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Knocking on hotel door
KEEK i’m in 1d’s hotel
- One Direction are the biggest boy band in the world.
BOYS PHOTOSHOOT
- And their fans, known as Directioners are absolutely crazy about them.
GIRLS SCREAMING
Pip it’s like a drug addiction
Laura I’ve met them 64 times
- They’ll stop at nothing to get close to the boys.
Running down corridor
LOUIS IN HOTEL
I was outside your room while you were asleep zayn
Kelly - i wanna be more than a fan
Amy D - if they said chop off an arm I would!
- This new breed of fan has changed the way they worship their idols.
Georgia Sandra Laura
Love yooou - keek love you harry!
Pip - one directions fame is down to twitter 100%
- They share all their passion online
PHONES
- and have direct access to the band on twitter.
we can find out literally anything
I’m part of a fandom that can kill you if they wanted
- and they’ll go to extreme lengths to get noticed by the boys.
Follow me or I’ll kill myself
please please please follow me I love you so much
- Directioners are fiercely loyal and not to be crossed
Brittany Georgia Vegas
I would like to see Harry Styles dead -OMFG is this a joke?
- and they have some funny ways of showing their love
LARRY FAN ART
Louis licked harry’s abs
- As the band set out on their biggest tour yet, we’re with the fans.
Nadia cries in queue
- What drives their obsession?
KEEK Zayn fucking Malik just ran away from me!
And why do so many girls heart One Direction?
And I’m going finding him!
Can we come too?!!
I ♥ ONE DIRECTION
PART ONE
Kiss You
One Direction were put together on X Factor THREE YEARS AGO, but at the time they only came third. Now Harry Louis Zayn Liam and Niall each have over 10 million followers on twitter. Their fans are better connected to their idols than any fan before.
NATASHA HOME
Natasha, 17
The whole reason I got braces was cos niall got braces
my fave is zayn
obviously his face, body, six packs aaaah
born in UK like me, i know how complicated it is when you have an identity crisis
TWEET
but when you’re a directioner you feel part of this gang! yeah!
the fandom is so sweet. it’s like a cult or a sect...
SHOW Live While We’re Young, Moments
Half a million devoted teenage girls have tickets to see One Direction on their sold out UK arena tour.
Maddie - when they walked on stage I burst into hysterical tears
It felt like I was dreaming. the boys i love
Amy D - I could not believe they were in front of me took a panic attack
Bethany - wake me up pinch me tell me i’m in a dream
Amy -Oh my gosh -j Liam reached down, best day of my life
But the live show is not enough for some fans. They wait outside the venues for hours on the off chance of meeting their idols.
Manchester
MANCHESTER BARRIERS
Sandra blisters
SANDRA HOME
Sandra - this is my 1d wall, Josh Devine, Zayn Malik’s cousin
Loads of pictures with fans
i want harry to be my husband cos he’s so cute with children
Sandra 14
i just wanna spend my life with him, he looks like the kinda guy who treats girls really nice
he likes to walk round naked which i don’t mind, his morning voice would be amazing as well, croaky
i’m 14 and harry is 19, he’d go in jail for it i’d go in jail just to be with him
MANCHESTER BARRIERS
Girls on phones
Becky photos
Sandra jealous
BECKY HOME
Becky 18
Becky some people don’t make the effort
B been to sheffield, birmingham etc, harry’s house, louis’ house
B louis don’t mind but i think harry’s family don’t like it - hedge?
They say I’m a stalker but I don’t care
BUS LEAVES
When the boys are whisked away the new breed of fan turn to twitter where they can track the boys every move.
TWITTER
Pip - one directions fame is down to twitter 100%
Maddie - twitter a big part of iti find out loads of stuff on twitter - can’t be in the fandom without it
Laura - I’m always on it - all day
Pip - you check it like its the newspaper
Kelly - Zayn doesn’t tweet, Harry tweets instagram nonsense noone understands
Nadia - I tweeted them like 182 times in one day
Fantasies posted by Directioners online include One Direction in drag.
One Direction fat, old, or ginger.
Punk One Direction. Irish One Direction. Gay One Direction.
Pip - we can find out literally anything - how did we know?
penis size
Amy M- Harry’s mum and Louis mum are good on twitter, they reply to fans
Some fans will go to extraordinary lengths to try and get the boys’ attention.
