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I wonder where danisnotonfirevyou1 is now. I think about them on a daily basis.

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Imagine: You walking in on Dan cheating on you.

It had been a long day you had just got in from work.You left work early because you were stressed and just wanted to sleep. You kicked your shoes off and you heard moans coming from upstairs, so you tiptoed up the stairs and peeked through the gap in the door to see Dan having sex with a dirty-blonde prostitute most likely.You booted the door open with tears streaming down your face.

“Crap. Y/N” Dan said hopping out of the bed and haulling his boxers and jeans on.

You just stormed out of the house and went to live with your parents hoping that you’ll never see Dan again.

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phannie phrases tournament: sappy edition

We are real best friends, companions through life, like, actual soulmates.

from Basically, I’m Gay

VS

Obviously, we were more than friends, but it was more than just romantic.

from Basically, I’m Gay

polls stay open for 1 week. don’t forget to reblog for sample size!

all tournament posts

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Did it hurt? When you feel from heaven? Lol jk when you fell down that escalator omg that must have been so fucking hilarious. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

this question is essentially the difference between a typical youtubers followers and danosaurs.AND I WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY. *goes insane and starts crying* 

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Fav dan and/or phil video for when you're sad?

there's a scale so it depends on what kind of sad you are

just feeling low- gamingmas 2016, or basically anything post hiatus, any of the dinof storytimes

lonely/don't want to be alone with your thoughts- most liveshows but specifically the joint 2015/2016 ones and the post ii tour younows in 2018, most amazingphil videos

uh oh it's a depressive episode- super amazing project, anything from the manchester flat

mental health at a critical low- entire undertale series rewatch

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someone on twt said "do you think dan writes d♡p on the sand when they go on holiday" and now im upset.

um well. well i think that uh. so you see like. yes i do think at least one of them. potentially. would be the type to write um love declarations in the sn i mean in the sand

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babygirl what goes on

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this overcooked livestream is making me want a Dan and Phil x Dr Orna The Couples Therapist collab. I think she would have to tell Dan to be quiet a few times at least.

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before and after their 12 hour shift in the kitchen

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so i dont really watch dnp videos anymore but i still like...care about how they are doing so i just follow you to Keep Up With the LesterHowells. anyway the dnp brand/fandom is insane (me included) they seem to have now cultivated a fandom of...consensual queerbaiting??? (but not really ya know). the most insane?? (ethical???) parasocial relationship with fans i have ever seen. i love it. its bizarre. just dnp joking and notjoking about their relationship while their (mostly lesbian) fans tell them to shut up about it (but also keep going) HOW DID THIS HAPPEN but also i get it.

at this point it's just one giant bit and we're all gleefully participating. consensual queerbaiting is a funny way of putting it because you have a point lmao, like obviously it's not queerbaiting at all it's more shipbaiting, and technically it's neither of those things since y'know. they're a couple. but i know exactly what you mean still and it's so true. naturally they get a kick out of making us go insane every time they hint at it, but i think equally they get a kick out of the way we keep being like ??? why am i going insane like i already know this ??? i feel like they're trying to see just how far removed from "the mystery" we can get before we stop freaking out every time they say or do something gay. and the answer is we never will <3

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This Dating Everything video was a continuation of a trend that has long been observed by phannies - namely how much they tell on themselves when commenting on hypotheticals, in contrast to how little you get out of them when they're asked directly.

A drinking game that asks them questions about their dating experiences? They'll tell an old story from when they were 12 years old and then move the fuck on.

But when managing their sims' relationship, or flirting with a video game Hot Guy, they suddenly become the least subtle people on earth with the way their preferences and icks and opinions line up PERFECTLY with ONLY each other.

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As a pre June 2019 phannie, it is EXTREMELY hilarious to me that everyone was so sure Dan and Phil were gay but if they HAD to pick a straight one everyone would have picked Phil

Meanwhile in 2025 we have solid confirmation from both that Phil would never touch a woman but Dan would be down if she was a bad bitch

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i cannot belie ve,, 

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Phannie Census FINAL RESULTS

Phwoah dads, I'm handing it over to the mod again!

Thank you so so much to everyone who took and shared the survey! We ended with 1799 total respondents!

Without further ado, let's get into the results...

Updates to preliminary results:

(Because these are largely the same as before, I'll be omitting my commentary. If you're interested you can read my commentary from my preliminary results post. It also has a couple extra pie graphs that I omitted here just to avoid being repetitive/making this too long.)

