6:30 “I have an idea for a danisnotonfire video”
(chat) danisnotonfire is dead
“It’ll always be the name of the YT channel, guys”
11:00 "I’ll do a dinof video pending me discovering what font represents my personality and also what state the world is in emotionally"
-and once those are settled, maybe check the phases of the moon and organize all the DVDs in the flat by genre and by lead actor and then of course go through all of Phil’s videos to update any old dinof social media links and then and then and then. bless his heart.
18:20 “Altruism as a concept is pretty rubbish”
“The idea that you shouldn’t feel good about being nice is rubbish, it’s one of those things that puts too much pressure on people’s mental health. If you do nice things for your [friends/family, are a friendly person, help out charities], then you should feel happy and proud of that. People generally in society, we’re way too harsh on ourselves, people are really hostile to each other, people are always trying to bring each other down and find anything to be- whatever.”
“Don’t let anybody say ‘don’t feel good about that bake sale that you did for whatever reason’"
21:10 “It made me realize there’s 3 kinds of people on the internet: there’s crazy conspiracy theorists, people that are secretly violent, and insecure nerds looking for self-esteem”
(reading chat) “A lot of insecure nerds. Ok yep, Mikey. Hanna K said all 3, so did Ben. ‘I am all of them’ okay, Ben, you’re all of them at the same time. What’s that like? That sounds intense."
28ish(on tumblr) (chat) How’s the new apartment?
“It’s good, it’s pretty snazzy. I feel like I very carefully turned this whole apartment into something that I think is quite aesthetically pleasing, and then the background [for] YT that I showed is just like a bit ugly with random trinkets. So I have to try- I’m trying to- Maybe I should just film videos in different locations around the house. That kind of defeats the point. Who knows, I’ll try. Dan’s Aesthetic Quest.”
-just give in to the urge to create a home reno channel, I personally wouldn't trust Phil with a hammer but think of the gore- I mean, think of the views. #DanAndPhilRENO
26:00 "‘What’d you get up to over the weekend?’ thanks for asking Johnny. My grandparents came to visit.”
-yeah thanks Johnny
34:50 (the first Harry Potter book came out when he was 6) “Well there you go, that’s why I read it with my mum. Oh my god, Harry Potter’s been such a big part of my life for so long, that’s crazy."
35:38 "I don’t believe in ghosts. I don’t believe in many things that aren’t proven by science."
36:55 "I do believe in aliens because I think that in an infinite universe, it’s silly to think we are the only life."
37:45 “The re-brand into Daniel doesn’t mean super wholesome and colourful. No, I still wear black, I don’t like colour. If anything, I should be more gloomy. I feel like if anything is ‘my thing’, it’s the whole existential crisis aspect that is my entire universe, so if anything, that should be something that with my content, I should try to reflect more of."
38:30 Existentialism vs Nihilism. We’ve done this so many times before.
42:35 (chat) You should wear a dress
“Who knows. Nothing against it in theory, but what are these ingrained social norms that we all have within us? Little bits of hypnotism, isn’t it."
44:00 [Fucking Vote On Thursday Because The World Is Unrelenting Garbage And It Doesn’t Fucking Have To Be]
45:23 “Us young people, which we are, and I am, despite it being my birthday, we’re the people that need to stand up for ourselves."
"Society is shaped so that young people have less of a good time, they get saddled with student debt, things like mental health funding, if you have national health care, is not prioritized. We probably have friendlier opinions about how the world should be as a global community”
“If all the young people in the world voted as much as the old people in the world, the world would be a completely different place. It would probably be much nicer, to be honest."
49:10 "I am going out to eat on Sunday, so it’ll be fun. Yeah, it’s my birthday, one step closer to death."
49:25 Dan demonstrates a startling lack of understanding of how the thumbs on younow work and greatly miscalculates how many individual people are actually watching at that moment and I can't, I'm out