sickening that dan and phil actually enjoy spending time together and talking with each other. phil saying he doesn't like running with dan because then they can't talk. dan saying that it's silly for phil to make up stories on the phone because there's actual stuff to talk about. get a room :/
living on this brink of possibility is insane rn. like. are we getting dinok. a joint tour. a hard launch. basically I'm gender. we were young fest? like technically all of these are on the table this year... how did we get here.
okay walk with me. dan has said covid fucked over his plans to create his own show ‘dan is not okay’. during the first stereo, dan said there was always meant to be 3 projects after BIG in 2020 (44:44). one was something that couldn’t happen until lots of people could gather again (this was WAD), one was delayed by covid (DINOK) and the final project to conclude it all was ywgttn. Dan had to bump up ywgttn to be released first.
then we know dan got fucked over again by yt after this and dan released why i quit YouTube, said he was going to fund a third of DINOKs budget himself (1:12:45), and WAD finally was a go. then we waited for WAD recording to be released, dapg came back (woo), then finally (im assuming because of the increased revenue from dapg) they were able to plan 2 more WAD shows to record, then that funded the worldwide premiere livestream. i can only imagine that then allowed dan to secure the rights to then publish it himself. hes also releasing ywgttn now, a new paperback version with a more hopeful and light cover.
now we come to this:
i am thinking that perhaps DINOK is finally in the works, it would make sense for all 3 projects to finally be released together. good things come in threes.
I adore how the gaming channel is everything goes now. I adore that they are bringing us into their lives, in on the jokes, in on the names (hearing them say dip and pip makes me smile every time), in on the excitement. I adore how many smiles and laughs radiate from them, eyes crinkling with love.
Every new video has me rushing to watch just like I did when I discovered them a decade ago. They've grown, I've grown, things have changed but the excitement and love remains. From both sides of the bond between them and us. I adore that so much my heart wants to burst.
The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.
being subjected to the things dan and phil tweeted at/about each other back in the early days feels like having to witness that one couple in high school that was full making out in the hallways at 8 am while you were running on two hours of sleep and half a ham sandwich for the next six hours.