Yeah, that video left a bad taste in my mouth. Yep, it was a stalker, but it was a little immature from them too. Then they pretty much encouraged the girl at the end. You would wonder why he kept the video up for so long. I don't even particularly care if the video is lost into the void forever. Good riddance. I do wonder if people should start a prediction thread on possible future videos that Dan/Phil are likely to delete. I'll make bets that the next is "A Day in the Life of a Superhero."
poor Dan lol
lilMango wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:12 pm
Also, the thor/loki "incest" moment in the latest gaming video was such a blatant reminder that they're constantly thinking about the perception of phan and it made me feel some things. When I first saw that moment, my immediate reaction was, "shit. they really are so hyper aware of shipping" and I thought about the statement in terms of the phandom. But also... Dan mentioning incest at all tells me that they were actually joking about it as a couple, too, not just pointing at us.
(I hope that makes sense lol hi my name is Mango and I'm trying to articulate opinions)
heyyyy
Honestly, deppy's reaction/treatment of shipping culture is so fascinating to me. Firstly, how they respond to things and treat everything from the perspective of people who are
shipped. While everyone and their mothers' joke about being "shipped" with someone, and some people actively encouraging their fans or audience or whatever to ship them. However, it's very different to see it from the perspective of people who are shipped without their active engagement in the "ship" itself and also shipped so enthusiastically and in such large numbers. "Shipping" is really interesting, particularly seeing what the most popular pairings are on Tumblr:
Popular Ships of 2017
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Just look at that. Most popular IRL ship. Like wtf.
While it's pretty obvious that they don't use Tumblr nearly as much as they did like 5 years ago, I think it would be difficult to not see the year by year trend of just how popular their "ship" is and how they are so popular together. How do they as people go about their daily lives, functioning, getting by, all with this knowledge that they are one of the if not
THE most popular real-life ship in the shipping community, or at least Tumblr? Not least, how do they feel as "normal" people who use social media to be exposed so openly to this aspect of the community, while other "celebrities" have the advantage to shut themselves out and be able to separate themselves from that? What kind of feeling would they have to know that this is how they make an impact and how they leave a lasting impression?
So, while they make videos and do other ventures, a lot of the push they get from their audience and those that support them do so on the grounds of a lot of interest generating from their ship. It grows and literally comes to define them until it's a literal unspoken thing they have to dance around in interviews and brush off. Soon, there's not much else. They aren't big celebrities who have many different career ventures and opportunities to separate their self from their past self and don't have that many connections when they shut themselves off from the world. They're two fairly average, "normal" guys only really close friends with each other, making little videos (most of the time) in their home and at surface level, most of the time, it can never venture further from that.
In a way, shipping for them has always been a blessing and a curse. A blessing in a way that it's literally why they're successful. People like to chalk up their videos and charisma, but let's be honest: whether it be piggybacking off people speculating their relationship, or even Dan blowing up when his video on shipping went viral on Tumblr, it's always been something that benefitted them. It's a curse, even if they were 100 percent together and wanted to come out? Can't escape. 100 percent not together and went their separate ways? Whatever magic they had going for them, whatever mystery they had, is lost. How do they build themselves back up from that?
So, in a way, it's interesting to see their reactions to shipping, how they know little tidbits about mpreg and milkfics and all that crap that they're relatively sound knowledge on. I suppose some of the "culture" and tropes of the community. But it's also interesting how they evade the question, how they pleasantly ignore the culture about themselves and the cult people have built around their relationship. It's interesting to see how they're all pleasant smiles and evaded questions. It's interesting to see their awkward pauses whenever shipping is brought up, how when they evidently compare themselves/let themselves be compared and their change in conversation, promptly. It can never really escape them, and they know that, and they're too smart to know that it's also all they have going for them. If deppy weren't a thing, weren't a "ship", nobody would give a fuck. They would probably have maybe 100K views per video or something, if lucky. I'm not saying that they would be making different videos, or people wouldn't like them as much, but they wouldn't have the community that they have now. They wouldn't have the trust and devotion that people have, patiently waiting for the next video, the next half-assed tweet that they're still alive. They wouldn't people mooching around in Tumblr communities amidst tumbleweeds, amusing themselves. They're fucking lucky, and they know that. I don't think they like it, but they're stuck.