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The hypocrisy around Luke vs Nicola is so glaring when it comes to age gap discourse, and we can all see it now, but Nicola tried so hard to indirectly put an end to it.
Nicola could see all the shit people were throwing Luke’s way for not only not dating her, but him getting dragged for dating a woman younger than himself, meanwhile she was dating someone else and with an even larger age gap. The whole time she was trying to send Luke support and get people off his back with posts about being his fan and then being friends and what a good guy he was because she knew it wasn’t his fault and he was taking all the heat from HER fans while she wasn’t ready to hard launch her own 24 year old boyfriend. She tried so hard to say stop without coming right and saying stop, and to protect everyone’s reputation and privacy at the same time. She really was trying her best and people let their delulu and unwillingness to just let things be ignore her.
People are still trying to lump them in together as if the age gaps are the same when Luke got dragged for a much smaller one, or blame Luke for bursting their bubble on them dating because he dared to not hide his girlfriend on a big night for himself- a night that was just as much about him as it was about Nicola. All to make excuses and justify why they righteous to hate Luke and not hypocrites at all, when it’s not ok to hate either of them because we are not entitled to their private lives!!!
This fandom owes Luke and Nicola both apologies for treating them like playthings, like dolls who’s faces you can mush together and make kiss, like public property. But they ESPECIALLY owe Luke an apology for all the hate thrown his way. This is honestly a “just say you hate Luke and go” moment, because maybe the fake fans who only like him when they think he’s dating Nicola can finally set him free from their expectations. He never deserved what happened to him, I hope this puts an end to it.