Daniel Howell - Blog Posts

actually fucking beautiful

i hope, in another universe (cause ive found my place in this one), i can have what dan and phil have

i know this is a christmas post but it sparked something in me

dan and phils relationship is so special

its as intricate as a spiderweb, as wonderful as the stars, as enchanting as the sky

its something id gladly call my roman empire because this is on my mind constantly

here's to fifteen years of christmas together <3

@/deloveusion \\ 'Friend Test' Summer in the City 2014 \\ "Grief Lessons: Four Plays" - Euripides \\ 12-10-2010 DailyBooth post by danisnotonfire \\ 04-18-2010 Tweet by danielhowell \\ @/starei \\ Dan's comment under "I TRY TO GIVE DAN A HAIRCUT!!" -AmazingPhil \\ @/slytherverse \\ deleted video "What did YOU get for Christmas" (originally posted to danisnotonfire 12-25-2009) \\ 10-20-2023 TikTok posted to AmazingPhil \\ @/nedsseveredhead \\ "DAN'S BIRTHDAY CHARITY STREAM!!" - DanAndPhilGAMES \\ @/rueyam \\ @/firstpinof \\ @/midnightcrisisstuff \\ 11-06-2009 DailyBooth post by phil \\ 11-01-2024 joint Instagram post to amazingphil & danielhowell \\ "In Every Universe" - Stephanie Valencia \\ "Basically I'm Gay" - Daniel Howell \\ Quote - Mary Haskell \\ "INTERACTIVE CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE - START HERE!" - AmazingPhil (captions have been removed)

picks it up and gazes as a tear rolls down my cheek

i love this so much

drops this and runs

🎉🎉🎉

Hey guys!!! We now have 48 members in the discord server!! 🥳🥳🥳 Come join in!! Last night we played jackbox and other fun games. It is 18+!! we also have a secret TIT Tour chat so you can come in and share spoilers and only people who wanna be in there will see them!!! You can promote your socials and your art!!! It’s so fun having friends that don’t make fun of you for having Dan and phil as your background on every device and for talking about them 24/7 because that’s all we do!!!

reblog and share with your friends!!!!!

me fr (i think my friends hate me)

my spotify wrapped came early this year?!?!

2 years without uploading and he comes back with a 90 MINUTE LONG VIDEO

the prophecy…

Happy 10 year anniversary to a festive day in the life of Dan and Phil!!

How the phandom will react if Dnp get married

Phan1: I KNEW IT!!!

Phan2: Its fake news! They’ll never get married :)

Phan3: OMG THEY’RE GETTING MARRIED IM SO HAPPY THEY R MY ROLE MODELS AND I LUV DEM SO MUCH! I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM 4 BEING SO AMAZING AND read more...

Phan4: Im @ their wedding rn :))))

Heya peeps.

Twitter~https://twitter.com/phaniking_bitch

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first post !!

HELLOO made a separate blog to post about dnp so i don’t fill up my main… dnp phans plsplzplz follow me i promise to be nice…

i’ve been a phan for 8 years and met phil in 2020 & saw II in 2018!!

Do I want to pay $15 ticketed-live stream of The Terrible Influence Tour? No

I want a 3 hr documentary-cut of the tour (sold to Hulu or Netflix) stitched together with interviews from other YouTubers and viewers investigating the profitably of parasocial relationships that early-YouTubers pioneered.

That’s art. That’s AMBITION bb

When I read TABINOF for the first time, I read The Urge and The Hand side-by-side and genuinely wondered whether Dan had an unrequited love. I WORRIED. Like all the videos analyzing the gay shit they did was being finally debunked as one-sided by Dan’s vampire love confession and Straight Phil sliding into the goofiest mpreg using words like “homeslice.”

But yea, the people still waiting for the “hard launch” as if The Urge wasn’t the hardest-soft gay that ever flashed its titties in our faces then went to hide away again under the comfort of the black anime t-shirts in the straighty straight straight closet. Y’all are just spoiled now.

Ik Dan has joked before that Phannies are scholars, and he is absolutely right. In 2021 I wrote a college gender studies final on Dan and Phil real-people queer baiting and whether it can ever be done intentionally.

Here are my favorite excerpts:

“As influencer culture grows, their audiences grow apprehensive of what may pass as in-real-life queerbaiting…In his coming-out video, "Basically, I'm Gay," Youtube celebrity Dan Howell explains the context of his relationship with the other half of the iconic internet duo "Dan and Phil."… he is quick to follow with a statement about his and Phil's preference to keep their personal life "private" for people that share their lives on the internet (Basically, I’m Gay). While respecting Dan and Phil’s reasoning for remaining closeted at the height of their Youtube careers, it is to be acknowledged that the duo profited on the speculative nature of their homosexual behaviors of their online public relationship. Along with Dan Howell's content, which deprecated his insecurities and mental illness, and AmazingPhil which was light and fun, Dan and Phil engaged a massive community of LGBTQ+ through the display of their closeted sexualities which caused constant, inevitable speculation. “

“Dan and Phil’s Youtube personas and scheduled live streams created parasocial relationships between themselves and their audience. A parasocial relationship is defined as the “pseudo-intimacy” developed between an “audience and media personalities,” often taking the role of a good friend (Ramassuen)…Social and physical attraction are shown to have a positive relationship regarding their importance to parasocial relationships (Kurtin). Dan and Phil’s majority demographic, at the time, were teenage girls; fans often labelled themselves based on who they found more attractive: “Dan” or “Phil” girls…Dan and Phil, although promoting a platform where they “took responsibility” for their fans through a parasocial relationship (Green), benefitted from remaining sexually ambiguous as their fan base, it could be argued, was attracted to either member of the pair.”

