Dan & Phil part 32...and what a thicc thread it was

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DAPGOOSE LA is up if anyone is interested
jesus, you'd think they'd upload it within a week of its staging?

EDIT: I'm going to be honest....I'm not going to watch this...what's even the point....?
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it was cute, but now i really have to study
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Just finished la dapgoose, was pretty much the same as London except a few different reject pics and questions.

Overall nothing really new, but good to watch if you have nothing better to do.
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Hey, I liked the LA book tour show video, especially the part when Dan flips off the audience from behind the rear projection screen after being shamed over the "Hi, my name is Dan" bit. It's worth an hour for hardcore fans. Also brings context to #audiogate.
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can someone please timestamp interesting stuff, i am so not watching that beast :lol:
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I watched it from 40 mins to the end, starting with Danger men at work. The best bits were spoiled online anyway. I do appreciate the cameraman deciding to zoom in on phil tying his shoe. NO wonder they come untied he doesn't double knot them! Cute stuff, I enjoy dan's mortified sniffing face. You can real tell the difference between jokey fake embarrassed and actual "what is my life" embarrased.

In other news I have a new avatar! No more Pokemon reference that isnt relevant! #bedgate made it to Yuri on Ice, so I had to use it here :) Watching another fandom scream "They pushed the beds together!!" had me cracking up.
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Watched DAPGOOSE LA and enjoyed it.
- The pictures that didn’t make the cut and the stories behind those were fun to watch.
- The "Hi, my name is Dan" bit was also a lot of fun. :lol:
- It was also sweet to see how excited Phil got when he finally nailed Danger Men At Work.
- Phil demanding Dan to sniff him and then properly sniffing Dan.
- Dan mentioning his grandma.
- More talk about them needing more storage.
- Phil putting Dan in a chokehold
- According to Dan, Phil does not know how to tie his shoelaces.
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Artdefines06 wrote:I watched it from 40 mins to the end, starting with Danger men at work. The best bits were spoiled online anyway. I do appreciate the cameraman deciding to zoom in on phil tying his shoe. NO wonder they come untied he doesn't double knot them! Cute stuff, I enjoy dan's mortified sniffing face. You can real tell the difference between jokey fake embarrassed and actual "what is my life" embarrased.

In other news I have a new avatar! No more Pokemon reference that isnt relevant! #bedgate made it to Yuri on Ice, so I had to use it here :) Watching another fandom scream "They pushed the beds together!!" had me cracking up.

Omg your avatar!!!! i was laughing even before i read your explinaton. !!! 11/10 gold stars.
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Laney wrote:
papierklemmen wrote:
MoonPride wrote:Do you think all these cute moments we have been seeing is their way of saying 'we are together and we know you know but we don't need to actually say it out loud'
Not really... I personally think they just stopped being paranoid that every sign of their closeness will be perceived as concrete #phanproof.
The way I see it, all these cute and genuine moments are just signs of them becoming more comfortable and confident with being themselves. I don't think their purpose in acting this way is to "out" their relationship, but simply to be happier, and if along the way their relationship is "proved" in our eyes because of the way they are acting, they won't really mind anymore.
(<I had to include this somewhere, it's too cute :D )
I think this is both them relaxing and behaving more naturally because relaxing is more comfortable, and behaving more naturally because while they have been aware for a long time that their natural behaviour appears coupley to a lot of people, that's no longer something they're trying to avoid. I would actually go a step further and say that appearing coupley might be something they're consciously choosing to do. Not faking in any way, but consciously choosing not to hide their natural dynamic, because the conclusions people might draw from what they see are no longer conclusions they want to prevent people drawing.

Obviously everyone is free to think their own thoughts and come to their own conclusions, but here is my interpretation of what I'm seeing now, based on what I've seen of everything they've said and done publicly for the last 7 years:
The future they want is a future in which everyone knows they are in a relationship, because they have a home together, they have children together, and if marriage is more than a piece of paper when it's a happy one, they're married to each other, and they're happy. But they want to get there without any single announcement, event, or revelation which is big enough to attract the attention of crowds of people who had not previously paid them much attention. That's what I think they're trying to achieve, and they've got a fair way towards it already. Already there are people finding them for the first time, new to the phandom, whose first assumption is that they are watching a couple, who are puzzled and surprised to discover that "they're not confirmed".

