#NIL promo

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Nine-Fingers Keene

Artist: Nils Hamm TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #nils hamm #nine-fingers keene #battle for baldur's gate promos #legendary #creature #human #rogue

[pndnj]

baby still doesn’t know how to drive

#the only vehicle he drives is that 4wheeler from NIL promo #zayn #love like this

[zot3-flopped]

#another flop incoming from the Godzilla stan

Aawww... he's looking dramatic here. If i didnt know anything about zayn, i would believe this. Except he's such a douchebag looking down on Harry (I'll never forget his grammy diss when Harry was nominated) & the band as he did before but now doing everything, singing 1D songs including that f*cking bode jacket just to be associated with harry & his fame. Ew!

He's really scrabbling to ensure Z4 is released before HS4, but we know from experience that he won't lift a finger to promote it. He thinks it will be more popular than NiL because country music is popular, but it won't be.

#z4 #remember the nil promo? #two IG lives during which he smoked weed & drank beer #even the papers called him out for it #no interviews #gigi paid for a bus to travel round but Zayn wasn't on it #nobody is listening

[stoopid-turtle]

the art of being a skeptical turtle

So this is a personal post more about my experience as a turtle. If you just want to get to the fun list of candies I totally buy into regardless of evidence, just skip down to where the asterisks are. (Consider this like a recipe attached to a blog post)

For those interested in the whole nerdery going on here, let me share that I had a lot of trouble coming to terms with bjyxszd. I wrote a whole series of posts about it to get my thoughts in order. Now I'm fully on the turtle train, but I find myself skeptical of some candies.

This is gonna get super-nerdy so hold on to your butts.

I'm a generally skeptical person. I come by it honestly. My parents literally subscribed to Skeptical Inquirer and Skeptics magazines. They (well, my dad mainly) were capital-S Skeptics. My family talked about logical fallacies, perceptual oddness, and the fallibility of memory over the dinner table.

Please don't back away. I know self-identified Skeptics are typically insufferable. I didn't know this as a kiddo, though, so the whole "thinking about things skeptically" became just my default way of processing stuff. Nowadays, I wouldn't call myself a Skeptic in the way that some in a particularly obnoxious subculture do. But I do tend to be a skeptical sort. I just don't...you know...think it makes me smarter/better/cooler than other folks.

(Actually, it makes me way less cool bc I can single-handedly ruin a fun party by expressing skepticism about something. Nobody likes a wet blanket. I know this)

My bestie in high school always called me Scully to his Mulder. He would believe anything he saw or read, whereas I didn't. Usually, I was right. Like when he totally thought that the Blair Witch Project was real found footage (It's not. Nobody thinks it is now, I know, but it was part of the promo at the time). On occasion, he was right. Like when he told me that some gray clouds we had overheard were from wildfires in Mexico. I scoffed bc, really, we weren't that close to Mexico. But he was right and I learned a valuable lesson on large-scale weather phenomenon. (He's still wrong about there being a picture of a light bulb in the pyramids though)

So, yeah, that's just how I process things. It's second-nature for me. But I reached a point with my generally skeptical outlook where I considered 2 things to see whether I really cared if people were buying into something I thought was false.

The stakes. If a person believes X, what does that lead to? If I don't believe Y, even though it's true, what does that lead to?

There's a whole bunch of political stuff that heightens the stakes. To take a ridiculous (and outdated one), when I was growing up, there was a common story that AIDS hopped from apes to humans because a gay man had sex with an ape and then had sex with other humans. Thus, the AIDS epidemic.

The stakes of other people buying into that homophobic nonsense were (and are) life and death. (If you believe that...uh...bye?) It's something that's worth me being the obnoxious Scully if I hear someone buying into it.

The stakes of, say, my high school bestie believing that The Blair Witch Project was real found footage was...nothing. It just made him want to see the movie more. Nobody was hurt. It didn't matter.

I argued with him at the time, but I probably wouldn't anymore.

The stakes for believing that bjyxszd, here in international fandom, are perhaps higher than the Blair Witch thing. But only barely. If somebody believes in a particular rumor/candy that I don't think is real, it affects literally nothing. We're both still turtles. We have a lot more in common than we do difference with regards to YiZhan. Likewise, the effect of me not believing a candy that may be true is nil. Gg and dd are not impacted in any way.

