Despite being born through live TV performance on the X Factor, One Direction didn't return to the live television stage until September of 2011 when they performed their debut single What Makes You Beautiful on the game show Red or Black. Being their first performance it was, rather expectedly, not their best performance, but it was perfectly adequate. Unless you're an online critic looking for a reason to dismiss the band as trash. Those people seized the performance with both hands, brandishing it as indisputable proof that 1D was a hack band going nowhere. How wrong they would prove to be! #onedirection #onedirectionfacts #fandom #1d #harrystyles #1dhistory #liampayne #louistomlinson #niallhoran #whatmakesyoubeautiful #zaynmalik #directioners #boyband #onedirectionreunion