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1. Why do you get so much hate? What happened? Is it true?

We, along with other update accounts, get hate because of various reasons. They think we sleep with the boys’ friends for info. They think we are hiding “Larry proofs” or that we work with Modest! Management. Those are just some of the reasons. They are not true. 

To explain why some of these rumours are so widely believed, here is an analogy:

I’m not sure how much you guys know about this, but a few years ago a scientist/doctor released a study saying that vaccines cause autism in children. The whole study blew up and people stopped vaccinating their kids and deadly diseases started coming back. The problem is, the doctor falsified the data. He didn’t even misinterpret it, it was clearly manipulated and incorrect so people would stop using vaccines (because he would would profit from the doubting of vaccines). Even after he lost his license and the study was disproven multiple times, people still spread the myth and causing doubt. Now even though it is medically proven vaccines do more help than harm, the rumor lives on. For every 1 thousand times the truth is stated and proven, 1 time the lie is told sets it back. x

The reason I’m telling you this is because it’s what happened with our account. One person started this myth about us working for management, or sleeping with the boys’ friends, and without any basis, the rumor lives on and continues to haunt us even though it is in no way true. And we’ve told the truth so many times, yet people continue to perpetuate the lie because they choose to believe people who dislike us and enjoy spreading rumors and causing drama.

2. Did you block Louis?

So recently what happened is that Louis followed us on twitter, but then unfollowed us. It lasted a good 4 hours. We don’t know why he followed us. We also don’t know why he unfollowed us, but I have my suspicions. (Most of them being these rumours being spread). To answer the question though -- No. We did not block him.

3. Do you do sock sock then shoe shoe or sock shoe sock shoe?

Sock sock, then shoe shoe.

4. What happened with @spilltheteahl?

I don’t know much about this account other than the rumours it was posting about us. Basically, I asked the owner, Brenda, to stop spreading those rumours, and I posted her fan account. I told her I had her IP address. She agreed to stop, and then later her account was suspended (which was completely unrelated to us). We did not post her IP address. I would also like to remind you that her IP address was floating around twitter before I even mentioned it. It is very easy to obtain an IP address. It’s as easy as them clicking a link you send them. 

Here’s what Brenda had to say about it:

“Today 1dradio dmed me with my personal twitter nobody knows, this blog & my personal ig & i freaked out so i asked them to post it if they had proof it was me & then they told me that they were tracking my ip & i really freaked out because i do have a life outside 1d like my family & my job & i just panicked and i exposed myself before they did […] 

(i know people have told me they cant track me but when they had my personal accounts i just panicked)” x

I lied and said her IP address tracks to her house. You actually cannot pinpoint someone's home address from their IP address without a court warrant. The point of telling her that was because I implied I was going to report it to the police. I was never actually going to contact the police, but I wanted her to stop. Posting fake “receipts” about us has led to a lot of cyber harassment, and is obviously serious if everyone blindly believes it to the point that it’s reached Louis. It’s frankly annoying. People may be angry at us for the whole IP thing, but that’s all I have to say about the matter.

5. Did you actually leak that person’s IP address?

Refer to question 4. We did not leak it. You can’t do much with an IP address, anyway, other than report it to the police. Usually, the police have much more serious issues to tackle, so your report might not even be followed up. 

“When you connect to the internet via an ISP (Internet Service Provider), they issue you a public IP address out of a range that they own. You can think of it like a mailing address, it's where the various web pages that you browse to send the information that you request. 

“While your IP address typically stays the same throughout a few days or weeks, it's not permanent, and you will most likely be assigned a new one at regular intervals. It does not have any tie to you as a person, your identity, etc. At most; people may be able to find out who your ISP is, or the general geographical region that you live in, but not much more than that.” x

6. Weren’t you the account that was at Harry’s car in NYC the other day and he wouldn’t take a picture with you?

None of us were in NYC. I think you’re referring to 1DCheckups. We have no affiliation with them. We’re in a mutual block.

7. Do you work with The Sun?

We have no affiliation with The Sun, or any magazine, tabloid, newspaper, any paparazzi or other types of press/media. We are literally 5 teenage girls on twitter.

8. Do you get info from Louis’ friends?

No. We have absolutely no connections with any of Louis’ friends, or anyone linked to One Direction or Zayn Malik at all for that matter. 

9. Why do people think one of your co-owners slept with Calvin?

To be honest, it stemmed from Marci (aka freakywhoran). She knew one of us was friends with her co-owner, (who she kicked off) and then shortly after she started “exposing” us. None of us have even met Calvin. 

10. Do you work with Modest! Management? 

No. We have no affiliation with Modest! or anyone linked to One Direction or Zayn Malik.

11. Are you paid for this?

No. 

12. Why do you stalk people?

I have explained on twitter previously, so let me reference what i’ve already said:

"Stalking" is a very vague term, (in our books) and is used very loosely by us. We do not use it with it's actual meaning. It does NOT mean following/chasing the boys or tailgating their cars. WE DO NOT TELL PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THE BOYS. WE BLATANTLY DISCOURAGE IT. We give them their personal space and send people to public places where they could potentially be. (Hotels, Airports, etc.) We do not give out personal information. We do not send a mob of people. It is the boys' decision if they want to stop or not (if we even find them!!) These "insiders" do this regardless of whether we help them or not. We do not force anyone to do anything. If people want to meet the boys and get our help, we help them. We literally just search on Twitter to see if anyone has seen them. We don't call up their security or friends and be like "yo, we got a few people who wanna meet Harry" it doesn't work like that. We also make sure our insiders are respectful. 

