Here's a few random thoughts I wanted to share, sorry in advance, it's a bit long lol, feel free to scroll past and ignore it
It's interesting to me how we've all felt overwhelmed by the amount of content we got in the past couple of days, because if you think about it, it wasn't really that much content.. we're just not used to it with dan and phil. They only posted two pics each (and only one including other people besides themselves) and most of what we got was from other people's pics or insta stories.
Compared to other youtubers (popular or not), dan and phil are some of the most private I've ever seen. Not only that, but it's also astounding how they manage to mantain this level of fandom engagement doing the bare minimum. On a good day, they each tweet once (and most often it's super random tweets that reveal nothing about their day or what they're up to or even opinions in general), they don't post very often on instagram (and even when they do their pics rarely feature other people) and they don't use snapchat or insta stories. They don't even interact with other youtubers that much, they don't do many collabs and they never vlog. Their side blogs are pretty much dead, except for liveshows, which is the only semi-regular extra content they provide. Not to mention that their uploading schedule is all over the place and they upload videos every moon cycle, at least on their main channels (dan especially). They don't even take part in any youtube drama (thankfully), they're just there chilling in their fancy house that we'll probably never figure out the layout of, what legends honestly.
I follow other youtubers and they're always tweeting, replying to other youtubers' tweets, interacting with the community, vlogging, sharing snapchats and insta stories that show what they're up to, and generally posting so much more content. If they're not very active on social media, they at least upload videos every week, or vice versa if they rarely upload, at least they're very active on social media.
The difference with deppy is mindblowing.
For a youtuber, their image and life is pretty much their source of income. They kinda decide to sell their lives, that's how they keep their viewers interested and entertained. And they would be nothing without their fans, because who would buy their books, merch or tour tickets?
It's remarkable how dedicated the phandom still is (over a million people watched their first laggy af gaming livestream with terrible sound quality and still loved it, like???), how they still manage to get tons of views and sell a lot of merch and how much their fans are interested in their life, even though they show so little of it and don't even make it sound all that exciting (basically telling everyone they spend all day playing video games, which we know it's not true anyway). Or maybe this is exactly why they are so fascinating to people? Because they are essentially a mistery, but at the same time not trying to be? They somehow manage to give the bare minimum to make you feel like you are a part of their lives, like you know things about them, while in reality we know close to nothing. Which is something I personally understand really well, because, as an introvert, that's what I do with most people in my life as well, they just do it on a larger scale.
This stupidly long post really has no point, besides just sharing what I've been thinking after we got this unusual amount of content in the past few days.
Dan and Phil sure have one of the most unique and interesting youtube experiences I've ever seen, and the fact that they manage to be so successful while maintaining what I consider such a high level of privacy is a testament to how much people are drawn to their personalities rather than their cool shiny lives, partying and traveling the world and meeting celebrities.
Obviously I'm not even going to pretend that their chemistry and the speculation around their relationship don't help, but I don't think that's the main reason for their success.
In conclusion, I can see why other youtubers might feel a mix of admiration and intimidation for deppy, what they did with their careers is definitely extraordinary (as in out of the ordinary).
I couldn't keep up.
like these fools would share 1 suitcase. 
interacting with other creators, and i think that a lot of them view them just like Hank Green said in the TATINOF documentary, like people that started looking up to the vlogbrothers, for example, but now, they look up to dip a dot, i feel like they recieve more respect than hate or other feelings. 
dan howell gives me life 