One Direction's fandom — Directioners — from the band's X Factor run in late 2010, the first fan base built entirely on Twitter and Tumblr, capable of trending a member's name for a haircut and of writing several million words of fan fiction about two of them. The record notes the band's 2016 hiatus never ended, that Liam Payne's death on 16 October 2024 reunited the fandom in grief, and that the old accounts are still there.
The record notes Directioners produced the modern stan toolkit — update accounts, 'fan projects', the concert 'fan video' — and that 'What Makes You Beautiful' remains the sound of a bedroom in 2012.
The record recalls 25 March 2015, the day Zayn left, and a Twitter that did not function properly for 48 hours.
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