What do I mean by "announcement, event, or revelation which is big enough to attract the attention of crowds of people who had not previously paid them much attention"? I had never heard of Ingird Nelson before she came out. I was only vaguely aware of Joey Graceffa, I'd never watched any of his videos, and yet I watched his coming out ones. In August 2013 Troye Sivan came out, and gained more subscriptions in a single month than he has before or since. source. Connor Franta also has a similar spike in his stats. I can't prove this, but I get the impression that neither Dan nor Phil would want the huge spike in attention that would come from a sudden sexuality or relationship reveal. I don't think either of them would want to be watched or subscribed to purely because they're openly lgbt+ or in a relationship.
In addition to sudden influxes of attention, videos like this one exist:
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Incorrect and insensitive language relating to a trans guy and his physical transition between 1:10 and 2:00; a couple of instances of bi-erasure
Right now, I'm doubting that they'll be able to arrive at the point I think they're aiming for without a single event attracting them more outside attention than I imagine they want, but this time last year I didn't believe Dan would be able to get to the level of out-ness with his sexuality that he's currently at without a widely noted announcement. They've defied what I believed possible before, and I hope for their sake that they can do it again.

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Moderately organized dapgoose LA timestamps:

Going through the book:
2:54 - "This baby that we gave birth to."
6:50 - Was Dan slightly teasing Phil for his stage nerves?
7:25 - "Was that the most fun you've ever had, there?" lmao troll Dan
8:32 - Talking about bad pic of Phil from the day they went jogging.
9:00 - Talking about "bad" pic of Dan asleep.
9:18 - Phil says Dan looks 'doge-esque' in a pic.
11:00 - Emo Dan in the mirror.
13:32 - Drake the Bodyguard
14:04 - Pic of pajama week Phil. From Dan: "Look at Phil, awwww." then: "So whether you're just, you know - you want to appreciate snuggly Phil, or you're a fashion connoisseur, or maybe you're just into feet - there it is."
14:28 - Dan to Phil: "You have a really long foot."
15:03 - Phil vs Wildlife. (Dan: "Something I decided to collect and start was a series of photos I called Phil vs Wildlife.")
15:23 - Dan wants Phil to recreate the squat from the duck rejection photo. (Phil does.)
15:36 - Dan comments on Phil's 'powerful glutes."
16:09 - Phil: "I think I need to work on my nature taming and you need to work on your friend getting."
17:57 - Dan pointing out Phil's "They didn't want the P!" caption.
19:00 - Phil's 'weird room service encounters' live reading.
19:55 - Phil stops his story to comment on how he's using a fake British accent for his own voice and Dan says, "I was enjoying that."
21:24 - The pic of room service food in the book is from North Carolina, which they ate while they were watching the "hold the door" episode of Game of Thrones. Dan: "We ate that then cried for two hours, so that was a fun evening."
21:40 - Things overheard/out of context.
22:21 - "Do you ever get a tingle when you remember that there are ice pops in the fridge?" They agree that was probably Phil.
22:30 - "Let me tweet a pic of your waffles, mine look droopy." Dan says that sounds like a euphemism.
23:17 - They were under tornado watch in Kansas. The theater was the tornado shelter for the whole town.
25:06 - Dan: "We stayed in a hotel in LA after Vidcon for four days and all we did [...] was just go yep, no, yep, no, yep, yep, too many chins, not enough chins." Rivalry trying to choose worst photos for each other.
Photos that didn't make it into the book
26:00 - Phil serial killer photo.
26:20 - Dan peeking from behind the curtain photo.
26:50 - Phil in old man clothes on the floor during tech rehearsal.
27:16 - Universal theme park River Adventure photo.
28:00 - Phil holding Butterfly Wonderland pamphlet in front of horrified Dan.
28:36 - Phil's bruised leg from falling off of the stage. ("That is a meaty leg, Phil.)
29:02 - Phil sleeping in the chair photo. "When we were making the book, you know I said we were in this hotel picking the photos - this was like eight hours into Phil going yes, no, yes, no, too many chins. And he just fell asleep at the table."
