#i mean well. & i'm happy for dnp that they're doing a tour again & i'm happy everyone's happy

[fryday]

A very unpopular opinion and I feel horrible for saying this, but i wish it would be a documentary way more than a tour....

anon i get you. between the two options, i was rooting for a documentary too!

they've never done it before. they did make the tatinof documentary but that was obviously different from what we were envisioning for the phagenda, which was a sort of retrospective director's cut + commentary thing spanning their whole careers. this might be the direction they're taking with the tour content, ofc! it's just that the documentary format for content like that would've been something we haven't seen before

a documentary would have been more accessible. half the joy i get out of being a dnp fan in this era is the online community we have here. my enjoyment of their content is hugely owing to everybody's posts and memes and metas and gifs and video edits etc. tour tickets can be expensive, and sometimes they don't come to someone's country, and it necessarily limits the number of people who get to experience it as it's happening. (maybe this is me being sad because idk if i can go yet, either! lmao so i'm not an unbiased opinion here.) but i feel like there's so much joy to be had by consuming something together at the same time and being able to talk about it, which you can't do (that well) with a tour

but again, don't get me wrong, a tour is very exciting, and even if some of us can't go, we can always get excited about the things that come with a tour, like dapg vids on tour and instastories etc.!

let's not forget though that they have said that they're cooking multiple things...... so who knows what else they have up their sleeves

[simplydnp]

yes, i also want a video tonight, as i also miss them. but then again, this is what them going on tour will be like. which is why i didn´t want it. it will be like seeing posts from a friend who´s away and being like "that´s great, but i´d rather you were here"

i understand your fears, anon. it's okay, they're valid concerns.

everyone has different types of content they enjoy from dnp--be it actual gaming, the bants, or tours. the 'meta' shifting from your favourite to a different type can be disappointing.

if your fear is rooted in how the community will feel, due to less video content, i don't think you have much to worry about. the fun thing with tour is that dnp post on instagram a lot more, giving us little tidbits of content generally every day. it's a domestic lifestyle side of them we don't usually get to see--just look at the ii stories! and my belief is we'll get an even more unfiltered version of them this time around. as well, with their commitment to not strictly gaming, it opens the doors for them to do a lot more content than they could during ii, cause they don't need a video game that's able to be played on a laptop/phone. it'll also be easier as they have an editor, superseizer, meaning they don't have to edit as much while touring at the same time.

i get your fear, i really do, and i hope you feel heard. cause dnp have been remarkably consistent with their posting since the revival--even better than pre hiatus--so no longer getting full videos 2-3 times a week, for a while, would be a long time. they haven't said this is what is going to happen, but i think it's good to start preparing.

the good thing with this shift is it's just that: a shift. it's not a goodbye it's not a hiatus it's not an ending--we will see them incredibly regularly. so there's not really going to be that 'missing dnp' feeling as much, because they'll be around.

it's okay to miss the video content, it's okay to be worried how it'll change things.

but i'm also excited for them. they seem to really want this--phil's tweet about not really seeing us for 5 years has me 🥺. i'm excited for us--and that's not just the ones who are able to go. i couldn't go to ii when it toured for multiple reasons (one of which being i'd have to have flown to see them), but it was so much fun to be on tumblr with the community while it was happening. there's just an excitement that's infectious. i can't wait to hear stories from people who went! but it's okay if that isn't where you are at yet. take your time. find the way to interact on here that makes you happy, cause it's all down to your own experience. curate and protect it.

[antiadvil]

Do you think dnp hardlaunch is coming ? If so in what way and when?

i keep going back and forth on this! long term i do think there will be a hard launch though i don't think it will be a large part of their content- i think they'll probably get married someday (though i have no evidence for this and could completely be projecting) and there'll be a small announcement about that (if only because it would be better for us to hear from them than find out ourselves). there was a pretty dramatic cooldown on the dan and phil branding directly before and after they came out, and while they've talked about other reasons for that, i do think another one was to kill (or at least stifle) public interest in their relationship. i'm not sure if they'll do that again- the phandom has changed a lot since 2018/2019 and dan's coming out was very dramatic in a way i don't expect a hard launch to be.

will they hard launch soon? i don't know! i saw a lot of people say the mukbang video brought them over to hard launch hill but for me it had kind of the opposite effect because it was mostly the type of video i expected from them at this point. it was less out there than the birthday stream imo. there was a lot of the "ooooooh what will happen" rhetoric that they've been using to talk about the tour already, and, well, they haven't hard launched in any of the promotional material yet, and the more times they don't hard launch in the promotional material, the less i expect it to happen. i wouldn't put it past them to hard launch via kissing at the first show, or something insane like that. i really don't know what to expect for this show tbh (yes i already spent $160 on tickets)!

i am trying not to get too worked up about it because getting worked up about it has genuinely been exacerbating my migraine and i really cannot afford that right now, so i'm trying to just kind of go with the flow. if they do hard launch, cool, i'm happy for them! if they don't, i mean, i already know that they're in a relationship, and i can make them hard launch in my fanfic if i really want them to. ofc i'm not against speculation at all, i've written and reblogged a ton of it, just for me personally at this moment, it physically hurts for me to think about it too intensely so i just kinda log into tumblr and space out and look at art of them kissing and go yeah <3 taht's my boys <3 waiter bring me a maxalt and two naproxen !!