(I think things may be different for c-fans, but that's not at all a thing I'm qualified to delve into. I can only account for myself in my context)

2. The other thing I consider is the context. That is, how likely are we to know the actual truth?

Scientific claims have a method to test them (and claims that can't be tested are just...not something science addresses). Claims about current events can be researched using journalism methods or whatever. For that homophobic AIDS story, there's ways to prove that it's not true. For the Blair Witch thing...well, the actors went on the talk show circuit for promo so, you know, the real footage myth was quickly lifted.

Celebrities exist in a different context. Like most people, they have a private life that is not accessible to people on the outside. If they choose to open up about that life, then cool. But if they don't or can't do so (like is the case with YiZhan), then they'll try to keep their private life out of sight of fans.

It really hit home to me when I was doing the bts thing how little of dd and gg we saw in the Untamed bts. We see even less of them now. I'm at peace with the fact that I just will never know much about these guys (I wrote a whole post about it). But the fact that there's a big mass of the unknown means that the possibilities are endless. We don't know and we'll never know.

So I don't have any more authority on anything gg or dd related than anybody else does. So why would I attempt to question or dismiss candies that other people find compelling? At the end of the day, there is a truth, but it's not accessible to us, so anything we come up with is just extrapolation.

Which is fine. It's fun. I think there's real stuff going on. (If I didn't, I wouldn't be here) But it means there's no real point arguing about the specific candies.

(and to be clear, I don't see turtles doing this, really. so this is all just me reiterating my own approach to things bc I'm a person who processes thoughts through long tumblr posts apparently) (and it's not a reaction to any particular candy. this post has been in my drafts for ages)

I think I'm a hard sell on a lot of candies, and I'm definitely the fuddy-duddy who just squints and asks a bunch of obnoxious questions about things.

But I ask those questions of myself and don't feel the need to annoy other turtles with them because, honestly, we're all in this boat together. Some candies appeal to particular turtles more than others, and I think we all kinda have our personal preferences for which ones resonate with us. I'm not here to rain on anybody's parade, especially as we all have way more in common just bc we all believe in bjyxszd.

This is all a long-winded way to explain how I think about candies, honestly. Or more, how I assess candies that are new-to-me and figure out whether to buy into it or not. With anything involving bjyx, I also leave a lot of room for there just being an unknown and unknowable. Again, the stakes are low, and if I'm wrong about any particular candy (in either direction), then...oh well? It affects literally nothing.

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So here's the fun part! The list of candies that I fully admit don't have a whole lot going for them (by my stupidly exacting standards) but that I totally buy into just because I like them.

Basically all lip-readings, but especially this one

(if you don't want to click thru, this is the moment from the Nanjing farewell concert where dd and gg seem to flirt about photos while on-stage)

Okay, I know, rationally, that lip-readings are always gonna be shaky. I mean, I've seen Medieval Land Fun-Time World. If I'm honest with myself, I know that the lip-readings are basically fluffy candy.

But whatever. I choose to believe them. This moment, especially, I adore (and it does come with dd posting a bare-faced photo after!). I think their big grins while openly flirting with each other on stage just jazzes me enough to pretend.

It's all true. I totally believe it.

Related to this is:

2. Any and all CPN about dd and/or gg seeing turtle signs and smiling or otherwise reacting positively.

I've seen such CSI-worthy analysis of sight-lines to try to establish with precision where dd or gg is looking at the moment they smile/look happy. I have no idea how much any of it holds up, and it's not worth the bother to try to confirm any of it.

But whatever. I like it. I believe it. I'll probably believe it everytime it happens.

3. Advanced Bombology.

So there's some things that aren't in dispute here. We definitely know that gg suddenly cut an Olay commercial ad from a 2 day shoot to a 1 day shoot, and it's a reasonable assumption that he did so to be at the DDU anniversary episode with GG.

The rest is a little fuzzy. The video details dd being kinda grouchy in interviews before the DDU shoot, and it also shares an anon rumor from a person who claimed to overhear dd in a studio restroom arguing on the phone with gg. This rumor came out a year after the event.

The rest of the video is some interpretation of the boys' behavior/mood in the DDU anniversary ep.

So, like, I get that anon rumors a year on maybe aren't the most solid evidence for anything. But whatever, I buy it.

And the interpretation of the boys' mood seems true to me, especially the moment where the interviewer asks gg if they'd discussed his visit ahead of time. Gg def does a sweatdrop, panic pause, look at dd moment and waits for dd's lead to answer. I find a lot of mood interpretation from videos a bit much, but this feels real.

In fact, the whole thing just feels real. Maybe that's why it's easy for me to buy. It feels like a real argument a couple would have.

