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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Every now and again, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being a Directioner is not a part-time job. TBH, it's not even a full-time job. It's a way of life. It's like following a religion. You live, breathe and embody the "Directioner lifestyle." Syco Music ...

The untimely and tragic death this week of Liam Payne, one of the members of the wildly popular band One Direction, has brought an outpouring of grief – from family, friends, former bandmates and fans ...

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 ...