>>589 Hard to know where he is, isn't it?

For all the stans saying "it has not harmed his reputation in the US/the UK/wherever they hail from" or "only we fans have kept up with this saga, there is no problem in the mainstream" I think the reality is that it has harmed him.

In the UK he has been widely mocked by such niche publications as the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph. The U.K. media said throughout that it was fake, and that he was a pillock, and that editorial line hasn't changed.

In the US he was not much known before, and now he is known as TS' boyfriend and/or an idiot who wore a t shirt and then broke up with the object of his affections within 2 months. Even if most people don't care about the minutiae of the timetable, they all know it was short and they mostly probably think it was fake because that was the initial line (though some publications got on board with it being real after a while, I think people remember what they first read about it).