Further explanation on the neck conspiracy theory.
In
his video about personal space, Dan describes his aversion to neck-touching at 1:15 -
"I don't know why, but I can't handle people touching my neck. It feels like I'm being invaded, and it's creepy. But seriously, if you touch my neck, I will karate chop you. I don't know why, but I can't handle it. It's...probably a g-spot or something."
So yeah, he straight-up says it's probably a g-spot, and although he says it like a joke....
At the end of the video, Adam touches his neck, and he screws up his face and bears it for a few moments, but eventually flinches, bats Adam's hand away, and gets up, declaring:
"It's like a thousand slimy paedophiles touching me at the same time. No offense."
(Note that he doesn't choose something gross like a slimy snail or a slimy octopus, he chooses something sexually gross: a slimy
paedophile)
Now in this Radio 1 album chart video, Phil is supposed to distract Dan by touching him. He touches him in many places, but not in the neck, which would be kind of an obvious place to touch if being touched there just makes Dan cringe:
There is ample evidence that Dan doesn't actually care at all when Phil touches his neck:
Phil strokes Dan's neck while trying to find his glabella, Dan keeps laughing and doesn't flinch.
1:01 -
Phil playfully attacks/claws at Dan's neck, and Dan just smiles.
0:10 -
When Phil goes to paint Dan's neck, Dan lifts his chin to leave his neck totally exposed (unlike in, say, the Adam video where he lifts his shoulder and cringes to protect it)...and it's up to read his facial expression.
2:20 -
30 full seconds of neck touching. Dan is just kind of smirking/smiling the whole time.
From 4:45-5:15 -
And then:
In this video, Phil randomly strokes Dan's neck with one finger and Dan freaking
gasps.
4:11 -
In PINOF 4, Phil is told to touch Dan's neck and he goes for it. Dan leans offscreen and there's a jump cut. After the jump cut, Phil's pulls back his hand (from where Dan is offscreen) and he sits there smirking.
1:57-2:03 -
Of course, if you believe the "Dan's neck is a g-spot" theory, it's quite clear what happened during that jump cut.
In other words: he loved it and wants to do it more.
from THE RULES:
