#been years since i main tagged a dnp post

[wistfulvulpine]

I've been to most dan and phil tours (except We're All Doomed bc of covid - i think i was one of the only people who went to TIT with a mask still 🗿) and Terrible Influence might be one of my faves!

I got silver VIP (think I'm past my prime meeting them, trying to be less parasocial in general) and was convinced to submit a question, bc surely mine won't be chosen bc they're only 20 minutes (which still baffles me with how many fans show up for those) and there was a lot of cards in the box.

My question was about the dinosaur kigurumi/onesie bc I was the one to give it to Dan all those years ago...and Dan picked it 🧍‍♂️ I felt perceived in a way that I wanted to shrivel like a raisin (positive)

anyway onto the show (under read more maybe if ppl forgot to blacklist spoils):

I won't talk abt it too in detail bc the tour's only half over, but goddamn, those twinks still know how to put on a performance! it's unfortunate I've become so sensitive to light and loud noise over time, but I enjoyed the visuals nonetheless.

(side tangent to say why did Dan move like that on stage. why did he move like that.)

I'll admit I was half distracted by their outfits bc I'm gay, and Dan talking abt transmascs using pics of their emo cuts as haircut refs made me question whether I did that. uh-oh. anyway! the little dioramas PJ + Sophie made for them were amazing! I love miniatures so seeing them was a real delight (trying to forget the things Phil did with his doll 🧍‍♂️)

I feel like they had a lot more prop comedy in this tour which is great bc physical comedy feels underused these days (or I just don't watch enough things). the B-roll for the boxing match was kind of. well. but I'm mostly appreciating that they can be really good actors when they're in their wheelhouse (ex: dnpcraft, halloween analog horror) and the actual match made me feel like I was watching spongebob and patrick's boxing match akjsbksjdv it was very endearing, and also many parts of the show made me see how Phil could possibly fall off the stage/break something

I'm skipping a few parts of the show soz (iceberg part made me scared bc the rumors could lean either way and their private life is none of my business anyway!), but the part that got me the most was the confessions...Sister Daniel was the only spoiler I really saw before my show (on day one!!!) and she makes me feel the same way I feel about Goromi Majima from hit video game series Yakuza for PC and conso-

I really was not expecting Dan to get so much mileage out of this costume but it's like a partial drag performance in the show 😳10/10

and the musical performance!! I was wondering which genre they were gonna do since the others were mostly show tune-esque, but this one was real dance club vibes, like watching a concert! it reminded me a lot of Chapell Roan's Hot to Go, so there's a new dance for fans to learn haha

god why did I jabber so much...anyway Terrible Influence is a great performance and fans should see it live if they get the chance (and later on YT if they record it)

[badhabitnun]

Hi, Green!!! I noticed in your bio you said you're a post-hiatus phannie and I'm curious, what got you to start watching them? Do you remember your first impressions?

(Sorry if this has been asked before! I hope you're having a wonderful day and also just wanted to add I lovedddd your phasquerade art, it's hilarious and adorable 💚)

-Ser :)

hi ser!! this is actually my first ask on this blog, so i was really excited to see something in my inbox 🥹 and thank you!! posting art is SCARY but everyone is being so nice… thank you so much for organizing the phasquerade!!!

i am incredibly sorry for the Length of what is to come now. my feelings aren’t easy to sum up + i doth yap

the main reason i started watching them is probably the dapg revival itself, since my friends started watching their new videos together in our server, and i got curious and asked to tag along. before then though i’d also heard of dnp from them, and as a long-time (12 years) tumblr user i have felt their influence without realizing they were the source? i now know where the whiskers and “protip” come from…

before starting to watch dnp myself i remember seeing my friends react to the phouse reveal (i remember i was like “huh wait at their age that might actually be gay”), basically i’m gay, why i quit youtube, and dan and phil tell the truth (i didn’t know what a girl in prague was and i WAS afraid to ask). those made me curious! but not curious enough to sit through the videos themselves. i felt really bad for dan from all that though! he really sounded like he suffered more than jesus from the contents of both BIG and WIQYT 😭 i remember feeling parasocially protective of him. this is all to say my impressions weren’t COMPLETELY fresh when i started watching and especially for dan i already had one

now back to late 2023! i’d made some really massive changes in my life, like actual leap of faith, the course of my life has been altered kinda massive, so youtube become a comfort space for me. enter these two nerds! the first impression i had of both of them together kind of related to where i was in life at the moment: the realization that you can just live with a fellow nerd who loves you and you don’t have to follow the path the adult world expects from you. seeing them act silly and embrace everything they love and be so carefree and happy to be themselves, sharing a domestic life that doesn’t follow what heteronormative society demands… i know this is all obvious to so many people, but i really needed it at the time.