Here are some of the rules we outline for our insiders, that they must agree to: 

“You will not share the information we give you with anyone else.”

“Since you are an insider for us, you must conduct yourself respectfully.”

“No bashing on the boys or saying rude things.”

“You must respect the boys, their families, friends, and girlfriends at all times.”

“Please understand the boys have no obligation to stop for fans. We are trying to help you, and cannot force them to do anything. You are going out on your own accord, and only you are responsible for your actions.”

If you’re curious at all, we are not the only people who do this. Here are some of the other accounts who also have had insiders or insider applications: 

1DWWAlert, OT4WWUpdates, celebhelpers, 1DLittleGang, Confirm1DUpdate, 1DTrace, OTRAThotelinfo, 1DInsideReport, 5SOS1DAlert, the1Dscene, 1DgoIndonesia, 1D_Updates_WW, Currently1D, 1DScoop, WW1DUpdates, LouisWTNews, ZaynJMNews 1DCOLUpdates, 1DUSAUpdate, CelebsAllNews, 1DTdotUpdates, 1Dtrackerww, 1DRockMeUpdates, 1DCheckups, 1D_Swiss_Team, 1DAsiaCrew, That1DWWUpdate

Just an observation. Sorry if we missed you. There are many more. I don’t know exactly how they operate, but we’ve outlined already how we do.

13. Do you post hotel info?

No. We never post any locations until the boys are already long gone.

14. Why do you hate Larry?

We don’t hate Larry. One of our co-owners ships Larry. Some of us have went through a Larry phase a few years ago, and the rest of us are indifferent. If Larry comes out, we will support it 500%, but until then we believe what the boys say and not force any opinions onto people. Harry and Louis are still Harry and Louis, their sexualities and relationships do not define them or change our opinions of them.

15. Why are you so snarky?

We’re not sure what exactly you mean by this, but we tend to get a decent amount of hate and our mechanism to deal with that is to make jokes and be a bit sarcastic. Sorry if that comes across as snarky.

14. Do you like waffles?

Most of us like waffles, except J is more of a pancake person.

16. Do you think Niall’s still a virgin?

Doubt it.

17. How many receipts do you have knowing Larry is real, but you keep to yourself?

NONE. We have no Larry receipts. We share pretty much everything with you guys. Our goal as an update account is to keep you guys updated, and if we weren’t sharing important things with you, that would be misleading. If we had Larry receipts, we’d tweet them. It’s not our fault if Louis and Harry don’t go on the same flight, or do the same things at the same time, (that we know of) but believe me, if they did, we would tweet about it. 

18. Did Harry eat the cookies or share with the rest of the boys?

I hope he shared.

19. Louis unfollowed you because you said fuck you to your followers.

You are misquoting us. We said, “I hope this is a big fuck you to all the people who said Louis hates us” which was obviously not aimed at our followers who support us. I don’t think you realize how frustrating it is to be putting hours of your day into running an account only to be told that your idol hates you. When he followed us, half our mentions were congratulatory, and the other half were people saying nasty things, and tagging Louis and telling him to unfollow us. 

20. How are y’all holding up?

We’re doing well. We’re still running the account.

21. Why is your co-owner application 8 pages long?

We got over 200 applications. We have a lot of followers, a lot of people who want to co-own, and a lot of fake applications. We need to find out how to narrow it down somehow. We also need to filter out people threatening to hack us.

I’ll even break it down for you if you’re really interested. 

Page 1: Introduction to the application.

Page 2: What you should expect if you’re selected to join the account. 

Page 3: Questions (Name/Twitter/etc)

Page 4: Contact Information

Page 5: General Rules 

Page 6: Knowledge-based questions about 1D & Zayn

Page 7: Personal questions (Fav/5, opinions, etc.)

Page 8: Captioning photos / funny tweets 

Page 9: Convince us on why you should be selected.

Each page is relatively short, we just like to be thorough. 

22. Why did you ask about Calvin and Oli on your co-owner application?

Let me remind you we sent out this application at the start of June, before any of this drama happened. We asked this question because, even if you dislike them, they’re an important part in Louis’ life and they’re on tour with him. You need to know who they are or at least be aware about them if you want to help run our account. We can’t teach you the basic things, it’s just something you need to know. We also asked about many other people, like Naughtyboy and Helene, etc.

23. How come you guys never really reveal anything about yourselves personally?

We think anonymity is the best way to keep the account about updates and the boys instead of us. It stops self-promo from happening. It also gives us a separation when we’re getting hate. If we constantly tweeted our personals then we would’ve been getting hate there too. We do occasionally tweet things about us though, just not very often and we usually relate it to the boys somehow. 

24. How can we be insiders?

Tweet us asking to be an insider. We’ll usually dm you. We get a lot of mentions though, so if we miss you just tweet us again. Please tweet us closer to your actual OTRA date though. Now is probably not a good time.

25. Why do you bully people who don’t believe you?

Spilltheteahl is probably the closest we got. (Refer to questions 4 and 5.) Other than that, we don’t try to bully anyone and we don’t expect you to believe us. If you think we’re lying, ignore us and carry on. If you’re going to be rude, we’ll probably block you because we get an insane amount of hate, and frankly we get tired of seeing the same tweets 100 times. If you think we’re being rude it’s probably in self-defense, although I’m aware that’s not an excuse. Believe what you want, although we aren’t lying to you. We aren’t hiding anything from you. We are trying to be as accurate and truthful as possible. 

26. Have you guys been to any OTRA concerts?

Yes! We’ve separately been to Australian, Asian and Canadian dates. No European or USA dates yet though, but J is going in a few weeks.

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