Phils ls Did I ever tell you how much i love this guy . The yellow hoodie suits him SO SO SO much!!
Rizzo made an excellent point (a lot of excellent points) but one that I agreed with most was that Phil's ls aren't meaty but they still
are enjoyable. I played it while I tried to write my essay and his soothing voice really made me happy. Him showing his plants has become such a predictable but endearing part of his show. Also his mood was so great and springy.
Him talking about the color wheel and how he forgot from his school days. And his blue bandana was so cute on him.
His art class talk: "I did rubbish, mine was just brown, I was rubbish at that", "we had to choose a corner and draw it, I was rubbish" "It was worse then everyone elses, it was crap, I spent 6 hours on it" Okay, so Phil has this interesting ability that I seem to see always and that's that he doesn't mind looking dumb. He doesn't need to be perfect at everything and he can acknowledge that fact and own up to it without feeling self-conscious which I really respect
HIS TAPED ABS
Why is he complaning about his lens wipes?? He can use that for his laptop, the pc, the camera lens, smh phil. Also his little doodling on the box is so precious
"we stayed up last night watching serenity" casual mention of hanging with dan and have a bro movie night
He gently scolded us for thinking Dil cheated on Tabitha with Eliza and even said the gold line "alot of people thought it was dillypants, but no, he did not lower his dillypants" Also him making sure that the Pancakes had everything in their house so they can properly raise a baby (I'm not crying thinking of future dad phil, nope
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"I just cleaned all of you" "just wipes you down, wow that sounded weirder (adorable giggle).. i need to stop"
His rant about tattoos is really interesting. I totally agree about regret and how something can seem like a good idea at the time but you can come to regret it later on.And how he is quick to change his mind on things. What I was confused about is why he didn't just get a tattoo where he doesnt have to see it in the mirror (cough tramp stamp cough)
I was living in his uni talk and felt like I really related. He said he regretted not fully trying to understand his linguistics major, and that he would have attended class more (same). Also how he actually found something that he was truly passionate about and decided to go for his masters even though he feared the result. To me, it seemed like he chose the lingustic major just to have a bachelor, but just passed and then went on to really make most of grad school. Also I now really want to see the movies that he made and edited for his class and eventually want to see him attempting that on youtube. Him saying that it helped because he understands the devices they work with reminded me of a point we brought up on here in how technology is always changing, and so are the different editing techniques but the base understand must be consistent.
overall lovely phil liveshow (as always)
Dan: When the twitter thing happened yesterday I was kinda split down the middle. I agreed with
missemma that he is at a disadvantage because everything he says is recorded, and gifed, and used as evidence in court ( ). BUT, I also really agreed with
rizzo and
000dia000 points about how it really comes down to him and the expectation that he sets up. I don't agree with the notion that he
owes his audience anything because yea, he makes money off his career, but at the end of the day, It's his choice when to upload, and your choice whether to stick around or not. But this whole air of expectation is what he instigates. When talking about a upcoming DINOF video in ls's, it sometimes seems like a cheap clickbait. He puts an air of mystery around it and quickly laughs off that it isn't "a big deal". But he also implies that its something people have been waiting for so I can't blame the fans for theorizing whatever they did. It's not fair to write them off as hopeful for "a come out" when it did seem like a possibility with his tone?
I feel like fan culture has a horrible tendency to shame fans because they interpret something and get excited about it, but that is okay. I don't think the people who were disappointed did anything wrong. They just misinterpreted his words, he got defensive and responded, and then people begged him for forgiveness and idolized him again. That rubbed me the wrong way because he
did hype so he should try to own up to that atleast. Or clarify before that his next video was isg. But also, as people said, that's ignoring the anxiety he must feel and the expectation. I sometimes wonder if dan regrets things he says right after he says them. Once its out, its out, but now he has to own up to that name and that must cause his some sort of fear.
Dan tends to live and strive off external praise and critique. He will always need validation and will also look for honest opinions through the sea of adoration. It always seems that way with him. Not only with his content, but with people viewing him as intellectual, articulate, having good music taste. He won't shy from teasing someone for not knowing something, but not acknowledge when he misspeaks or makes a grammatical error. I always wonder if Dan could handle being a lawyer and what his life would have been if he had. I feel like he would have the validation of having a respectable job and being viewed as intelligent, but cases are riddled with failures and successes and he doesn't seem to cope well with those.
isg: It was okay, not horrible. Something that bothered me though was the parent shade. Just the overall way Dan talked about parents including himself in the "shitty parents rant kinda made him seem spoiled in a way. Dude, there was children living on nothing with their parent working 24 hours to provide and you're complaining because you didn't get a lesson paid or an expensive bubble bath? It seems so one sided to me too. Like, he has this huge platform that he uses to shade his parents left and right and they can never respond to it (and isn't it uncomfortable to his grandma that watches his videos?). There usually is a miscommunication with parents and I feel like he's just bitter at this point (atleast his videos show that) that he wasn't a privileged rich kid whos parents were 100% understanding and supportive, but so what? He had a house and food, and parents who filmed him in the bath and played games with him. At times it seems like he has an idealistic idea of how parents should be, and since they didn't meet all his expectations, that he will continue to talk poorly about them because he can. I love the guy, but I also know that sometimes parents need to work hard to provide, and if that's the case, it's not really their fault. He's perfectly free to talk about his parents, but I don't think its exactly fair to look at it from his words only.
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