Hey, I'm Candice Limb.

And I'm Nadira Gough, and you're listening to I-CYMIMI.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture. And today we are playing high-speed downloads a game where Naderah and I tell you everything you need to know about the biggest internet stories of late but first I do think we need to talk about something that shocked us both this week.

Earlier this week, Roiders reported that Liam Payne, one of the band members of One Direction, died after a fall from a hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Payne was 31. He had

recently been a topic of internet conversation because he went to fellow bandmate Nile Horne's

concert in Argentina. And this news has hit quite strongly with the timeline from directioners

dealing with this mass grief to the tragedy of the circumstance. Pain was

quite young. He had a seven-year-old son. And soon after his death, TMZ allegedly obtained a

photo of his body and posted a cropped portion of it on their website. There are still a lot of

questions left unanswered, considering its early days since this news broke. but Naderah, talk to me about what you've observed or maybe even felt in the past few days.

At first, the news was a little disorienting simply because it was really unclear if it was true, which is not necessarily something that's uncommon with celebrity tragedies on the internet

in recent years, but still, I don't know, just never gets easier and it's still always confusing

when it's unclear what's going on. But then mainstream U.S. sources started reporting it,

and it became disorienting for obviously different reasons.

And then there was the TMZ confirmation with the truly disgusting, unethical,

cropped photos of Liam's corpse with no content warning, and that caused an entire discourse online.

And it was a mess and upsetting and really shocking.

And I think besides his youth and what the group meant to me and my friends and plenty of people our age,

it was just such a short and abrupt end to what seemed like a potentially hopeful future for the bandmates overall,

particularly in the sense that there was a heavily

rumored reunion that seemed to potentially be on the horizon maybe in the next coming years,

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