they became a reminder that i could have this life, that i have something to look forward to and my life isn’t over or doomed to be what society wants it yo be. their chemistry is something very pure and very real and especially now that they’re both open about their sexualities you can really feel how connected they are and how much fun they have together. it just makes me so happy to see two people adore each other so much after all these years!! god!!!

as i’ve said before i knew about dan from his yearly videos in the hiatus era, but i knew almost nothing about phil! the first thing that stood out to me was his accent, since i am very bad at recognizing accents BUT i watch plumbella so i was like whoa is he northern!! and that was kind of an instant comfort factor.

phil is an underrated comfort video genius like seriously... i was facing the horrors of being stuck at home for christmas with a thousand thoughts on my mind and his silly videos were like a nice patch of sunshine. i absolutely agree with dan on phil’s kind energy; he is like those nice people who come talk to you and actually try to make you laugh and feel more at ease if they notice you’re feeling shy. he kept me a LOT of company and i genuinely owe him for that. i can also tell he’s incredibly smart and creative even though his videos now are more casual; he definitely does a lot behind the scenes and he’s an excellent storyteller. i’ve later come to learn that he has also repressed a lot of things for the sake of his audience and probably dan as well, he really has a good heart. also, he resonates a lot with the autistic experience, and regardless of the reason that does make me feel happy and seen

as for dan. well! once i actually started watching his videos firsthand, dan felt like looking at a mirror, which has Impacted Me psychologically. a lot. BUT let’s get the silly stuff out of the way first i immediately understood why my friend has a crush on him 😭😭😭 like i get it!!! i can never bully them for having a crush again because i fucking get it he’s hot he knows it he carries it well! fuck!

but more than that… he immediately made me reflect on myself. i can’t get into my impressions on dan from dapg without saying first that i have had a similar journey with depression and homophobia and repressing everything and he forced me to face that i still have a lot of work to do. i didn’t realize that just knowing i’m queer and acting on it doesn’t automatically mean that i accept myself being queer. that is something that only BIG and hearing dan talk about queerness and mental health made me realize. so right after the omg funny hot nun, i had to kind of reconsider my whole life for a bit… and i’m still in the process of doing that…

more than anything, i think what i’ve felt and keep feeling watching both his older and newer videos is “god i’m so glad he’s out” and “god i’m so glad he can make art”. i just feel so proud of him, so happy he can experience life as himself, so happy that he can laugh and joke about being gay so freely, so happy he can make the art he wants and feel accepted, and so happy that he can proudly smile at his audience now, after i first heard of him as someone who was isolated and scared. again, i projected on him a lot, and i knew about his struggles beforehand, so my impressions are mostly sentimental 😭

all in all they’ve helped me immensely and made my life so much better, both as themselves with their comment and through the community they created over the years. i’ve been a lurker for the past couple of months and what made me come forward and make my own blog is the way their kindness and acceptance extends to their audience and vice versa :)

hopefully that answers your questions and i hope this wasn’t too much oversharing!! i feel like my current place in life influences how i see them and relate to them, and they also influenced me a lot and that contributes to how i perceive them, and so on. putting all these thoughts into words in one place and realizing things about myself bit by bit was really interesting; hopefully the formatting won’t kill those who try to read it. i’m sorry. i wrote this in my notes app 🫡

[dvp95]

HELLO! :D We haven't seen you here recently and we miss you. How are you? What have you been writing? What have you been reading? Are you keeping up with Dip and Pip these days???? Inquiring minds want to know! I hope you're well <3

gosh hi ! honestly life these days is pure stress. we've basically just finished with immigration nonsense between my husband and i, so for the first time in five years we aren't in the middle of some kind of paperwork or another to beg our governments to let us live together, so the summer was a little lighter until family members got health issues and my focus shifted!