Pip tattoo, dog died, gran died, kill myself
Natasha - please please please follow me I love you so much
Chloe they know you exist
Nadia - you can’t not check twitter, it just becomes addictive
I Becky -tweeted this pic of Harry yesterday please leave the planet
Natasha - twitter is like a prayer place... you just have hope
Louis Jesus
12:50
PART TWO
GLASGOW HOTEL
In Glasgow the girls have got a tip off about the hotel One Direction are staying in. They’re determined to meet the boys.
you forget about the world when you’re on the hunt*
Amy M - we don’t get many chances , not here often, so we go all out*
Amy D - I start shaking*
Amy M - my heart starts beating like crazy, so excited, so panicky*
KNOCK KNOCK
Harry where are you?! Hair and make up!
I’ll check Louis
Amy M - OMG long bus journey! They didn’t even stay the night
We’ve never had any success at all
Lisa - I just wanna hug and be like Love yoooou!
SANDRA HARRY’S HOME TOWN
KEEK Harry’s school
It’s the band’s day off so Sandra’s gone to Harry’s hometown to look for him.
Harry’s bakery!
I can literally smell Harry when I’m here
jOne Way or Another
WANNA MEET THEM
Sandra If I met them I dunno what I’d say, errr sorry
Natasha - i kinda get upset cos people don’t understand it’s not easy to meet them
Sandra- i’m gonna save up to stay in the same hotel
Amy D i would travel to australia, Jade - I would go
Candiece - I dream that one day i’ll meet one d*
Candiece - i would faint in harry’s arms
Sandra - if i did faint they could pick me up put me in the car and take me to hospital
Kelly - i wanna be more than a fan, wanna be noticed, remembered
Natasha - they don’t understand how hard it is to meet them and how upset you get
Amy D - if they said chop off an arm i would!*
Sam - people with one arm function really well!*
Maddie - I wouldn’t kill a puppy but i’d kill a cat! or a goldfish
Pip - people would kill each other, i reckon, definitely
With no luck finding Harry the girls decide to leave a message at his local.
Sandra’s letter
LAURA HOME
Laura 17 Lisa 16
Laura - I’ve met them 64 times
you need to be on the ball - keep your phone charger
people say we’re lucky but it’s dedication
I’ve had people say i’m fat and why am i meeting the boys but i don’t care cos i’m the one they’re paying attention to at the end of the day
Lisa - stalker! obsessive, i wouldn’t class myself a stalker - stalking is illegal
Lisa - you can’t be whispery - they don’t pay attention to the girls who ask quietly
Laura - you have to do something for them to say I remember you
When they can’t get near the boys fans turn to an elaborate fantasy world online, where they can share their wildest dreams about the boys.
Candiece on phone
Becky on tablet
Bethany tablet
PIP it’s like a drug addiction
WHAT IF LOUIS DIED?
Vegas laptop
Vegas - when you hear rumours, like they’re dead, but what if it’s true?
Maddie they’re part of our bodies, I don’t know what I’d do, kill myself
FAN ART
One of the most popular fantasies involves Louis and Harry being in a secret gay relationship. The fans make their own artwork, combining the names to make Larry Stylinson. They call it shipping Larry.
SHIPPING LARRY
LAURA ok there’s this whole thing that harry and louis are gay?
PIP Louis leaned in to kiss Harry
BETH the way they look at each other some times oooh
BETH it’s not the way you look at your friends to be fair
PIPit all rooted from when they lived together!
PIP they tweeted each other, we were like please get together!!
VEG i ship them as a bromance.. i don’t know
VEG want them to be a couple but only if you’re a hardcore larry shipper
PIP you ship them together, could be sexual, romantic or friendship
BETH I like it as a bromance and a romance
BECKY i say it but i’m not one of them fans that mentally think they’re gonna get together*
LAURA this whole larry stylinson thing annoys me so much - it’s upsetting the boys...
BECKY they do look cute together but i think it’s ruined their friendship
VEG Larry is a big thing , since beginning, part of the band
PIP we need help cos we ship them so hard but i don’t hate eleanor
LAURA i’ve met eleanor, she is such a nice girl!
BECKY i think some fans, they want them to be gay cos they can’t have a girlfriend
BETH i ship ziall as well but i don’t like shipping louis and harry with anyone else
FAN ART
PIP the old boy shudders... oh baby!!