29:47 - Phil seeing how high he could jump.
30:07 - Dan in front of Howell Mill rd sign in Atlanta.
30:29 - Dan's post-show cooldown. (Phil says Dan is a ball of sweat at the end of the show.)
30:54 - Phil in front of the marble wall. ("Aesthetic Phil has been born.") Dan says Phil is "Totally working it."
31:27 - Dan in chair at NASA.
32:16 - Dan and Phil in Vegas with pinata. (Dan comments on them wearing the same outfit.)
33:00 - Phil took a pic of a sandwich Dan left on his laptop.
33:41 - Dan on the skyscraper balcony in Hong Kong.
34:10 - Phil selfie with kangaroo.
35:02 - Dan and Phil with the wallaby.
Twitter questions
36:38 - "Q: Have you thought about recreating your first videos?" Phil wanted to but his parents moved house. Dan wants to run as far away from his old videos as possible. Phil leads the crowd in "Hi. My name is [Dan]."
37:58 - Dan flips off audience from behind screen.
38:08 - "I did not have a fourteen hour plane flight to get bullied by 2000 people."
38:34 - Dan finishes answering the question and says he thinks he had good ideas but was bad at making videos. Wants to remake videos but feels like it's good to show how you can improve.
39:40 - "Q: PHIL PINOF8 WHEN?"
40:28 - "Q: is dapgo really supposed to motivate me to go outside?" Dan says is not an agenda, Phil says yes.
41:10 - "Q: what if ipads do not work and you come up with questions in your mind? lol" Dan says the whole thing falls apart, they'd sing Danger Men at Work eleven times in a row.
41:28 - They do Danger Men at Work. (Not eleven times in a row.)
43:16 - "Q: what has been the best review you've got off your viewers about dapgoose?" Someone combined TABINOF and DAPGO to make a table for their food.
44:09 - "Q: Do you ever watch the other make their videos?" Phil says Dan helps him set up the camera then Phil makes Dan go to the other side of the house and close every door inbetween. It was a flashback from university when his housemates found it really weird.
Questions from the room
46:56 - Dan: "The post breaking video Phil branding is here and here to stay." (re: Phil pulling questions out of a turkey's ass.)
47:23 - "Q: Describe each others scents."
48:00 - Dan: Imagine if my grandma watches this video and she thinks this is my career.
48:30 - "Q: what as the most exciting part of this whole adventure?" Cheesy answer: seeing so many people irl that watch their videos.
49:37 - "Q: Make up a dating profile to pitch dapgo." Dan: I am a thicc- I have 242 pages of straight up banter. If your type is two tall nerds at the same time, then thumbs me up. (Phil would go on a date with that.)
50:18 - "Q: Did you guys see your billboard yet?" Yes, they did.
50:58 - "Q: Did you have any near death experiences this year?" Phil had one at the airport recently when he tried to go up an escalator that was going down. Dan nearly blinded himself.
51:49 - "Q: Can you do a freestyle rap about dapgo?" Dan raps. Phil said it was good. I muted it so I'll take his word for that.
52:57 - "Q: Did you keep the guest book from every tatinof?" Yes, they did. Dan: "It's in our house." They're running out of storage in the apt so they took out a storage unit because they don't want to throw things away. "But seriously, we need so much more storage, it's such a problem."
53:57 - "Q: What originally inspired you to go on tour?" Phil says they wanted to try something new.
55:12 - "Q: weirdest or funniest m&g pose?" Dan and the wrestling mum.
56:06 - They recreate the wrestling pose.
56:59 - Dan stops everything to make faces at baby in the front row, and also says he's going to kidnap the child.
57:42 - Audience helpfully tells Phil to tie his shoe.
57:40 - Dan: Here's a little piece of trivia - Phil doesn't know how to tie his shoes. Phil protests this bullying.
58:02 - "Q: How was Florida, Phil?" Phil has already answered this question.
58:13 - Phil has named the turkey whose ass he's been fisting for 20 minutes. The turkey is named Timothy.
58:47 - "Q: What would your headstones say?" Phil: "He protected us from the giant lizard invasion." Dan: "Ugh." carved into the stone in comic sans.
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Hi! I have a question for all of you who think dan and phil are trying to open up and make clear (in the long run) that they are in a relationship without any kind of announcement (like BisexualShoeMarriage, great post btw!).

How do you fit (yeah I'm gonna say it) busgate in this whole puzzle? Haruing the bed situation would have made more sense if that was the case, imo. (I mean, I do think they are together, but I'm getting mixed signals).
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Has the Dan and the wrestling mum photo ever been posted online?
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alittledizzy wrote:Moderately organized dapgoose LA timestamps:

Going through the book:
2:54 - "This baby that we gave birth to."
6:50 - Was Dan slightly teasing Phil for his stage nerves?
7:25 - "Was that the most fun you've ever had, there?" lmao troll Dan
8:32 - Talking about bad pic of Phil from the day they went jogging.
9:00 - Talking about "bad" pic of Dan asleep.
9:18 - Phil says Dan looks 'doge-esque' in a pic.
11:00 - Emo Dan in the mirror.
13:32 - Drake the Bodyguard
14:04 - Pic of pajama week Phil. From Dan: "Look at Phil, awwww." then: "So whether you're just, you know - you want to appreciate snuggly Phil, or you're a fashion connoisseur, or maybe you're just into feet - there it is."
14:28 - Dan to Phil: "You have a really long foot."
15:03 - Phil vs Wildlife. (Dan: "Something I decided to collect and start was a series of photos I called Phil vs Wildlife.")
15:23 - Dan wants Phil to recreate the squat from the duck rejection photo. (Phil does.)
15:36 - Dan comments on Phil's 'powerful glutes."
16:09 - Phil: "I think I need to work on my nature taming and you need to work on your friend getting."
17:57 - Dan pointing out Phil's "They didn't want the P!" caption.
19:00 - Phil's 'weird room service encounters' live reading.
19:55 - Phil stops his story to comment on how he's using a fake British accent for his own voice and Dan says, "I was enjoying that."
21:24 - The pic of room service food in the book is from North Carolina, which they ate while they were watching the "hold the door" episode of Game of Thrones. Dan: "We ate that then cried for two hours, so that was a fun evening."
21:40 - Things overheard/out of context.
22:21 - "Do you ever get a tingle when you remember that there are ice pops in the fridge?" They agree that was probably Phil.
22:30 - "Let me tweet a pic of your waffles, mine look droopy." Dan says that sounds like a euphemism.
23:17 - They were under tornado watch in Kansas. The theater was the tornado shelter for the whole town.
25:06 - Dan: "We stayed in a hotel in LA after Vidcon for four days and all we did [...] was just go yep, no, yep, no, yep, yep, too many chins, not enough chins." Rivalry trying to choose worst photos for each other.
Photos that didn't make it into the book
26:00 - Phil serial killer photo.
26:20 - Dan peeking from behind the curtain photo.
26:50 - Phil in old man clothes on the floor during tech rehearsal.
27:16 - Universal theme park River Adventure photo.
28:00 - Phil holding Butterfly Wonderland pamphlet in front of horrified Dan.
28:36 - Phil's bruised leg from falling off of the stage. ("That is a meaty leg, Phil.)
29:02 - Phil sleeping in the chair photo. "When we were making the book, you know I said we were in this hotel picking the photos - this was like eight hours into Phil going yes, no, yes, no, too many chins. And he just fell asleep at the table."
29:47 - Phil seeing how high he could jump.
30:07 - Dan in front of Howell Mill rd sign in Atlanta.
30:29 - Dan's post-show cooldown. (Phil says Dan is a ball of sweat at the end of the show.)
30:54 - Phil in front of the marble wall. ("Aesthetic Phil has been born.") Dan says Phil is "Totally working it."
31:27 - Dan in chair at NASA.
32:16 - Dan and Phil in Vegas with pinata. (Dan comments on them wearing the same outfit.)
33:00 - Phil took a pic of a sandwich Dan left on his laptop.
33:41 - Dan on the skyscraper balcony in Hong Kong.
34:10 - Phil selfie with kangaroo.
