One Direction Reverse Bang

The One Direction Reverse Bang is a Reverse Bang challenge with a minimum word count requirement of 5,000 words. It allows "any type of traditional or digital art, videos, drawings, paintings, photo manips, GIF storyboards and/or manips, and moodboards. Abstract art/line art, original songs, and poems will also be accepted" to pair with each writer. Art must be at least 400 by 600 pixels in size, videos must be at least one minute in length, and gif storyboards must consist of at least 4 gifs.. Accessed 8 February 2022. 
All participants must be over 18. "All pairings, ratings, and genres are allowed. However, authors are expected to be respectful of the artists’ ideas, likes, dislikes, and rating preferences.", 1dreversebang tumblr. (Accessed 8 January 2023.) You could also sign up to be a cheerleader, a beta, or a britpicker.
==Challenge History==
In January 2017, juliusschmidt expressed a desire to start a reverse bang for 1D fandom and put out a call for volunteers in a tumblr post., tumblr post by juliusschmidt, 17 January 2017. The first post of the One Direction Reverse Bang tumblr account was on February 23, 2017, with a "coming soon" banner. by 1dreversebang, 23 February 2017. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 33 notes. The schedule was posted in mid March, with signups to open in April and posting of completed works to begin September 30., tumblr post by 1dreversebang, 13 March 2017. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 58 notes.
According to a comment by loveleedstolarry in March 2017, the mods were in contact with 1d_bigbang, and the mods confirmed that their goal was to schedule around the big bang to ensure fans could participate in both: "Our sign-ups open around the time that their posting begins and vice versa.", tumblr post 14 March 2017. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 1 note. At the time the reverse bang was set to start signups, 1d_bigbang would be posting completed works for its round five challenge; shortly before round six, the 1d_bigbang mentioned that the reverse bang was its "sister Challenge" and that round six signups would be in October so as not to conflict with the reverse bang's schedule., tumblr post by 1dbigbang, 10 September 2017. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 93 notes.
An AO3 collection was created September 8, 2017: 1D Reverse Bang. The listed collection owners are juliusschmidt, MediaWhore, Awriterwrites, and twopoppies. The collection has one subcollection, created on the same day, for the first round challenge.
The first round had 41 fics completed, tumblr post by 1dreversebang, 6 November 2017. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 406 notes., based on art by 42 fans, tumblr post by 1dreversebang, 6 November 2017. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 149 notes.. As of 2022, 39 works remain visible in the AO3 collection. The most popular ship tags are Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson (32), Zayn Malik/Liam Payne (8), Liam Payne/Harry Styles (4), Niall Horan/Louis Tomlinson (2), and Zayn Malik/Harry Styles (2)., AO3 collection. Accessed 8 February 2022.
It appears that the reverse bang challenge was not run again until 2021. The same tumblr account was used, but a different AO3 collection was set up, modded by different AO3 users. The collection 1D Reverse Bang 2021 was created on August 17, 2021, owned by FallingLikeThis and beccasafan. A discord server was also set up for the second round. Signups for round 2 began in April, with completed works set to begin posting on October 18., tumblr post by 1dreversebang, 3 April 2021. As of 8 February 2022, this tumblr post has 47 notes. As of 2022, 16 works are visible in the AO3 collection. The most popular ship tags are Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson (15) and Zayn Malik/Liam Payne (2)., AO3 collection. Accessed 8 February 2022.
The challenge ran again in 2022, with 18 collaborations scheduled to be posted to the 1D Reverse Bang 2022 collection in December 2022 and January 2023, tumblr post by 1dreversebang, 8 December 2022..
A Tumblr post in May 2023 indicated that the challenge would not run a fourth time., 31 May 2023.
==References==
Category:Big Bang Challenges
Category:One Direction
Category:2017 Challenges
Category:2021 Challenges
Category:2022 Challenges