Dan & Phil Part 12: Stalking him until he loves you

[LurkingTrash]

LurkingTrash it's from the intro of the last Internet Takeover.

Thank you, spider!
i never thought my arachnophobic ass would ever saytype that phrase

[uglyamerican]

funnily enough, it's called the straight man act and I'm with you there; it gets real old real fast.

I would say that this is the foundation of their comedy, it's a classic routine that has been around since the early days of vaudeville - which is kind of ironic since several of the venues they are playing in the US are former vaudeville houses...

[Kathrynxjane]

[offtopic]been on holiday so have no idea what you have been talking about!![/offtopic]

Phil: They are silent blowers
(this answer a query about how they keep it quiet at the hotel )

Wow thought it would be more exciting than that... It makes it sound like them being in Vegas was an accident even though we know Dan booked it on purpose.

I hope we get a Vegas video

[DryCereal]

LurkingTrash it's from the intro of the last Internet Takeover.

I still love this video. And highkey shamelessly hoping we get a pre-TATINOF version at some point.

[mermaid blood]

^ agreed, that kind of compilation stuff really makes me crave a proper Tabinof recording, and simultaneously clench my butt for how bad it could be and how much i'll hate them for giving it to me instead of the ability to see the show live. (let's face it, this thing is over by next year, they're not making it down here)

One of my pet peeves about Dan is when he'll randomly start laughing, he does it at the end of every DAPGames and in this video at 1:05, for example. I don't know, it just seems so forced and awkward and ugh. I'd love to see a compilation of it. (Why am I like this? I just said it's my pet peeve when he does it, and now I want a video showing all the times he's done it. This is messed up)

Quoting this to boost the request. Someone please make this! I want to cringe so hard that I age 40 years from the mere stress.

i'd join you in the premature greying there. i hate it so much i think i've subbed and resubbed about 5 times in the last 2 years.

laughing just at the start of a take, staring at Phil or staring at the camera all formed in 2014, but i'd love to be proven wrong and have someone find an example from earlier. (I feel like the stare at Phil thing had some early examples in the last SAP episodes?). to a lesser extent for Phil, his wide-eyed facial spasm, and avoiding eye contact with Dan which he never used to do so obviously. to me it's very much a coping mechanism for not being totally sure how to act within that joint branding.

i'd love to get inside their heads and see what changed; whether suddenly being very self aware of their marketability and schtick caused it (perhaps when they got the first big awards hosting things through BBC?). because they did plenty of content together including a web series and a very successful national radio show without these ticks. now they even subtly cross over into their liveshows.

to me this is what i think of when i think of their 'personas'. i don't think they're entirely conscious behaviours. (though also not out of their control, as we've seen)

Not hanging out with the merch crew much doesn't surprise me. they have a pretty intense schedule even by musician standards, and being introverted awkward types trying to find common bonding with 19-21 year old girls who are also their employees and who come across quite extroverted and hyper on their social media might be their idea of hell. no matter how much they respect and like them. i don't blame them for slinking off into their dressing rooms and bus. i think what makes them feel less unhealthily codependent to me is everything backrolls said, and i would add to that despite living and working together sometimes i can't gauge their emotional/intellectual closeness? by that i mean they are close, but they don't share every interest and seem to spend quite a lot of the day at home doing separate activities. coming together, then separating again. i think that's why it's so sweet to hear them talk about showing the other something, or when they admitted they disagree in the HuffPost interview. they each have great affection for the other's habits and interests, but haven't been subsumed into one twin-like agreeing organism. that's quite rare, i feel.

my only two cents to the top/bottom convo these days is that, if they gave me evidence i would gladly imagine them both engaging in anything. the fact of the matter is, they cultivate that fan perception with their own comments and behaviour, which could say a lot about what they actually do like and are capable of, or it could say nothing about that and everything about other identity issues. despite dubious behaviour from both of them in the past, i just give them the benefit of the doubt that it's the former. after nearly 7 years i would expect to see something inconsistent, but they've not deviated from subtle (sometimes not so subtle) implications of how they experience their sexualities.

[spider]

my only two cents to the top/bottom convo these days is that, if they gave me evidence i would gladly imagine them both engaging in anything. the fact of the matter is, they cultivate that fan perception with their own comments and behaviour, which could say a lot about what they actually do like and are capable of, or it could say nothing about that and everything about other identity issues. despite dubious behaviour from both of them in the past, i just give them the benefit of the doubt that it's the former. after nearly 7 years i would expect to see something inconsistent, but they've not deviated from subtle (sometimes not so subtle) implications of how they experience their sexualities.