35:02 - Dan and Phil with the wallaby.
Twitter questions
36:38 - "Q: Have you thought about recreating your first videos?" Phil wanted to but his parents moved house. Dan wants to run as far away from his old videos as possible. Phil leads the crowd in "Hi. My name is [Dan]."
37:58 - Dan flips off audience from behind screen.
38:08 - "I did not have a fourteen hour plane flight to get bullied by 2000 people."
38:34 - Dan finishes answering the question and says he thinks he had good ideas but was bad at making videos. Wants to remake videos but feels like it's good to show how you can improve.
39:40 - "Q: PHIL PINOF8 WHEN?"
40:28 - "Q: is dapgo really supposed to motivate me to go outside?" Dan says is not an agenda, Phil says yes.
41:10 - "Q: what if ipads do not work and you come up with questions in your mind? lol" Dan says the whole thing falls apart, they'd sing Danger Men at Work eleven times in a row.
41:28 - They do Danger Men at Work. (Not eleven times in a row.)
43:16 - "Q: what has been the best review you've got off your viewers about dapgoose?" Someone combined TABINOF and DAPGO to make a table for their food.
44:09 - "Q: Do you ever watch the other make their videos?" Phil says Dan helps him set up the camera then Phil makes Dan go to the other side of the house and close every door inbetween. It was a flashback from university when his housemates found it really weird.
Questions from the room
46:56 - Dan: "The post breaking video Phil branding is here and here to stay." (re: Phil pulling questions out of a turkey's ass.)
47:23 - "Q: Describe each others scents."
48:00 - Dan: Imagine if my grandma watches this video and she thinks this is my career.
48:30 - "Q: what as the most exciting part of this whole adventure?" Cheesy answer: seeing so many people irl that watch their videos.
49:37 - "Q: Make up a dating profile to pitch dapgo." Dan: I am a thicc- I have 242 pages of straight up banter. If your type is two tall nerds at the same time, then thumbs me up. (Phil would go on a date with that.)
50:18 - "Q: Did you guys see your billboard yet?" Yes, they did.
50:58 - "Q: Did you have any near death experiences this year?" Phil had one at the airport recently when he tried to go up an escalator that was going down. Dan nearly blinded himself.
51:49 - "Q: Can you do a freestyle rap about dapgo?" Dan raps. Phil said it was good. I muted it so I'll take his word for that.
52:57 - "Q: Did you keep the guest book from every tatinof?" Yes, they did. Dan: "It's in our house." They're running out of storage in the apt so they took out a storage unit because they don't want to throw things away. "But seriously, we need so much more storage, it's such a problem."
53:57 - "Q: What originally inspired you to go on tour?" Phil says they wanted to try something new.
55:12 - "Q: weirdest or funniest m&g pose?" Dan and the wrestling mum.
56:06 - They recreate the wrestling pose.
56:59 - Dan stops everything to make faces at baby in the front row, and also says he's going to kidnap the child.
57:42 - Audience helpfully tells Phil to tie his shoe.
57:40 - Dan: Here's a little piece of trivia - Phil doesn't know how to tie his shoes. Phil protests this bullying.
58:02 - "Q: How was Florida, Phil?" Phil has already answered this question.
58:13 - Phil has named the turkey whose ass he's been fisting for 20 minutes. The turkey is named Timothy.
58:47 - "Q: What would your headstones say?" Phil: "He protected us from the giant lizard invasion." Dan: "Ugh." carved into the stone in comic sans.

honestly just post to say how I am always impressed with the amount of effort everyone puts in this forum, especially the timestamps omg
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Bisexualshoemarriage I have to say I agree with your post, you said it better than I could convey.