4. The 5/22 fight during CQL shooting.

I talked about this back when I was doing the bts in order.

In tl;dr, dd gives gg a bit of a brush-off response to something. gg responds by cold shouldering him and then doing some passive aggressive sniping about how dd doesn't want gg to care about him. dd gets upset, then he apologizes, then they go on to watch something on one of their phones.

The basis of this one is some gossip plus a video shot from a distance that requires reading lips. So we know that's already fuzzy, and I know I approached this with some skepticism in my earlier post. That was just to be rational about things so as to be honest with myself.

In truth, I buy it. I buy the argument. I buy the lip-reading. Again, it feels real.

5. GG's card to turtles

This is one of those frustrating ones I'm having trouble refinding. Darn.

The upshot, and I'm going from memory, is that there's a CPN about a card written to turtles ostensibly from gg. This came with some handwriting comparison to try to match the signature to gg's known signature.

This isn't something I'd place bets on, because...seriously, it's so fuzzy.

But in my heart, I believe it for no reason other than that I want to.

6. DD as gg's mystery driver

Okay, there's a couple such incidents. One quite recently. Where gg's driver is mysteriously masked such that you can't see their face.

And, truth, it could be literally anybody under there. But for me, it's dd. No need to give me painstaking comparisons of hands or whatever. I'm fully in on this one.

7. The bone necklace.

Ack, don't hate me for this one!

When I was doing my posts about stuff that had convinced me that gg and dd were still together, I stumbled with the bone necklace. To me, it's the main thing that convinces me, but if I'm honest, it really is kinda a leap of faith thing.

With the ox-head necklace, we have the fancam footage to back it up as being from gg. All we have for the bone necklace is the timing and the precedent of dd having already worn a necklace from gg. That's shaky, really.

In fact, I think I saw some other dd CP claiming the bone necklace as theirs (I saw them also claiming the Leica camera). I think they're wrong, but I don't have any solid proof to say so.

I think the most I can say is that there are much harder evidences that gg and dd are still together. But these typically involve massive privacy violations so I'm not eager to spread them around (I kinda hate that I stumble upon them, tbh). But in any case, it has me convinced, so if I already know gg and dd are a couple, then of course the bone necklace is related.

But on its own, the bone necklace is a leap.

Okay, that all said, since I (finally) had a photo of dd last time I posted, I'm dropping a random gg photo here. Not my favorite, cause pls don't make me choose, but one that hangs out my head throughout the days.

#bjyx #yizhan #considerations of being a turtle #it starts nerdy and then turns into a listicle #no judgment for just skipping to the candies #gratuitous gg photo #they srsly just wrapped him in cables and then that happened #what is his waist yall #and why's there a car driving up his lapel? #still sexy

[terramythos]

if ur still doin em, ryuki (aini) for character binko (a typo but i'll leave it)

my boy ryuki who has every disease imaginable

OK so ryuki was SUCH a pleasant surprise to me. i saw him in the promo material for aini and assumed he was going to be Generic Audience Stand In For People Who Didn't Play The First One. like he's a new character with a relatively generic design and i thought making mizuki share the spotlight was a questionable choice.

then he is just... such a great character? uchikoshi has had some... questionable portrayals of mental illness in his games, but it's refreshing to have such a genuinely kind and compassionate character who ALSO lives with hallucinations and severe dissociation. i love that he's explicitly bisexual as well AND the agonizing way that gets revealed. he and tama play off each other so well. i think he is under-utilized in the second half of the game but he's one of my favorite Uchikoshi protagonists by a long shot.

and i DO like that we return to playing as him for the diverge/nil ending... which i think is the best ending in aini by a country mile. it's so disturbing and memorable and he is the perfect character to use for it.

#asks #ask game

[gimletagain]

Yesterday I saw an Archewell podcast promo, featuring MM, on a digital billboard in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. It was in front of the city's main Flinders St, train station. I was surprised to see it! My first thought was 'how much would this be costing?' I've just read that they it's a global promo! Now I really want to know what an ad campaign like this would cost!

Here’s my business perspective on this. Podcasts are really important to Spotify because the economics are much better than music. People love music but artists have outsized power. They can pull catalogs or go to competitors. Negotiating rights is a pain in the ass. A big Taylor Swift type album comes out once every year or so, if you’re lucky, and that might drive up subscription for a few months before people fall off again. Trends randomly change and stuff like TikTok randomly creates new virality moments where music gets discovered there first over Spotify.