All of this.

During the almost 7 years they grew up so much they're almost like completely different people but this stayed the same no matter how much they changed. Since they really seem like good people they also get the benefit of the doubt from me that it's the first explanation. The other explanation doesn't fit how I think of them at all.

Anyways if the phan sex tape leaked and they had opposite roles from what I expect I wouldn't rush to debate it either.

[mermaid blood]

soz double post

LurkingTrash it's from the intro of the last Internet Takeover.

I never noticed Dan's hand lingering on Phil's back when he pushes him from 3.12ish.






the little self-conscious mouth at the end.
I don't know if it's just because I'm home sick with a raging virus right now, but that gave me tummy feels.

[Ticia]

Throwback Thursday

[swofro]

So, I watched the DaPG playing PT again because I'm bored / why not?
Around 7 minutes in, after the first jumpscare, Phil said 'let's be brave' and it automatically reminds me of Dan's 'I want to be there so you don't have to be brave'. Lol.

Going back to where I belong

[spider]

Ticia their hands don't touch in the gif. It's this video at 2:55 and Dan is waving his hand while he talks.

[missemma]

Not hanging out with the merch crew much doesn't surprise me. they have a pretty intense schedule even by musician standards, and being introverted awkward types trying to find common bonding with 19-21 year old girls who are also their employees and who come across quite extroverted and hyper on their social media might be their idea of hell. no matter how much they respect and like them. i don't blame them for slinking off into their dressing rooms and bus.

love seeing your posts on here, merms

I agree with the above, I'm not surprised they don't hang out the merch crew. I mean they don't hang out with their friends much at conventions and are always found lurking together at the back somewhere, so why would they hang out with two (pretty much) random people on tour.

I can't believe the tour is already over half way done, it's gone so quickly. I am still holding out hope for a DITL touring edition, and I really hope they do something like that, especially as they've got people filming on the tour. The next few days will be hella busy for them as they've got 4 shows back to back, and I'm sure a certain amount of travelling in between so I wouldn't expect much content in the next few days (although saying that, maybe Dan will surprise us with his next DINOF video, we can only but hope).

[fancybum]

Felix is going to die of alcohol poisoning on Friday, poor thing. But also.. this should be good. I'm so thirsty for content, I'm excited for a video of another YTer (who isn't a pile of shit, protip) mentioning them

(plus I'm interested to see what he'll choose to show and what he'll say about things that maybe wouldn't make it into a D&P tag vid.. if you know what I mean). Because he's toned down how he talks about their 'ship', buut this could go either way. The joke could just be 'D&P are all over tumblr goddammit' and just general comedic frustration. I'm not even worried, I trust him, but curious to see exactly how he's going about it.

[mez29]

Trigger Warning :

me flogging a dead horse

Phil didn't make the same face in the Crabstickz quiz show. His mouth opened in surprise and he laughed awkwardly. Could write an analysis of that moment too but nobody needs that.

That wasn't his immediate reaction though, Jack and Ashens are already laughing. We don't see him straight away when the question is asked, but when we do he's got his mouth closed tightly (although he's starting to laugh by this point).



A bit like when he first looks towards the camera in the radio clip, although the laughing obviously doesn't affect it.

[phamnotof]

Trigger Warning :

me flogging a dead horse

Phil didn't make the same face in the Crabstickz quiz show. His mouth opened in surprise and he laughed awkwardly. Could write an analysis of that moment too but nobody needs that.

That wasn't his immediate reaction though, Jack and Ashens are already laughing. We don't see him straight away when the question is asked, but when we do he's got his mouth closed tightly (although he's starting to laugh by this point).



A bit like when he first looks towards the camera in the radio clip, although the laughing obviously doesn't affect it.

it's the same face! oh god that is actually brilliant. it's like he's sucking on something sour and doesn't want you to know.

is there any more exapmles of this? #newobsession

[spider]

That wasn't his immediate reaction though, Jack and Ashens are already laughing. We don't see him straight away when the question is asked, but when we do he's got his mouth closed tightly (although he's starting to laugh by this point).

A bit like when he first looks towards the camera in the radio clip, although the laughing obviously doesn't affect it.

good catch. +1 new obsession.

