{"id":360,"date":"2026-07-11T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:37:24","slug":"fanfic-girlies-are-producing-the-best-world-cup-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Fanfic Girlies Are Producing the Best World Cup Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tIs Jude an omega? Will Haaland be able to resist his pheromones during Saturday\u2019s highly anticipated World Cup quarterfinal between England and Norway? Why are there more than 43,000 fanfics listed under the \u201cMen\u2019s Football\u201d tag on Archive of Our Own? Do these sentences mean nothing to you?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=358\">Nolan Wells\u2019 Family Demands \u2018Thorough\u2019 Investigation: Death \u2018Does Not Make Sense\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe World Cup is always a collision of fandoms. Your favorite players from your favorite clubs divide themselves by nationality (patriotism is a fandom, right?) and clash on a global stage that produces the most legendary games and rivalries in sports. It\u2019s also a televised barrage of emotional moments and dramatic tension, and the internet\u2019s fanfiction girls have taken notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEnter the primary pairing of the 2026 World Cup: English midfielder Jude Bellingham, currently with club team Real Madrid, and Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, currently at Manchester City. The two breakout stars of this tournament were once teammates at Dortmund (a German club in the Bundesliga league, for the newly minted fans) between 2020 and 2022. Their bromance in those years was well documented, and shot back into the spotlight this week after Bellingham led England through a grueling, instant classic of a match against Mexico to clinch a spot in the round of eight teams and a faceoff against Norway, and Haaland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tThe match, which kicks off at 5 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, is a parasocial goldmine. Haaland \u2014 blond and hulking \u2014 plays like a true Viking raiding the shores of Yorkshire. He\u2019s also funny as hell, infamous for his quippy, self-deprecating social media presence, collection of patterned luxury silk pajamas, and generally goofy demeanor. Haaland\u2019s popularity and name recognition have  exploded during this year\u2019s tournament, as he traveled around the United States, donning western getup in Dallas and charming fans via a fascination with American culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBellingham, meanwhile, is a walking thirst trap. He has face that seems once in a generation until you learn he has an identical twin, <em>and<\/em> the raw talent and skills to back up his rising superstardom. He\u2019s much more guarded and cautious about his public image than the post-happy Haaland \u2014 except perhaps when they\u2019re together. They\u2019re the faces of the next generation of World Cup greats, and their stars were always bound to collide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tTo be clear, both men seem to be in relationships with women. Halland is dating former Norwegian soccer player Isabel Haugseng Johansen, and Bellingham has been linked to model Ashlyn Castro. Yet when the England versus Norway matchup became official, social media was immediately flooded with photos, videos, edits, and mashups of the two in their yellow and black bumble bee Dortmund uniforms. Video edits of Bellingham launching himself into the arms of 6\u2019 5\u201d Haaland, breathing heavily while they lay on the grass after a goal celebration, dropping his forehead onto his chest, and dipping into a press gaggle to kiss him on the cheek have racked up million of views across social media, in practically every language you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=357\">Trump Doubles Down on Refusal to Sign Housing Affordability Bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Haaland\/ Bellingham memes are a product of the long-term fascination with the cultural norms around masculinity, and the exceptions to those rules allowed within sports. In the hyper-online world of <em>Heated Rivalry<\/em> and <em>Challengers<\/em>, fantasizing about hot athletes being a little (or very) gay has never been more fun and communal. Fujoshis unite.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFootball is the largest sport in the world, and a certain amount of crossover between followers of the sport and online stan communities \u2014 often female and queer dominated \u2014 is to be expected. Some more enthusiastic followers on the self-publishing platform, fanfiction host Archive of Our Own (AO3) began casting the pair into the omegaverse \u2014 plenty of explainers on that one \u2014 a popular subgenre of fanfiction, imagining enemies to lovers pairings or <em>Heated Rivalry<\/em>\u2013 style secret romances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s not just Haaland and Bellingham. Fans are creating entire charts joking about the hypothetical relationships between the biggest stars of the World Cup, building on each other to create increasingly complicated dynamics based on little more than players online perceptions. In some fans\u2019 imaginations, French forward Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 is in a \u201cmessy divorce\u201d with Brazilian midfielder Neymar Jr. \u2014 the two were teammates at Paris Saint-Germain, and reportedly fell out amidst the athletic turmoil amongst the club\u2019s attempt to build a star-studded superteam. \u201cFuck it i\u2019m starting a rumor,\u201d one user wrote above photos of Bellingham and French winger Michael Olise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith the eyes of the world on the pitch, footie fanfiction has finally broken containment, spilling over from its usual platforms. From the beginning of the World Cup to Friday, more than 12,000 works have been published or updated under the \u201cMen\u2019s Football\u201d fandom tag on AO3. Every pairing you could possibly imagine can be found if you scroll down far enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tHaaland addressed some of the online behavior surrounding him and other players during the world cup in a recent interview \u2014 unclear if he has read any of the fics \u2014 telling reporters that he thinks American fans are \u201ckind of hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=355\">Trump Is Turning D.C. 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