I know we will never get anything from them confirming their relationship (which is understandable), but I'd love for them to release a book about their love story in 20 years time for me to cry over :lol:
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BisexualShoeMarriage, I absolutely agree that if they're together they would never officially announce it through a video or some other medium like a book/music video/etc, but their situation is a bit difficult since they are not just two random youtubers (like connor and troye for example), or a youtuber/non-youtuber, who can just keep each other out of their work or social media, they pretty much fused their content together and branded it as "two quirky bffs with no life", so what we're seeing now is a lot of "best friends", "our friendship" etc mentions which, if they are together, can't really be their theme for the next 20 years, can it? if they are together, even if they consider each other best friends too, and if they're still on youtube, calling each other just that would at some point seem ridiculous to the audience, and the audience can be demanding.
has there ever been a case of a duo in a relationship who never confirmed it, btw?
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BisexualShoeMarriage wrote: But they want to get there without any single announcement, event, or revelation which is big enough to attract the attention of crowds of people who had not previously paid them much attention.
Arguably, it is their unconfirmed relationship that attracts a large audience of people who like shipping, so I'm not sure that's their concern.

HOWEVER, I do think they're just making videos for people who like them for them, and making videos that make themselves happy. If they were making videos for their shippers then we would have a lot more baiting.
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Debated not/posting this because it's kind of irrelevant, but I'm feeling slow, a little stupid, and too tired, and it's bugging me: at the 50:58 question, when Phil said he was trying to go up the descending escalator, did seem it to anyone else like he meant (and how they described it) that he almost went down the ascending escalator?

I feel ridiculous asking this, but my brain won't let it go. (Anyway, the latter option is very terrifying tbh.)
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annetamiau wrote:Hi! I have a question for all of you who think dan and phil are trying to open up and make clear (in the long run) that they are in a relationship without any kind of announcement (like BisexualShoeMarriage, great post btw!).

How do you fit (yeah I'm gonna say it) busgate in this whole puzzle? Haruing the bed situation would have made more sense if that was the case, imo. (I mean, I do think they are together, but I'm getting mixed signals).
As somebody who hates busgate and had a little negativity meltdown right after they tweeted those stupid tweets, I'll try to answer. BisexualShoeMarriage, that was a fantastic and thoughtful post that I mostly agree with except for the 'they want people to know' part. I don't think they're making a conscious effort to be coupley and encourage people to perceive them that way. I do agree they just don't mind anymore if people do. No more defensiveness, no more relying on heteronormativity to fill in the blanks in their own words to keep people off the right track (if that makes sense). I really don't think they'll ever willingly admit they're together, or fill us in on their relationship history, but they've reached a point where protecting it at all costs (to the point of lying and being overly defensive etc) just doesn't appeal to them anymore. But it's still only their business.

So busgate. Ugh. I've just chalked it up to them knowing their audience. They remembered Japan and bedgate (can I retroactively call it that? cuz I'm gonna) and wanted to avoid the overenthusiastic Sherlocking (lol great well thought out plan there, clearly...). The YTRed stuff was for their audience, yes, but as it's also something YT was bankrolling and promoting (springing for billboards even), it was meant to attract more than just their core audience. And rather than leave the bed situation haru'd (encouraging the stalker fans to probe and draw all of the attention to it, in turn drawing non-hardcore fans' attention to it as well), they decided to make it clear they were in separate beds. No ambiguity to fuel the kind of attention they've always wanted to avoid (the sexuality-based-only attention by people who know nothing about them, wonderfully explained by BisexualShoeMarriage), they hardcore went the other way to nip it in the bud. But fans are awful people and turned it into probably an even bigger deal anyway. Non-fans/casual watchers probably steered clear of it though, which I think was the main intent.

