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lilMango wrote:

Only the cutest fucking thing ever.

manged wrote:

melon lord wrote:

I mean, you receive pretty cool and cute news and this is your first reaction

Thanks for the promo sweetie!

000dia000 wrote:There's been so much content the last few days, I'm at loss for words. Is this what normal internet forums are like? Usually we get a dodgy sideways picture of them and then we debate their show color and how it determines their sexuality. This is content overload for us. I don't think I'm able to handle it. Where do I fucking start at anything that has happened in the last 24 hours???

Catallena wrote:It's cute though, but definitely a show for young kids and not intended for D&P's usual audience at all (like BH6 was) so that's... interesting?

000dia000 wrote:There's been so much content the last few days, I'm at loss for words. Is this what normal internet forums are like? Usually we get a dodgy sideways picture of them and then we debate their show color and how it determines their sexuality. This is content overload for us. I don't think I'm able to handle it. Where do I fucking start at anything that has happened in the last 24 hours???

golden wrote:Coming out of lurkdom to say that I just looked up the description for The Lion Guard episode:
"The Guard helps two buffoonish gorilla princes return to their home in the snowy Rwenzon Mountains"

alittledizzy wrote:I like the implication that this was doing an impression of each other, because that would mean Dan goes around the house wondering why there's honey on various parts of his body.

i think it's so lovely how dan actively stays engaged with what his fans are engaged in and stays on top of their general interests. like, whenever people on younow ask if he's seen/listened to something, if he hasn't, he "tabs it" (opens it up in a tab) and saves it to check out later.
for example, when twentyone pilots released their cover of "cancer" by MCR and everyone was freaking out about it in the chat, he tabbed it, listened to it at some point, then brought it up the next week and shared his thoughts. and we know he has some overlapping interests with his audience, but i think he goes out of his way to understand them and appreciate the things they like that he might not have an individual interest in. this is especially lovely because it's a way to subtly legitimize his mostly young, female audience's interests when that demographic is so often mocked. (and yes, sometimes he can be a pretentious fucking snob about his own interests, but i'm choosing to ignore that rn.)

i think the way he stays interested, engaged, and close to his audience is what helps rly set him apart from other youtubers. and i think phil ends up doing it by osmosis, because he doesn't seem to make the same kind of effort, but i feel like he ends up absorbing a lot of the stuff that dan watches/listens to, so he can usually comment on it. (example: when drake's album came out on the US tour and phil said he'd been listening to it a lot simply because dan had been listening to it a lot and he's always around.)

(lol the recent gay princes tweet is kinda another good example of this...just shows how present and aware dan is of trends in his own fandom)

also, this happened ages ago but i'm just feeling really appreciative over it...when younow fucked fans over by demanding subscription services to rewatch streams and accounts to watch streams live, dan mentioned it and initially said he and phil would do what they could, and then in the next younow, he's wearing a fucking tumblr hat, has enabled the tumblr younow livestream, and now acknowledges the tumblr-crowd pointedly during every single stream. he was telling us without explicitly telling us, 'go to tumblr, streams are there now, you don't have to pay' without breaking any younow rules. clever, thoughtful dan.

basically, d&p are good people to stan. but we already knew that.

sidenote of all sidenotes: i can't get this pic from dapgo out of my head. it's my favorite picture in the book and i can't pinpoint why. perhaps bc it's so natural, happy, and sweet? maybe bc dan's legs look so good? who knows.

swofro wrote:Youtube rewind is probably december 7th (or 17 or 27 if they're feeling lolzor) by the look of it

fancy_nancy wrote:woooow the phandom really is quick has anyone seen the lion guard wikipedia page? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Guard

Screenshot before it gets changed back:

It said "Josh Dun" under "voices of" a little bit ago too but I guess that already got taken down

Edit - it's changed again:



Edit 2 - annnnnd it's stopped being funny


Edit 3 - (can people slow down) back to Dan Howell:


Edit 4 - not wasting time screenshotting anymore but someone tacked "chorus" back on after Dan Howell (like when it was originally changed)

iero wrote: i believe it is the 7th

BisexualShoeMarriage wrote:

Catallena wrote:It's cute though, but definitely a show for young kids and not intended for D&P's usual audience at all (like BH6 was) so that's... interesting?

