After Liam Payne died at age 31 on Wednesday, his friends from One Direction and 'The X Factor' reacted online.

Liam Payne's death hit Gen Z and millennials particularly hard. That's because so many of us grew up with Payne and the British boyband One Direction.

Liam Payne's former One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik released a statement on Thursday saying they are "completely devastated" by his death . Payne died Wednesday after falling into the interior patio of a hotel in Buenos Aires, officials in Argentina said. He was 31-years-old.