#WIQY

[personthattoleratesme]

All of Dan’s major solo things have Phil in the credits… if you even care

[viewerspookyhappenings]

my sister introduced me to dnp in 2011 and she dropped off around 2013 so it is only right that i made her do the acronym breakdown

based ingenious goals and dil is the littlun are my personal faves

[goldenpinof]

I’m out of the loop with the Dan is not ok thing so didn’t even know what it actually was about until recently. Was the point that it’d be an au where he’d be unhappy? With no embracing his sexuality/being a lawyer ect, Or is it meant to show Dan as happy and successful in this reality or do we not actually know? Knowing Dan it’d have some kind of deep meaning/message at the end but I’m not sure what the meaning was, do we know? To show even if he took this alternative route through life he would have not been happy or authentic maybe?

watch "why i quit youtube", i'm begging you. you can open the transcript if you're on a desktop and search (Ctrl+F) for "girlfriend". it should take you to a segment where he explains the show, just scroll a bit up on the timeline. but honestly, i hope you watch the whole video. Dan will probably reference this shit someday, so it will be easier to understand what he means.

[silaswhatever]

[itgirlgyu]

bout to be a goddamn military wife AGAIN!

[swiftlydnp]

FUCKING FINALLY

[soulmatesclub]

dan howell defense squad but unironically

[momhowell]

what would be cool about a documentary is that it would really fulfill both dan's desire to yap and tell his perspective on a story (see: big and wiqy) and also phil's desire to storytell/do something creative on top of doing everything else people have already mentioned like commemorating all they've been through and celebrating where we are now

[thinking-emoji]

Phannie acronym/initialism* dictionary

*no i'm not getting into what counts as an acronym or an initialism. I'm also not telling you how to pronounce any of these

Please refer to the original version of this post to check for updates!

7SC: 7 Second Challenge

AP: AmazingPhil

ATF: Above the Fray, former management agency

atiwttmotiimpaowwmtf: And this is when, through the magic of the internet, I met Phil. And obviously, we were more than friends...

BFTD: Back from the Dead

BIG: Basically I’m Gay

BWAGFEO: Basically We Are Gay For Each Other

BWYBMS: Better With You By My Side

COTY: Coming Out To You

D&P: Dan and Phil

DAP: Dan and Phil

DAPB: DanAndPhilBEATS

DAPC: DanAndPhilCRAFTS

DAPFTTT: Dan and Phil Finally Tell the Truth

DAPG: DanAndPhilGAMES

DAPGO: Dan and Phil Go Outside

DAPGOOSE: Dan and Phil Go Outside On Stage Event

DAPWEPINOF: Dan and Phil watch every phil is not on fire (sic)

DD: Dystopia Daily; rarely: The Drug Deal

DILM: Dan is leaving me

DINI: danisnotinteresting

DINK: 1. dumb twink; 2. double/dual income, no kids

DINKWAD: double/dual income, no kids, with a dog

DINOF: danisnotonfire

DINOK: Dan is not Ok

DITL: Day in the Life

DJH: Daniel James Howell

DnD: Daniel and Depression; in our circles rarely: Dungeons and Dragons

DnP: Dan and Phil

DNPB: DanAndPhilBEATS

DNPG: DanAndPhilGAMES

dnptwt: Dan and Phil twitter, the twitter phandom

DvP: Dan vs. Phil

DvPHTSD: Dan vs. Phil Hometown Showdown

ETVAHTCTE: Embrace the void and have the courage to exist

FDITL: Festive Day in the Life

FFVII: Final Fantasy VII

GDM: gays do maths

FFXIV: Final Fantasy XIV

GANP: Gay and Not Proud

GG: Guru Gossiper; old forum site with dnp threads

GTPWTW: Giving the People What They Want

GwF: Golf with Friends

HEH: Heart Eyes Howell

HL: Hard launch

HTBYFIS: How To Befriend Your Favourite Internet Stars

IDB: In Depth Bants

IGTOHGMMWGHTHBWPOTC: I got the octopus, he's gonna marry me, we're gonna have tentacle hooked babies with parrots on the crib