If Disney are giving them openings for a new career in voice acting if youtube ceases to be viable, I'm not complaining.

How much is it in Disney's interests to bring in guests whose usual audience is very different from the show's target audience? That episode will probably get record viewing figures for the series, but is unlikely to gain them much of a regular viewership. Could they be underestimating the average age of Dan and Phil's audience so dramatically that they think they will bring in significant numbers of primary/kindergarden age children?

anathema wrote:

fancy_nancy wrote:woooow the phandom really is quick has anyone seen the lion guard wikipedia page? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Guard

My favorite part is "Ending theme "Here Comes the Lion Guard" performed by Brendon Urie"

Screenshot before it gets changed back:

It said "Josh Dun" under "voices of" a little bit ago too but I guess that already got taken down

Edit - it's changed again:



Edit 2 - annnnnd it's stopped being funny


Edit 3 - (can people slow down) back to Dan Howell:


Edit 4 - not wasting time screenshotting anymore but someone tacked "chorus" back on after Dan Howell (like when it was originally changed)

swofro wrote: Also bloopers will happened

Have no idea what that means

Catallena wrote:

BisexualShoeMarriage wrote:

Catallena wrote:It's cute though, but definitely a show for young kids and not intended for D&P's usual audience at all (like BH6 was) so that's... interesting?

If Disney are giving them openings for a new career in voice acting if youtube ceases to be viable, I'm not complaining.

How much is it in Disney's interests to bring in guests whose usual audience is very different from the show's target audience? That episode will probably get record viewing figures for the series, but is unlikely to gain them much of a regular viewership. Could they be underestimating the average age of Dan and Phil's audience so dramatically that they think they will bring in significant numbers of primary/kindergarden age children?

Wwll I hope Disney isn't so dumb to think that D&P have an audience that matches their viewership in any way. At least I don't think we've sunk to actual 5 year olds yet? So unless they're that out of touch, I have trouble believing that bringing in more views was the main reasoning behind this move. I'm also really not sure about this episode doing that much better than usual anyway. I feel like the phandom is too small of niche to reflect in ratings and the way those are measured, and that very little people are gonna watch it as it airs (hell most of us can't in the first place because the phandom is quite international) and just wait for it to pop up online.

And honestly, The Lion Guard is one of the last shows Disney should be trying to save ratings for right now because it's doing pretty well as far as I know. It's a Lion King spin-off after all, D&P aren't quite on that level. If Disney wants better ratings they have a better chance pandering to the TLK fandom by giving a shit about continuity. But first I'd advice them to look at the sinking ship that is their sitcoms.

fancybum wrote:Oh god I really want them to do that at some point, but it's the other way around. She has the guests tweet whatever they want from her account. And she always tweets out asking for questions for them first. And she's now having it filmed in LA for Fullscreen. Have I trampled on the dream enough yet? I even gave myself a sad.

Chris is back in London so I'll just pretend they had him over, with some honey for undisclosed reasons, until I'm proven otherwise. It's a nice thought.

BisexualShoeMarriage wrote:I think you're right about the phandom not making a significant difference to their views or ratings. (I forgot for a moment that this was actual mainstream media, in which Dan and Phil's ability to break the internet is largely irrelevant.)

BisexualShoeMarriage wrote: But if it's not for the views and ratings, what's the reason? Do they think Dan and Phil have actual voice acting talent?
(I think my tone sounds kind of incredulous there, but I don't mean it to. If this is something they're genuinely good at then I'm happy for them, but surprised, since they're not actual actors.)