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guys i think dan might have feelings for phil or something

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INCREDIBLE JOB ON THE ANIMATIONS BTW

ESP THE GOLDEN PIG AND OCCASIONAL BIRD. 10/10

i gave scraggy her fucked up hairdo <3

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look dad i did a sport

phil instagram post

30/4/24

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my sillies

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HUH???????

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hahaha it's funny!!! speak your truth!!!! i do however love all or nothing so we've got beef now but

if there's one thing tumblr knows about calvinahobbes by now it's that she's an "All Or Nothing by DanAndPhilBEATS" hater first, and a phannie second

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Is it actually?? Have i been hating on it that much? Buddy, I’m sorry! I just never got it but Phantasy instantly was a vibe to me 😭

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Dan and Red Lighting

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phil tweet

30/4/24

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i’m two months late but omg the slittening!!!!!!!!!!!bOmg

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this is so cruel

10/10

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🧡 :D

🧡 ;-;

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🥹 the emotions are a bit too much today lads pls pack it up

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in hindsight it was kinda nuts that they had matching bedding in the london apartment

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OK

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thinking abt Them

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phil tweet

28/4/24

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Today I'm thinking about The Gaming Channel’s Couch

The gaming channel started with them sitting on The Couch, playing console games that require controllers (donkey kong, mortal kombat, portal, bishi bashi, etc). I think it was intentional that they launched the gaming channel like that. It gave off the vibe that this was just a chill hangout. No professional gaming was expected, no serious business, this was just a fun project. 

It made sense that until they played the sims 4 (a PC game), they only ever sat on The Couch. They even acknowledged that it's a new (unexpected) territory in that video, meaning that they did not plan on it being a permanent fixture at first.

So you can tell that their intention was to play console games on the couch, and PC games on the gaming chairs. Simple enough system, had they stuck to it.

Games played on the 3DS / iPad (before Apple introduced the screen recording feature, at least) required additional setup, so I don’t think much of them playing them on the gaming chairs. 

(They played dragon city (iPad game) twice on the couch though, idk how that worked. I gave up tryna reason Why they were inconsistent about iPad/iPhone games specifically.)

In 2015, They revealed that Dan broke the couch at some point. They didn't make any effort to replace or get rid of it though.

Despite it being broken, they continued playing on the couch. Phil’s nostalgia quest videos in the 2016 gamingmas were almost exclusively played on the couch (will you be a millionaire, katamari damacy, bishi bashi, bubble bobble), all of which were playstation games.

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In Jan 2017, Phil revealed that he got a new office chair. I think getting that new chair was a turning point in the channel, as all videos filmed after that were on the chairs.

When they moved houses in 2017, they moved in the broken couch to their new (fake) apartment. Please remember that this couch was used by guests who wanted to sleepover at theirs in the previous apartment, so them moving it to the fake apartment instead of their own clearly meant that it was not for guests anymore. It was The Gaming Channel’s Couch.

I think this showed that they were really committed to still making the channel look chill. The first shot of the then new gaming room had Phil sitting on the couch, saying "I want it to look homely". I know he was talking about the lamp, but I think his comment can also be extended to him sitting on the couch.

he couch was probably too far away from the screen. I don’t even think it had any purpose but to fill the room and make it look lived in.

They played many card games (heartthrob, clickbait, santa banter, bucket of doom.. etc) in the fake apartment. These games didn’t even require them to see a monitor, but they never sat on the couch ever. Actually, the only instance where they sat on the couch in this apartment (after establishing its existence in the first video filmed there) was this:

I don’t really know what my conclusion is, just that the post-hiatus gaming room doesn’t even have a couch, and I miss it loads, even when they haven’t sat on A Couch to play a game since 2016.

(videos played on the tour bus were excluded as they were played on a couch but not The Couch, y’know)