II: Interactive Introverts

IOM: Isle of Man

ISG: Internet Support Group

IT: InterTalent

IT2: It Takes Two

KTANE: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

LAP: LessAmazingPhil

LEL: Love Eyes Lester

M&C: Martyn and Cornelia

MINO: mullet in name only

NBSII: No But Seriously Imagine It

PCOU: Post Coming Out Universe

PGPIA: Post gay Phan in Australia

PHA: public horse announcement

PINOF: phil is not on fire

PMAVEDFAW: Phil makes a video every day for a week

PML: Philip Michael Lester

PPA: Phan Porn Addiction

PSL: Pumpkin Spice Latte

RPF: Real Person Fiction; rarely: Roleplay F...iction???

SAP: SuperAmazingProject

SGF: Saying Goodbye Forever

SSAYWD: some shit a youtuber would do (dystopia daily segment)

SWWTTY: Something we want to tell you

TABINOF: The Amazing Book is Not on Fire

TATINOF: The Amazing Tour is Not on Fire

TIIH: The Internet is Here

TIT: Terrible Influence Tour

TTLMT: Trying to Live My Truth

TTSTWMG: Trying to See Things Without My Glasses

UTA: United Talent Agency

VPDO: Viewers Pick Dan's Outfits

VPMO: Viewers Pick My Outfits

WAD: We’re All Doomed

WDAPTEO: What Dan and Phil text each other

WITL: Week in the life

WIQY: Why I Quit YouTube

WWWY: When We Were Young festival

YWGTTN: You Will Get Through This Night

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[anne20055]

i saw a post about the change that dan has gone on and becoming better about taking himself so seriously and i couldn’t agree more!!

i see a lot of myself in dan when it comes to his need to just be “better”, even without necessarily knowing what “better” means, and it’s a very harmful and emotionally draining feeling to have, as when it comes down to it, the “better” idea will always change, and you will keep on needing to get “better” without seeing how far you’ve already came. and that’s what i feel like dan is thinking when he says stuff about hating making “easy” content. logically, the content being made isn’t “easy”, and i think dan logically knows that, but he puts himself on a pedestal (not in an “i’m better than you” way; in an “if i don’t make something emotionally taxing then i’m a failure” way) and all logic goes out the window.

but like the other post said, he’s trying to get over that, and i think the gaming channel coming back is helping him a lot. in WIQY and in top dan memes of 2022, he mentions how much he loved the gaming channel and how much fun he had, but felt like he should have been doing more, without even truly knowing what “more” means.

also in top dan memes when talking about dystopia daily, he says “…and finally get over my own pretentious ego and make some fucking content” which i feel like really tells what he was feeling.

while i obviously don’t know him, id be willing to bet that he used to feel like he had to be “better” and is trying to get over that, and the gaming channel comeback is how he is doing it :)

[soulmatesclub]

dan worked with this director on WIQY and also the documentary on his london marathon journey (that was never released and i am still desperate to watch someday) 👀🫶🏻

dan just followed a london based film director and a film sound producer…is wad film imminent

[phannieconfessions]

in the first mukbang phil tells dan that people just want him to be happy and dan laughs like its not true and that has always made me sad because i thought that the fans would just want him to be happy and make what he wants to make. but reading the things people say about the wad era makes me realize that that's not true at all

some people seem to have some kind of resentment toward dan just because he had the audacity to do something outside of dan & phil content. he was creating things that he was proud of and cared a lot about, and hes said that wad basically saved his life because it was such a good experience for him and the material was so important to him that he wanted to share it. he was clearly happy and making the content he wanted to make during that time, so i cant understand why people who claim to be fans of him take issue with it. he even explained in wiqy that he was trying so hard to make content so that he wouldnt just disappear off the face of the earth for years but he got screwed multiple times. i dont understand at all how some fans are mad that he was making the things that he wanted to make. it almost makes me feel like im missing something because people seem to be so bitter about it but everyones complaints seem to boil down to the fact that he was making the content that he wanted to make instead of the content that they wanted him to make. i know the hiatus was hard to get through for us but shouldn't it be enough that dan was making passion projects at that time?

