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hunnyftw wrote:The only thought that I would add is that one more thing that became beyond cringey to me lately has to be the dumbing-down and memefying of the existential crisis thing.

Agreed. To me it exemplifies how he cut the connection between him as a real person and his young viewers because he fears they can't understand him. Dropping out of college after a clash between values, goals and expectations lead to an identity crisis (assuming it was anything like that) ... how can i possibly talk about that to a 12 yeal old. Guess i'll just spazz a bit on the bed and call it an existential crisis.

SquishPhan wrote: I honestly don’t really see how joking about smoking things and the whole stoner thing is so mature, that’s what teenagers do, at least where I live. So I just find it a bit cringe worthy.
I'm all for more mature content, but this is not it for me.

It would be deeply immature if he was seriously trying to say somethnig along the lines of
"smoking weed is dope and everyone who isn't tripping balls is a total square, y'all should be stoners"
That's not at all how i read it though. He's just playing around with the vape nation meme. Which is by itself a parody of the 'stoner lifestyle'. Internet pop culture is what he breathes and illicit substance use is in that way more of a 'mature' topic in the sense that it would typically appeal to a broader audience than just kids.
I just hate it if all their humor is void of anything that's possibly controversial. I like their jokes to be dark and edgy at times. It's a nice counterweight for all the fluffy friendship/domestic stuff.
^ so basically what Catallena just said. I don't think he's trying to endorse drugs here or wants to act cool and be 'down with the kids'. He's already being bloody serious in his twitter replies to confused fans. How else would i have ever known about a vocal chord moisturizer?
Besides I'd be fine with him genuinely using cannabis anyway (in an adult, recreative way). He cut his ties with the bbc at least temporarily, he should enjoy his freedom. I don't want him to be my dad or teacher

So cute though even got the bloody peace sign in it!

Stakhanov wrote:I don't want him to be my dad or teacher

idk, man, if he wants to teach me how to be a millionaire by posting one video online a month I'm down for it

Kathrynxjane wrote:

So cute though even got the bloody peace sign in it!

This is adorable, gotta love shittywatercolours

Also

alittledizzy wrote:

Stakhanov wrote:I don't want him to be my dad or teacher

idk, man, if he wants to teach me how to be a millionaire by posting one video online a month I'm down for it

+1

I'm getting so bored of them, I really want a ls soon. also I don't fancy getting into the mature humour debate so I'll get back to lurking and waiting for content

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

Hiya, i made the post in question, ususally i just lurk here but i decided to post just to clarify my position. firstly thanks for saying you like my blog that's really nice thank u! the tags were a joke, i actually have no issue with people disagreeing with me or anything like that, but i know where you're coming from my tags were probably a bad choice on a photoset like that so i apologise for that, but i did entend for the whole 'dont deny it' thing to come across as a joke but i probably didn't execute that very well so sorry about that. the point of the photoset wasn't to actually prove anything except 'sometimes phil mentions boys in the way dan does as well', i tried to clarify this in a message i got after i posted it but i don't think it came across the way i wanted it to either, sometimes i'm just not good with words. but yeah, the point wasn't to ultimately prove, or disprove, anything it was just a silly photoset i made mostly for a friend and we've both sort of come to regret it because most of the comments and tags on it are people trying to use it to prove phil is gay or bi, or whatever sexuality they want, which isn't really what i intended. i only really made it because people expressing same gendered attraction, outside any context of sexuality or relationships or labels, is something i find really positive because it helps to normalise it and as someone who has for a long time struggled with their own sexuality it is just something i thought would be fun to do. i see people discuss dan mentioning boys a lot so it was fun to try find things for phil as well, but tbh i kind of regret posting it because i never really thought about the implications of it and how people would view and receive it, and i guess that is my own fault and i should have probably thought more about the context i presented it in and how i tagged it and stuff, but i didn't and that's something i can't really change now so many people have seen it but i will think more carefully about that in the future. so yeah, i wasn't trying to prove anything really, but i can 100% see why you thought that so i'm not like .. trying to start shit cause i should have thought more about what i said and how i said it because it's easy to misunderstand someone's tone or intention when it's just text, but i was trying to be funny and probably failed haha

