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 ...

After nearly half a decade spent obsessively keeping up with One Direction in my youth, one of the first things I did after finding out Liam Payne died in Buenos Aires on Oct. 16 was re-open the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liam Payne in 2012. (Brian Killian/WireImage) (Brian Killian/WireImage) To say that One Directioners are a dedicated fandom would ...

Journalist Kaitlyn Tiffany was 19 when she first watched 1D: This is Us, a documentary about the British boy band One Direction. Tiffany came away from the viewing unimpressed; the five boys were kind ...

When the Internet-culture reporter Kaitlyn Tiffany first encountered One Direction, the British-Irish boy band, she was home for the summer after her freshman year at college. She was sad and sick of ...

Fandom comes in many forms. Maybe you save photos of your fave celeb on a Pinterest page, or on your desktop in a special folder. Maybe you write fan fiction. If you’re Jeanne, a 16-year-old Parisian ...

Chennai-based dance collectives and fan pages keep the music alive through choreography videos and edits, while a small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kaitlyn Tiffany, a staff writer for the Atlantic, became a citizen of the internet for the first time because of the One Direction ...

To say that One Directioners are a dedicated fandom would be putting it lightly. Their love has been unconditional, and this was made no clearer than on the internet, where the fandom thrived most.