#WWA tour 2014

[sunshineandlyrics]

WWA tour 2014 / - FITFWT Birmingham 2023

🥳

[zaiinab]

LMFAOOO

[mtvjedi]

sorry it’s just that one direction bonded me and my best friend for life. we were in middle school. i had just moved to a new state and a new school and i was tentative friends with this girl. and we had a sleepover and my mom had FINALLY let me start buying bop or tiger beat magazine or whatever and there was this little one page article at the end of an issue about one direction and how much niall loved justin bieber. and we read this little article and started listening to them. BUYING their music on itunes. like we were saving up our allowances to buy songs on itunes or to buy their albums at target. and they just……… made us best friends. and now thirteen years later she’s still the first person i text when i get good news or bad news. she’s even the one who texted me that liam had died. when i say i have no idea who i’d be without 1d i’m being so serious. this is so cheesy but it’s literally them who got a crazy shy new girl out of her shell to make one of the best friends of her entire life.

[wiiildflowerrr]

Supporting 1D at Croke Park, Dublin on the Where We Are tour.

23 May 2014

[srldesigns6277]

This interview will forever be a favorite

"We're very excited"

Also the interview was for Australia for OTRA promo.

They’re actually sitting next to each other in an interview!?!

I LOVE SOUTH AMERICA

[pop-punklouis]

i don’t think you guys understand. back in 2014-2015, we watched entire WWA and OTRA tour dates through six second vines. every single night.

[laughingharrys-blog]

The cheeky devil 😈 😁

Harry shaking his bum - Manchester, 01/06/14

[takemehomefromnarnia]

10 years of Rainbow Direction!

Exactly 10 years ago a girl named Danny printed out this rainbow poster and took it to the first concert of One Direction's Where We Are tour:

Anniversaries are always a bit arbitrary, and Rainbow Direction's was always a hard one to pin down.

This blog is just a day or two short of celebrating 11 years and without it Rainbow Direction would have never existed, because the people who were at the start of it would never have met, but its purpose and setup were entirely different and RD was still far from being developed.

The suggestions that eventually took form in "Project Rainbow Direction" were first submitted to the blog in late 2013. The first brainstorm between Kat, Li and Ellis about it, and further strategy talks with Ed and Molly took place in the early months of 2014. The project was announced in February. Haven and Red submitted their winning poster designs in March. Amy developed a logo and opened a merch store for us in early April.

While we've often referred to that midnight brainstorm on a cold January day as the origin of rainbow direction, that was only its conception. We don't even have a record of which date it was. We could also have chosen any of the more pin-downable dates: announcing the project, announcing the poster contest winners, opening the store. But really, all that Rainbow Direction was at those moments, was an idea, a plan, the hope that we had that it was within our, the fandom's power, to change something for the better for the LGBTQIA+ fans in it.

For months all of us, and especially Li, had worked tirelessly to encourage people to sign up and commit to bringing a rainbow poster to a show.

And then the big moment was there. First day of tour. The moment of truth. Would the people we'd encouraged actually have the courage to take a rainbow to a show, and stick it up in the air? Would it matter to people? Would it actually change something?

10 years on, we know that it did. So much more than we could ever have imagined.

But that was was anything but self-evident at the time. We had no idea. We nervously monitored the wwa tag and the blogs of those who had signed up, and then, after a few days, finally this report appeared. Danny from Bogota shared the first Rainbow Direction fan report.

I think if you'd ask any of us who were here at the time, they'd remember fondly how knowing that someone had actually done it, something happened in the real world, and if one person had done it, more would, how that sparked a fire in our hearts. A ball of warm feelings, not quite the same feeling as before. Before, there had been buzz and excitement and drive, but this, this felt different. Hope. A sense of the personal strength, and collective power, that could come from this if we could make it grow. It took a lot of hard work from a lot of people who committed themselves tirelessly to the campaign, but grow it did.

Thanks to Danny. Thanks to all of you who at some point or other, crafted something rainbow at home, took a rainbow to a show, put a rainbow on your blog, showed that you believed in your own power to change something, and showed the LGBTQI+ people in the fandom that they mattered, and that you cared.

It has been quite the roller coaster ride. As the coordinating group, we've had many ups and downs, and by now, for most of us, our attention has been drawn away from the fandom by our real lives and new pursuits. But regularly, when one of us checks in and sees the rainbows at one of the boys' shows, we share, revel, and sit amazed at how this thing, that once took so much effort on our part to get one, two, three people per show signed up, has grown into a regular staple, with people spontaneously taking it upon themselves to organize for entire venues to light up in a coordinated rainbow pattern, to design new posters and rainbow outfits, or to hand out hundreds of mini rainbow flags in the audience. This community has taken it up as its collective responsibility - let's get those rainbows out. How beautiful is that?! You are all so so amazing.