I'm sure his who wants to be a millionaire series will soon be available on youtube red.
I could see it going something like this:
-In the first video he advises us to buy stock in a promising alternative energy company.
-By the time the second video comes out, fossil fuels are a distant memory from a previous century
Ok i lied. I do want him as a teacher. I would just prefer to receive his teachings as a massagist / tantric sex god. Nothing new there

Or you know, why not just ask him for a billion dollars and tell him you want to make the world a better place, like his own dad did. We just include a slightly edited chart.

whip out them bingo cards, kiddos, it's sexuality spec time in drought-land again

spacecattle wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

the point of the photoset wasn't to actually prove anything except 'sometimes phil mentions boys in the way dan does as well',

That's exactly the point I took from the post, and I was actually grateful for that. Phil's mentions about guys/appreciation or attraction toward guys get easily handwaved while everyone makes a huge deal of Dan's.

Dan might be more vocal now but it's not like Phil has never talked about a guy being attractive. That gifset didn't even include some of Zayn mentions throughout the past year. And I don't at all feel like Phil's sexuality is more of a mystery or that it's projected headcanon to say he likes guys. Phil confirmed almost as many times as Dan did that he was bisexual, and over a more widespread period of time. And Phil isn't even the one that ever tried to handwave formspring's legitimacy! He's literally never backtracked or denied it. The only argument people can make against Phil is that he talked about women too, and well... that doesn't negate bisexuality. Unless OP had actually tried to say Phil was gay or exclusively liked men (which they didn't) then I got nothin' but love for the post.

spacecattle wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

so. i kind of disagree. A lot, i mean, i disagree a lot.
because i am on the tumbz, i see so, so much pushing of head cannons from young girls who feteshize gay relationships and use shipping as an excuse for really uncomfortable things. one example is the whole Phil Tops no debate thing that i see a lot, and its because i guess people see dan as the 'twink' more- which is just fangirls pushing an idea that they fantasize about, a less intense example is dan smashing gender roles & how he should wear nail polish, etc. i think these things dehumanize them.
(we're all guilty of doing this, though. so i'm not trying to make people feel bad, because i for sure have done this kind of thing.)

i don't think a gifpost of the times phil has said he likes boys, to be wrong in any way. i think its silly because if the gifpost was of female attraction, no one would think it was pushing anything onto them, and neither of them actually have ID'd as straight ever, just not gay. and the tags didn't say 'he is x identity' they just said he likes boys. and he's mentioned male attraction, so whats wrong with that conclusion?

i dont know if this made sense, but it just rubbed me the wrong way.

Thanks for the clarification spacecattle.
This is our fate as fans i guess, hopelessly trying to make sense of things with some minimal information from vids and tweets, prone to projecting our thoughts and feelings into things we barely know anything about and conjecturing about aspects of their life we know completely nothing of

violet-writer wrote:

spacecattle wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

so. i kind of disagree. A lot, i mean, i disagree a lot.
because i am on the tumbz, i see so, so much pushing of head cannons from young girls who feteshize gay relationships and use shipping as an excuse for really uncomfortable things. one example is the whole Phil Tops no debate thing that i see a lot, and its because i guess people see dan as the 'twink' more- which is just fangirls pushing an idea that they fantasize about, a less intense example is dan smashing gender roles & how he should wear nail polish, etc. i think these things dehumanize them.
(we're all guilty of doing this, though. so i'm not trying to make people feel bad, because i for sure have done this kind of thing.)

i don't think a gifpost of the times phil has said he likes boys, to be wrong in any way. i think its silly because if the gifpost was of female attraction, no one would think it was pushing anything onto them, and neither of them actually have ID'd as straight ever, just not gay. and the tags didn't say 'he is x identity' they just said he likes boys. and he's mentioned male attraction, so whats wrong with that conclusion?

i dont know if this made sense, but it just rubbed me the wrong way.

