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Harry Styles Flying refers to a picture of pop singer Harry Styles being held aloft by a rope strapped to a helicopter while filming the music video for his single, "Sign of the Times." It was subject to various photoshops and jokes on Twitter after it surfaced.

Origin

On April 4th, 2017, The Sun^[1] published behind-the-scenes photos of Harry Styles filming the video for his upcoming single, "Sign of the Times." Several photos caught Styles strapped to a rope that was attached to a helicopter (shown below).

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Shortly after the pictures surfaced, they became the subject of jokes on Twitter. One of the early popular jokes was made by @harryftjade^[2], who photoshopped Styles to look like the popular children's character Mary Poppins (shown below). Her tweet gained over 1,700 retweets and 2,900 likes.

Many more photoshops and jokes were made about the photo on Twitter over the following day. The jokes made Twitter Moments^[3] and were covered by Time^[4] and Teen Vogue.^[5]

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