Okay, well, I'm making a list but only because I want to watch all of them this weekend while I'm "grading." And by "grading" I mean making my sister watch videos.
The second Alan Carr video comes up "no longer available." The video diaries come up as not available! I COULD CRY. And the valentine's day one, and the first kiss one. Seriously. The bitching I did last night would make a sailor blush. ......actually today EVERYTHING all the way down to Liam beatboxing is telling me it's unavailable. Maybe it's my computer????? Because ALL the videos from the Brits are "unavailable" too, which... I watched the Brits, I was in the UK at the time, I remember how drunk they were, but I WANT TO WATCH THEM AGAIN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY COMPUTER.
I'm really glad the ones of Zayn eating fruit are available. Why? I don't know. So adorable.
(This is taking forever because I'm rewatching all the ones that exist)
The Friday Download videos both come up as not available. So do the last two. MY HEART, IT BREAKS.
Um, I might have spent four hours on Wednesday making my sister watch all of their videos I have bookmarked in an attempt to sway her. I am fighting the good fight over here. The only person I know IRL who likes them is the 8th grade sister of one of my high school friends. So yeah, I am doubling up my efforts.
Oh my God, no! The video diaries are so cute!!!! The Alan Carr videos are so good! You are missing the best ones!!! THE BRITS ARE THE BEST. At least you got to watch Liam beatbox though. I seriously love that video. Wait, so all the videos in post one, all the way up to Liam beatboxing in this post don't work? IT'S NOT YOUR COMPUTER. The person's account was taken down! Well, this definitely puts a damper on this entire post. Now I have to find new versions and replace the links. I think I'm going to get on that right now.
I have watched the Zayn eating fruit one like, four times now? I get the sense that that might be too many times but something about little baby Zayn eating fruit is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
I am developing a Zayn PROBLEM. Like, they are all adorable, but he is so ridiculous. I teach teenage boys and he reminds me of one of my very favorites; he is adorable and very sweet and maaaaaaaaaaaybe not the brightest but goofy and good-natured and hilarious and I just kind of want to watch videos of them all making fun of him FOREVER? MAYBE????
I have never seen a band so committed to silly voices, by the way. Jeez.
Bahhhhhhh I appreciate your hard work a LOT. I hope it's not a ton of work replacing stuff. :(
I started out with a Zayn Problem but now I am desperately involved in a Liam Payne Situation. That is Zayn to a tee! I have such a soft spot for him, like I said, because of the birds video and also he wanted to be an English major and then teacher and I'm just like, sweetheart ohhhhh. If you watch early videos of them, he was so reticent to be goofy, and now he has loosened up and he is committed to being a dork, but not as much as the rest of them even still, in a way? So, like, when he's goofy it is extra precious. Videos where they tease him are the best though. THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO GET HIM TO OPEN UP I THINK. The problem with this band, is that you will think you have a favorite, but then one will start doing something and you're like, huh, never noticed that before and then you get all these FEELINGS. I started out defiantly disliking Harry and now he is tied for second favorite. It is a problem.
It's no problem at all. I don't know if I can get it all fixed by tonight, because I have a standing date with the return of Community (YAY), but there's a chance.
Ha. Basically you are telling me that the headcanon I made up after watching LITERALLY four videos is entirely right. Because I had it in my head FROM JUST YOUR PICTURES that the reason Zayn was so posey and serious is because actually he is vaguely shy only he's obviously not when he's with the boys but I think sometimes he is when it's him and the camera/strangers/whatever. And so there is LOTS OF JUMPING because the other four are such show off dorks and they need him to join in. (Harry less so, I'd say, but not much.) It is definitely wanting him to open up and goof around with themmmmmm. He does love silly voices!
LIsten, I have gone from not being able to tell which one Liam was to finding him HORRIBLY ENDEARING, what happened there, it was awful, he is GREAT and VERY WEIRD.
I don't dislike ANY of them. Normally at least ONE of them is off-putting and weird. (Chris Kirkpatrick, I am looking at you.) but they are all cute! UGH STOP IT.
