THIS VIDEO WAS EVERYTHING.
I always go back to rewatch the first one and this one was even more glorious. It’s so wonderful to see how far their comfort levels have come and how far out they’ve been willing to set their boundaries with us. They seemed to be having a lot of fun too. Just an all around great video - definitely the best holiday gift.
I’m really stuck on Phil saying “my dad painted us some pictures” (such beautiful paintings too). When joint couple gifts from Phil’s parents also feature their Japan trip…
Anyway… I loved that this really did feel like a wrap up of the year, but focusing on the type of stuff they KNOW we want (aka domestic bants). I appreciated the meme rating system too - nothing but 5 out of 5’s.
This had me reflecting on the other Joint Content

we’ve received this year. One of my sleeper faves has really become the CAH video - that video felt like a really nice nostalgia trip back through the history of dan and phil and it was just nice to see them talk about things like the sexy end screen dance and their old branding in a more relaxed way.
But anyway, back to this video. I’ve been laughing about the catboy story for hours now. They just rolled up to a private gay club together in FF and got hit on by a bear, then ran away. Incredible. I’m also very glad Dan is deciding to come back rather than wait in limbo for his nebulous dream projects, although I do feel for him that nothing has quite panned out the way they should have. I hope it all still comes into fruition next year.
But ngl I’m incredibly happy at the prospect of more Dan content (and hopefully with that, the continuation of occasional Dan and Phil content)
(Although if he wanted to come back in the form of the gaming channel/a joint channel I’d be very casually fine about that. Some dreams never die

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