Following the unexpected death of Liam Payne, family, friends, fans and loved ones have taken to social media with an outpouring of emotional tributes. As reports broke that the One Direction alum died at age 31 on Wednesday when he fell from the balcony of his Buenos Aires,

The X Factor, the talent show that launched One Direction with members Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson, is mourning the loss of the late singer.On

One Direction was one of the last boy bands from the age of mass-audience linear television and one of the first of the social media era