padfoot wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:10 pm
I believe it's been already talked about here that they're not really giving many signals about continuing the d&p brand. I wonder how the big portion of the fanbase is gonna react to that (imo, not very positively).
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Interesting remarks. It's getting to that point that the knot needs to be untied right? Unless the DAPG has already floated away and fell off the edge of the ocean. If i remember the last livestream well Dan was very careful about the language he wanted Phil to use, castigating Phil for the use of "Hiatus" because of the association with My Chemical Romance. So DAPG is supposed to return *in some shape or form*. But if that's the game plan, it doesn't look like the restart is just around the corner yet.
Yea goodbants... I've been silently waving Dan goodbye since a year or so ago. Living my truth could have been such a nice start to something new... but then Dan never followed up. Maybe all of the talk about the video (was he coming out?) and then the liveshow drama following on it had a negative impact. If you watch his liveshow titled "Oral fixation" where he shows us how in a previous take of the video he didn't even talk at all about "things going in and out of his mouth", you can read his annoyance between the lines. It's not really even between the lines
I think he hated how people were focusing so much about the oral remark and reading all kinds of things in it he didn't intended. Maybe he was testing the water for a more mature conversation with the audience. Maybe that failed in his eyes.
But... I'm speculating. I don't know what it is that keeps Dan from making content, but I'm hopeful he will return with a new type of content he enjoys making. I agree he's on the clock and shouldn't wait to long with making a return - or career switch.
Both of them, for many reasons I feel, are pretty much doomed to become less relevant unless they were to drastically change up stuff and experience a new golden period of growth. Instead of the relative decline that's already shown in the viewing numbers. Like Dan said, you have little ways to measure your success as a youtuber, and for understandable reasons you tend to focus a lot on things like views and subscribers, and risk tying your sense of (professional) self-worth in with that. I think making content you personally enjoy making more, or only working as a part-time internet homo, is the only way to regain that passion and sense of accomplishment that could be under pressure with a shrinking audience.
But I'm holding out hope he'll return. And some form of joint content will probably be part of that if they keep living together. It's not really ever going to be like it was imo. And I'm fine with that.