Yes, they *say* they're just bandmates...

Best friends, even. But "Directioners" — as their emphatic fans so name themselves — aren't so easily convinced. The evidence of inter-1D love and lust, well-documented by fans hungry for the big gay truth, is hard to refute. Sure, it might just be surging pubescent hormones. Or innocent displays of European man-on-man affection. Or, I don't know, some kind of elaborate, cruel, taunting joke.

BUT I BELIEVE THIS LOVE IS REAL.

Here, a definitive ranking of which 1D-on-1D romance is likeliest, based on such scientific measures as they held hands one time and also touched each other's butts.

This is science, and therefore irrefutably true. To begin...