I haven't caught up with the whole thread, but i want to post this now before everyone has moved on
if that hasn't already happened. I swear, keeping up with this forum is practically impossible, i don't know how you do it
I liked Phil's video. The story was cute and i don't mind the merch. There were confusing parts that didn't really make sense, but i think he just worded them weirdly.
And i think the lighting makes him look more tired than usual (he probably was tired from jetlag, but hopefully not enough to look as tired and sickly as he did).
fakelights wrote:People will still speculate and doubt you, even more if you make this kind of statement. If you are only friends, act like friends! If more and don't want others to know, don't say anything. It's just worse if you do argh.
Excuse me, but i see this sometimes and get defensive, because how do friends behave? Or should i say how are friends SUPPOSED to behave? Every relationship is different (and by relationship i don't neccessarily mean romantic) and unless they make out in public or say publicly that they are a couple, their behaviour says nothing about the nature of their relationship. Hell, i've had friends who i've held hands with and partners i hardly ever touched in public.
And most importantly: It is not their job to portray their relationship so that nobody gets the wrong idea. They have said often that phan isn't real. That we don't believe it (most of us) and speculate is fine, but it's not their problem IMO.
And how is their merch even couple-y? Are they standing too close together? They both had to be on the shirt, logically, would it have been ok if they were printed on the opposite sides? I don't get how that would be seen as misleading. Same with the japhan anniversary. I wouldn't call that a couple thing. So i guess my point is that "couple-y" behaviour is a subjective term.
Obviously all of you have a right to your opinion and if this is how you perceive them then that's fine, but i just want to point out that just because you perceive something as couple behaviour doesn't mean it actually is.
This ties into the shipbaiting debate. Unless we assume they play up their relationship (and most of us agree that they are probably more touchy in private, because they used to be when there weren't so many people watching) i don't have a problem.
To the fake tweets:
Frankly, i don't care how much they lie to hide their relationship or to seem more platonic to the public. It's their right to hide.
I'd only mind if they were lying to hide that they are bad people