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PAN AND GRILL‼️

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also not to be all We Need to Analyze This With A Critical Lens but the whole part of them not being sure whose perspective the song is written from...like its actually so clever. "too much too young too fast it changed me but idgaf because it saved me" "its been our time we need to move on and forgive the crimes" like those def could be from either pov. ok modern shakespeares

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IDGAF BECAUSE IT SAVED ME

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🌕 moon butt and everyday sunshine ☀️

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i think the reason i find interactive introverts so interesting is because they wanted to say so much with it that they end up adressing in terrible influence. in interactive introverts they seem to really want to talk about the relationship they have with their auidence and how the nature of a parasocial relationship can be harmful. this seems to be a point they are so desperate to make but also feel the pressure to entertain and give the audience a good time, thus inadvertently proving their point. In a lot of ways interactive introverts is a specatcle, dnp cutting themselves open for the audience and saying is this entertaining? are you entertained yet?! the simulation scene at the start of the show is the appetiser for all that there is to come, and the start of a reoccuring theme. that this action will have consequences

in the simulation scene, the audience puppet around an ai dan and phil who act as they would and still feel the real pain and embarassment the real dan and phil would. dan and phil watch this unfold with a growing worry as the audience seem to pick all of the options that cause them suffering and for some reason take delight in it! this causes them to think about a question, how far are we willing to take this? now the wheel scene comes around and theyre curious about how bloodthirsty their audience could possibly be, so they ask and sit in horror as their audience seems to yet again take this with great excitement. dan watches in horror as this goes on and he's scared, she start pleading, begging to the audience, i'm a person too!! , as they sit there completely helpless to what's happening. this is where the audience experiences some slight trepidation, the words this is your fault and your actions have consequences hard to take lightly or brush off.

now the finale comes and there is nothing anyone can do but watch as the two finally understand that their pain is just a price to pay for others enjoyment and the audience can do nothing but helplessley watch as the two both painfully answer questions wrong. and theres nothing they can do now, dan and phil have been told this is what they wanted, is this not what you wanted? theres no going back now, we told you this would have consequences, its not our fault if you weren't listening. so they have to just sit and watch as dnp both keep smiling, pretending not to flinch from the pain.

they play themsleves off the stage, with the same sort of promise, no matter the pain we will give you what you want, but there seems to be something different in the air, because what the audience doesn't know, is that this is a goodbye.

in a lot of ways interactive introverts is a tragedy of two boys who were burned by the very fire that gave them life (insert dinof joke) and the danger of idolism and celebrity culture. but it is also the light at the end of the tunnel for them, especially dan who can put this all behind him and know she doesn't have to grit a smile anymore and finally gets to rest.

the thing that really gets to me that they talk about in terrible influence is, despite all of this, they still decided to come back! the songs in the preshow playlists about toxic relationships are painfully accurate, and the show itself questions if there is such a thing as a healthy creator audience relationship. the show does not answer this question but holds the sentiment that despite all of this, despite all the bad, they want to make it work, but this time on their own terms and thats beautiful to me.

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their blossom has blosmpt 🌸

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honestly it's crazy that dan and phil are BOTH gay like what are the odds

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my predictions for april phools

creation of an Actual onlyphans

they hyphenate their last names on instagram + twitter

coming out (as straight)

they do a video in drag and do not acknowledge it at all

fake phouse tour

they announce dan and phil: the musical

the pheal/pholden phig take over their channel/social media

kiss

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"It's us against the world, together we'll survive" not about Dan and Phil versus the world but about Dan and Phil and the phandom versus the world........... they make me sick

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the things i would do for a tit crew video that doesn’t even have dan and phil. give me a run down of the stage manager pre show checklist. give me the lighting and sound designers going through their creative process and giving a rundown of the board operation. give me an interview with the set designer and the moving crew. the tech theatre nerds needs this

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The constant push and pull within me of "oh my god why do they never actually take any breaks please rest" and "yay content coming soon!!"