I'm not claiming that Phil is straight, let me make that clear. And I actually would find that pushy if someone were to compile a gifpost of female attraction from Phil.
I guess it was just the strong way that spacecattle expressed the post as Phil 'loving' boys, when I've never felt like he's given a strong expression of that. I guess we agree to disagree alittledizzy on whether Phil has been expressive about attraction. And also don't worry spacecattle. I don't think your post is offensive.

idk i just think that to normalise something is to not make a deal out of it. making it seem like something notable kind of defeats the purpose. i see it all the time with sexuality posts or posts about ~phan moments~ or really dumb stuff like the dress thing, you just cant make something into a big deal and say its normalising it.
especially when its attempting to normalise a wider societal issue like non sexual displays of attraction. it feels wrong to me to take someone saying those things - in a calm, very quiet way that they enjoy and do naturally - and make it into a big standpoint of 'this thing is fine see this person did it!!'

jaej wrote:idk i just think that to normalise something is to not make a deal out of it. making it seem like something notable kind of defeats the purpose. i see it all the time with sexuality posts or posts about ~phan moments~ or really dumb stuff like the dress thing, you just cant make something into a big deal and say its normalising it.
especially when its attempting to normalise a wider societal issue like non sexual displays of attraction. it feels wrong to me to take someone saying those things - in a calm, very quiet way that they enjoy and do naturally - and make it into a big standpoint of 'this thing is fine see this person did it!!'

Rule of thumb for the phandom in general.
Though tbh I feel slightly differently about Dan and his hints on sexuality bc I feel like he wants recognition.

spacecattle wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

Hiya, i made the post in question, ususally i just lurk here but i decided to post just to clarify my position. firstly thanks for saying you like my blog that's really nice thank u! the tags were a joke, i actually have no issue with people disagreeing with me or anything like that, but i know where you're coming from my tags were probably a bad choice on a photoset like that so i apologise for that, but i did entend for the whole 'dont deny it' thing to come across as a joke but i probably didn't execute that very well so sorry about that. the point of the photoset wasn't to actually prove anything except 'sometimes phil mentions boys in the way dan does as well', i tried to clarify this in a message i got after i posted it but i don't think it came across the way i wanted it to either, sometimes i'm just not good with words. but yeah, the point wasn't to ultimately prove, or disprove, anything it was just a silly photoset i made mostly for a friend and we've both sort of come to regret it because most of the comments and tags on it are people trying to use it to prove phil is gay or bi, or whatever sexuality they want, which isn't really what i intended. i only really made it because people expressing same gendered attraction, outside any context of sexuality or relationships or labels, is something i find really positive because it helps to normalise it and as someone who has for a long time struggled with their own sexuality it is just something i thought would be fun to do. i see people discuss dan mentioning boys a lot so it was fun to try find things for phil as well, but tbh i kind of regret posting it because i never really thought about the implications of it and how people would view and receive it, and i guess that is my own fault and i should have probably thought more about the context i presented it in and how i tagged it and stuff, but i didn't and that's something i can't really change now so many people have seen it but i will think more carefully about that in the future. so yeah, i wasn't trying to prove anything really, but i can 100% see why you thought that so i'm not like .. trying to start shit cause i should have thought more about what i said and how i said it because it's easy to misunderstand someone's tone or intention when it's just text, but i was trying to be funny and probably failed haha

hey! just wanted to say thank you for making that post, i completely got that the tag was a joke and i think that the world needs more posts about phil mentioning same sex attraction

also they way other people interpret your post (as in, making it out to be proof for their own headcanons) is absolutely not your fault, that being said i don't think there's anything wrong with saying phil/dan could be lgbt, and i think most people that tag that post (and the one about Dan, idk if that one's yours as well) with stuff about bisexuality and other lgbt identities are aware that unless they claim any labels themselves (arguebly they had done that in the past and never took it back but that's another conversation all together) what they are saying is just a way of interpreting their behavior, a headcanon mostly, even if based on 'facts'.

idk what the point of this post is lol i guess 'keep doing your thing i enjoy it' and 'i don't think lgbt interpretations of d&p behavior are inherently evil when people are aware that it's not up to them to decide their identity no matter how much 'proof' they have'?

also i hope people know that when i say that i believe they are both bi there's a big emphasis on the believe part

edit: grammar

those last couple of Dan tweets about vaping and his dad Kanye

also a bit OT, I have to say I am always really really surprised by the response of the phandom or also other teenage fandoms in general to drinking, smoking, jokes about it blablabla.
Like I have never known irl people my age or a bit younger reacting so negatively and being so offended by those topics. the way some of those people reacted to that tweet, it seemed Dan was talking about injecting liquid heroin directly to his eyeballs and not joking about e-cigarets. Like e cigarets, the least rocknroll thing that ever existed.

