Still, graphic or not, Euphoria managed to go about representing a fanfiction creator in a way that kicked up an online firestorm against the depiction, doing no one in fandom any favors. The animated scene itself is more suggestive than graphic, and it devolves into a kind of trippy cosmic swirl that’s meant to show Kat’s starry-eyed fantasies about the pairing. The sequence was an animated rendering of fan fiction written by the character Kat (Barbie Ferreira) and featured Harry performing oral sex on Louis backstage at a One Direction concert. IndieWire describes what viewers of the most recent Euphoria episode saw:
But the show shocked fans of the group by including an animated sex sequence between One Direction singers Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, a popular fan pairing otherwise known as “Larry Stylinson.” One character writes NC-17 fanfiction about the band One Direction, which feels accurate enough. HBO’s edgy Euphoria explores the lives of teenagers in an unflinching and, some critics would say, exceedingly over-the-top light.