"But then why keep up the pretense afterward in liveshows/with actual fans"
To that I say: did they though? They called the bus tour 'funny' and mentioned how uncomfortable the bunks were. Big whoop. Their sleeping situation, hardcore fan or not, is still nobody's business but theirs. They aren't going to offer up more information than necessary when privacy is still important to them. Privacy, not being angrily closeted. Big damn difference.
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BisexualShoeMarriage, your post gave me a new perspective I hadn't considered. A real life "slow-burn", because I had always figured that if/when the time came, one event - be it planned or not - would out their relationship. To us, anyway. That is to say that the Phandom would take a dog or a house as conclusive evidence they are 100% together and it would spread like wildfire. But I'm realizing that the small changes (for example Dan addressing his sexuality in his roast) are not something that goes viral very far outside of the general fan populous. The same is likely to happen with moving or other things. We'll all get excited, but it won't cause a dramatic increase in views or a significant confirmation to anyone who doesn't particularly care. I like it. I like it a lot. Thank you for the post!
annetamiau wrote:Hi! I have a question for all of you who think dan and phil are trying to open up and make clear (in the long run) that they are in a relationship without any kind of announcement (like BisexualShoeMarriage, great post btw!).

How do you fit (yeah I'm gonna say it) busgate in this whole puzzle? Haruing the bed situation would have made more sense if that was the case, imo. (I mean, I do think they are together, but I'm getting mixed signals).
This may be contradictory to what I said above, but a bus tour was pretty much required in this sort of doc. In turn, it would make sense to show where they sleep, so there's no haru-ing that. Given all of that information, it only makes sense that they're not going to state loud and proud that they slept in the same bed.

Someone pointed out at the time of #busgate that the way in which Dan and Phil addressed their sleeping situation was made to be such an over-the-top joke, that we can only assume all of it was bullshit. Nobody's waiting to film a rock-paper-scissors with obnoxious, colorful graphics to decide where they'll sleep. It's a discussion that's had privately (if it's had at all). We can assume, then, that if that's a joke, so is the fact that Dan has been sleeping in a bunk for 3 months. Unlikely. They know it. We know it. And they don't risk a whole to-do by revealing that they share a bed.

But who knows, maybe we're all just convincing ourselves for sanity.

ETA: In light of the return of #busgate discussion, I find it kind of interesting that nobody ever notes that in a much more intimate and personal clip with the two of them - in the very same movie - Dan is clearly lying next to Phil in the bed and filming him asleep.
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hi! been lurking around here since forever and i feel a bit embarrassed about posting only to ask this buuuut

[offtopic]for the people who actually bough tatinof from yt red: does it come with subtitles? or an option to put on subtitles or something? i want to translate it so i can watch it with my friends (who can't see stuff in english without spanish subtitles) and i just wanted to make sure they're not around or something (although i don't know if youtube subtitles would be something you can find online ?)[/offtopic]

more on topic, all of this content it's actually helping me so much through finals week! it's so wonderful to have a video waiting everyday after i come home from an exam. let's hope phil's liveshow today (it's today right?) doesn't mean no-video.
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Lyan wrote:hi! been lurking around here since forever and i feel a bit embarrassed about posting only to ask this buuuut

[offtopic]for the people who actually bough tatinof from yt red: does it come with subtitles? or an option to put on subtitles or something? i want to translate it so i can watch it with my friends (who can't see stuff in english without spanish subtitles) and i just wanted to make sure they're not around or something (although i don't know if youtube subtitles would be something you can find online ?)[/offtopic]

more on topic, all of this content it's actually helping me so much through finals week! it's so wonderful to have a video waiting everyday after i come home from an exam. let's hope phil's liveshow today (it's today right?) doesn't mean no-video.
I purchased it and there is a option to choose subtitles for your chosen language.
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Lyan wrote:hi! been lurking around here since forever and i feel a bit embarrassed about posting only to ask this buuuut

