#time machine meetup

[energeticwarrior]

hi everyone :) I was stalking my old posts since I decided to use Tumblr again and saw how meetups used to be super popular (back in my day.. lmfao). I'm not sure how often meetups still happen, or if they are still as popular, but I thought it would be fun to do a "then and now" meetup! It doesn't matter if you started watching them yesterday or 10 years ago, just have fun with it :)

If you've never participated in a virtual meetup, all people really do is post something about themselves (related to the meetup topic/theme) and reblog other people's posts! I found that I often followed new accounts too after seeing them on other blogs.

purpose ♡

I thought it would be fun to post "then and now" photos of when you started watching dan and phil OR when you started using tumblr, etc.. to how you've changed to now!

if you feel uncomfortable posting photos of yourself, you can also reblog your old work, old art, silly posts you made that you are proud of/think are funny [do what is comfortable please!]

how to participate + rules ♡

reblog this post so others know and can participate

on january 11th, post selfies, old posts, reblog your old work, whatever it may be! And tag it with #time machine meetup

if you feel uncomfortable posting about yourself, feel free to reblog other people's posts! make new friends!

this is a dan and phil blog but if you want to post old work about other tv shows, games, etc.. idgaf bestie go crazy and have fun [aka this is not a phandom-specific meetup]

this is strictly online, not a physical place!

be kind [this was a given]

feel free to send me [@energeticwarrior] a message or inbox me if you have any questions

this is a digital meetup starts 12pm CST and lasts a full 24 hours! here is a timezone converter

if this flops forget i said anything i just thought it would be fun

[yonpote]

2013-2024

i dress more like a teen boy nowadays but also now im not trying to dress like a teen girl anymore LOL

[deadandphilgames]

me a few months before watching dnp vs literally the night before dan posted BIG and i started watching them vs when i rebranded to deadandphilgames vs now. i don’t look too different because it’s only been 5 years (side note it’s been almost 5 years since dan and phil gay?!)

thanks @energeticwarrior for organising this!

i have definitely grown a lot as a person. i graduated university with my bachelors in maths (no thanks to dnp …the tumblr obsession coincided with my final year), i came out to my family which is something i never thought i could do but honestly the love i got from this community helped with my confidence to do it. and i moved out with my gf, we have 3 cats and a dog together and are living our best gay lives <3

[freckliedan]

also for the time machine meetup: arguably the first dan and phil related me post on any platform. unfortunately for my younger sister there has been much more dan and phil.

& shoutout to my mom for liking her own facebook post #confidence #girlboss #women

[deathclassic]

thanks for organising this @energeticwarrior - what a wonderful throwback with meetups :’)

on the left im 10 or 11 years old. It’s 2008 or 2009 and i had just discovered this guy who makes funny youtube videos called amazingphil. in 2011 i eventually subscribe to danisnotonfire. Oh man it really went downhill (uphill) from there.

On the right im 25 years old. This is the most recent picture of me. I’ve been watching dan and phil for more than half my life and ive made friends because of them. Ive had a career because of them.

It’s crazy to think about looking back.

[sisterdaniel]

hi gay people on my phone i’m doing the time machine meet up!!

my internet name is just T :) she/her :)

on the left you will see 16 year old me in 2013, looking absolutely Busted in that lame asf doctor who tee… that was right around when i got into dnp 🥰 i was still wholly under the impression that i was straight but i was mysteriously drawn to the lgbt community (speak valentina!)… ok girly!

and now 11 years later i have a whole ass doctorate in music and im like a real adult now. and not afraid to be queer 🌈 i do still talk about dan and phil with people i met on the internet tho. slayyy

[ahappyphjl]

2014 & 2023 // i’ve been a dnp fan since 2011, and i’m so grateful for how much happiness they’ve brought me over the years. i joined phannie tumblr about 8 years ago now, and still having this place to share with such lovely people makes me feel extremely lucky. i’m forever thankful to this community and dnp for being such a comforting and supportive presence throughout my life. the future is bright 🫶🏻

[freckliephil]

Hi welcome to the aries is hot reveal 😘💋 thanks @energeticwarrior for the time machine meetup! So cute 🥰

Top two pics are me as a freshman in high school in 2011, I used to listen to emo music and pretend i liked it because my best friend did. Id go over to his house and we would google “hot emo boys” and i would wrestle with internalized lesbophobia and compulsory heteronormativity and wonder why i only found boys attractive if they were gay or in touch with femininity in some part of their expression. He would verbally express gender envy and then deny that he was a guy. We figured it out eventually. One day we found dan and phil and spent hours watching their videos. I just assumed they were a gay couple. I didnt subscribe because i didnt have a youtube account of my own, but the two emo boys from youtube who made silly random videos stuck with me.

Over the years, they’ve popped in and out of my peripheral, sometimes occupying a ridiculously large portion of my waking thought, and sometimes fading into the background like two house parrots that you learn to tune out but still occasionally say something so strange and offputting that you have to go “what the fuck did you just say??”

They were there for me in 2016 when i was too anxious to fall asleep and would put on dan’s liveshows, when i was in my final year of college and freaking out about the future, when i was having a menty b or when i was just fucking bored out of my mind. Me and @freckliedan would have found each other in any world, but im glad we had these idiots to bond over in this one. 💕 ive made friends, traveled to new places, and learned things about myself in my time on phannie tumblr and being a proud phannie. I know its cringe and a joke but like dan and phil and this silly little fandom have legit have raised me into the hot sexy lesbian twenty something i am today. Wouldn’t trade this fucked up little community for anything tbh 💕💕

[dapg-otmebytheballs]

Time Machine Meet-up!

