About

Dads at One Direction Concerts is a photo series which features the fathers of young One Direction fans at One Direction concerts with expressions of obvious sadness at being taken along.

Origin

On August 11th, 2013, Imgur user jlct posted an image gallery^[2] titled "Dads of the One Direction Concert" which featured pictures of middle aged men looking bored and uncomfortable in the midst of excited teenage girls attending a One Direction concert. Within a year the gallery gained over 920,000 views. The same day redditor jlctjlct added the album to the r/pics^[3] subreddit. As of September 2014, the submission has gained over 4,000 points.

Spread

On August 12th, 2013, the photos were covered by The Huffington Post^[4]. The following day several sites covered the collection including Buzzfeed^[5] and CNN.^[6] On August 20th, 2014, Nashville Scene^[1] posted a new group of photos of depressed dad's at a One Direction concert titled "Sad Dads at One Direction." On September 6th, redditor PaperkutRob submitted the collection to the r/funny^[8] subreddit, within 48 hours the collection gained over 3,000 points. Also on September 6th the collection was covered by Buzzfeed.^[7] The following day it was covered by Cosmopolitan.^[9]

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