One Direction Is Following Zayn Malik on Twitter Again and Fans Are Losing It

In these rather dark times, One Direction fans have found a ray of light: The 1D guys are all following Zayn Malik on Twitter once again.

Eagle-eyed Directioners noticed that Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson — as well as the official One Direction Twitter account — are all now part of Malik’s 28.5 million followers. It’s unclear exactly when all of those follows happened (or when the guys had previously unfollowed Malik), but the development certainly has fans in a frenzy.

Hashtags like #OneDirectionReunion and a more timely #1DOnlineConcertStayAtHome have flooded Twitter recently, with several fans rounding up hints of a reunion beyond the guys re-following Malik, who left the group in 2015. Others are taking to Twitter to simply freak out: «I’m not sure what to do with myself,» one fan wrote in all caps, adding, «if this is real help me.»

ONE DIRECTIONS TWITTER ACCOUNT RESIZED THEIR TWITTER ACCOUNT AND THE GUYS FOLLOW ZAYN AGAIN AND APPLE MUSIC CHANGED THE PICTURE TO OT5 AND IM NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF IF THIS IS REAL HELP ME

— ari 🌹 (@indecisiveari) April 13, 2020

https://twitter.com/zerrienthusiast/status/1249601575481303041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1249601575481303041&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fcolumns%2Fpop%2F9356904%2Fone-direction-follows-zayn-malik-twitter-fan-reactions

me seeing that zayn might be coming back to one direction & that #OneDirectionReunion is trending pic.twitter.com/laywWaTfwX

— fiza👸🏽 (@fizzz_i) April 13, 2020

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