Thank you, you beautiful people, for becoming a part of this, for making it your own, for making it better, for carrying it forward, into the future.

So long!

[twopoppies]

Hii Gina! I remember a receipt I saw once years ago but can't find it :( Idk if you know of this, it was during the wwa tour, 2014 I think. Someone said they got the info that h and l had a fight and were mad with each other which, wouldn't talk to each other but both were making sure the other one's fine? i think it said harry was asking someone making sure louis wasn't cold or something?? i really don't remember but it was something along these lines but i wish i could see it again, it was so cute even tho it's kind of a sad one. But them caring for each other is just soooooooo.. Also there's videos of the show they had that night, wish i could remember the city, maybe Italy or Spain(not sure at all), and you can see they were kind of not mad at each other per se, more like sad. I'll try to find this again, but if anyone remember pls share xxxxx

Hmmm… the making sure the other is ok sounds familiar, but I’m not fully remembering it.

Anyone know this receipt?

More here

[notlivys]

1d ask game: 6 & 7

6- ever seen 1d live?

YASSSS i did it twice 🥹 2014 wwa tour buenos aires & 2015 otra tour sidney 🥲

7- ever seen one of them live solo? how was it?

I ACTUALLY DID TOO!!!

saw harry twice (both live on tour & love on tour)

same with louis, both tours.

still haven't met niall and zayn as solos 🥲 couldn't meet liam after 1d :(

both 1d concerts and soloists' shows have been the most amazing experiences of my life. those boys shaped me as a person and meeting them were moments i'll eternally cherish and remember, couldn't be happier and more proud of the people i chose to be my lifelong idols 🥲

[policemanofprincesspark]

do you have any tips for trying to convince non-larries of the truth?

Not really tbh. It's very difficult to convince anyone to stop believing in something that they hold to be true, whether it's a belief or lack thereof. This goes for you, me, and everyone. Most people in debates don't listen to the other party and instead try to think up a counterpoint to whatever their argument is. Each person is already fully convinced of what they believe to be true or not true.

The thing that a lot of antis fall victim to is something called slothful induction:

"Slothful induction, also called appeal to coincidence, is a fallacy in which an inductive argument is denied its proper conclusion, despite strong evidence for inference."

This means that they write anything and everything off as mere coincidence, and they don't consider the probability of certain coincidences being more or less likely to happen. Basically, whether "larry is real" isn't a question so much of "is it a fact" but moreso a question of "Is it more or less likely?" and also "How much more or less likely is it?".

Take for example the blue bandana project theory.

The first project was for wearing certain-colored clothing. Obviously this would not be easy for the members of 1D to participate in as they'd have to wear the same colored clothing at every concert, but then the project was changed to bandanas.

It's unclear exactly how popular this project was, but I know it was popular enough for 1D to take notice of fans doing it.

(Harry is wearing red, green, and blue in the first image; it is unclear why, but my hypothesis was that he was just given them and wanted to support the project or let people know that he knew of it)

Anyway, he was first spotted wearing a dark blue bandana in August 2014, and he wore it at the concert that night too, a little after the project was started [it was started for the WWA tour as far as I know, and the WWA tour went from April to October 2014 (and the project continued on into the OTRA tour in 2015)]:

He purchased the bandana while in Nashville at Imogene + Willie's, a couple days before the concert in Houston. Imogene + Willie's is like a gift shop, and they sell a variety of things. They sell 11 different bandanas, and the one Harry decided to purchase was the dark blue one, which matches the color of Louis's microphone and the color for the Bandana project that's meant to state that you're a 'Louis girl'.

Here is the link to the bandanas listed on the website.

He still wears that same bandana to this day:

And sometimes this one from another brand:

He doesn't wear bandanas super often, but when he does, it is, like, 90% of the time these dark blue ones. He's worn this red one too for instance:

So, if you want to actually figure out the mathematical probability of this being a coincidence, you would, first of all, have to do a lot more digging and researching than I did just now lol.

Secondly, you'd have to ask some questions. Here are some off the top of my head:

• What exact date did the Bandana Project start?

• How popular was the Bandana Project? To figure this out, you'll have to ask a set of questions: 1. Did #BandanaProject ever trend and, if so, when? 2. How many tweets were there from the time it started to the time, say, 1D's hiatus started? 3. Were there ever many signs related to the Bandana Project at concerts which the members of 1D could have seen, and, if so, how many instances of this can you find on video or in pictures? 4. In footage from the WWA tour and the OTRA tour, how many people on average can you see wearing the specific-colored bandanas?

