What’s up?
It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and I just have to start off by wishing One
Direction and their fans a happy 10th anniversary!
Wow, I mean I truly can’t believe it’s been 10 years since we fell in love with Niall
Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik on X Factor.
Although the band split up, they are all now working on their successful solo careers and
many of them remain close friends.
Ahead of today’s anniversary, fans were expecting some sort of big reunion or TV special
to commemorate the massive milestone.
The boys of 1D themselves had even been teasing working on something.
Back in April, Liam Payne told The Sun that One Direction had quote, “all been speaking
together a lot over the last few weeks which has been really nice.”
And that quote, “There’s a number of different things that we are all working on to try and
make happen and people are forwarding emails around.
At the moment I'm not sure what I'm allowed to say.”
So clearly he was teasing something right?
And as if that wasn’t enough, fans also noticed that Niall, Liam, Harry, and Louis
had also started following Zayn on Twitter, even though he famously left the group before
they went on hiatus.
Needless to say, there were some HIGH hopes for today to say the least.
So you can imagine fans' excitement when iHeartRadio shared that they would be revealing a video
that would quote "Celebrate 10 YEARS of ONE DIRECTION with UNSEEN MOMENTS from Their Tours
Over the Years!"
And many fans stayed up til midnight to watch iHeart premiere the video and celebrate 1D,
here’s a little clip.
“Every single person who spent their well earned money to come watch us tonight, we
know how hard it is to get here and to get families here and stuff and we really really
appreciate it honestly.”
Unfortunately, iHeart didn’t exactly deliver what the fans were hoping for with this 1:40
video.
Fans were expecting to see a long compilation of unseen footage from previous tours, however,
many of them took to Twitter to share that instead they got this short collection of
concert footage that many of them had already seen before.
This directioner tweeted a meme saying quote, “all of us after staying up all night for
1 minute and 40 seconds of already seen moments #iheartisoverparty #10YearsOfOneDiretion”
Another person chimed in saying quote, “iHeartRadio thought they did somethin special but they
messed with the wrong fandom #iheartisoverparty #10YearsOfOneDirection”
And this fan wrote quote, “i waited for a 1:40 video of "unseen moments" I"VE ALREADY
SEEN??????
girl bye #iheartisoverparty #10YearsOfOneDirection”
All of these tweets actually got #iHeart Is Over Party to trend on Twitter.
But thankfully, some celebratory posts from the One Direction boys themselves have brought
fans’ spirits back up today.
Niall and Louis shared some throwback photos on Instagram along with heartfelt captions
thanking both their fellow band members and the fans for all the support over the years.
Liam actually shared his message to his dad from 10 years ago today telling him the news
that he was officially in a boy band.
And Harry Styles took to Twitter to share a series of long heartfelt tweets about 1D.
He wrote quote, “I’ve been struggling to put into words how grateful I am for everything
that’s happened over the last ten years.
I’ve seen things and places that I’d only ever dreamt of when I was growing up.”
Harry went on saying quote, “And for that, I will be forever thankful.
I just can’t believe it’s been ten years.
Thank you to our crew, our team, and everyone else who helped us along the way.
To all the fans, I love you, and I thank you with all my heart.
You did it all, and you changed everything.”
And he ended with the sweetest tweet of all, grab your tissues guys, because Harry wrote
“And finally.. to the boys, I love you so much, and I couldn’t be prouder of everything
we achieved together.
Here’s to ten.
H”
The official One Direction Instagram account shared the news that they would be launching
a website to quote, “Relive your favourite One Direction memories.”
And in typical One Direction fan fashion, they completely crashed the website before
it could even launch.
So the Directioners went straight from trying to cancel iHeart to completely breaking the
internet.
#Directioners Break The Internet quickly started trending on Twitter as fans eagerly awaited
for the website to relaunch.
And all in all, we’re just happy to be celebrating 10 years of one of the greatest groups of
all time.
Here’s to 1D!
Also, is anyone else still holding onto hope for a full blown reunion one of these days?
Or is that just me…
And if you just can’t get enough One Direction today and want a good throwback, click right
over here to keep the celebration going with 5 of their most underrated songs.
Also, feel free to share some love to the boys down in the comments below and let us
know what you think about all this anniversary news.
I’m your host, Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!