to me, who I really admire, got around to it. great video!
My fave rairpair has less ao3 fics than hobama club
2 seconds in and I'm already so confused
(That's a good sign, btw)
The fact that it only took me a few seconds to remember what 'Hobama' stood for makes me want to hide in my bed in eternal shame.
I suppose an unexpected silver lining to Musky's... everything, is that Twitter is now an almost 4chan-level cesspool so I've just dropped it entirely. Much better for my mental health, tbh.
Posted 1 minute ago? More like, im watching it right now!
Hobama is just Barack living his brat summer
This might be the earliest I've ever been to a strange video! Wonderful and interesting as always.
Also for anyone reading this if you are interested in fandom history and culture I'd recommend checking out fangirls the musical as I went to see it and it was incredible! It touches on some really interesting themes
The second I sawr the subject, I knew I was going to get an Obama begging me for money ad. 5 minutes and 13 seconds in and I'm not disappointed.
This gave me such a war flashback omg I'm pretty sure I was apart of a tumblr thread involving this
i need you to know i got obama sponsering kamala ad right before this video started😭
New romantic rival??? 👀
@@kinkanalchemistnah she’s the wedding officiant
@@kinkanalchemist HAHA kamala STEALING obama from harry? the plot twist we weren’t expecting! 👀
hoo boy, what a horrid little meal you have served us today (positive)
Sometimes a crackship just takes off. In Chinese fandom, apparently for like a decade people avidly shipped Voldemort with Lin Daiyu (Dream of the red chamber). Voldy was only recently dumped when that new game came out and people have gravitated towards Sun Wukong and miss Lin.
I've straight up never heard of Hobama lol .. I remember when people were shipping One direction members but I figured it was just homophobia about men interacting in a friendly way
I don’t think that it counts as homophobia… more like the fetishization of mlm relationships.
finally early to a Strange video!!! blessed
This reminds me of shipping being funny and relaxed while still being healthly unhinged. Good stuff
I appreciate you uploading this in 4K so I don't miss a single detail
Oh good. Dinner.
The opening of this video hit me like a truck
Most videos I'll walk in and out of the room and leave it playing but I always pause your videos when I leave the room because I can't afford to miss a single detail of whatever outrageous thing you're covering this time.
This video felt like a fever dream that lasted both 8 hours and 3 seconds???
This makes me feel normal, just writing my Hannigram Watersports.
An unusual accomplishment.
strange your hair is looking very swoopy very whimsical and satisfying i love
I was unaware of this whole thing until today. I'm so overwhelmed that all I can think is "But does Harry enjoy watching Danny and Arnold play video games the same way Obama does?"
Hell yeah, just started watching and im excited as hell
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE AHHHHH
Thank you for this gift, the best possible Friday afternoon RUclips surprise
I LOVE EVERYTHING I NEED I GET FROM YOU!!!!!
5:57 love that the ship of fictional vampire edward cullen x real northern irish actor jamie dornan is just glossed over
thank you for your service
Wow this is so informative
Its always cool to wake up and see that you posted.
Did noone notice the "their love for WATERMELON" comment? Is that a reference to the 2014 watermelon comic or just their own independent micro aggression
Hearing Father talk about Larry felt like being shot I won’t lie 😭
cant believe i used your book (and the exact quote) as a resource for my rpf shipping and fandom with a focus on larry thesis… a full circle moment
Everything I Need I Get From You was high key so good
The flat nothingness behind his eyes at 10:14, before you see the littlest quirk of a smile. Like “yeah it’s so ridiculous, it’s a little bit funny, I guess”
I generally hate real-person fiction/shipping, but at least this one is funny and mostly innocent
i did put the prediction in my calendar. i will email you my essay on the subject when the day comes.
Not me learning, in this way, that obama is a leo
I have terminal Tumblr brain rot to such an extent that during the intro I thought this was more Harry Potter fanfic.
the fanfics ijbol everybody’s so creative!
despite being a tumblrina in that era, i can confidently say i somehow, unfortunately, didn't know hobama was a thing until recently. wish i did, i would have absolutely been making edits for the hell of it. still can, but doing it in picsart doesn't hit as hard as when i had a cracked version of photoshop and would spend hours downloading png edit asset packs, risking malware for some cute tumblr aesthetic hearts with edgy words on them.
Father strange is back!