i haven't opened a google doc since january at the most recent, but i did get a lot of reading done this summer in the brief stress downtime - i read some BOOKS for the first time since literally college. standouts were in the dream house by carmen maria machado and normal people by sally rooney, both of which i'd give solid 9/10s for myself. excited about mark oshiro writing another percy jackson book! we've known each other since 2009 or so and i am once of their staunchest supporters. plus, it helps that pjo is one of the main special interests forever haha

i try to keep up with dnp!! my youtube history is almost entirely jet lag: the game right now, which is a series that seems to be designed in a lab specifically for me. i am trying to get everyone i've ever met on board with it, and they've just finished a new season so the offseason is a great time to jump in and see if you vibe with it. the tag across europe serieses are some of the best starting points i think ! right, this was about dnp........ i catch maybe one in five videos these days because they post a lot more frequently than i can keep up with now, but i am putting the ones i miss into a playlist to binge watch when i am not hyperfixated on jltg.

and i'm going to ireland for a holiday to see my in-laws this coming week so i'm currently excited! and stressed. again, always stressed.

how are you all doing?? i do miss being here! and i miss writing!!!!!

[feelingofcontent]

DNP Rewatch: The Top Dan Memes of 2015

Date video was published: 01/12/2016 (X)

DNP Main Channel Rewatch: 296

The first of Dan’s “memes in review” videos and his first video in 2016. Dan had tweeted asking people what their favorites were.

0:00 - the golden pig! I’m laughing that it’s in Dan’s background here and now it’s apparently his life mission to keep it out of Phil’s background.

0:17 - NO THANKS. Don’t need anymore too-close horrifying prophecies from Dan please.

0:35 - I really would have liked to see what that video would have been

0:48 - this is a disturbing metaphor 😳

0:56 - “the most disgusting sentence I have ever said” It is up there for on-video sentences

1:04 - “no meaning or importance whatsoever” that’s usually the opposite of what Dan wants to do with his videos, but he does actually seem to enjoy making the meme videos, at least this first one

1:23 - Dan (and Phil) really could not live down anything vaguely embarrassing they did, especially at that point

1:39 - clip from Dan and Tyler play NEVER HAVE I EVER! I talked about Dan lying about this in that post too.

2:11 - what a fantastic photo from that creepshot war

2:19 - “do you wanna lick that” 😳 He immediately knows that was a mistake but leaves it in anyway

2:26 - yeah, Phil’s glowing eyes in the background are disturbing slightly

2:40 - that photo that flashes up is the same one Phil showed in Reacting to Old Photos! back in 2014

2:41 - Dan is wrong about what video that sketch was for! It was actually his The Internet Is Mean video.

2:45 - yep, this one is Phi’s fault. “Sister Daniel” trended after Phil tweeted that photo

2:59 - I find this one hilarious. 😂 thanks, Phil

3:10 - why did he tweet this?! he had to know what edits were coming. Also, how did he even manage to take that photo, hahaha.

3:22 - that first DanAndPhilCRAFTS video is just so great”

3:42 - “a month” ...pretty sure that reference still hasn’t died lol

3:54 - “...the best video I uploaded last year” Dan was really proud of that and I love that we found out in one of the stereo shows that Dan was the one who edited it!

4:04 - DNP found that so funny they Instagramed about it. That channel still has over 700,000 subscribers!

4:22 - that was back at the Teen Awards in 2014

4:52 - that tweet is still up

5:19 - I love that Dan has no idea what he wanted 😂

5:27 - “I wanna...play it cool” was the tongue thing necessary

5:36 - poor Dan. I don’t think that helped him “play it cool”

5:44 - Dan’s been disturbed by being in teen magazines since 2014

5:52 - ahahahaha, this is amazing

6:14 - I love that Dan just rolled with it. He did eventually change it though.

6:33 - 😂 he turned it into a pretty stylish fall there! Pretty sure Dan is almost just as clumsy as Phil

6:50 - his freckles are particularly distinct in that photo

6:59 - Dan laughed hard at these

7:33 - “me and Phil” also it really is a nice photo of them except for the eyebrow thing

7:48 - I mean, his eyebrow on that side is a little thinner, but not as much as it looks in that photo!

8:27 - their faces in these are priceless

8:47 - they saw and talked about some of these horrifying morphs in TUMBLR TAG 3! as well

9:07 - wow that is a reference to an old video of his

9:15 - still can’t believe he called himself “phil trash #1″ on a panel at VidCon in front of that many people. In 2015. ahahaha

9:46 - he’s brought the twerking up in a couple of videos and does not seem comfortable about it 😕

10:07 - this is one of the extra ones they posted. I love Phil giggling in the background of it

10:24 - Dan may have brought these on himself by talking about how he never exercised so much

10:43 - “editing tips” indeed

10:53 - I love that Dan actually found these funny and shared them. A couple of years before this I’m guessing he would have been more uncomfortable about it

11:01 - “this will never escape me” ...no. But Dan’s still making references to it!