[offtopic]for the people who actually bough tatinof from yt red: does it come with subtitles? or an option to put on subtitles or something? i want to translate it so i can watch it with my friends (who can't see stuff in english without spanish subtitles) and i just wanted to make sure they're not around or something (although i don't know if youtube subtitles would be something you can find online ?)[/offtopic]

more on topic, all of this content it's actually helping me so much through finals week! it's so wonderful to have a video waiting everyday after i come home from an exam. let's hope phil's liveshow today (it's today right?) doesn't mean no-video.
Hola! I don't think YT red has subtitles but I hope I'm wrong (I didn't buy the film). In case I'm right, you could try and ease your friends first by wathcing a few deppy videos (so that they get used to the accents, then it will be much easier for them). Anyway, congrats for convincing your friends to give deppy a try, I've been trying to get mine to do it for like a year and a half and have had no such luck so far.

Edit: I was wrong, there are subtitles.

Also, thanks rizzo and fancybum for your answers regarding busgate!
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annetamiau wrote:Hi! I have a question for all of you who think dan and phil are trying to open up and make clear (in the long run) that they are in a relationship without any kind of announcement (like BisexualShoeMarriage, great post btw!).

How do you fit (yeah I'm gonna say it) busgate in this whole puzzle? Haruing the bed situation would have made more sense if that was the case, imo. (I mean, I do think they are together, but I'm getting mixed signals).
I agree with BisexualShoeMarriage's post and the question about busgate has been naging me for a while.

It's possible that it's due to it being a youtube red project, something new for them, potentially different audience and expectations leading to more caution (while at the same time making it clear to their invested fanbase that it's a joke). People have mentioned the YTR movies feel different than their regular content and I agree - it's more american? I dont know how else to describe it.

Also the doc was clearly a part of the whole tatinof universe, which played up the whole best bros stick. And all the open- and casualness lately began right after the tour and all it's gimmicks ended (with the eu leg being a belated thing).


Kinda related: the mention of storage again in DAPGOOSE LA makes me buy even more into the theory that they will move in the near future, which in turn makes normalizing of their relationship now even more plausible.


edit: looks like phil's gonna be live soon!
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annetamiau wrote:Hi! I have a question for all of you who think dan and phil are trying to open up and make clear (in the long run) that they are in a relationship without any kind of announcement (like BisexualShoeMarriage, great post btw!).

How do you fit (yeah I'm gonna say it) busgate in this whole puzzle? Haruing the bed situation would have made more sense if that was the case, imo. (I mean, I do think they are together, but I'm getting mixed signals).
There are advantages and disadvantages to every choice. People wanted a tour bus tour. They gave us a tour bus tour. It would have been pretty odd to go through the whole documentary without any footage of the tour bus. If they had shown footage of the tour bus and not done a tour of said bus, people would have been disappointed. If they had done a bus tour and completely ignored the fact that they had to sleep on said bus, it would have looked pretty odd. They would also have pretty much endless speculation (in places other than idb) about who slept where.
hypothetical youtube commenters wrote:They didn’t say who slept where. Does that mean they shared a bed?
See the Dan and Phil sign on the door, what if there’s a double bed back there?
No way! All tour busses have bunk beds everyone knows that.
Actually, I looked up a load of bus companies last night and some of them do do double rooms.

Well clearly they’re hiding something, what if they’re hiding a relationship?
Shhhhh guys remember not to mention the secret video!
What secret video?
NOOO Dan doesn’t want us to talk about this!
They’re just friends, remember they said so, also Dan’s straight.
Speculation is going to be unavoidable if they’re leaving the audience to figure things out for themselves, but that doesn’t mean they like speculation enough to want it to overshadow a project they poured their hearts into for two whole years.

I think the key phrase in that question is “in the long run”. They want to get to a place in which everyone knows eventually. They have to go at a pace they’re comfortable with. They have every reason to not rush this. They chose, for the sake of a youtube red documentary, to put the question to bed (lol unintended pun) and say they slept separately. But notice the tone. It’s a joke. That whole section is a huge joke to them, and I think they were hoping we’d laugh along. This isn’t going to hold them back from implying bed sharing later if they want to.

(In the time it took me to write this, rizzo and fancybum made some of my points for me, but I’m not going to re-write this whole post)
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