I will never forget the level of hate spouted towards Liam for attending Niall’s show.
I will never forget how we begged people to be kind and to stop hating on Liam.
Or how this picture that’s used was shared by UA’s with Liam taken out of it.
I will never ever forgive the people who made Liam’s last days on this earth so full of hate and vileness and caused him so much pain for merely existing and for loving his friends loudly.
It absolutely destroys me thinking back to then and thinking back to how much hate was thrown at Liam, only for him to loose his life just days later.
Do better people and remember celebs are real people with real feelings. All Liam wanted was to be loved and instead the masses hated him and belittled him and abused him.
So now the "Lovers" are emotional because Niall is releasing a song about loss, about losing a close friend, losing Liam. Now it’s tears, now it’s "we miss him", now suddenly it all means something deeper.
But it’s impossible not to remember how Liam was treated at that exact same time.
Because when he showed up at Niall’s show, he got called an attention seeker for doing what he has ALWAYS done… interacting with fans, taking time, smiling, being kind, being present. That was never something new, that was always Liam.
And somehow that still got turned into something negative.
People said he was "stealing attention" from Niall, just for supporting his own bandmate, for singing along, for actually enjoying being there. As if he wasn’t allowed to exist in that space, as if he didn’t belong there.
And it didn’t stop there.
He got mocked for it. Called embarrassing, weird, annoying, desperate… turned into a joke just for being himself in a place where he should have felt comfortable.
And the edits were there too.
Cropping him out of that selfie, erasing him like he didn’t belong, like he wasn’t part of that same era people are now suddenly emotional about. Like he wasn’t part of that history at all.
That wasn’t one person either. That wasn’t one comment. That was a pattern. The timing is what makes it sit even heavier.
Because this wasn’t years ago, even though it always happened, for years. This wasn’t something people can say they "grew out of". This was days before he passed. Days!!!!!
All of that criticism, all of those comments, all of that energy… while he was just there, supporting his friend, enjoying the moment and being the same person he has always been with fans.
And now suddenly everything shifts. Now it’s emotional. Now it’s "we miss him". Now it’s tears all over the timeline like you weren’t the SAME people dragging him days before.
Be so serious.
Because this switch up is insane. You went from calling him attention seeking, embarrassing, desperate… to acting like you always cared, like you always saw his heart, like you always appreciated him.
No you didn’t.
You mocked him for being kind. You dragged him for interacting with fans. You turned him into a joke for showing up and supporting someone he loved. And some of you even went as far as erasing him completely, like he didn’t belong there at all and now you want to sit here and cry about him?
Now you want to act like you lost something? You didn’t treat him like he mattered when he was here. So don’t act like you valued him now. Because missing him now doesn’t suddenly rewrite what you said, what you posted, how you treated him. That doesn’t disappear just because the tone changed.
The truth is simple. You didn’t care then. And now it’s too late to pretend you did.
#JusticeForLiam
we took a polaroid
you signed your name upon it
I put it in my wallet
hoping I'd see your face again
we took a Polaroid
captured the look in your eyes
it's only a matter of time
before it starts fading.
#Polaroid