Dan has chosen to be much more obvious about his male attraction. That is something that makes analysis of his attraction to males much easier. Phil has made his attraction much more ambiguous since 2010 and there's little to go on. However there ARE some, specifically to males ("He has a nice face" -in reference to Joey Graceffa) and Dan's (for Phil) "Tayler Lautner with his shirt off" (and Phil's reaction that deserve analysis.

I mean, I get it. Dan is the more popular one and therefore it will get discussed more. It's simple math. However I think we do a disservice to both Dan and Phil if we don't invest time in talking about Phil's attractions.

Stakhanov wrote:

SquishPhan wrote: I honestly don’t really see how joking about smoking things and the whole stoner thing is so mature, that’s what teenagers do, at least where I live. So I just find it a bit cringe worthy.
I'm all for more mature content, but this is not it for me.

It would be deeply immature if he was seriously trying to say somethnig along the lines of
"smoking weed is dope and everyone who isn't tripping balls is a total square, y'all should be stoners"
That's not at all how i read it though. He's just playing around with the vape nation meme. Which is by itself a parody of the 'stoner lifestyle'. Internet pop culture is what he breathes and illicit substance use is in that way more of a 'mature' topic in the sense that it would typically appeal to a broader audience than just kids.
I just hate it if all their humor is void of anything that's possibly controversial. I like their jokes to be dark and edgy at times. It's a nice counterweight for all the fluffy friendship/domestic stuff.
^ so basically what Catallena just said. I don't think he's trying to endorse drugs here or wants to act cool and be 'down with the kids'. He's already being bloody serious in his twitter replies to confused fans. How else would i have ever known about a vocal chord moisturizer?
Besides I'd be fine with him genuinely using cannabis anyway (in an adult, recreative way). He cut his ties with the bbc at least temporarily, he should enjoy his freedom. I don't want him to be my dad or teacher

I get that Dan is joking about this, but that doesn't change my opinion on finding it immature. I see nothing dark or edgy about his jokes.

alittledizzy wrote:

spacecattle wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

the point of the photoset wasn't to actually prove anything except 'sometimes phil mentions boys in the way dan does as well',

That's exactly the point I took from the post, and I was actually grateful for that. Phil's mentions about guys/appreciation or attraction toward guys get easily handwaved while everyone makes a huge deal of Dan's.

Dan might be more vocal now but it's not like Phil has never talked about a guy being attractive. That gifset didn't even include some of Zayn mentions throughout the past year. And I don't at all feel like Phil's sexuality is more of a mystery or that it's projected headcanon to say he likes guys. Phil confirmed almost as many times as Dan did that he was bisexual, and over a more widespread period of time. And Phil isn't even the one that ever tried to handwave formspring's legitimacy! He's literally never backtracked or denied it. The only argument people can make against Phil is that he talked about women too, and well... that doesn't negate bisexuality. Unless OP had actually tried to say Phil was gay or exclusively liked men (which they didn't) then I got nothin' but love for the post.

I agree with everything you said here.

daphenaxa wrote:those last couple of Dan tweets about vaping and his dad Kanye

also a bit OT, I have to say I am always really really surprised by the response of the phandom or also other teenage fandoms in general to drinking, smoking, jokes about it blablabla.
Like I have never known irl people my age or a bit younger reacting so negatively and being so offended by those topics. the way some of those people reacted to that tweet, it seemed Dan was talking about injecting liquid heroin directly to his eyeballs and not joking about e-cigarets. Like e cigarets, the least rocknroll thing that ever existed.

