Twitter Calls for Zayn Malik, Jeremy Clarkson to Switch Places After Both Announce Departures From One Direction, Top Gear

Leave it to the Twittersphere to come up with an ingenious idea

Now that people have to deal with Zayn Malik's departure from One Direction and Jeremy Clarkson's removal from Top Gear, the Internet is experiencing a whole lot of emotions. Naturally, Twitter exploded with the idea that Malik and Clarkson could switch places. 

With both the hit BBC show and the boy band down a member, both could use a replacement, so why not give Twitter what it wants: a good, old-fashioned switcheroo. If enough people rally behind this movement, we wouldn't be surprised to see if a formal petition gets created LOL.

So do you think it's purely a coincidence that both British stars left their day jobs or is there more to it? Here is what the Twitterverse seems to think:

OK this is an idea we can actually get behind:

But was it really that obvious?

This guy isn't even going to play games when it comes to theories:

This person went the extra mile to really visualize the swap: