#their trailer concept of an adult having tabinof in a dusty locked box when many of us still have it proudly displayed on a shelf

[ahappydnp]

having thoughts about dnp saying the reason they wanted to write tabinof in the first place was to commemorate the era and give fans something to look back on and remember when they're older & how they consistently talked about the tatinof/tabinof era like it was an ending (or at least the end of their "peak")

the idea that in 2015!! they were preparing for their audience and community and their popularity to go away eventually so they wanted to create a physical reminder that "once upon a time there were these two guys called dan and phil who met each other on the internet who created this entire world"

it's like they were assuming the world of dan and phil and this community would be another trend and that their audience would lose interest in over time, especially after they'd just hit this massive peak. except it wasn't and we didn't

thinking about how that was almost 10 years ago and we're still here

#their trailer concept of an adult having tabinof in a dusty locked box when many of us still have it proudly displayed on a shelf #obviously they were right and 2015/2016 was their peak in pop culture but their emphasis was always the COMMUNITY not the fame #it was the world of dan and phil not how many views/subscribers #and like...idk dude feeling a lot of things about how the universe not only stayed intact #but has only gotten better #the community never left them and they didn't abandon the community and that is one of the most beautiful stories on the internet to me #i love them man