British singer Harry Styles from the band One Direction arrives to attend the presentation of the Burberry Autumn/Winter 2014 collection during the London Fashion Week.
British singer Harry Styles from the band One Direction arrives to attend the presentation of the Burberry Autumn/Winter 2014 collection during the London Fashion Week. REUTERS

Harry Styles apparently secretly likes pornographic pictures. The One Direction heartthrob was caught liking an explicit tweet, shocking his young female followers.

The 20-year-old British pop star caused quite an online frenzy when he favourite a tweet that shows a graphic close-up shot of a female genitalia.

“Retweet if you’d like me clean,” the caption of the photo reads.

Harry did not retweet it, but he did “favourite” it, which allowed his followers to see that he had done. The pornographic photo was posted on May 22, but the singer just recently liked it.

He has quickly taken down the picture, though, and replaced it with photos of kittens and puppies, perhaps hoping that his fans would forget his x-rated blunder.

But of course, his fans don’t forget anything. In fact, they have memorialised the extremely important event with the hashtag #HarryDontLickAnything.

His sudden interest in adorable photos of kittens and puppies also wasn’t able to fool his followers.

fandom: #HarryDontLickAnything harry: darn it, they found me out! Better go favorite some cat photos!

— Grumpy Haz (@GrumpyHaz) July 7, 2014

#HarryDontLickAnything IM DYING HOLY MOTHER I CANT — ɑlyssɑ ℓօbısı (@drop_it_LObisi) July 8, 2014

#HarryDontLickAnything i can't believe this keeps trending like what the hell, i guess we're all waiting for some Leeyum words right? haha

— happy bday irwie♡ (@carly094) July 8, 2014

Even MTV jumped in on the fun. It has aired a TV commercial that specifically begged Harry to keep his tongue off things.

Back in February, Harry told We Love Pop magazine not to share too much on social media.

“Tweet as if your grandma is going to read it!”

Perhaps Harry should have heeded his own advice.