Do you currently identify as a lesbian? (99.7 % response rate)

71.5% No, 28.5% Yes

2. Have you ever identified as a lesbian? (99.7% response rate)

55.0% Yes, 45.0% No

3. What's your sexual/romantic orientation? (99.6% response rate)

42.3% Bi/Pan/Omni, 40.8% Queer, 34.5% Gay/Lesbian, 29.2% Ace/Aro, 9.7% Demi, 5.5% Straight, 2.83% write-ins

4. What's your gender? (98.6% response rate)

50.5% Woman, 16.8% A different kind of nonbinary (specify in other), 15.6% Genderfluid, 15.5% Man, 14.1% Agender, 5% Demigirl, 3.6% Demiboy, 2.8% Bigender/Polygender, 2.3% Genderqueer (write-in), 0.7% Intersex, 1.1 % other write-ins

*in this case write-ins refers to people who only left a write-in without checking another box. This is not the case for all the other "check all that apply" questions (which include all write-ins in the percent), but this had so many write-ins it broke the google form so this is the best I can do lol.

5. What's your gender identity? (98.7% response rate)

47.8% Cisgender, 41.5% Nonbinary, 28.1% Transgender, 0.6% Intersex, 2.3% write-ins

6. What was your assigned gender at birth? (99.0% response rate)

95.7% Female, 2.4% Prefer not to say, 0.7% Male, 0.6% Actually my doctor was super cool and didn't assign me a gender against my will, 0.6% write-ins

7. What's your race/ethnicity? (99.6% response rate)

84.7% White, 10.3% Hispanic, 7.5% Asian/South Asian, 2.3% Black, 1.6% Middle Eastern, 1.1% Native American, American Indian, or Alaska Native, 0.4% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 3.1% write-ins

8. What's your age? (95.3% response rate)

Average age: 23.1, Min: 0 (or 12 if you omit the 0), Max: 50, Most common age: 23, Standard deviation: 4.5

Full Table:

*The program I was using for this automatically rejected any responses that weren't in number form (ex: mid 20s was rejected but 25 was allowed), so the results may differ slightly.

9. Which continent are you from? (99.1% response rate)

55.5% North America, 29.8% Europe, 6.2% Australia, 3.4% South America, 3.3% Asia, 1.6% Oceania/Zealandia, 0.2% Africa, 0.1% Antarctica

10. Which country are you from? (96.4% response rate)

Top 5: 49.4% United States, 13.8% United Kingdom, 5.7% Australia, 5.2% Canada, 3.7% Germany

Full Table:

There were responses from 71 countries!!

11. Which of the 4 Gs of the Dan and Phil demographic are you? (99.8% response rate)

87.5% Gays, 84.9% Geeks, 63.9% Girlies, 38.5% Goths, 0.6% None actually, 2.5% write-ins

12. Did Dan make you trans/question your gender? (99.4% response rate)

34.5% No, I questioned my gender all on my own (or something else made me I guess), 27.0% No, I've always been sure I'm cis, 14.6% No I made myself trans (or something else did I guess), 14.2% Yes, he made me question my gender, 5.8% Yes, he made me trans, 3.9% write-ins

13. What year did you join the phandom? (99.6% response rate)

Top 5: 14.3% 2014, 13.2% 2015, 10.4% 2013, 10.9% 2016, 10.6% 2012

Full Table:

Around 20% of respondents joined the phandom during/after the hiatus!

*The program also rejected non-numerical responses for this one, so non-numerical write-ins and the "I can't even guess" response were not included in analysis.

14. At this exact moment in time, are you a dannie or a phillie? (99.4% response rate)

35.9% I literally couldn't decide with a gun pointed to my head, 35% Dannie, 29.1% Phillie

15. When you first joined the phandom, were you a dannie or a phillie? (99.4% response rate)

67.1% Dannie, 17.4% Phillie, 15.5% I literally couldn't decide with a gun pointed to my head

16. Are you a dannie or a phillie? (with nuance) (40.9% response rate)

Here's a word-cloud depicting the most popular words used across entries:

17. Are you some kind of mentally ill/neurodivergent? (99.6% response rate)

59.0% Yes (and diagnosed), 28.2% Yes (but not diagnosed), 6.1% Not sure, 4.2% No (and I was never assessed), 0.5% No (but I was assessed), 2.0% write-ins

