Dan & Phil Part 100: full-time internet homowners

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A queer author I follow on social media posted a little essay about self-deprecating humor that I found interesting. I struggle sometimes with Dan's use of it, and I found her perspective helpful:

Craft Capsule: Self Deprecating Humor

Here's the quote that I found relevant:

When I think about self-deprecating humor, I often attach it to my queerness. When I was first coming out—or perhaps even before I was all the way out, just one toe out the door—I was thinking about who I was as a person and how I wanted to be seen. I did not, in fact, want to be a lesbian. It made my life (stuffed inside an evangelical, very Southern Baptist family) extremely difficult. So upon coming out, my go-to resource was humor that was self-deprecating. It was easy to poke fun at the things that made me weird or different—the things I did not, in fact, wish to be. It is a way in which many queer people learn to process things. By making fun of ourselves, we are better able to understand the things that we can’t seem to uproot.

Not every queer person forms their sense of humor from a place of self-deprecation. But if my humor started out from this specific site, then perhaps self-deprecation has essentially formed my identity and therefore influences my writing.
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just rewatching the questions video a few times and having some random thoughts that didn't make it into my timestamps:
-I want to know if Phil put the questions on screen exactly as they came in? Or reworded some of them? It's a small thing but I notice there's a few where what he reads aloud is slightly different than what comes up on screen and I'm just curious what he's paraphrasing. And also if for some questions that definitely got asked more than once whether he chose one with a specific wording to answer or not.
-using the close up of the lava lamp with different color filters on it is cool for the background of the question screen but there's a few places where it looks like it has some dust on it and it's annoying me
-I didn't think about this the first few times watching but it's caught me now that with the sexy time question, it was the writing on the body that seemed to put Phil off. He never talks about sending sexy messages or pictures being part of the problem or even unusual for him at the time and while I could've made an educated guess about that already I just,, can't help myself from connecting some dots. :phangoggles3: ok I'll leave
-during his answer to the smoking weed question Phil end it with some really dry sarcasm 'so that was super cool and I enjoy thinking about it.' and I feel like it's a side of Phil that we don't get to see super often, like sarcasm so dry you almost can't tell if he's being sarcastic or not. I love it.
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inanerat wrote: Mon May 03, 2021 10:48 pm-during his answer to the smoking weed question Phil end it with some really dry sarcasm 'so that was super cool and I enjoy thinking about it.' and I feel like it's a side of Phil that we don't get to see super often, like sarcasm so dry you almost can't tell if he's being sarcastic or not. I love it.
i REALLY enjoyed that part for this reason!
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I rarely post here but I had a dream about Dan and Phil today so I feel like I just have to share.
I was in their apartment with a bunch of other people (idk who they were supposed to be) and it seemed like Dan was shooting some sort of promo for his book in their kitchen. There was this white sheet like thing hanging there and he was in front of it with the camera on him. Phil was running everything, telling us where to go etc. I think I was their friend because I got the stay in the room while the others were outside. At some point I was looking in their kitchen cabinets, I guess we were going to eat, and I was bewildered by the fact that they had very few shallow plates but way too many bowls :lol: Also someone (not me, Dan or Phil) was supposed to put on a Shakira costume but I woke up before I got to find out what that was about :lol:
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tinnie wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 2:53 pm I rarely post here but I had a dream about Dan and Phil today so I feel like I just have to share.
I was in their apartment with a bunch of other people (idk who they were supposed to be) and it seemed like Dan was shooting some sort of promo for his book in their kitchen. There was this white sheet like thing hanging there and he was in front of it with the camera on him. Phil was running everything, telling us where to go etc. I think I was their friend because I got the stay in the room while the others were outside. At some point I was looking in their kitchen cabinets, I guess we were going to eat, and I was bewildered by the fact that they had very few shallow plates but way too many bowls :lol: Also someone (not me, Dan or Phil) was supposed to put on a Shakira costume but I woke up before I got to find out what that was about :lol:
Hahah that's awesome :lol: :lol: <3
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alittledizzy wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 1:35 pm
At this point Phil's merch really should be a crash helmet, knee, elbow and shin pads, reinforced crotch protector pants and a full medical kit.
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DAN LIVES.

And is... chilling in the bed in the AmazingPhil room signing books.
Is he really just now signing? Or did he record these in advance and schedule them? I have no idea the turnaround but if those are gonna get bound and shipped out in the next two weeks I'm... impressed.
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Didn’t he talk about signing the books during one of the stereos? I think these stories are delayed and he posted them now as a promo
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glitterintheair wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 6:19 pm Didn’t he talk about signing the books during one of the stereos? I think these stories are delayed and he posted them now as a promo
I think I figured it out - the first story where he says that his book comes out in two weeks seems to have been done now, since he's in the AP bed. In the second two stories he's at a table (you can see his piano) and those surely must be old and he just saved them to post.
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Dan just casually posting an IG story from the AP bed? Like - I know they know we know they know. But I still am really excited about how he didn't really think twice about it.