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December 2023 -> March 2025

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I still don't understand why some people think that Dan and Phil dislike large swathes of the phandom. They know we're crazy! It's one of the reasons they love us so much! We submitted them to an RPF tournament 114 times and printed out a screenshot of the final poll and sent it in as a fucking preshow question and they reblogged the poll to help us win. They printed us sweatshirts saying legalize catboys and we wore them in public and then, on twitter, we found the normal people who posted about seeing us. We raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity and in return they gave each other eyebrow slits live on camera because they know we love to see them embrace edgier looks and touch each other. We told them that they raised us and instead of saying "no we didn't who are you" they apologized for being bad parents and sold us a hat that said "Dan and Phil are my dads." They turned Dan into a golden pig; no one even asked for that! In any way! They just did that! For the memes and the Dragon City sponsorship money! Someone made a post nine years ago about Dan and Phil kissing onstage at a combined MCR/FOB/panic concert and we kept passing that post around and referencing it for nine years, and when they realized MCR and FOB were performing together for the first time in more than a decade, they decided to reenact the post and put it on instagram, tumblr, twitter, and tiktok. We said their Sims 4 outfits were ugly, they made an entire apology video. We shipped them together, they said surprise! Our show is the matchmaking event of the century. They named their show tit. THEY NAMED THEIR SHOW TIT. We're crazy. They're crazy. Together, we've created one of the most unhinged fanbases on the internet. We matched each other's phreak and I think there's something pheautiful about that.

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dan and phil using a funeral setting to tease the return of the gaming channel vs dan and phil using a engagement language to tease the gaming channel being rebranded to just dan and phil.

a funeral and a resurrection being a surprise, like they've said coming back and having the response be so major was. it being full of excitement but still the feeling of grief and the added feeling of confusion. a good thing but scary and not planned for.

an engagement being a choice after a long relationship, a mutual decision. full of excitement with a look toward the future. toward commitment.

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Dan: Well, now what?

Phil: What do we do?

Dan: So, guys... what if DanAndPhilGAMES just became Dan and Phil?

Phil: What if it was just Dan and Phil with games? 


Dan: What if we just committed?

Phil: To doing stuff.

Dan: What if we put a ring on it?

Phil: Put a ring on the chan.

Dan: We're actually just gonna do Dan and Phil content.

Phil: Yeah, properly. 


Dan: Not that there's anything wrong with the last year of content, because don't get me wrong... Gaming, great. I think we always do gaming.

Phil: 
There will always be gaming, for sure.

Dan: Because let's be honest, playing long horror games as probably the most successful type of content on YouTube.

Phil: But we wanna do more with the channel.

Dan: But we can do more with that.

Phil: So, I think that's, we...

Dan: There's nothing wrong with cosy and casual, okay?

Phil: But what if we had both? 


Dan: But Dan and Phil playing card games isn't the extent of our creative ambition.

Phil: We have more in our brain minds.

Dan: So what does this mean? 
When does this mean? Well, here is the thing, guys, we literally just got back from this tour, and then we've literally been editing the show and preparing for this night, and here we are with you hanging out with this thing. So, uhh, give give us a minute, so like, you know, work it out. I was like, Phil, you know what would be so dramatic?

Phil: What?

Dan: Just hiatus 2? 
Just while we were-

Phil: No, we can keep making gaming videos until we're ready.

Dan: So, if you love the kind of Dan and Phil struggling to make content while they're busy doing something else, laps up more content.

Phil: And we're still in the whiteboard phase, so there's... you'll see, you'll see when it's done.

Dan: Don't get me wrong. 
If you absolutely love the type of shit we've been doing for the last year and a half, we're still going to do that.

Phil: That's sticking around.

Dan: We're just gonna do more other stuff.

Phil: More stuff.

Dan: God knows..

Phil: Alright, I wasn't expecting to talk about that right now.

Dan: What do you mean? 
We promised them tea.

Phil *miming giving the chat tea*: Okay, there's the tea.

(Excerpt from Dan and Phil's Terrible Influence Global Livestream Afterparty, 23rd of March 2025)

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Hold on, what if they do a wedding/engagement themed sketch for the rebrand announcement like how they did a funeral themed sketch for coming back from the dead???

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this is arguably obvious to anyone who's ever heard dan speak for more than four minutes but like especially if you've been around for a long time and gone through... all of those eras... dan being at all willing to sign up for a channel that's just Dan And Phil, with no gimmick or plot or anything else he can pretend is the real focus, is straight up insane. literally forget everything else they've done, this would shock 2013 me so much more than them coming out