It’s June 2018, and I’m standing on the floor of the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, almost 200 miles from where I live. My best friend since high school is right next to me. We’re covered ...

Kaitlyn Tiffany, a staff writer for the Atlantic, became a citizen of the internet for the first time because of the One Direction fandom. In her new book, Everything I Need I Get From You: How ...

“Remember Futureproof? No, of course you don’t. And that’s why you shouldn’t bother remembering One Direction either,” music writer Stuart Heritage wrote in The Guardian in 2010. “Like Futureproof, ...

It’s a classic case of imperialism: fans of the BBC’s Doctor Who staking their claim and refusing to budge ground. But in this case, it’s not a piece of colonized land that’s at stake: it’s a ...

This story is adapted from Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It, by Kaitlyn Tiffany. Gabrielle Foster had been a fan of One Direction since she was 11 ...

It's not for the weak-hearted. Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Harry Styles will become the main characters in your life. However, this is not a worthless pursuit. I was a ...

Being apart of any fandom can be a strange thing, especially when that fandom is based off of collective love for a group of British boybanders named One Direction. While participating in the fandom ...

And then just when you thought your heart couldn't take another 1D punch, they release a song called "Infinity" for all to hear. And it has lyrics like "How many nights does it take to count the stars ...

Crazy About One Direction. With a title like that, this British TV documentary about 1D fandom was unlikely to win much support among the fans themselves. Nobody likes to be called “crazy,” but the ...