That is exactly what I'm telling you. Basically, I would say Niall and Louis are the most outgoing. Niall is super friendly and he knows everyone and what they do on tour, and makes friends with everyone and everyone loves him and that is so endearing to me. Like, he jams with their band in his free time. I could've put a thousand more Niall videos in here but I stopped myself because I wanted this to be helpful and not a Niall Appreciation Post. And Louis teases them all because he is the oldest and he wants Liam to be less serious and he also wants Zayn to be less serious. I do think Zayn is really shy though. It might just be me, but I get the sense that he had a very different upbringing than the other boys, like maybe the others were more wealthy growing up, so he hasn't done or experienced as much as them. I don't know, I am probably projecting. Ugh, now you are making me have Zayn feelings again and I don't appreciate it :(
Isn't Liam the best! He has done two Twitcams in the past five days because he loves the fans and he just wants to show them he appreciates them! I love him and his friendship with Niall.
I didn't like Louis a whole bunch at first? I feel bad because I really like him now, but I found his loudness a little off-putting. But then I watched more interviews and all the boys talked about thinking he was funny and how gentle and sweet he was/is with them, and they all seem to enjoy him, so I've really warmed up to him.
This is the VERY WORST THING YOU COULD DO TO ME, ie, give me a LOT OF SPACE to TELL YOU MY THOUGHTS. Ugh. Stop it. Why. WHY. I HAVE ALL THESE THEORIES ABOUT THINGS. And I'm pretty good at guessing from twitter and interviews about personality (not like, REAL personality I guess, but close enough). Like, what I get from Louis, right, is he's not wacky, he's AGGRESSIVELY wacky, he goes out of his way to be almost off-puttingly silly, but what I get out of that is more a desire for things to go smoothly for everyone else and a natural tendency to draw focus than any desire to hog the camera. It borders right on "Oh no, things might get awkward, I WILL BE WEIRD SO NO ONE NOTICES," rather than "look at meeeeeee." Niall just seems super friendly and gets along with everyone and would talk the ears off a donkey, and Liam seems... sensible is the wrong word, but he's certainly less shrill and more likely to answer a a question during an interview while other boys bite each other. And Harry seems surprisingly low-key and smart and willing to go along with really stupid shit but less likely to START stupid shit than Louis and Niall and Liam. (Zayn keeps missing their jokes, like I found the 30 seconds of the doing the Fresh Prince rap and they look rIGHT AT HIM, like TAKE THIS LINE, IT'LL BE HILARIOUS, and he just sort of smiles at everyone, because Zayn seems really good at chiming in and joining jokes, but not quiiiiiiite as fast at noticing them or starting them. Poor darling. It's his general sort of failing at things that has made me so fond so fast.)
....this is officially a manifesto. Whoops. Sorry. I LOVE HOW FOND THEY ARE ALL OF EACH OTHER. I don't THINK I feel even remotely shippy or inclined toward fic here, but ughhhhhhh I would probably read gen adventures and shenanigans forever.
NO I LOVE ACTUAL ONE DIRECTION THOUGHTS. I just tag everything on Tumblr "I WANT TO BITE MY OWN ARM OFF AK:AFHJFADHK:AFKL:AFS" because Tumblr is not the place for 1D manifestos as much I wish it was. YES THAT IS LOUIS. I agree so much. Sometimes I feel like Louis is secretly the Dad of the band because his immaturity has a purpose. He just wants everyone to get along so he is loud to distract from anything that might go wrong. Like that one twit cam the whole band did where Harry and Zayn got into a fight and Zayn (or Harry) pushed Harry (or Zayn, I CAN'T REMEMBER I WATCHED IT THROUGH MY FINGERS IT WAS SO TENSE) into the table and Louis was just super loud to get past it. Liam is just the Dad in a more obvious sense. Was it the La Boîte Questions one where Zayn missed his line about getting shipped out to Bel-Air? Because that surprised me. Like, they've done that rap on stage before and he didn't miss his cue, and then in that interview he did and I was lost. I'mm go off on a thing here but ZAYN'S SMILE OKAY. He is so adorable I am sometimes lost for words. He's just. All of them though. I cannot figure Harry out. Sometimes it seems like he starts stuff, and he definitely does stupid things (he likes to be naked a lot, the whole X-Factor finale/"Pussygate" scandal, he might have nudes out there, which, God forbid because he's a baby and I NEVER want to see anything like that), but he mostly just seems willing to go along with Louis, and the other members as well, to some extent.
Their fondness for each other is slowly making me insane. I love when they tweet each other or about each other or do things together (like their bowling alley date or when Louis and Harry went to get brownies in Canada after a concert) and just be close. It is so sweet! I can see why people ship Louis and Harry, I really can because those dudes have crazy sexual tension sometimes, but honestly, with there being five boys, in shippy situations one almost always gets left out, so that's why I prefer gen, because it's all five boys being platonically in love with each other and that makes for some great times. And also it makes my heart hurt when one is left out because they are such a UNIT to me. And now mine's a manifesto as well. I have so many feelings.
