callout post: andre the ice cream man writes rpf about local children, makes them cry by refusing them service if they don't adhere to his ships, and then gets self-righteously upset about it enough to terrorize the city about it
Do you have the video of him saying love when the fan helped with the wrist thing? I’m not remembering this
i have a terrible memory, he says 'babe' not love, but same vibes imo, if not even moreso. cause 'love' is more of a british thing, so you'll see/hear people using it more casually, vs i don't see dan howell calling strangers 'babe' often
[disclaimer i don't own this footage and am not profiting off of it]
transcript:
fan: "to me?"
dan: "yep, to you--the other way babe, no--"
when i say that this was my 9/11 i fully mean it. i would pull out my computer and write it myself if it weren’t so personal to dan. i will go into debt to make this happen. @danielhowell if there is anything i can personally to get dan is not okay out into the world i will do it i don’t care if i’m a freshman in college i would die for this.
usually when they ask for phannies to send them shit to react to i’m like “alright phannies best fucking behaviour. don’t pull anything too risky. we can’t fuck this up.”
not this time. no. traumatise them. let out all your depravity. i want to see them cry and deactivate their twitters. they have to pay for the endless slew of deep psychological damage they’ve been inflicting upon us 😤🤺
And with that, we say a lovely adieu to our beloved Jules and Jules! 🥹 But not permanently! As Daniel said, these two (and the contestants that came before them) are forever intrinsically tethered to his little pixel life - and I cannot be more grateful to @mattodore and @morrigan-sims, who trusted me with these two absolute darlings and who have to see them go in such a fashion! Though they didn’t end up with our Bachelor, I truly think they’ve found happiness with each other. 🥹🙏
i refuse to watch the phandom video essay that keeps getting recommended to me because from the first few seconds it’s very obviously just gonna be “the phandom was all just horrible weirdo creep shippers (derogatory)” for like 40 mins but i’m just like it doesn’t have to be like
i obviously just said i haven’t watched the video or any video of that nature for that matter but i feel like one of the things those types of videos likely miss is like the phandom wasn’t necessarily wholly unique in it’s more like toxic aspects of the time. like i think the topic of ‘toxic shipping’ in fandom (specifically rpf) in the like 2010s could be such an interesting video and like the phandom could be involved in a video about that topic but like it just seems unfair to only ever talk about the phandom in regards to that topic (both in the only ever talking about the bad parts of the phandom sense and in the the phandom being the front and center fandom referenced when discussing shipping at the time sense).
Ngl, Yingxing was a little silly stupid. He really trusted a man that dealt with his friends death by doing unethical science to not make him immortal? Down horrendous.
Clearly, the real reason his eyes turned red is because he slam dunked those rose coloured glasses right onto his face with all his craftsman arm strength the moment he caught a glimpse of a red flag.
please i literally had the most vivid dream last week where dan was pregnant and they were announcing it and i havnt stopped thinking about it since…
not to do dream analysis on you but oh my god that's so..... what is he cooking what are they cooking. there's literally some kind of project going on and we can know that because of your dream like.... something they created on their terms and are happy and excited for that's going to be announced soon. this is the opposite of when i dreamed about dan announcing having stomach cancer a few years back in the months before he came out.
dan and phil for real share a subconscious with the phannies sometimes i truly believe this.....
just started watching disventure camp today (finally) and I’m already on ep 6. I have (out loud) made the “you a baby quit cussing” joke like. Every single episode at least once. I have SO MUCH to talk about..
Idk if it’s too much to ask, but can you elaborate by any chance on how dd was alienating? I’ve never really watched it, and I breezed through a few to try to understand, but I still don’t get it 😞😞 It kinda just seemed like a longer version of his older videos with a bigger production?? Or am I wrong??? If you, or anyone else, could help me that’d be great! If not it’s okay, hope you’re having a lovely day!
it's not too much to ask, don't worry! it's gonna be too much to read for you, though, and i'm sorry for that :)
original anon, please, come back! i would also like to know your and others' thoughts on what felt wrong with dd.
i wasn't alienated, so i can only point own differences and traits (??) that weren't balanced out right away by either Phil or Dan himself. in dd videos Dan is ruder than usual and it feels less like banter. like, he is purposefully rude, loud, mean, annoyed, and offensive in a way. and if usually, you understand that it's not real because Dan either laughs or his "collaborator" laughs genuinely or gets on board and plays along – here it wasn't like that? or it wasn't like that always. during dd he was saying stupid and harmless things but the delivery was like he was punching someone with his words. gladly, Dan is a bad actor, so it was just awkward most of the time (at least to me), and that indicated that he was just fucking around and all of these is his weird concept of satire. there was a "i don't really wanna be here" vibe sometimes. some topics of the videos were purposefully boring and their point was to show that youtube is full of recycled content and there is so little originality on the platform? (allegedly! this is one of my understandings). he definitely tried to explain the whole big concept of dd somewhere, i just don't remember where (probably in a liveshow), and video descriptions can be very telling as well. also, he was using his fandom A LOT. we were giving him content, 45% of dd is phandom-based videos. it can weird people out, i can understand that. i'm not a huge fan of all these twitter screenshots and Dan reading them out loud. but as a part of a bigger concept i can let it slide.
anyway, for me it felt a bit disingenuous. like he would rather do anything else or nothing at all than dystopia daily. but his "annoyed at everyone and everything" dd persona fit into that. so i'm not mad it exists. it's a fucking concept and a half. and it's so funny to look at it and not take it seriously. there were good, cute and genuinely funny moments. just, the whole thing still feels like it was a challenge to youtube. and like he wanted to bait people. i don't know, i haven't rewatched any of the videos. my thoughts are based on memories.
i think in the beginning Dan was like: am i doing what i want to do (and there's no budget around); am i doing what youtube algorithm wants from me?; or am i doing what the audience wants? and he tried to create a piece of content that fit all three categories, and create it very fast. and that's why dd was such a roller coaster.