Freddieismyqueen

freddieismyqueen, also known as FMQ or FIMQ, was an extremely popular Larrie in the One Direction fandom. She had accounts on tumblr, youtube, and twitter and is well known throughout the fandom, especially for her Larrie crack videos. Many people cite her videos as the reason they started believing in Larrie in the first place."And god bless FIMQ. She really was the gateway drug for so many of us." twopoppies's reply to an anon sharing their larrie origin story. , 4 February 2021. Accessed 9 February 2022. Her name is based on Freddie Mercury from the band Queen. 
In 2020, following controversy over one of her videos and doxxing threats, she withdrew from public fandom. 
==Name==
New antis would sometimes get mad at her because they thought she was mocking Louis' child's name, Freddie Reign Tomlinson. However, her accounts existed years before the child was named. Freddieismyqueen even posted the day Louis's baby's name was announced, saying on tumblr, "Well this is awkward." by freddiesmyqueen, 28 January 2016. As of 31 October 2021, her post has 6336 notes. Some larries think the child -- possibly named after Freddie Mercury himself -- was named after her.
==Influence==
freddieismyqueen joined twitter in October 2009 and goes by @freddieismyqueen.archive.is copy of freddieismyqueen twitter account. wayback machine. As of April 8, 2021, she had 104.8K followers. 
freddieismyqueen is probably best known for her youtube videos. She joined youtube on August 27, 2013 and at one point had more than 500K subscribers. 
Sometime before September 25, 2017 freddieismyqueen got verified on YouTube. by lt02, 24 September 2017. (Accessed 31 October 2021.) By 2018 other larries were reporting that her videos would get over 20,000 views less than an hour after being posted."over 20,000 views on the latest freddieismyqueen vid in less than an hour .. and people think larries are dying out bitch im living" anon ask sent to a now-deleted account, vincentaegoghs1-deactivated2020: , 29 March 2018. As of 31 October 2021, the post had 627 notes. According to tumblr larrie 28nachos, she got 6,199 average new subs and 870,075 average views in 30 days in January 2018. 
freddieismyqueen had a tumblr and a public instagram as well. Her first post on that tumblr was on December 24th, 2015, which was also Louis Tomlinson's birthday. Her last post was on April 25th, 2020.
Many fans credited her for making them believe, and sustaining their belief, in the Larry theory: 
==Controversy==
FIMQ's videos and their influence were the subject of much discussion, by Larry supporters and opponents both. 
===Monetization as Endorsement?===
On several occasions, FIMQ claimed that revenue generated by her videos using copyrighted audio was being shared with her, implying that this was an exceptional situation. See her tweets, preserved in screencaps by other larries: 
Many took this to signify implicit endorsement of her content and theories by Harry and/or Louis themselves: 
This was a misunderstanding, or misrepresentation, of YouTube's monetization policy. 
In fact, by 2015, YouTube's policy regarding the monetization of videos using copyrighted material allowed copyright owners to "share revenue" (i.e., collect part of, or all, AdSense revenue on a video posted by a user) instead of taking videos which impugned on their copyright down. Once a copyright claim is filed on a video through YouTube's "Content ID" system, the alternative is not, as FIMQ implied, between leaving the video up unmonetized and allowing the uploader to "share" its revenue with the copyright owner, but indeed between the video being removed from the internet outright for piracy, and revenue being earned by the copyright owner (overwhelmingly or solely). There is no implication that such content is endorsed or authorized."Can I Still Monetize My YouTube Channel If I have a Copyright Claim?" by Carla Marshall, Sept 21, 2021 on Vidiq.com"'Sharing revenue from ads with the copyright owner.' Meaning?" question to YouTube Help/support.google.com on April 21, 2019"YouTube Has Paid Out More Than $3 Billion To Copyright Holders Through Content ID" by James Hale, 11/07/2018 on tubefilter.com According to YouTube: 
 
==="Only the Brave" Video===
In March 2020, FIMQ posted a video entitled "Only the Brave" which compiled supposed evidence of Louis being queer over a soundtrack of Louis' song of the same name. In the first few seconds of the video, several images relating to the Nazi persecution of queer men, including images of men wearing the downward pink triangle in a concentration camp, were intercut with a shot of Louis' upward triangle ankle tattoo. 
A large number of fans expressed their disapproval of and disgust at the juxtaposition: 
On the Larry side, some supported FIMQ despite admitting the video was awkward or in poor taste, and some others didn't see an issue with the video at all, as this Twitter thread illustrates: 
As of October 2021, no apology had been issued by FIMQ. A rumor concerning a deleted apology tweet was denied by close associate ificouldflymp3., 21 February 2021: "I asked her because that didn’t ring a bell for me. She answered and to clarify: she never deleted any tweet. She never posted an apology note/tweet to begin with, because there wasn’t anything wrong with the video."
====Going Private====
Due to this controversy, Instagram account "stopfreddieismyqueen" threatened to doxx FIMQ:
As a result, she put her twitter and youtube on private and stopped being active on Tumblr. Her bio stated: "still love h&l and larries. just scarred by the level of evil that exists in this fandom. channel privated for now. might be back some day xx".
The identity and motives of the person or people behind "stopfreddieismyqueen" were the subject of much speculation. Some believe it was Anti-Larries while others said it might be former Larries, or new Larries. 
In typical Larry fashion, others still hypothesized that the threats had been orchestrated by Management: 
At least one prominent anti-larrie fan denounced the doxxing threats and their consequences: 
FIMQ attempted a come-back in mid-July of 2020, reviving criticism, and subsequently disappeared from public fandom again. Her videos have been re-uploaded and reposted in various places.
==Fannish Resources==
*FIMQ videos with Portuguese subtitles
==References==
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