11:05 - I do remember this happening on the internet

11:15 - what even happened in that photo?! omg.

11:45 - “most of these photos were actually pretty cool” ummm...is he talking about the photos he has had on screen? because if so...no

11:49 - LMAO why

11:53 - I feel like they must have been so awkward at photo shoots

12:01 - “Phil gave me this look” I love Dan describing the silent communication they have

12:13 - “you’re welcome” 😂

12:21 - that pose really was just asking for edits

12:54 - “no regrets” ...many regrets.

This might be my favorite of the Dan meme videos. He really did cover all of the funny things from 2015 and seems happy to laugh at himself. Sister Daniel is probably my favorite bit, and I love that is was partially Phil’s fault!

[phlondie]

okay ik this is an opinion no one asked for but now im thinking about the whole dan and phil joint branding as opposed to Dan Branding™ and Phil Branding™. also this is fully adding onto posts on @ browncesario and @ demonetisation’s blogs and i feel too awkward to tag them bc i dont wanna make anyone feel obligated to read this lol but if i repeat anything they said or their anons said its not on purpose!

but like, full disclaimer while i love dan and phil i feel like its always been kind of obvious that they were marketing their relationship to us? obv not so much anymore but like... as much as people who dont keep up w dnp like to pretend that their only awareness of us as a fanbase was creepy objectifying shippers who should feel ashamed for harassing them etc etc, they’ve always been way more tuned into their audience than i think people realize. like they’ve *known* what we’re like, and i dont even mean just the bad parts. like they *know* that a lot of their fanbase is queer and genuinely has looked up to them as queer role models long before they were out, and a lot of that hinges on us understanding they were a couple. and ik they resented it and i wasn’t really part of the fanbase until a few years ago but hearing stories of how dan would react on liveshows sometimes and the like, barely concealed resentment for the fans sometimes shows that while they definitely had issues with it (which like,,, is fair), they also knew they were kind of stuck in a rut. because if their primary source of fans are people who like seeing them together, that meant that their success as youtubers/creators/etc depended on keeping those fans right where they were.

and to be clear! i know ive never been here primarily for their relationship; i started watching them bc i thought they were funny together and had a good dynamic, which wouldve been possible even if they really were just friends. i didnt get emotionally invested in the projection part of it until later. but even so, i was always aware as a fan that they were selling to us the speculation of their relationship.

and this is def pulling from other posts ive seen today but considering the fanfic part of tatinof, the fact that they wrote fanfic in tabinof and incorporated shippy fan art into the youtube versions, giving the people what they want, even little things like the conjoined baking challenge vid.... they wanted us to stay curious about their relationship. Even if on a very real level it was literally bringing back trauma for them, there was this weird cognitive dissonance between “im angry at people for speculating about us” and “look here, dont stop speculating about us! look we’re sharing a sweater! look we’re being ~domestic~ in ditls!”

which is also why i thought the hiatus wouldnt last long tbh, like i was genuinely shocked that after the success of ii they would completely separate their brandings from each other in 2019. and i wont @ this person but someone said it best years ago when they said that joint branding had to die for dnp to come out. bc it really did; how could they keep up the speculation if we have literally almost all the puzzle pieces laid out? when they’ve primed their audience to actively hunt down these pieces (even if again, they would rather have not, esp given what they each talked about in their coming out videos), but they dont *want* us to put it all together, how could they sustainably make joint content while keeping the speculation fanbase there? bc once the speculation is over, people are gonna keep wanting more. (and disclaimer i really dont think this applies to like....anyone i follow on here tbh bc in general i feel like we’re fine w them keeping their boundaries where they are, but we’ve all seen posts like that that indicate that people *will* want more, and thats something that they’re unwilling to give and understandably so).