It truly is a new era.

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god I have so many questions like.. what did they do with the moon room bedframe?? did they sell it and plan to get a new one for the new place or did they put in in storage or what?? since the gaming room is the way it is kinda seems like they haven't gotten a storage unit or anything so is there any potential its hiding away disassembled in the gaming room??

also at first I was like Dan why are you sitting on Phil's side of the bed but I think the video is just mirrored lmao
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inanerat wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 6:32 pm also at first I was like Dan why are you sitting on Phil's side of the bed but I think the video is just mirrored lmao
omg i had the literal same thought and you clarifying this has made my day!! he's legit just chilling on his side of the bed.

i love ittttt.
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rizzo wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 6:28 pm Dan just casually posting an IG story from the AP bed? Like - I know they know we know they know. But I still am really excited about how he didn't really think twice about it.

It truly is a new era.

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It just dawned on me too that the only bedroom left in the filming apartment was the tiny AP “set” since the gaming room is filled with boxes.

Just to think a couple of years ago, Dan casually sitting on Phil’s bed would have probably filled an entire thread with speculation!
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how do you know it's phil's bed? :o
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Levitating wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 9:01 pm how do you know it's phil's bed? :o
It's visible in every AmazingPhil video he recorded in that room. :) It's got a very distinct headboard. that has a metal/mirrored type of edge.

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Lmao my brain didn't even register it as something out of the ordinary, I just thought "I guess they use the AP bed for now" and went on with my day

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inanerat wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 6:32 pm god I have so many questions like.. what did they do with the moon room bedframe?? did they sell it and plan to get a new one for the new place or did they put in in storage or what?? since the gaming room is the way it is kinda seems like they haven't gotten a storage unit or anything so is there any potential its hiding away disassembled in the gaming room??

also at first I was like Dan why are you sitting on Phil's side of the bed but I think the video is just mirrored lmao
They've said they rent furnished and in a nice place like theirs you get a decent amount of stuff if you do that. From beds, side tables, sofas, armchairs, coffee tables, a dining table, dining chairs, a microwave, wardrobes and mirrors etc. sometimes you cutlery and crockery too. I think when they had 2 apartments they probably put the nice rented sofas from the smaller apartment into the big one and put the sofa crease sofa in the small apartment so it looked like that one was 'theirs' back when they planned to only film in the smaller apartment.

I doubt any of the bed frames were theirs, I wouldn't think they have much furniture of their own if at all really. Like those green chairs that appeared at their kitchen table in the recent video in place of their multi coloured ones, I'd assume the green ones were the ones that came with the flat as they're more tasteful and match with the green splash back in the kitchen and the green rounded wall.

I can't say I was surprised about Dan being on the bed tbh, they made a lot of small mentions to things in the stereos like 'we just need ONE MORE ROOM' and tbh I think they forget what we know and what we don't know sometimes.
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Hope some freak out there gets a bloody one <3

Also I'm sadder than I maybe should be about the loss of :DAN signature. Of course his minimalist ass would fit right in with this trend:

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alittledizzy wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 1:35 pm
At this point Phil's merch really should be a crash helmet, knee, elbow and shin pads, reinforced crotch protector pants and a full medical kit.
ngl amazingphil branded bandaids sound fun.
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Catallena wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:50 pm

ngl amazingphil branded bandaids sound fun.
Oooh that's a genius idea! Ones with little corgis and pot plants on them would be so cute!
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Dan really out here dishing up content on TWO platforms in ONE day? Who is this man!
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alittledizzy wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:41 pm Dan really out here dishing up content on TWO platforms in ONE day? Who is this man!
he does have a book to promote after all
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inanerat wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 12:10 am
alittledizzy wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:41 pm Dan really out here dishing up content on TWO platforms in ONE day? Who is this man!
he does have a book to promote after all
I’m pretty surprised at the lack of organised promo he’s done for the book so far. The way he was talking about it during the stereos, it seemed like there’d be lots of sneak peeks, interviews etc. in the extended lead up but I don’t think his book was even mentioned in the student pride talk.

I’ve never actively followed any authors in the lead up to book release before so maybe it’s totally normal to be this delayed? I guess I thought less than two weeks out that they’d really want to be pushing the pre-orders. It’s starting to look like the promo will begin after the book has been released at this point.
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dan's twitter interactions are so impressive considering he's not as culturally relevant now as he was 4 years ago. he used to get like 40k likes per tweet in 2016/17 and now he's averaging about 90k. does the UK general public consider him an A list celebrity or something cause this makes no sense to me ? phil's interactions have slightly dwindled since 2017 and I thought they were seen as equally relevant by the general public over there
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