Louis is ALSO deeply goofy and weird. He's exactly the Mickey Dolenz (I watched a LOT of Monkeys as a kid) with the deliberate silliness for the little kids, but... he's also a tension diffuser and an attention pull. (Zayn and Harry are so much happier watching other people tell jokes than telling them themselves. And the other thing about Zayn -- he has like, two jokes, and he goes STRAIGHT to them in case of emergency. He's not doing improv. Which is why it was so easy to do an imitation of him.) Louis is genuinely clever and concerned about everyone's feelings and his goofiness very rarely actually interrupts or annoys anyone, which isn't how boy bands roll if one of them is an attention whore. ANYWAY. Louis. You are annoying but CLEARLY also great. (Also, when asked about first impressions, he says Niall was very open, Liam was very serious, Harry was charming, and Zayn was quiet. SO.)
I haven't seen that twitvid but I'd watch the shit out of it. (I got more panic characterization out of the Rolling Stone interview where Ryan and Brendon are fighting than pretty much any other.) BUT DON'T FIGHT, KIDS, YOU'RE SO ADORABLE.
Harry always seems... tired? Vaguely high? When Harry's energetic he's all about hitting people and jumping on things and biting and goofing and whatever. But about half the time he seems half-asleep (I loved Zayn's shrug and "...yeah, whatever, sure, I'm Harry" imitation). But when Harry DOES seriously answer a question or contribute it's always pretty sharp. He could make better personal life decisions, but I get the sense he can be EITHER the goofiest little brother in the world OR a really smart 18 year old.
If they want to hang out and be BFFs then I'll just be over here heart-eyes-ing at them. FOREVER.
There is this weird dichotomy, for me, in how they act, because a lot of the time they are inappropriate for a ~younger audience. I mean, they're teenage boys, they talk about sex a lot, and they've also been very outspoken in the past about safe sex (I'm pretty sure Harry has been quoted as saying that it's selfish for a boy not to use a condom), and the like. But they are also really goofy, and I have to wonder how much is genuine goofiness, and how much is just exaggerated because they do have younger fans.
I wish I had that 1D "THIS!" gif, because it is perfect for your description of Zayn. He IS NOT doing improv, and that is why he is so easy to do an impression of. I mean, you saw Harry's reaction to Liam's impression. It's pretty spot-on. And I have definitely come around to the Louis: Annoying but Great way of thinking.
It was kind of hard for me to watch. I had to turn it off when that happened because they were so clearly angry with each other and it was uncomfortable. It was also from a long time ago, like barely post X-Factor, when I think they were all still feeling out each other's boundaries, as it were, and getting to know each other. Harry and Zayn seem a lot more comfortable with each other now.
Harry does seem sharp to me. I also like the way that, when he has questions directed at him, he tries to include the whole band. I think people are trying to make him out to be some sort of leader and he is not comfortable with that, so he always brings it back to "we" or "us". Every single time. I always see Niall as the little brother of the band. Like, they are always picking him up and cuddling him and ruffling his hair, so I feel like the band sees him that way to. And I think it might be because of Harry's maturity and the fact that Niall is the second youngest, after Harry.
I was telling my sister, the other day, that as deep into this whole thing as I am now, I will probably be into this fandom until it's on its last legs. I just can't imagine a time when I am not charmed by these ridiculous boys.
The second Alan Carr video comes up "no longer available."
The video diaries come up as not available! I COULD CRY. And the valentine's day one, and the first kiss one. Seriously. The bitching I did last night would make a sailor blush. ......actually today EVERYTHING all the way down to Liam beatboxing is telling me it's unavailable. Maybe it's my computer????? Because ALL the videos from the Brits are "unavailable" too, which... I watched the Brits, I was in the UK at the time, I remember how drunk they were, but I WANT TO WATCH THEM AGAIN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY COMPUTER.
I'm really glad the ones of Zayn eating fruit are available. Why? I don't know. So adorable.
(This is taking forever because I'm rewatching all the ones that exist)
The Friday Download videos both come up as not available. So do the last two. MY HEART, IT BREAKS.
(Seriously, it has to be my computer, I think.)
