Hi I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Candice Lim and you're listening to Icy Y-M-I in case you

listed Slates Podcast about Internet culture andace, we have to commemorate an international holiday that happened nine years ago this week.

An event that I will be celebrating, thinking about considering the

implications of for the rest of my life.

This This week is the nine year anniversary of Zayin Malik leaving one direction.

Mm-Malais, moment over. Moment of silence? Moment of Silence.

So true.

In 2015, after the release of One Direction's fourth album,

Creatively titled Four,

there were rumors that Zain had become overwhelmed

stress and was having some issues on tour,

and he ended up sitting out their shows in Asia.

And then on March 25, 2015, he announces he's leaving the whole thing. He's pulling a

Beyoncé and I don't know about you but this was seismic for me I truly believe that everyone knows where they

were and who they were when they found out Zane was leaving one direction It was like finding out Nick Jonas had diabetes. You know, the

girlies, we were hit hard. Yes. But let's get back to the facts. Candace, where were you when you found out, Zane left one direction?

So I was in high school and I actually was on a spring break trip with my friends in

San Diego.

I think the funniest thing in remembering this moment

is that a lot of people were like not on Spring Break,

they were in school.

And so this Facebook post hits

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