[Anonymousse]

That wasn't his immediate reaction though, Jack and Ashens are already laughing. We don't see him straight away when the question is asked, but when we do he's got his mouth closed tightly (although he's starting to laugh by this point).

A bit like when he first looks towards the camera in the radio clip, although the laughing obviously doesn't affect it.

good catch. +1 new obsession.

I think this is the distant relative to the "I'm feeling awkward" Fugu/Kirby face that they both pull, except this one is even more subconscious.

(Missed a lot of good topics yesterday, sigh)

Lol, I'm feeling like Dan, as I am "just in case" in the IRC. "Waiting for hours for someone to come by".

[Ticia]

Their page in SHOUT magazine.

[Anonymousse]

Their page in SHOUT magazine.

Fuckin' noobs, they should've written "Protip" instead of "Top tip".

They clearly don't know their audience.

[hiddenwombat]

i honestly wonder who writes for things like shout magazine or who would buy it just to see screenshots of things already visible on their timelines???

[offtopic]tried searching in gg for any discussion of this moment in DAPG (grindr hookup joke, DITL of tabitha)? thought it might be an ok time to bring it back up after the last few conversations???[/offtopic]

[DryCereal]

Their page in SHOUT magazine.

Fuckin' noobs, they should've written "Protip" instead of "Top tip".

They clearly don't know their audience.

Top flight jurnalizm that...
We could write a better magazine than that and make millions from it - apparently all you need to do is trawl social media!

[eevee]

You've inspired me to photoshop.... and go a bit sadder:

OMG we need to make this a real smiley!! I love it!!

i honestly wonder who writes for things like shout magazine or who would buy it just to see screenshots of things already visible on their timelines???

[offtopic]tried searching in gg for any discussion of this moment in DAPG (grindr hookup joke, DITL of tabitha)? thought it might be an ok time to bring it back up after the last few conversations???[/offtopic]

I wanna write things for that magazine...get paid to be the trash I am.

Grindr hookup...I feel like not too many people outside the LGBT+ community know what grindr is to be honest, my straight girlfriends don't know what it is. Hmmm

[spaceguitar]

i honestly wonder who writes for things like shout magazine or who would buy it just to see screenshots of things already visible on their timelines???

[offtopic]tried searching in gg for any discussion of this moment in DAPG (grindr hookup joke, DITL of tabitha)? thought it might be an ok time to bring it back up after the last few conversations???[/offtopic]

I wanna write things for that magazine...get paid to be the trash I am.

Grindr hookup...I feel like not too many people outside the LGBT+ community know what grindr is to be honest, my straight girlfriends don't know what it is. Hmmm

I'm going to disagree with you on this and say that I think about everyone who goes to my school probs knows what Grindr is. And also everyone who spends time on the internet. From tumblr screenshots to Tyler Oakley and other youtubers talking about it, its in no way a secretive thing.
The way that Dan says that in the vid is actually kinda funny. What he means by that is 'gay hook up', but he says 'Grindr'. Idk, it def struck me when I first watched the video. He finds something comedic about it.

[eevee]

I'm going to disagree with you on this and say that I think about everyone who goes to my school probs knows what Grindr is. And also everyone who spends time on the internet. From tumblr screenshots to Tyler Oakley and other youtubers talking about it, its in no way a secretive thing.
The way that Dan says that in the vid is actually kinda funny. What he means by that is 'gay hook up', but he says 'Grindr'. Idk, it def struck me when I first watched the video. He finds something comedic about it.

Oh weird. Maybe my friends are all totally uncultured then hahaha.

i agree, though, it's a little joke that Dan tells. I don't necessarily mean like DAN MUST HAVE A GRINDR DUH

[hunnyftw]

Top flight jurnalizm that...
We could write a better magazine than that and make millions from it - apparently all you need to do is trawl social media!

You may be joking but in an AU where IDB's bantz and more serious discussions were to be published I'd buy that stuff in a flash! It'd certainly be more entertaining than this garbage.

Grindr hookup...I feel like not too many people outside the LGBT+ community know what grindr is to be honest, my straight girlfriends don't know what it is. Hmmm

*raises hand* straight person here and I defnitely have heard of grindr, so +1 for spaceguitar here. I think you might be underestimating the amount of useless trivia knowledge an average internet user acquires, regardless of that person being LGBT+ or not.

[spaceguitar]

On the contrary side, I had a conversation with my parents a few months ago where they basically asked what Grindr is. I guess its a generational/ internet thing.