I had to go find a physical photo and take a pic from my phone for this lol but... Then and now!

That's a photo from high school, when I first started watching Dan and Phil. While I went looking for the photo I found a bunch of school memories that only served to remind me how out of place I used to feel, and how much I hated feeling like that. I've said this before but Phil's videos made me feel seen and despite how uncomfortable it might make people, Dan's dark humour gave me a positive space to explore some of my darker thoughts.

And that's a more recent photo where I've got that dark emo red-and-black aesthetic down a lot better lol, still watching DnP, still finding strength in them, and in this fandom. Here's to many more years 🥂

[dnphobe]

time machine meet-up!!! here is me in full emo glory in 2012, the year i started watching dnp as a sixteen year old, and me now, a whole ass twenty-seven year old.

i can't really recount everything that's happened in my life for these past years, bc damn did a lot happen, but i am happy to announce that me now is much happier, gayer, and more annoying than that little sixteen year old, and im glad that dnp grew with me and were still there for me at the end of all those journeys <3

[energeticwarrior]

Hi!! My name is Nikki (she/they) and I’m the host of the time machine meetup!! I started watching dnp in December 2015 and started using tumblr in like July 2016

I was a freshman in high school when I started watching them + went to tatinof, a senior when I went to ii, then I fell off of tumblr, and now I’m momentarily back and in graduate school idk how that happened

For those who weren’t previously mutuals with me, I was very active 2016-2018ish (too active for my own good imo) and then had my own hiatus until like a week ago

From then to now I graduated HS and college, got a girlfriend, and did many things in between. I feel wiser, gayer, and happier :) just like dnp :) hope everyone has fun with this meetup + nice to meet you (in advance)

meetup info if you want to participate

[yonpote]

around 2015, i wasn't drawing dnp but i WAS drawing a lot of game grumps 😭😭 here's some old arin drawings i found! still my pretty princess..

[phulge]

2012-2024

hi meetup people!!! look at them! 14 years old and definitely cishet and months away from being so stupidly obsessed with dan and phil and chronically on tumblr it makes their tummy hurt. here i am now 12 years later more or less thriving i guess.

finding dan and phil tumblr was one of the major things that got me out of the catholic school conservative mindfuckery that i subscribed to and felt stuck in. for the first time in my life i was exposed (through the power of the internet) to ideas and perspectives so radically different than everything i grew up around. i was connected with real life queer people and was able to consider that maybe i had a queer identity myself (i do). its crazy to think how wildly different my life would be if i hadnt found dan and phil tumblr.

to me its always been more than these two dudes. its about the people i met. the things i was safe to explore within myself with the community for the first time in my life. the freedom to be so unapolagetically cringe and free and myself when the world i lived in didnt want me to be that. to learn about social issues that i had been taught didnt matter or were part of some liberal agenda. so here i am and its safe to say i pretty much 180'ed in these 12 years and it was for the better. so thanks dan and phil and honestly thanks everyone who i met along the way.

[freckliedan]

i'm posting 3 pics for the time machine meetup! pronoun me any which way, just know i'm a fairy fagdyke 😊 & thank you @energeticwarrior for planning this—it's great to be able to connect with community thru stuff like meetups!!!

the first is me in january 2013—i was sixteen!!! it was only a few months after i'd discovered dan and phil, i was in a knitting class at my high school (it's where i made that hat), and i remember reading a sad fic by @thelionandthellama and just SOBBING under a table. mid-hat. my friends had no idea what was going on because i had yet to get them into dan and phil & they were VERY concerned.

pic 2 i've posted on this blog before, for a fandom meetup in may of 2018! i made this blog in the spring of that year, though i'd been on tumblr on a different main account for half a decade at that point. i've made such amazing friendships thru this fandom and we all could already tell something big (coming out) was coming soon in 2018! it was an amazing time to be in the phandom and it's been amazing seeing similar energy returning with dnp's return ^_^

the third pic is me on my birthday in 2023! baby me who got into dan and phil had big dreams of falling in love someday and of living in [city] in the PNW with all my friends, and 2023 was the year my husband and i moved to [city] to live with/near beloved friends we met and got to know through tumblr—the friends i saw introactive introverts with in 2018‼️ & yes, that includes @freckliephil, and yes, our very first conversation years before that included talking about dan and phil, too 🥰

it's been a wild ride yall, but the phandom has been such a constant that's brought nothing but love and connection and joy into my life over the years :') a chance to reflect on all that is just lovely!

[danrifics]

Okay time machine meet up!

i started watching dnp in 2012 when i’d just turned 13 (we have now discovered my first dnp video was mid 2012 so i would have been 13 not 12 like i thought) now 12 years later i’m 25 and yes i’m still rocking the red hair but now i’m emo and not rocking those cringe 2012 glasses lmfao

bonus 2012 bethanie photo:

[onfjre]

oct 26, 2016 to jan 8, 2023.

i cant believe this year marks the 8 (8???) year anniversary since i made my tumblr/started watching dnp! i feel like ive changed so much without changing at all. thank u @energeticwarrior for organizing this meetup--it took digging through the trenches to find the first photo but im so glad i did :')