#at least thats what i think and also SORRY FOR ALWAYS TALKING AVT THIS LOL I FEEL LIKE

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the whole 'dan and phil must be opposites' side of The Brand has always confused me cause they never shut the fuck up about being similar and then people are shocked when they act like each other

i dont think its as much of a thing nowadays because theyve been so firmly tied together as a single entity, and ive talked abt this before but i do think part of it is literally just human nature. you see two things together, literally anything, and subconsciously you make note of their differences in order to tell them apart. i think for dnp they exaggerated their differences on purpose once they became Dan And Phil™, and i think all that PLUS flanderization of these exaggerated traits in fanfics and certain things just being accepted as "fanon" just means, people still to this day have a skewed vision of dnp