Anonymousse wrote:
The thing I personally want to take from GG, is the fact that you don't have to like everything. Sure, we should all be D&P fans, but not everything they do is gold. I like variety in opinions, because it sparks discussion and can bring out some really interesting theories.
Well, that's why we went through everything to create our imaginary friends
jaej and
danphil333 for right? (Don't hate still love you guys)
Anonymousse wrote:
The only thing I wish we had more is more variety tbh. This place kind of proves that there is more, but I can also see how many people are lurking about.
With the phandom, it sometimes seems that only the native English speaking/young female demographic is represented, yet we know there are plenty of "older" (I cringe, calling someone in their late twenties/ thirties old) or non-female fans from various places around the world. (Russian Phandom pls) I feel like nobody should be ashamed for liking something, especially if that something is an innocent cinnamon roll.
This super-reminded me of the Teen react video, where Eric seemed to be very hesitant to mention that he really likes Dan and Phil.
Just some thoughts.
Well, here is the thing that makes me very despaired, this that variety in phandom doesn't change anything, for deppy their time and energy is limited so they have to spend it on maximizing their profit, so all they do is to just cater to their biggest audience group, teenage girls. It's a sad truth, unlike in real world which diversity is good and beneficial to the society in overall, but in phandom it just doesn't matter that much.
(wow, two weeks in business class i'm turning into
sweetmm)
But that being said, it doesn't mean ourselves can't work together to make D&P's content more friendly to non-english speakers. So I plan to make a proposal to channelflip/D&P, ask them to consider turning on "add subtitle" functions for D&P video, so that people who want to contribute to translate their videos to another language can do that with a simple click.