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Oh my God, no! The video diaries are so cute!!!! The Alan Carr videos are so good! You are missing the best ones!!! THE BRITS ARE THE BEST. At least you got to watch Liam beatbox though. I seriously love that video. Wait, so all the videos in post one, all the way up to Liam beatboxing in this post don't work? IT'S NOT YOUR COMPUTER. The person's account was taken down! Well, this definitely puts a damper on this entire post. Now I have to find new versions and replace the links. I think I'm going to get on that right now.
I have watched the Zayn eating fruit one like, four times now? I get the sense that that might be too many times but something about little baby Zayn eating fruit is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
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I have never seen a band so committed to silly voices, by the way. Jeez.
Bahhhhhhh I appreciate your hard work a LOT. I hope it's not a ton of work replacing stuff. :(
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It's no problem at all. I don't know if I can get it all fixed by tonight, because I have a standing date with the return of Community (YAY), but there's a chance.
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LIsten, I have gone from not being able to tell which one Liam was to finding him HORRIBLY ENDEARING, what happened there, it was awful, he is GREAT and VERY WEIRD.
I don't dislike ANY of them. Normally at least ONE of them is off-putting and weird. (Chris Kirkpatrick, I am looking at you.) but they are all cute! UGH STOP IT.
Yay! Perfect weekend: planned.
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Isn't Liam the best! He has done two Twitcams in the past five days because he loves the fans and he just wants to show them he appreciates them! I love him and his friendship with Niall.
I didn't like Louis a whole bunch at first? I feel bad because I really like him now, but I found his loudness a little off-putting. But then I watched more interviews and all the boys talked about thinking he was funny and how gentle and sweet he was/is with them, and they all seem to enjoy him, so I've really warmed up to him.
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....this is officially a manifesto. Whoops. Sorry. I LOVE HOW FOND THEY ARE ALL OF EACH OTHER. I don't THINK I feel even remotely shippy or inclined toward fic here, but ughhhhhhh I would probably read gen adventures and shenanigans forever.
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Their fondness for each other is slowly making me insane. I love when they tweet each other or about each other or do things together (like their bowling alley date or when Louis and Harry went to get brownies in Canada after a concert) and just be close. It is so sweet! I can see why people ship Louis and Harry, I really can because those dudes have crazy sexual tension sometimes, but honestly, with there being five boys, in shippy situations one almost always gets left out, so that's why I prefer gen, because it's all five boys being platonically in love with each other and that makes for some great times. And also it makes my heart hurt when one is left out because they are such a UNIT to me. And now mine's a manifesto as well. I have so many feelings.
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I haven't seen that twitvid but I'd watch the shit out of it. (I got more panic characterization out of the Rolling Stone interview where Ryan and Brendon are fighting than pretty much any other.) BUT DON'T FIGHT, KIDS, YOU'RE SO ADORABLE.
Harry always seems... tired? Vaguely high? When Harry's energetic he's all about hitting people and jumping on things and biting and goofing and whatever. But about half the time he seems half-asleep (I loved Zayn's shrug and "...yeah, whatever, sure, I'm Harry" imitation). But when Harry DOES seriously answer a question or contribute it's always pretty sharp. He could make better personal life decisions, but I get the sense he can be EITHER the goofiest little brother in the world OR a really smart 18 year old.
If they want to hang out and be BFFs then I'll just be over here heart-eyes-ing at them. FOREVER.
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I wish I had that 1D "THIS!" gif, because it is perfect for your description of Zayn. He IS NOT doing improv, and that is why he is so easy to do an impression of. I mean, you saw Harry's reaction to Liam's impression. It's pretty spot-on. And I have definitely come around to the Louis: Annoying but Great way of thinking.
It was kind of hard for me to watch. I had to turn it off when that happened because they were so clearly angry with each other and it was uncomfortable. It was also from a long time ago, like barely post X-Factor, when I think they were all still feeling out each other's boundaries, as it were, and getting to know each other. Harry and Zayn seem a lot more comfortable with each other now.
Harry does seem sharp to me. I also like the way that, when he has questions directed at him, he tries to include the whole band. I think people are trying to make him out to be some sort of leader and he is not comfortable with that, so he always brings it back to "we" or "us". Every single time. I always see Niall as the little brother of the band. Like, they are always picking him up and cuddling him and ruffling his hair, so I feel like the band sees him that way to. And I think it might be because of Harry's maturity and the fact that Niall is the second youngest, after Harry.
I was telling my sister, the other day, that as deep into this whole thing as I am now, I will probably be into this fandom until it's on its last legs. I just can't imagine a time when I am not charmed by these ridiculous boys.
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