I think that's mostly due to the relatively clean cut image they try to portray to their audience. I think that's why some people make a big deal when they see old clips of drunk D+P or when they make a cheeky comment/joke about sex or drugs. Like if it were a more "edgy"/open youtuber, nobody would bat an eye. That's my theory anyway

NarrysCanary wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

I mean, a lot of people on Tumblr or any other social media force their headcanons on them so I'm not that surprised. I'll admit that I do it sometimes too but let's say that I keep those "headcanons" to myself and don't put them on tumblr saying to people they shouldn't try to argue with me about the headcanons that I made up.

edit : I've used the word headcanon way too many times

I am very confused by the negative attention this post is getting. I'd be side-eyeing it if Phil had never said a thing about his sexuality or confirmed being straight, but um, Phil liking boys isn't a ''headcanon''? (I find that such a weird term, nobody should have ''headcanons'' for real people.) He has publicly stated his bisexuality in the past and never contradicted that statement or even heavily implied being straight, like Dan. Until he tells us otherwise I don't understand why Phil's sexuality is a ''mystery'' to so many people. I'm going to assume he's bisexual because he told the world so himself.

Sorry, I just realized too late that I just regurgitated what alittledizzy said, oops.

ostiral wrote:

aphansquest wrote:So yesterday I was staying at a hotel for my friend’s (Ashley) sixteenth birthday and Dan and Phil happened to stay at the same hotel! Unfortunately, we missed them by a hair as we went to the mall but her mom went back and bumped into them. Dan and Phil offered to film this video for my friend and I, bless their hearts. Also, her mom was so incredibly stunned by how polite and handsome they were, she was transformed into a phan ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Video: http://aphansquest.tumblr.com/post/1461 ... tel-for-my

Stories like this always warms my heart (like this mom on a plane once) (also phil in black).

This is sweet, bet you were so pleased your friends Mum got a video for you.

2 days off guys, where is that liveshow?

Also, I'm not sure what I think about dans light up shoes, I thought I dreamt he owned them but I just saw a video and hmm.

daphenaxa wrote:those last couple of Dan tweets about vaping and his dad Kanye

also a bit OT, I have to say I am always really really surprised by the response of the phandom or also other teenage fandoms in general to drinking, smoking, jokes about it blablabla.
Like I have never known irl people my age or a bit younger reacting so negatively and being so offended by those topics. the way some of those people reacted to that tweet, it seemed Dan was talking about injecting liquid heroin directly to his eyeballs and not joking about e-cigarets. Like e cigarets, the least rocknroll thing that ever existed.

Did people reacted badly ? I've only seen people joking about the picture

bedhead91 wrote:

NarrysCanary wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

I mean, a lot of people on Tumblr or any other social media force their headcanons on them so I'm not that surprised. I'll admit that I do it sometimes too but let's say that I keep those "headcanons" to myself and don't put them on tumblr saying to people they shouldn't try to argue with me about the headcanons that I made up.

edit : I've used the word headcanon way too many times

I am very confused by the negative attention this post is getting. I'd be side-eyeing it if Phil had never said a thing about his sexuality or confirmed being straight, but um, Phil liking boys isn't a ''headcanon''? (I find that such a weird term, nobody should have ''headcanons'' for real people.) He has publicly stated his bisexuality in the past and never contradicted that statement or even heavily implied being straight, like Dan. Until he tells us otherwise I don't understand why Phil's sexuality is a ''mystery'' to so many people. I'm going to assume he's bisexual because he told the world so himself.

I'd like to say that I don't think the post is negative at all, it's the fact that the person in the tags was quite "pushy" (I'm sorry my english is failing me here) they were saying "don't argue with me blahblahblah" but as the creator of the post said they didn't intend to be negative so I take back what I said in the post above .

bedhead91 wrote:

NarrysCanary wrote:

spaceguitar wrote:There's this post that has been bothering me and I wonder if any of u guys have thoughts.
http://ennuidan.tumblr.com/post/1460809 ... l-and-boys
First I want to say that I usually really like this blog and most of their posts. Secondly I want to say that mostly what is bothering me is the attitude that they display in the tags. Idk just for me phil's sexuality (outside of his possible relationship w Dan) has always felt like a mystery and this just feels like someone's personal headcanon projected onto him.

