#fuck tmz fuck tmz fuck tmz

[i-remain-convinced]

The fact that a news outlet (TMZ) decided that their need to get a scoop justified posting partial pictures of a young man's body just to demonstrate that it was his tattoos is the grossest fucking thing and I hope every single person who signed off on it regrets it every day for the rest of their lives.

Liam was dehumanised to a commodity from the age of 16 and the fact that even in death he's being treated like this is disgusting. I'm so sad and I'm so mad and I hope his family sues (if that's what they want to do).

There is no reason to share 'news' like this. It isn't journalism, it isn't in the public's interest. It's grubby and foul and to not even put a warning of the article's contents in the headline is fucking cruel.

Fuck TMZ.

[voxina]

[fadeintolight]

I wish for nothing more at this point than for Liam's soul to find peace and for his family and the boys to have absolute privacy to grieve. To anyone harassing them, fans begging for statements, or the media getting ready to exploit their pain — I hope you rot in hell.

[fabbyf1]

i'm going to log off the internet here in a minute, because i don't think it's a place i need to be right now. but i would just like to echo how absolutely fucked up it is that TMZ and other major news outlets are allowed to post this kind of thing before families are notified.

i am absolutely... overwhelmed with the amount of grief i feel for his family and close friends. it's late in the UK, and this shit was posted online SO FAST. there is just... no chance his family was notified before it went public.

and it makes me sick.

this shouldn't be legal for them to do.

this is human life we're talking about. real human grief. real human emotions. which is so much more important than clicks and views and money. i know cash is king, but my god... have some fucking respect.

losing anyone in your life is so hard, i can't imagine what it's like to learn about it through goddamn TMZ.

please don't spread the news articles. don't give them more clicks than they already have. please respect the privacy of everyone who actually knew him and spent time with him. i can't even imagine what they're going through right now.

and for all of us that didn't know him personally but loved him and grew up with him: i love you. we will get through it together. it's okay to grieve and to feel sadness and to mourn what the world has lost. please take time off the internet and step away from all the repeat articles. please take care of yourself first.

and please, please, please, leave his family and friends out of it. let them have their space, too.

i'm here for anybody who needs some love right now ❤️ you're not alone.

[pathologicalreid]

at least we can always depend on TMZ to do only the most heinous things when someone in popular culture passes away in some tragic incident

[chris-trepidationrry]

Everyone at TMZ deserves to go to fucking hell. He had a 7 year old son who could've seen the pictures they posted. No kid deserves to see their father like that, especially so young

[mothergoddessofmadripoor]

Honestly, Liam's family has the right to sue TMZ as they broadcasted his deceased body for the world to see even before the police notified them first.

Imagine finding out that your son and brother is death from the internet the same time as the rest of the world did.

TMZ should be held accountable for that.

[josephtrohman]

any other former directioners up feeling Weird rn. or just me

[ncutii-gatwa]

tmz thinking it was okay to not only have a photograph of someone dead on the ground seconds after it happened but to fucking post it on their website along with the death announcement is so beyond fucked up they need destroying so fucking fast my god

[kimitoiuno]

[imonabitchparade]

[opportunity-b]

Nope (2022) is actually a film about how show business eats people alive and spits them back out and I'm surprised no one seems to have noticed this? I'm not even being funny that's the actual plot

[cursed-dagger]

nicola payne, liam payne’s SISTER found out about his death theough news online I feel sick to my stomach.

for her, he was just her little brother that got snatched away from her house too young and then from this world, too young again.

and she found out through these disgusting tabloids. fuck tmz.

[jeanjamesb]

EXTREMELY OFF TOPIC BUT HELLO?!?!?

https://x.com/phil_lewis_/status/1778431908503765447?s=46&t=n47a2v7GDKUU6psyBEaWlA

WHAT

[sadgirlzclubxo]

honestly it makes me sad that when a celebrity dies they still dont get an ounce of privacy even in death. since the day that liam payne passed I have learned more details about his tragic death that i feel i shouldn’t know but i do because his death has turned into a spectacle in the media. As a fan but also someone that doesn’t know liam or his family personally, i feel like i shouldn’t know every single little detail and if i wanted to I could look him up and find videos and pictures of his body thanks to tmz. I didn’t need to know or want to know all the details of his death because i don’t want to picture it and it makes me uncomfortable.

the same thing happened to matthew perry when he passed away last year and I know now that his doctors that were supposed to support him took advantage of the fact that he was an addict and sadly eventually killed him. they knew exactly what they were doing.

I hate that i know these things. I wish i didn’t and I wish things were kept more private for celebrities especially after they’re gone.

fuck tmz for posting those photos of liam. lets not forget when kobe & his daughter gianna died in 2020, tmz found out before his WIFE & tmz is how she found out that her husband & daughter had passed away. that in itself is so awful to me.

why do people have to know everything and why is everything so easily accessible?

celebrities deserve privacy & respect too. especially in death

I hope you’re at peace Liam🖤

[promisesbutnevertokeep]

hi so I’m not that big of a fan of one direction, but I do appreciate some songs.

so when I found out Liam died yesterday, I checked it wasn’t just some clickbait and my stomach dropped when it wasn’t.

I understand that Liam was definitely not a perfect person, and he was abusive in his later life, but he’s still a person. And a person that was a big part of many people’s childhood. and he’s a person who had a child. a child lost their father, he will be deeply mourned and missed.

what makes me sick to my stomach is that TMZ posted pictures of his body minutes after. that’s fucking disgusting and ridiculously disrespectful. using someone’s death for press is an awful thing to do and I feel absolutely devastated that people don’t have the decency to realise it.

my heart goes out for Liam’s family, friends, and any fans of one direction, please take care of yourselves 🧡