robin i just want you to know it's me im the one (1) person who has seen the price is rice i love dathings
YES!!! YES OMG!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS OMFG
the one (1) person was actually binyameen because i have shown him that video but ive never actually met someone who has independently seen it!!!!! i quote it literally every time i make rice and i drive my flatmates crazy with it because they have all picked it up as a vocal stim lmao
i love you forever /platonic
(p.s. pls tell me you know wow its made! and the mythsters because those are my favourites)
DaThings begin as an alias in a Homestar Runner fan community (a reference to the Strong Bad Email "garage sale") in the mid-late aughts, and when it was time to make a YouTube channel I chose to just keep the same handle. There was someone else using DaThings on YouTube so I went with DaThings1 because I had heard somewhere that adding a 1 was a thing you could do if someone claims the username you want.
The 1 was out of necessity I guess? Or maybe stubbornness because I didn't feel like thinking up a different name? Either way it wasn't an important part of The Brand, it made the username an unnecessary mouthful to say, it didn't have any significance to me, and it wasn't even what I wanted. A single alphanumeric character that felt like a burden at the worst of times, and at the best of times felt like nothing.
Eventually the other DaThings deactivated and Google made it so that your display name doesn't need to be the same as your handle. Around 2019 I figured that if I was going to drop the 1 I should do it quickly in order to minimize the number of people attached to it. So that's what I did. No regrets about it.
hey this video was made by my friends and it’s one of the funniest things in the universe. i come back to it all the time for a good laugh. watch it if you havent yet