12:28
PART THREE
BECKY STALKING
YOUTUBE running round Lowry OMG
I stayed in the hotel on my 18th birthday, they weren’t allowed to meet us
KEEK i’m in 1d’s hotel getting drunk
KEEK running round Lowry, Niall’s room OMG tour bus
LOWRY I was outside your room while you were asleep zayn
We went thru your nandos niall
the lify doors opened.. Harry was stood there, he said don’t talk to my friend like that
KEEK - Zayn Malik just ran away from me
We got up in the morning again
YOUTUBE HOTEL with them for half an hour got pictures and that
Zayn’s a bit like - keeps away, Niall’s nice, Louis, Harry
I just want to be friends
They have slept with fans, but that was ages ago.
REAL BOYS
real boys - i don’t really speak to them.
i like focussing on one d*
it’s weird - we’re all just single
Laura i’ve never had a proper boyfriend, cos they get in the way too much
my twitter bio boybands have ruined my life and they literally have
FANTASY ONLINE
When the boys leave the UK to continue their tour worldwide their fans are left behind in reality.
NATASHA DISHES
I look after my mum and brother cos my mum is disabled
it does get hard at times
but you know what yeah i’m gonna marry zayn and have a maid!
i remember my first dream about zayn
and we lived happily ever after
HATING TAYLOR
Amy D so jealous - you don’t wanna think of them being with them, don’t like Taylor swift
Becky - every time Harry gets a girlfriend they give them hate and tell them to die!*
Candiece I hate taylor Swift for what she done to harry, split up with him, bossed him
Rosie would punch Taylor!
TAYLOR VIDEO We are Never Getting Back Together
N all the directioners tweeted hate messages, she deleted it, she got emotional
Gemma if you saw her on the street you’d like kill her
Pip i like her music but i don’t like her - she likes antiques, not my kind of person!
S when harry was with taylor i was tweeting her death threats and i think she blocked me, that’s how bad it was - i was so angry
S if i saw her now i’d rugby tackle her, uuugh!! i’d stamp on her eyeballs!
Vegas - she did get quite a few death threats, Vegas laptop
Belfast rant
Taylor swift fans are really rude and intense
Scottish rant
N if she had twitter i’d cuss her! bitch he’s mine, go away!
I’m in a fandom that could kill you
At the end of May One Direction come back to the UK to make a big announcement at Wembley stadium. Some of the London fans are waiting outside.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT WEMBLEY
M&G Wembley
Vegas - Larry’s coming out! Vegas I think management secretly like Larry
PIP it would be great if at the press conf they just came out with larry*
Vegas I think management secretly like Larry
M&G Do you know One Direction?!!!
Natasha i seriously have no idea, butterflies
N 3 mins left i’m so excited
LAURA how did they get the car in?
COUNTDOWN
PIP larry larry larry pleeeease be larry!!!
websites crashed
11:26
PART FOUR
PIP youtube reaction
1D Press conference
Laura it’s a tour
PIP youtube reaction please liverpool or manchester
Two hours later the girls are still waiting for the boys to come out... then suddenly they do.
Laura waits at West Gate, that’s Harry, ugh so annoying
Maddie cries, it’s just so upsetting they’re not gonna meet us
PIP youtube reaction tickets go on sale next week oh no
M& G one big disappointment
BECKY’s KEEK - TICKETS NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
CAMPING DUBLIN
Tickets go on sale at 10am. In Dublin the girls have been camping out all night.
Nadia i’ve been here since 1 yesterday to get tickets - it’s a need
Laurrra - 21 hours 21 hours!
N had 10 minutes sleep
Nadia - i’m so excited, it’s nearly time!
Bag lady girl
NADIA HOME
nadia - i want to marry niall
it’s constant tears and frustration, look and listen and cry
i don’t think i’ll ever meet them, hope i do
if i didn’t get a ticket, i’d just be so upset
N in QUEUE shaking
NADIA GETS A TICKET
aaaaaaaaargghhhhh etc
PIP NO TICKETS P this time we didn’t get tickets, for the biggest one, devastated
i feel like such an idiot
it was too difficult to get the money in time to go, tears *
we feel like a little part of them’s moved on from where we started
not everyones rich, not everyone can afford the tickets
?? 34.50 we’re crying over people who don’t even know we exist*
NATASHA BUS STOP MADAME TUSSAUDS
Heart Attack
The cheapest ticket at £42.50 is out of reach for Natasha too...
but she’s find a way of meeting the boys.
I’m texting my mum I’m gonna meet them!
OMG that was just so amazing! I feel like I proper met them!!!
See... Zayn likes me!
NATASHA HOME
i actually think i’m gonna love them forever, they’re a part of me, my identity
when you feel shy and you feel scared,if you divert yr mind to one d
it’s like you’re in a one d shell, around you
Little Things
credits
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