anyway this all goes to the main thing that brought all this on today lol, ever since 2019 they’ve been trying to cultivate their own separate branding from each other, and while i’m here for it tbh, surely they know that they’ll never escape their old joint branding. Which also means never escaping the spectre of relationship speculation. so i have mixed feelings about seeing dan act shocked that people could ever speculate about his private life once he became famous bc like 1) thats literally just what happens when you become famous, and 2) ....he and phil egged it on up to a point, and that doesnt mean it didnt upset them but it definitely feels off for dan to always be so pikachu face about having had fans that speculated about his relationship. like dan you literally wrote erotic fanfiction about you and phil, pieced together fan art illustrating it that showed you and phil in a homoerotic lens, and yet you’re *still* acting shocked and indignant that fans got invested in your relationship/the possibility of your relationship?? idk man. its confusing bc at the time i took things like that as “oh, we’re in on the joke,” but ever since 2019 they’ve made it more clear that we’re not, but we’re also not *not* in on it to an extent (looking at you, cah phan edition)

so im def still excited for dan’s book (like the subject doesnt terribly interest me tbh but i do wanna see what he does with it and read whatever highlights inevitably get posted on here), but as always w the end of regular joint content, im lowkey here for the over-analyzing about the relationship between dan, phil, their fans, and their content bc dear god we never run out of material to rant about

[willowfey]

hi! i was scarlet anon, and oooh okay so theres like 3 main things: 1 your blog dragged me right into the reddie hype, 2 sometimes in the tags you’ll give off these really cool, really profound energies like theres this one where you mentioned a connection w river phoenix and its the kind of thing where it was like i could *feel* while reading that how true it was, i was raised w a lot of spiritual beliefs that as i grew up i sort of disregarded (1/? probably 4 lol)

lately ive been thinking about how if you feel these energies, these connections even if you cant explain them it can be good for you to acknowledge them and hold them close. anyway i think of that post where you mentioned your connection w river phoenix a lot tbh when im thinking about these things, there are so many feelings we cant explain but i want to let myself keep my eyes open to them and not push them away like i spent so many years doing (2/?) and the third thing! honestly you+a few other blogs have honestly helped a lot in reinforcing how important it is to let yourself love what you want to regardless of what anyone has to say about it, ik for so many years on here it was cringey to like spn and honestly for so long i felt embarrassed to love dnp as much as i do but seeing you so open about it has honestly inspired me to do the same, both on here and irl (and hey to ppl’s credit almost no one has made me feel bad (3/4) about it since then so maybe i was too self-conscious for no reason, but in any case i definitely think you indirectly helped me get over that self-consciousness) SORRY this was so long oof i just have a lot of thoughts! anyway this went all kinds of directions but basically yes in the least parasocial way possible you’ve definitely influenced my thinking over time 💛☀️ (4/4)

god....... ok first of all, LOVE that i got u into reddie, i feel so accomplished when that happens (also yes amber credit to u for getting ME into them agsiajsk) if u ever wanna yell about them hmu!!! seriously!!

i..... don’t even know what to say about “cool profound energies” but agsiajsks thank u?? sometimes i forget ppl even read my tags lol but. yeah. i’ve always been very spiritual as well and whenever i just Feel something i can’t explain, i know it’s true because i just.... Know. and i def think u should hold onto those little connections u feel yk.

and 🥺 i’m so GLAD omg. i used to just enjoy my “cringe” interests by myself or talking to friends but like?? it’s more fun to get to post things, AND i rly want ppl to see me enjoying things and feel they can be unabashed about their interests too!! so yay!! i just like.... don’t care anymore. spn is a disaster of a show i’m aware but also it’s so GOOD in so many ways and i genuinely love so many aspects of it, why should i let someone else make me feel embarrassed about that? that’s what high school was for agsjabsks and yeah tbh ppl talk shit about things but if u actually like them, most of the time no one else Actually cares. it’s still hard to be authentic about all ur interests sometimes but it’s def worth it too.

ahh don’t apologise for the length, ty for sending this!!! it rly made my day. also sorry it took me so long to reply brain no worky sometimes 🤪

[pseudophan]

hi hello this is random but i've started a dnp sideblog since my main is a completely different fandom and yeah but i'm kinda lost bc i've been watching dnp for like 5 years but i never really got into the fandom until recently and i have no idea how to get into it?? like... what are the usual tags i'd have to use for edits and stuff and also i'm v anxious to talk to anybody bc y'all are so cool so uhh do you have a little guide for me? sorry if this is weird

most people here are really friendly (and if they aren’t you wouldn’t know them bc all the people whose posts you see around are friendly tbh) so i wouldn’t worry about that! as for tags i usually use ‘danisnotonfire’ 'daniel howell’ (screw u and ur rebrand), 'amazingphil’ 'dan and phil’ and 'phan’