Podcasts are to audio streaming what reality shows are to tv. The hit could come from anyone with a mic. What you pay them is nil in return for what you get. Joe Rogan was solidly niche random guy in entertainment and look what he built for them. Continuous love-him-or-hate-him buzz. A steady stream of episodes on time. A reason for people to subscribe and come back week after week. And bonus co-marketing from people and companies with their own reach and platform - like Barstool sports or New York Times. That’s the money.

Spotify wanted that from them. But they didn’t get it. The podcast took way too long to deliver, with way too many producers involved, way too much drama and hand-holding. And, they refuse to be active on social media to promo it. Trust me, this is a huge, huge contention point - likely for Netflix too.

At this point it’s about using this podcast as a “special event” and giving it light marketing as that to get a temporary boost in short term traffic. This is it. It’ll exist, it’ll run, it’ll get some buzz for its duration, but there will be no more deals. No continuation of contract. This is it.

[s1lentlamb]

       𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 , i'm nassy , twenty6 . this is a selective MULTIMUSE blog featuring canon & original muses from various fandoms such as ; jujutsu kaisen , kinnporsche , my name , wheel of time , alice in borderland , and more ! triggering themes will be written in this blog .

       promo. docs.  aesthetic sideblog.

muse list under the cut ! ♡

GOJO SATORU ; jujutsu kaisen . pinboard

MEGUMI FUSHIGURO ; jujutsu kaisen .

GETO SUGURU ; jujutsu kaisen .

RYOUMEN SUKUNA ; jujutsu kaisen .

KONG SHIU ; jujutsu kaisen .

TOGE INUMAKI ; jujutsu kaisen .

JEAN KIRSTEIN ; attack on titan .

EREN YEAGER ; attack on titan .

DO GANG-JAE ; my name . pinboard

CHOI MU-JIN ; my name .

OK EUL-TAE ; bulgasal . pinboard

SEO SEOK-WOO ; train to busan .

KIM SHIN ; goblin .

NIRAGI SUGURU ; alice in borderland .

SHIBUKI SAORI ; alice in borderland .

KYUMA GINJI ; alice in borderland .

PALERMO ; la casa de papel . ( request )

JILL HOLTZMANN ; ghostbusters .

MINORU SATŌ / KING OF HEARTS ; alice in borderland pinboard

KINN THEERAPANYAKUL ; kinnporsche .

VEGAS THEERAPANYAKUL ; kinnporsche . pinboard

TIME RATANAPAKORN ; kinnporsche .

VEERA RATANAPAKORN ; kinnporsche . pinboard

BI-HAN ; mortal kombat .

KUAI LIANG ; mortal kombat .

SANTINO D'ANTONIO ; john wick .

LEGOLAS ; lord of the rings . pinboard

GELLERT GRINDELWALD ; fantastic beasts .

CROWLEY ; good omens .

BEELZEBUB ; good omens .

COBB VANTH ; star wars .

ARMITAGE HUX ; star wars .

KOTALLO ; horizon forbidden west .

DRAKKA ; horizon forbidden west .

NIL ; horizon forbidden west .

ABADUND ; horizon forbidden west .

GENESIS RHAPSODOS ; ff .

KAZUYUKI ASAKAWA ; ringu book .

THE SALESMAN ; squid game . pinboard ( will be featured here until the second season is out and then will be carried to his own solo blog on @salesmn . hehe . )

NELL CRAIN ( book ) ; haunting of hillhouse .

MIKA ; darren shan / cirque du freak .

THEODORA ( book ) ; haunting of hillhous .

ALANNA MOSVANI ; wheel of time .

LAN MANDRAGORAN ; wheel of time .

ELVEERA IL'MORA ( o.c ) ; wheel of time .

LARTEN CREPSLEY ; darren shan / cirque du freak .

KIM MI-CHA ; fandomless gang leader oc . about her

to be added ... ♡

#pinned. #nassy / 26 / she.her #personals dni.

[bcacstuff]

Did Sam provide the SS for free yesterday or at the S6 promo in London or did Starz pay for both? In London, there were quite a few bottles displayed. Yesterday only saw a few. Somehow, I doubt all these bottles are for nil $.

Most likely he sponsored it with the whisky. As he did with the premiere for S6. But I don't have any insights in the business going on between Starz and GGC... 🤷‍♀️

On the premiere they were full on display, as there were many pics taken and it was an official event. This was a wrap party, not a promo, so a full display of his booze...