I mean, a lot of people on Tumblr or any other social media force their headcanons on them so I'm not that surprised. I'll admit that I do it sometimes too but let's say that I keep those "headcanons" to myself and don't put them on tumblr saying to people they shouldn't try to argue with me about the headcanons that I made up.

edit : I've used the word headcanon way too many times

I am very confused by the negative attention this post is getting. I'd be side-eyeing it if Phil had never said a thing about his sexuality or confirmed being straight, but um, Phil liking boys isn't a ''headcanon''? (I find that such a weird term, nobody should have ''headcanons'' for real people.) He has publicly stated his bisexuality in the past and never contradicted that statement or even heavily implied being straight, like Dan. Until he tells us otherwise I don't understand why Phil's sexuality is a ''mystery'' to so many people. I'm going to assume he's bisexual because he told the world so himself.

Sorry, I just realized too late that I just regurgitated what alittledizzy said, oops.

just wanted to clarify that i said headcanon for lack of a better word, i definitely think that the labels they claimed all those years ago and the recent attraction mentions are valid, but i also see why other people might disagree and i believe that i'm in no position to say that my pov is the truth, and i definitely can't claim to know what deppy think of this whole deal, so that's why i called it headcanon

i def think that post and lgbt interpretations aren't problematic (as i said) and that people fighting like their lives depend on it to prove they are straight kinda are

daphenaxa wrote:also a bit OT, I have to say I am always really really surprised by the response of the phandom or also other teenage fandoms in general to drinking, smoking, jokes about it blablabla.
Like I have never known irl people my age or a bit younger reacting so negatively and being so offended by those topics. the way some of those people reacted to that tweet, it seemed Dan was talking about injecting liquid heroin directly to his eyeballs and not joking about e-cigarets. Like e cigarets, the least rocknroll thing that ever existed.

lol same, i have mentioned this before, and i think that the overall conclusion we ended up with was that it was a cultural thing + the fact that some kids (especially the ones that seem to be into nerdy things like deppy) are simply more sheltered than others

but yeah, i will never stop finding it weird to see 15 year olds talking about alcohol like it's this dangerous thing bad people drink meanwhile me and all my friends were drinking at that age (and obviously weed is a hard drug that shouldn't even be mentioned and if dan is vaping -lol- better be worried he is probs gonna end up in rehab in a year am i right)

bedhead91 wrote:

NarrysCanary wrote: I mean, a lot of people on Tumblr or any other social media force their headcanons on them so I'm not that surprised. I'll admit that I do it sometimes too but let's say that I keep those "headcanons" to myself and don't put them on tumblr saying to people they shouldn't try to argue with me about the headcanons that I made up.

edit : I've used the word headcanon way too many times

I am very confused by the negative attention this post is getting. I'd be side-eyeing it if Phil had never said a thing about his sexuality or confirmed being straight, but um, Phil liking boys isn't a ''headcanon''? (I find that such a weird term, nobody should have ''headcanons'' for real people.) He has publicly stated his bisexuality in the past and never contradicted that statement or even heavily implied being straight, like Dan. Until he tells us otherwise I don't understand why Phil's sexuality is a ''mystery'' to so many people. I'm going to assume he's bisexual because he told the world so himself.

Sorry, I just realized too late that I just regurgitated what alittledizzy said, oops.

First I want to say that people don't really need to get up in arms about this; I guess it was just something that bothered me about the post.
No but see, the post isn't saying 'phil is bisexual'. The post is saying 'phil loves boys'. I think maybe spacecattle was implying that this was meant to be a little ironic, and if so I misunderstood the post. So that is what I'm responding to in the post, not someone saying 'phil is bisexual'.
I guess what you are responding to in my post is the 'phil's sexuality is a mystery to me' part. I guess I don't esteem the formspring posts highly enough to say 'phil loves boys' 6 years later. Idk. I don't want to start an argument on that; I'm not saying that Phil isn't attracted to boys. Again, I was reacting to the tags.
tldr: I'm not saying that Phil never called himself bisexual. I'm saying that he's never really expressed his sexuality (that I've seen).

