what the fuck happened in BELFAST?

; a long and interesting thread.
there were 80 shows on otrat, 69 on wwat, 123 on tmht and 54 on uant.. a total of 326 shows of their own headline tours and they only missed one show ever, that one night, october 20th 2015.
they’ve performed with broken limbs, recent knee operations, stomach problems, vomiting, chest pains, asthma, sore throats.. and apparently their team is gonna be okay and give the boys a night off because liam doesn’t feel like shitting his pants on stage.
and it’s not that they cancelled the concert hours before. NO, they waited until the very last minute, after the opening act had finished, with 12000 fans on the venue waiting for them to come on stage, to make a statement about the show getting cancelled and rescheduled.
so, what could’ve happened? because i literally don’t think the problem was liam and diarrhea problems.. let’s analyze the day. 7:30PM. 1h 30m until cancellation. louis has an interview with stephen nolan, who congratulated him on the baby rumors. this was louis’ reaction:
louis also does more “dad” interview before the show.. which almost unusual right? like- why would louis need to do all these interviews ALONE only to talk about a “baby” who wasn’t even born yet and just before going on stage? weird if you ask me.. idk schedule a day for that..
another thing that happened, at 2:30PM EST, InStyle magazine releases a very interesting article announcing that louis “is officially a dad!”.. reminder that this is OCTOBER we’re talking about.. literally 3 whole months before the kid’s actual birthday.. 😭
so then it happens.. at 9PM a local venue security guard walks on stage and says: “unfortunately, the show tonight has been cancelled, as liam has been taken ill. while it’s not serious, he is unable to perform tonight. a further statement will be made in the morning”..
another thing to point out.. the rainbow bears were nowhere to be seen. the rbb&sbb update acc updated on the bears missing and some fans got a weird feeling and said the show would be cancelled 10 minutes before the official statement was made..
so, immediately after the statement was made rumors began to swirl in the fandom, online people were scared, panicking, saying this was so weird, thinking this was it they were splitting up.. everything was a whole mess. no official statement was made until 9AM the following day.
dan wootton tweeted saying that he knew liam wasn’t at the hospital in belfast and stephen nolan (who interviewed louis before the show) replied to dan wootton saying he has to interview niall as well, but he was told NIALL was the one sick, NOT LIAM! see? fucking sketchy.
after the cancellation at around 10:30PM niall louis and harry tweeted, apologizing for what had happened saying it wasn’t under their control. louis was the only one mentioning that liam was supposedly “sick”. also, the perfect music video dropped and louis tweeted a link..
niall is pictured having a night out with rory mcllory on a crew member’s facebook page.. interesting.. so niall was pretty much healthy and having fun!
simon gives an interview for GMA in which he states he already gave louis parenting advice: “i just said ‘enjoy it’. if i had been his age and someone told me ‘you’re gonna have a baby’, i’m not sure how i would’ve coped with it.. but he did call me and i said ‘just embrace it’.”
6:15AM next day, a special EP featuring a new song is put up on one direction’s spotify, louis tweets the lyrics of home and the home 🏠 emoji.. so, it literally took him a whole day to post a link to the perfect mv but he was up at 6 in the morning to leak home.. ok, we get it
so what really happened in belfast? my take on it is that it was the day they found out simon was gonna make louis continue with babygate until the end, until the actual birth of the kid and onwards, instead of denying the rumors before the birth.
i’ve always thought this and absolutely nothing will change my mind. i’m certain louisandharry fucking lost it, refused to perform and left the venue because they were told they would have to keep up with that baby storyline until the birth and onwards. important: anon receipt
belfast can also be spotted on the eroda map at the beginning of the adore you music video, together with leeds!
so, to summarize, it was the one and only one direction cancellation that was never explained to anyone’s satisfaction... although we don’t know know what went down i consider the fandom smart enough to have a pretty accurate approach! open your eyes.. end of thread!
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