But enough to get a hangover from I guess.

[kmp78]

"There's zero need for her to run around at these events ESPECIALLY since this one had zip zero nil nada to do with Jared Leto THE ACTOR. 🤨"

I agree with you and anon's message. She is a useless lovesick enabler period. I'm sorry to be mean but she has a life and should get back to it. Unless she needed to be there to connect jared with artists etc help with promos or network etc. I'm over it. I hope Leto finds a wife and she demands he kicks her out.

Somehow I doubt that even if (IF!!!!!!!) he ever took a wife, that lucky lady (???) wouldn't have much of a say in...

Well, pretty much ANYTHING. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[braverytattoos]

Harry is the only 1d guy whose albums get reviewed properly by a big range of critics. It's very unfair.

Using Metacritic:

HsH : 26 reviews

Fitf: 4 reviews

The Show: 6 reviews

NiL: 9 reviews

LP1: 7 reviews

yea and that's what i expected. i just noticed it a lot more with niall and his promo - for example he's getting summertime ball, zane lowe, apple music etc. (deservingly of course) whereas with fitf louis had zack sang and couple of random interviews and thats it. it speaks volumes to him not wanting to be a radio artist and not giving a shit and just doing what he wants to do. not saying the other boys are making music they don't like but they're more appealing to radio and like mainstream (especially harry obvi, but at this point i think he's in a realm of his own). idk maybe this is controversial but in the beginning of louis' solo career he was def in the more pop, radio friendly vibe and quickly stepped away from that and has made it very clear he doesn't like that type of music anymore. whereas the other boys are just vibing with the mainstream sound (idk about liam and zayn rn cause it's been a while since they've released full albums but yea)

#annonymous #dont cancel me #also idk if this makes sense

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Inexorable Blob

Artist: Nils Hamm TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #nils hamm #inexorable blob #shadows over innistrad promos #creature #ooze

[zot3-flopped]

It is very telling that only Harry came out of 1d with a good head on his shoulders and a vision for his future. The rest of them just threw their hands at a solo career to one up the other without really having any plans or goals for their future.

Zayn - Went the Justin Timberlake route by quitting the band mid tour and causing a worldwide breakdown which helped him launch his career. Shaded the band non stop to cause headlines and to get easy promo. Had a decent couple of years thanks to massive collaborations and Pillowtalk and then everything went downhill. Drugs, smoking, attitude and overall laziness sealed his fate. I don't take his anxiety as a factor because he seems to be using it as an excuse for his laziness. Because there is no way he could not have pre recorded an interview or a performance in the 6 years since he went solo. Even during lockdown when he was releasing NIL. Everyone was doing pre recorded interviews and performances right from inside their houses. And he couldn't?? And now he is back to singing 1d songs, label-less and has a criminal record under his belt. Nice.

Liam - Went solo by releasing the most typical basic song an ex-boybander could release. Did non stop promo and toured the world promoting that song. Bragged and bragged and bragged about the said song and shaded the others specially Harry for his music and singing. Thought he was the JT of 1D. Released more typical mainstream songs closer to each other. None being a non collaboration except Bedroom Floor. Jumped on every song that came his way. Kept lying about an album from day 1 but took him 4 years to release and then kept lying about a 1D reunion that came and bit his ass later on. Had no vision from the start and lost his way within 1 year of going solo. Now has a reputation for being the dumbest member of 1D and is ridiculed by everyone whenever he opens his mouth. Drugs, alcohol and excessive partying sealed his fate. Now a full time TikToker and a Youtuber at best.

Niall - Had no distinguished personality of his own, so after going solo started to copy Harry left and right. Had a decent first year as a solo artist, but showed signs of being a narcissistic asshole. Kept on doing everything Harry did. Literally followed Harry's every move. But still had a good first year. Debut theatre tour in 2018 was a disaster and didn't sell out to the point his team had to hide the boxscores. And then came his 2nd era and that was when he truly showed his colors as a bona fide narcissistic asshole. Constantly screamed at his fans on social media to "stream, download and buy" his music and "take them up the charts". Clearly pissed off about Harry's singles doing better because both released around the same time. One point even tweeting "you know I got a single out as well. Stream, download and buy it and take it up the charts". It was the same time Lights Up was doing its thing though it wasn't a radio single. Annoyed literally everyone, fan and non fans alike. Turned off his casual listeners including some Harries. Announced an arena tour because well, Harry was doing that too, though he couldn't sell his first theatre tour. Then dragged the album for months and paid the price for it when lockdown hit. Had to cancel the tour blaming the pandemic, but the real reason was that the tickets weren't sold out. And still to this day copies or tries to copy Harry. Dragging the release of NH3 which will eventually bite his ass around. And lastly a special shoutout to his Guinness love.

