Zayn Malik changes Twitter handle, fans freak out -- again

It's like he left the band all over again.

Zayn Malik just took another step to distance himself from his boy band past with One Direction, changing his handle from @zaynmakik1D to simply

.

Here's his first tweet with his new handle:

Grieving fans are losing it on Twitter, starting a

hashtag mourning the change.

But this fan site still holds out hope, pointing out that the rest of 1D's members haven't been as quick to update their own Twitter profiles.

And it's showing REALLY desperate fans how to change their browser's HTML to show Zayn's old handle.

Pour one out for @zaynmalik1D, gone but not forgotten.