#solo careers era. which ended with them reclaiming joint content and starting to boil us about them getting married

[freckliedan]

i kinda want to know what do you consider new phannies? i’m not really asking for myself i got into them in 2015 so i think i qualify as not new but i personally think of like 2019ish or later as new even though that’s like 4 years now 😭

there's layers of old but i think anyone who got here from 2019 onward will forever be a new phannie to me! i'm forever delighted by the fact that people are still discovering them but you simply have to have experienced the closeted era to truly count as an old timer and there's nothing that can change that!

i do think there's levels of fandom-age, too. like, original phillies who were around before dan & people who were around before the halloween leak of the vday vid in 2012, that's true phandom olds to me. there's a difference between the aftermath/radio show era, when i showed up, & the tatinof era once they'd settled in to the closet, but having been around in any regard at any of those points makes you some level of old timer.

the endpoint/turning point towards coming out was them moving out of the first london apartment & dan rebranding, so like, spring 2017 through the gaming channel hiatus is an era where like? if you showed up then you're not a newbie, you've been around the block, but it also doesn't qualify you as fandom old bc the horrors were mostly over by then.

none of that is coming from a place of pretentiousness or judgement either! just being honest that nobody escaped the trenches of the past unscathed.

#if we're breaking it into smaller eras: pre dan‚ 2009-first leak‚ first leak-major leak‚ major leak-halloween baking 2014‚ #japhan 1.0 has to be mentioned. and then i'm blurry on micro eras until they announced moving & dan rebranded #japhan may very well be a better point of reference than halloween baking 2014 but they don't call it a post baking universe for nothing #and then 2017—queer eye s1 airing and dan dropping ttlmt is one era. first leg of ii/realization the whole audience is queer is the next. #then glass closet/boiling frog/ready to run ii era was through the start of the gaming channel hiatus #june 2019 is a moment in time #then there's the hiatus/let expectations die so they can do things out of enjoyment and reclaim the activities they shared while closeted #solo careers era. which ended with them reclaiming joint content and starting to boil us about them getting married #jam replies #anon