Louis - Had zero talent to begin with and I still wonder how he is an artist in the music industry. Luck is what he has. And luck is what is getting him through his entire career. The biggest luck of them all is being 1/2 of a conspiracy theory with one of the biggest popstars in the world aka Harry. Luck got him to 1D, attaching himself to Harry got him through 1D, and then pity and Harry again is currently getting him through his solo career. Hates everything to do with being labelled as gay, but now shamelessly baiting his entire fandom which is entirely comprised of conspiracy theorists. Loves to cosplay people and is an absolutely disgusting person with chav like tendencies. Addicted to alcohol and smoking and flaunts it around like it is his aesthetic. And I hate to say this but out of the 3 members above him, he seems to have a more stable career now. Can't believe I said this, but yeah. Might change with LT2 and his personal life choices with his son and girlfriend. But he still can't sing or write any music. And still he is as untalented as ever like he always will be.

Harry - I don't have to say anything about our king. He is The Harry Styles. And he will be The Harry Styles for decades to come. A true legend in the making. Grammy's, BRITs, more accolades, more movies, hopefully Oscars, Emmys, more record breaking #1 albums and singles, a cute loving happy family of his own. His life and career will only go from strength to strength and he will continue to shine as bright as a star for years and years to come. We just have to buckle up and witness the making of a true legend.

Sorry for the massive ask. Had to say it.

Fantastic summary! Agree with all this. 👏👏👏👏

#harry styles #liam payne #louis tomlinson #niall horan #zayn

[unapologeticallyzayn]

Day 6 Funniest Moment: Zayn doing promo for NIL on Billboard's IG page by promptly getting on an ATV and driving away. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

#i swear it wasnt funny at the time #zayn #zaynbday2023 #its funny now

[emily70707]

4x18 Predictions

Spencer’s NIL risk is probably due to his fight with Wade

Billy’s advice is probably going to be from Carter

Obviously Jimone angst, and them possibly ‘taking a break’

Liv could possibly give up sponsoring Jenn or something looking at her in the promo

Asher & JJ are probably not going to be in this episode, possibly Patience too?

This episode is really jammed packed and is probably to going to be all over the place

I’ve heard Clay is supposed to show up again too 

Hopefully at least 2-3 Spelivia scenes

Wonder what Olivia, Jordan, and Layla are doing on the football field

#all american #spencer james #olivia baker #jordan baker #simone hicks #layla keating #jimone #spelivia #asher adams #jj parker

[berlinini]

I mean Zayn was getting involved in fashion industry before Gigi and after their first breakup too. After that he disappeared I think he went into a bad space and also had issues with RCA. This time around his whole team he had with MOM is back.

Yeah I guess I'm more surprised that it's the fashion/ pop culture magazines and promo outlets he's going for, and not the music ones.

I feel like Zayn is just "known"... like he's known for leaving 1D, being with Gigi, making music... Some sort of household name? Even people who don't keep up with his music career still know him, so long after his 1dxit. His SM stats are reflective of that, and if I remember correctly he's getting good numbers of streams even without any promo.

I guess my point is that he has a good PR team and still has all the right access. He's been MIA for years (NIL barely got promo because of Sony and the timing with covid) and somehow is now on the cover of major magazines, drops in at Fallon, gets on Hot Ones... all of that for a single promo.

It's interesting to observe!

#answered ask #anon #and also unpopular opinion but I'm not sure the few comment he made on 1D are strictly PR bait... #he has the right to have grown and reflect differently on this experience and express that now #pretty sure he would still walk into incoming traffic that set foot in a room with any of ot4 #i would remind louies that louis isn't immune to mentioning 1D and even (cough cough) singing their songs

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

Sea there's a new zayn album releasing in the summer! 👀 I'm sooooo excited to see how he's evolved. I hope there's some Urdu/Hindi bits because Zayn's voice sounds especially heavenly when he sings in these languages 🥺

17 May is when the album will come out. I am very curious to see how the promo will go. I saw the cameo on Jimmy Fallon.

I have to say that I’m disappointed by the clip I heard of What I Am. It’s just boring to me. I thought Better was a better first single (from NIL). Hopefully the rest of the album improves from here on.