Liam and his Snake Habitat
in 2013 One Direction toured Australia. fangirls, being fangirls, followed the boys around and waited for them outside the hotel. this was apparently not safe and liam decided to warn the fans:
this fell upon deaf ears (or he was encouraged to repeat himself) as three minutes later he tweeted again:
as predicted, this became a big fandom joke with memes and merch:
and liam also got in on the fun with this tweet:
the other boys also got involved, zayn in particular:
which Zayn ended up wearing on stage Oct 26 2013:
This was referred to again at the Adelaide show in 2015 where Niall and Liam discuss the matter:
And the Snake Habitat legend lives on, as Louis recently brought it up again when discussing his fondest memories of Australia:
❝ Oh my god [Liam’s snake habitat tweet] just smashed it. That was genius, that whole saga. I’m not gonna lie, I still laugh about that now. ❞ (x)