18. Specifically, are you autistic? (99.7% response rate)

27.3% Yes (but not diagnosed), 26.1% No (and I was never assessed), 20.7% Not sure, 20.2% Yes (and diagnosed), 2.1% No (but I was assessed), 3.6% write-ins

19. If you identify as transmasc, do you consider Dan or Phil to be gender goals? (97.7% response rate)

61.3% I'm not transmasc, 14.6% Dan, 12.3% Both, 6.2% Neither, 1.5% Phil, 4.1% write-ins

20. What's your political orientation? (98.3% response rate)

72.6% Strongly left, 20.1% Moderately left, 3.7% I don't really think about politics, 1.3% Center, 0.2% Strongly right, 0.2% Moderately right, 1.9% write-ins

21. Which is better, phyuri or phaoi? (98.4% response rate)

36.9% How dare you ask me to pick one?, 31.0% Phaoi, 21.3% Phyuri, 8.6% I don't know what we're talking about, 2.2% write-ins

22. Are you a furry? (99.3% response rate)

74.8% No, 18.7% I dabble, but wouldn't call myself a full furry, 4.6% Yes, 1.9% write-ins

23. Do you think Sister Daniel is hot? (98.9% response rate)

80.8% Yes, 8.1% No, 6.2% I'm too confused to tell, 4.9% write-ins

New research questions:

What percent of respondents are LGBTQ+?

96.6%

I found this by taking the total number of respondents and subtracting out those who answered that they were cis and straight without checking any other sexualities or gender identities. This is pretty much what I was expecting given that only 5% identified as straight in the preliminary results lol. I love that for us, but also thanks for your support to the 3.4% ally audience lol.

What percent of respondents are all 4 G's of the Dan and Phil demographic?

18.8%

Nearly one fifth! I love that for us lol.

What is the most popular combination of G's in the Dan and Phil demographic for respondents?

Girlies, Gays, Geeks (27.4% of respondents)

There was some confusion in the write-ins over what qualified as "goth", which may explain why that was the least popular one. I'd imagine most of us who would fall into "goth" are probably some flavor of emo, but Dan just picked "goth" because it started with a G.

What percent of respondents were dannies when they joined the phandom but are phillies now? (and every other possible combination)

Dannie to Dannie: 29.4%, Dannie to Can't decide: 20.3%, Dannie to Phillie: 15.2%, Phillie to Phillie: 10.3%, Can't decide to Can't decide: 9.8%, Phillie to Can't decide: 4.3%, Can't decide to Phillie: 2.7%, Can't decide to Dannie: 2.5%, Phillie to Dannie: 2.1%

I omitted responses where they left one or both of the questions blank. The high percents in originally dannie categories makes sense, given the fact that around 2/3 of respondents were dannies when they joined the phandom, which leads me to my next question...

What percent of dannies became phillies and vice versa?

23.3% of respondents who were dannies when they joined the phandom are phillies now (45% remained dannies)

12.2% of respondents who were phillies when they joined the phandom are dannies now (60.6% remained phillies)

This differs from the previous question slightly, because the previous question is percents out of all respondents, while these percents are the pool of respondents who identified as dannies/phillies. More than half of respondents who were phillies when they joined the phandom are still phillies today, which I find interesting. It makes sense than there would be less dannies remaining dannies, since the overall response has shifted from around 2/3 dannies when they joined to pretty evenly split today.

What was the average age respondents were when they joined the phandom?

14 years old

I found this by taking the average age (23.1) and subtracting 9.1 (2025 - the average year people joined the phandom, 2015.9). This tracks with the stereotypes I had in my head lol. I was curious about whether new fans who are finding them just now are also around 14, so I sorted and just looked at the data for people who found them in 2025 and they are still mostly teenagers, although a little older (average age: 17.5).

Thank you!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this! Even though I'm done collecting the data, I still have the files and programs to analyze them, so feel free to reach out if you have any questions! I've had so much fun doing this, and I really appreciate everyone who took the time to go on this journey with me.

Future directions: Next week I'm planning on putting out one final update asking about future directions. Would you be interested in a Phannie Census 2026? What you want that to look like? I'll be doing a series of polls next Sunday to ask about what this should look like in the future.

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i feel like dan and phil are not as worried as they should be about that drone in their back yard