Timestamps for Phil's video:
0:45 “ready to start OUR new healthy LIFES”
ehhhhh, where’s Dan’s involvement in the gym? Were you the guinea pig
1.00 I can’t believe he’s using the pastel edits wig for the character lmao, is this Dan’s alter pastel ego? Is he also a gym buff?
1. 26 where’s Phil’s ass?
1.28 Phil complaining about weird feet people wanting pictures of his feet online? Jokes on him, he delivers it himself [me taking screenshot]
2.53 “I wanted death.” And side eyed soft chuckle. Things like this remind me of when people discuss whether Phil engages in Dan’s negativity and pessimistic outlook on life, something like this reminds me of how much he genuinely is like Dan in personality, more than people realize.
3.14 I really want to see Phil doing a burpee. I confirm, they’re hell, I would rather go jogging for an hour straight than do only twenty.
3.20 “He get’s into, like, a press up position on the floor and kicks his legs forward and back like a frog on loads of drugs, and then he asks me to get down on the floor with him. And obviously being Phil, I do.” Who needs context?? Also, this is a good prompt for a fic, just sayin’.
4.50 I like that Phil visualizes the universe as a giant Unicorn. Very Stephen King-esque of him.
5.03 I like that Phil is very open about Leon, the hunky personal trainer.
I ship it.
6.00 He describes sitting on the floor and trying to recover
“emotionally and physically”, this sounds stupid but I kind of wish he would go into more detail with this kind of self-anguish, it’s the kind of thing Dan would detail for about five minutes and I wish he would seriously get into the nitty-gritty of it. I share mutual feelings of pain and emotional wear after experiences like this and I wish he would detail his experiences. Still, it’s interesting to hear Phil make a statement, expressing an outlook that isn’t bubbly, cringe or
wowwwwwww wasn’t that somethinggggg? Kind of emotion. Instead here, he mentions being upset, feeling vulnerable. Break down those doors, Philly.
6.22 “traumatized for the rest of my life” So this happens after your birthday, so sometime in February It’s still March. Phil you absolute drama queen.
I found that this video is kind of experimenting in the broad, character and scene set-up that Dan might do. I like that Phil found the limit, while I think Dan would have pushed certain aspects. Either overproduce and over detail certain scenes, and go into too much detail in the nitty gritty aspects. Let’s be honest, if Dan had done the same story, it would be twenty minutes long. Whether Phil will keep up this style, or revert back to his typical vlogs, time will tell. Still, he hasn’t done a video completely dependent on a story in quite some time, hasn’t he? The only other “story-time” videos he has done, were prefaced with shorter instances, context, or an assortment of small moments like “I did this…” and “this is what I got…”
I find it interesting, whenever he does characters of other guys, he always makes a point of showing how stereotypically “manly” they are, with the fake abs, lifting weights, being totally ripped. While he does describe the guys as “hunky” I can tell he feels a little intimidated and alienated by them, usually giving them a back handed compliment of saying how great they look, but usually showing them as kind of self-absorbed, constantly lifting weights and acting dense.
His room is slowly emptying. We will think that he is moving out, but instead everything remains the same, but it’s just an empty white room and he’ll be doing everything Poppy style.
Finally: his geometric bird shirt is amazing.
/fɪl lɛstɚ/ wrote:Forgive me if this is off topic or if its already been addressed, but I've been noticing a youtuber named "LazyJamie" reacting to Dan and Phil videos and he posts these constantly. It honestly seems he's just using the Phandom to try to get views...
What's the general consensus among phans about this guy? I'm not crazy about him.
I don't watch him personally, but it sounds as if he realized that the phandom brings easy views. The problem now is that he has pigeon-holed himself, by reacting to deppy. The phandom can be both a blessing and a curse, in a way.
