Should you are an avid “Euphoria” watcher, then you could keep in mind that iconic One Direction fan fiction scene that Barbie Ferreira’s character Kat Hernandez created, which eventually sky-rocketed her online fame through the first season. Except for her character, Ferreira was also an enormous One Direction fan in real life back within the day. In an interview with Refinery29, Ferreira opened up in regards to the connection between her and her character’s involvement within the One Direction fandom. “It hit near home,” she said. “I feel it’s cool because this is particular [to this generation]. Fan fiction gets hundreds of thousands of reads.”

Nonetheless, Louis Tomlinson was not too thrilled with the “Euphoria” episode featuring the cartoon fan fiction, where he was the star alongside his former One Direction band member, Harry Styles. Within the episode, the cartoon showed Tomlinson and Styles engaging in sexual acts backstage before a performance, under the “ship name” Larry Stylinson. Tomlinson tweeted that he “was not contacted” in regards to the fan fiction, and didn’t “approve it” before it was aired.  

In an interview with Out in July 2019, Ferreira opened up in regards to the cultural impact Larry Stylinson had on the fandom off-screen. “It was the primary time that I saw this sort of level of fandom, and to get the insight into Kat’s mind … we do not draw back from being so real that it’s uncomfortable,” she said.