26 Touching Memorials One Direction Fans Set Up to Mourn Zayn Malik's Departure

Directioners lit candles and had mock funerals for the loss of the 22-year-old boyband member

By Jenna Mullins Mar 26, 2015 6:36 PMTags
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People handle grief in different ways. When Zayn Malik announced that he would be leaving One Direction, fans lost their s--t, and understandably so. There were a lot of tears, a lot of agonizing screams that they recorded and posted to Vine and a lot of tweets that involved Zayn's quotes about never leaving One Direction.

He is a lying liar who sits on his throne of lies!

After the initial feelings of panic and betrayal passed, a lot of fans started the grieving process with Zayn memorials. Yep, there were actual candlelight vigils and mock "funerals" to mourn the loss of those cheekbones.

But for some 1D fans, their "memorials" were more like odes to their anger. And we would mock the fandom but we're pretty sure we cried about 'N Sync's breakup while listening to "That's When I'll Stop Loving You." In fact, let's all listen to that song together while we look at some of the Zayn Malik memorials that fans held since he announced his departure:

And then there was this other memorial for Zayn, which reportedly made Harry Styles cry, which in turn made us cry:

TOO. MANY. EMOTIONS.