spaceguitar wrote: First I want to say that people don't really need to get up in arms about this; I guess it was just something that bothered me about the post.
No but see, the post isn't saying 'phil is bisexual'. The post is saying 'phil loves boys'. I think maybe spacecattle was implying that this was meant to be a little ironic, and if so I misunderstood the post. So that is what I'm responding to in the post, not someone saying 'phil is bisexual'.
I guess what you are responding to in my post is the 'phil's sexuality is a mystery to me' part. I guess I don't esteem the formspring posts highly enough to say 'phil loves boys' 6 years later. Idk. I don't want to start an argument on that; I'm not saying that Phil isn't attracted to boys. Again, I was reacting to the tags.

yeah, i was trying to be a bit funny. it's sort of a joke among me and my friends to say 'dont argue with me' 'this is real' and stuff just because we find it funny to say that even though we don't mean it and most of the time we are joking about the things we're claiming are 'real'. so yeah i was just trying to make a joke but i can see how what i said could have been taken the wrong way. because i made the gifs partly for one of my friends i just didn't really think about the context of my tags or how they would come across to other people, which i probably should think more about in the future cause i just kind of forget people follow me and actually read my dumb tags on my posts haha. so i am sorry for causing this whole misunderstanding!

I didn't see the post about phil's male attraction to be pushy at all. and the tags were just commonly used phrases today, like the "don't try to come at me" isn't really to be taken super seriously if you ask me. I get that it can come off aggressive to some people but it's a popular phrase people use when they aren't being aggressive at all like idk how to explain it but i don't think it was aggressive just slang. I agree that the gifset is stuff i havent really seen put together before of phil and i really like it. It's not projecting because it's all stuff phil really said?

Also what's the problem with people having headcanons, this is a fandom, headcanons don't hurt anyone because they're just in someone's head. I don't see the issue.

spaceguitar wrote:

bedhead91 wrote:

NarrysCanary wrote: I mean, a lot of people on Tumblr or any other social media force their headcanons on them so I'm not that surprised. I'll admit that I do it sometimes too but let's say that I keep those "headcanons" to myself and don't put them on tumblr saying to people they shouldn't try to argue with me about the headcanons that I made up.

edit : I've used the word headcanon way too many times

I am very confused by the negative attention this post is getting. I'd be side-eyeing it if Phil had never said a thing about his sexuality or confirmed being straight, but um, Phil liking boys isn't a ''headcanon''? (I find that such a weird term, nobody should have ''headcanons'' for real people.) He has publicly stated his bisexuality in the past and never contradicted that statement or even heavily implied being straight, like Dan. Until he tells us otherwise I don't understand why Phil's sexuality is a ''mystery'' to so many people. I'm going to assume he's bisexual because he told the world so himself.

Sorry, I just realized too late that I just regurgitated what alittledizzy said, oops.

First I want to say that people don't really need to get up in arms about this; I guess it was just something that bothered me about the post.
No but see, the post isn't saying 'phil is bisexual'. The post is saying 'phil loves boys'. I think maybe spacecattle was implying that this was meant to be a little ironic, and if so I misunderstood the post. So that is what I'm responding to in the post, not someone saying 'phil is bisexual'.
I guess what you are responding to in my post is the 'phil's sexuality is a mystery to me' part. I guess I don't esteem the formspring posts highly enough to say 'phil loves boys' 6 years later. Idk. I don't want to start an argument on that; I'm not saying that Phil isn't attracted to boys. Again, I was reacting to the tags.

Sorry if it comes across like I'm upset about this or whatever, I'm really not. (I think my post came across as more aggressive than I intended it to be.) Obviously we have different ideas about this, and I respect your opinion. I just take the formspring answers for what they are. I don't think Phil's age or time that has passed invalidates what he said about his own identity, unless of course he says so otherwise.

About headcanons: I just find the word ''headcanon'' weird because it implies that real people's lives are ''the canon'', which I find a bit uncomfortable because we aren't talking about characters in a fictional universe. I understand what people mean when they say that, but it's just not a word I would use personally.