“Dan and Phil's 2016 USA tour, "The Amazing Tour is Not On Fire,” contained a segment where they enacted fanfiction on stage based on the audience's reaction to pre-scripted scenarios. During the show, Dan and Phil performed two blatantly homoerotic sketches which cut-off before any physical explicitness. In this situation, the duo is relying on the homosexual subtext of their relationship to please their viewership…If Dan and Phil were to kiss as part of their stage show, their fans may have considered it their “coming-out.” "The Amazing Tour is Not On Fire" is just one example where they took advantage of their crowd’s obsession with the nature of their relationship while keeping the door of the closet locked for safety (from their audience and from themselves).”

“From video titles such as “Giving the People What They Want,” which features a thumbnail of Dan holding Phil’s shoulders and smiling widely, “What Dan and Phil Text Each Other,” and “Taste Our Rainbows,” there are numerous examples of the duo intentionally teasing their homosexuality and showcasing their emotional closeness. On the topic of queerbaiting, Crystal Abidin says“ Vlogs in which not-(yet)-out Influencers display 'homosocial tactility' (Morris and Anderson [26], 1201) and overt discursive intimacies with same-sex Influencers are sometimes deliberate attempts to fan viewer speculations about an Influencer's sexuality”(Abidin)…fans scrutinized the often suggestive way the pair would look at each other which they dubbed “Heart-eyes Howell” and “Love-eyes Lester.” Inevitably, opportunities to engage in speculation of the nature of the pair’s relationship increased the overall attention Dan and Phil were receiving toward their Youtube content.”

“While it may or may not be deliberate, the pair was certainly aware of the advantages of all the queer speculation brought to their careers. In Dan’s 2016 “Diss Track,” a song about his flaws, he says “the only reason you get views is because you’re another white guy that people ship with his friend because they think it’s [cute]”…In this case, Dan is making unintentional, but self-aware gains from teasing his sexuality through self-deprication while also shutting down the possibility of a romance with his roommate, Phil.”

“I LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to experience mental health hardships as well as loneliness at a young age…In a livestream in the early 2010s, Phil accuses Dan’s fans of being dark as opposed to his which love suns and lions. In response, Dan accurately explains that they are the same fans, but that they particularly express themselves more openly with him. There is an argument to be made that Dan and Phil’s audience strongly consisting of LGBTQ+ youth is a result of their open expression of their other attributes - awkwardness, anxiety, introvertedness, and depression, rather than specifically their queerness. Their friendship is what links the pair together and adds excitement for the audience.”

“Dan Howell’s coming-out video is a 45 minute docu-short which tells a vulnerable story of his history with bullying, the word gay, and his sexual orientation on the internet…[In the video, Dan] disapproves of “aggressive speculating” or “forced outing” for the purpose of entertainment, as there could be infinite, valid reasons why an assumed LGBTQ+ person is not out (Basically, I’m Gay)…sharing the story of a difficult journey with his queerness and intimacies with his internet partner on supports the argument that Dan and Phil could not be “queerbaiting,” as queerbaiting is taking deliberate actions to draw-in LGBT+ audiences while safeguarding from homophobia. Any of their actions that may be perceived as queerbaiting was an accidental and inevitable result of the true nature of Dan and Phil’s relationship and online content they created that happened to resonate with young queer people at the time.”

“Reflecting their young gay audience, it took time for Dan and Phil to grow comfortable with their sexual orientations…The pairing of Dan and Phil on-screen inevitably —as if it were a consequence for existing as queer men online in a trial period— “queer-baited,” in an untraditional context, the audience as the content is homoerotic without the disclosure of sexual orientation that the duo ultimately benefitted from to their knowledge.”

Walking past this on the T hit different ✨ after Phil said he spent 4 years babysitting the kids on AmazingPhil channel

For people that have already been to the terrible influence tour, how early in advance did you get there or were people getting there? Were the merch lines long? Were certain merch items selling out?

This is for standard ticket holder.

Since TikTok is leaving the US, I thought I’d share this here.

•ALL CREDS TO THE CREATOR•

sister daniel in docs could end my life

I can't find any pics of ywgttn pins, does anyone know where I can find them?

Did anyone manage to get meet-and-greet tickets for Berlin?

Time to start saving up I guess, since my friend and I created a whole holiday plan based on TIT (seeing Chappell Roan and everything)

Does anyone know the price of a meet-and-greet at the last tour?

DAN AND PHIL TOUR?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

My friend and I were supposed to be studying for our finals today, but instead, we spent 2 hours making a tier list of all post-hiatus dnp games videos, and it's the moments like this when I truly understand how correctly my priorities are arranged

My ex called me at 4am while I was watching WAD and i had to wait until they hung up so i could continue watching, oh the challenges

the return of the king

Okay, but what are we getting for DNPTIT merch??

free VIP m&g tickets to anyone who can recite the PINOF 6 ladders LP (with hand gestures)

someone explain how peoples friend groups/relationships have deteriorated after one holiday and these mf’s have coordinate 3 world tours

dan’s scheduled a post

THIS IS NOT A JOKE PEOPLE

credit to twitter for this one

can you guys watch my meerkat for a second-