• How many times did it seem like the members of 1D knew of the project -- as in, exactly how many times did they insinuate it by either wearing a colored bandana or by acknowledging it in some way, shape, or form?

• How many times has Harry worn a bandana of any color since the Bandana Project started up until now?

• How many times has Harry worn a dark blue bandana since the start of the Bandana Project in comparison to how many times he's worn any other color since the start of the Bandana Project? Calculate the exact ratio.

To answer all of those questions would actually take a fuck-ton of research that I'm not prepared to do as of now. But, if you were able to get conclusive answers to these questions with a huge amount of evidence and if you didn't go into it with bias but a desire to figure out whether this theory holds up or not regardless of your identity as an anti, larrie, or neutral, then you could go on to calculate the probability of it all being a coincidence or not. You would have to figure out exact numbers from the answers to the questions above.

There are more questions we need to consider, and probably some I haven't even thought of. One such would be: Harry has worn bandanas before the Bandana Project started, but how many of them were blue or dark blue as opposed to any other color, and how many of the bandanas that he has worn after the Bandana Project were dark blue as opposed to any other color? Calculate the exact difference/ratio of the before and the after.

You have to think like an anti too if you want to figure this out, because you need to go in with the mindset of actually trying to debunk the theory rather than prove it, because, if you're trying to prove it, it's a lot easier for a ton of bias to slip in, like ignoring contradicting evidence.

If you're ever going to try to do something like this, just know you will have to spend weeks to even months compiling research. It may not seem like it would take that much time, but... if you really wanted to know the exact probability of it being a coincidence vs. not being a coincidence, you would have to sift through so many tweets, videos, posts, articles, reverse-image-searching for exact dates, or whatever else you can think of to find as much information as you can just in order to get exact or as nearly-exact-as-you-can numbers. Only then could you actually prove anything, like, actually scientifically. Even then, an opposing party in a debate will not take one instance of something being more likely to not be a coincidence rather than to be one as enough sufficient evidence to conclude a wider statement such as "Harry and Louis are in a secret relationship." If we wanted to once and for all prove this, I'm pretty sure it would take actual years to do so, as there is 13 years worth of stuff to go through. You would have to sift through masterposts and gather only what you think could be hard/concrete evidence, and then for each of those pieces of evidence you would have to do exactly what I just went over that you'd have to do with the Bandana Project. You would have to take a logic class and understand mathematical probability, and you would have to do checks to see how valid your math/logic is, and you would have to potentially consult someone to check for bias or to see if you might have forgotten to ask yourself a question that could potentially support the other case.

Basically you would have to employ the scientific method. This, again, could take years.

That's all I'm saying because it truly is extremely difficult to prove anything in a debate unless you have, like, actual statistics to go based on, which... we don't have since no one has put in the extensive effort it would take to do so just yet.

[wiiildflowerrr]

@5SOS: ITS ROCK O CLOCK DUBLIN

@Calum5SOS: I'm actually 1/4 irelandish

25 May 2014

Night 2 at Croke Park for WWA Dublin

[track-five]

post-wembley shower

Harry would be okay.

He constantly coughed into the towel that he left side-stage to stop his germs from spreading to any of the people below, though he supposed the bragging rights of 'I caught tonsillitis from Harry Styles' would be a badge of honour for some of the more…dedicated fans. It also helped to hide his pained grimace as it practically tore his throat in half. It was a horrible ache to match the one in his lungs and his head and his back and his feet and his everything.

But Harry would be okay.

harry told rolling stone that he "came off, got in the car, and just started crying" after wwa's first wembley show because he had tonsillitis. if only someone wrote a fic about that

Words: 6267, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne

Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan & Zayn Malik & Liam Payne & Harry Styles & Louis Tomlinson

Additional Tags: Sickfic, Fluff, Established Relationship, Married Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, Caretaking, Sick Harry Styles, Sick Louis Tomlinson, honestly nobody is healthy, Sensitive Harry Styles, Protective Louis Tomlinson, harry has tonsillitis, the band's a little upset with him, WWA Tour, 2014

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41611683

[skepticalarrie]

Hi Allie , How many times did you go to see the boys during 1d? Have you ever had a chance to see Harry and Louis up close and talk to them? I think I mixed it up a bit, but I vaguely remember you saying you used to go to 1D concerts with your ex ? Or without him?

Hahahahah it was without him 😂 I saw 1D on the WWA tour in 2014 and on OTRA 2015 (that’s when the ex situation happened hdjakjsksja). And then I saw Harry in 2017 and Louis twice earlier this year. And that’s it! I never saw them up close or anything like that.

[crazypantsjewels]

Me: In honor of the ten year anniversary I’m gonna go through my concert videos and relive the day. 

The videos: *my tone deaf ass screaming all the lyrics nearly drowning everything else out*