What is believed:
"Hobama" is the name for the theoretical relationship between Harry Styles and Barak Obama. There are two possible sources for this theory, one relating to a trashy tabloid and the other stemming from Tumblr and Wattpad. The first possible source supposedly comes from a newspaper published by National Examiner in 2014 that claimed that "Obama hid gay life style to be the president" of the United States. It is believed that the man in the bottom left of the newspaper's front page was not Harry Styles originally, but Harry Style's picture was later photoshopped in, but I cannot confirm any of this because I cannot find the original newspaper. The image below indicates that Obama had sex with "this man", pointing to Harry Styles.
The second possible source is theorized to be from a Wattpad story, which is a website known for publishing fan fiction content, and then the idea was further spread on Tumblr.
How it evolved:
Regardless of how it was started, Hobama became an extremely popular internet meme that was spread on various sites like Twitter, Tumblr, iFunny, Facebook, etc. Believers or people who just thought the idea was funny would go on to photoshop various images and videos portraying the Obama and Styles as in love.
Who believes in Hobama:
The real answer is practically no one. Any sane person just sees the idea as humorous and nothing more.
How the ideas of Hobama is spread:
This theory, which is really more of a meme, is spread today mostly on TikTok in the form of edits of the two figures somehow hiding their love for each other from the public. It's all quite entertaining.
Geez, this is one I had not heard before, but I am not surprised. There's often scurrilous reports about politicians having affairs and/or deviant behavior, reports often perpetrated by the opposing political side. Thanks for trying to track down the sources. Finding originals primary sources is often difficult, if not impossible. Thanks for making me think of tabloids. What a great fountain of sensational misinformation. The question is: are they people reading these pages gullible to believe everything they read, or do they just want to be entertained?
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