also i think some people should really pay attention to his video about parasocial relationships because he articulates himself so well about how he feels about it and some people seem to just ignore it

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[goldenpinof]

swearing = caring

[blossoms-phan]

why do people say WAD was their ‘fix it baby’?

this is such a fascinating question and once again, I love receiving asks like this makes me feel like a true blogger!! i hope this isn’t one of those ones that got asked to 50 other blogs and I’m embarrassing myself rn but oh well

soo I’ll preface this by saying I’ve never heard this exact phrasing before and I wasn’t suuper involved in phandom spaces during the wad era so most of what I know about people’s opinions of the show and that like 2022 ish time comes from posts resurfaced on here around the rerelease this year and lurking on indepthbants. i can’t tell if this is an entirely serious question or in a joking way bc a “fix it baby” in normal context would be like an unhappy married couple deciding to have a baby in hopes that it’ll repair their relationship or bring some joy back into their lives right? so is the implication that dnp were “unhappy”?

im really going to try to not yap so in my personal opinion, I’ve always said that I think wad was not only important for dan as an individual to take on this project that was entirely by and for him, after the letdown of dinok and wiqy, to just do something outside of YouTube that would fulfill him creatively and like, get outside? he emphasized that the tour lifestyle and keeping busy and just having a good time “saved his life” in his words and I think after 13 years of having an admittedly codependent relationship, it was not only healthy and good for Dan to go on this tour but also for their relationship. sounds dramatic bc it is, it was literally 2 and a half months and it was carefully planned so dan would return for phil’s birthday and Christmas and all that. i think post-pizza mukbang 2 and hiatus we’re able to look back at the 2020-22 period with a little more insight: they were locked up in a tiny apartment for like a year together, “wanted to kill each other” was said many times (obv I don’t think they really struggled or fought as this was mostly said jokingly but it must’ve been rough), then it was kind of that “transitionary period” of their lives with moving and dan’s book and phil’s health issues, then dystopia daily was happening alongside wad but again. even during the lack of “joint content” or hiatus they were always together. there’s an old cactus club post from like 2022 I think where Phil talks about being a producer on dystopia daily and coming back from a summer break and trying to manage his health and I think even during the time where he was floating around feeling “lost” in his words he found comfort in doing creative stuff with dan behind the scenes like that. also if pictures could prove anything, dan had an amazing time on tour just travelling and having fun experiences and being able to be more open about his sexuality and confidence and even though phil dyed some stuff green he spent a lot of time with friends and family and I think he needed that time to just kind of slow down and it was good for both of them. if the texting videos prove anything they were in constant communication, I don’t doubt for a second phil “remote crisis manager” didn’t spend hours on the phone with Dan despite having other people around him bc they’re each others person always, and they went on a trip to Japan like. immediately after the tour ended as well.

so I think wad was good for them but I don’t think it was their “fix it baby” because they didn’t need one. they were always going to be ok

[itgirlgyu]

missing those days when it was easier to escape a stan loona tweet than seeing those txt six feet tall edits i NEED THOSE DAYS BACK!!!!

[otamotone-dnp]

especially after wiqy and finding out just how bad he had been struggling and to see how far he’s come in the past couple years truly makes me so emotional i love him so much

yes!!! 😭 I regularly think about the parts of BIG where he talks about his lowest points with his mental health and internalized homophobia and then tear up a little thinking about how far he has come and how he has grown into himself and accepted himself…it’s so special. plus the fact that he seems to be enjoying youtube and dapg after WIQY, I love it sm