Dan: “ you’re next to me in my life”

Since Dan and Phil are quiet today, relive the last few days and also appreciate Catallena for the work she puts into the youtube compilations!

alittledizzy wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:40 pm Since Dan and Phil are quiet today, relive the last few days and also appreciate Catallena for the work she puts into the youtube compilations!

A subscriber suggested making a compilation of the whole holiday and I liked the idea so look forward to that as well!

Okay it's 4 am in Tokyo and Dan's posting instagram stories so I'm guessing maybe they're back.

I'm okay if they wanna eke out the content for a few more days, though. They can be home and keep feeding us. Please.

alittledizzy wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:50 pm Okay it's 4 am in Tokyo and Dan's posting instagram stories so I'm guessing maybe they're back.

I'm okay if they wanna eke out the content for a few more days, though. They can be home and keep feeding us. Please.

my same thoughts too—what is it, 7PM in the uk? makes much more sense timewise, right? but who the heck knows.

Awww yeah they both tweeted goodbye-related things, they're definitely on their way home. (Or already home.)

And they apparently had dinner with Will Darbyshire? Nice.

They’re back home and I miss them already.

How sweet they met up with Will and Arden. I didn’t think they knew each other that well, pleasantly surprised. Anyone else notice Dan looks kinda like Will when he puts on Phil’s glasses in ‘giving the people what they want’? I guess if they’re home, that was safe flying, irrational part of my brain kept chirping about that. I love Dan’s crossing story. So many people, he makes a good point.

And now to ponder what Dan's secret project is/was again

noodlebum wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:10 pm And now to ponder what Dan's secret project is/was again

*lays on the floor and cries*

lmao, for real tho...japhan 2.0 felt like the best fever dream ever. one that i wouldn’t have even dared to hope for. so beyond grateful they shared (some of) it with us!!

noodlebum wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:10 pm And now to ponder what Dan's secret project is/was again

Now back on watch. Japhan was such a lovely distraction.

autumnhearth wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:32 am

noodlebum wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:10 pm And now to ponder what Dan's secret project is/was again

Now back on watch. Japhan was such a lovely distraction.

I feel like they probably spent so much on this trip that there won’t be a for a while, but they consistently surprise me. I’m wondering about a Black Friday merch drop and discount code.

I keep seeing people mention Dan being at an fka twigs concert, is that just people guessing or did someone spot him?

No photo yet

Oooh I wonder if he went with Sarah from IRL. She posted some instastories from there, looked like an amazing show.

I thought of another classic Dan quote: “Hi, I’m Phil.”

So they've presumably been back for two days at this point? I'm guessing the radio silence day before yesterday was the travel day.

So content wise, I'm guessing we'll get a liveshow from Phil on the weekend and then maybe a video next week? I'm gonna throw a guess out that he'll do at least a video a week the first three weeks of December to try and cash in on that jacked up adsense.

I also wonder if he's facing any COPPA issues? The gaming channel might have since a lot of gaming channel seem to be swept up under the 'for kids' category regardless of actual content, but despite people referring to Phil as a children's entertainer sometimes I have a feeling demographic wise he's actually in the clear.

Ah can imagine all the Japanese goodies in the next liveshow/video

I'm really hoping for a Japan haul part 2

Going back the favourite quotes here are a few of mine:
Rain on me ghost daddy
Phil's getting bukkakeed in the kitchen
Hoot hoot b*tch
There are so many more but my brain is broken today

i am so soft for dan all of a sudden. i’ve always wondered why he (having money/loving music & theater/having a, ahem, very flexible work schedule) DIDNT see more live shows. it just makes sense to me (but also it is my answer to the “what would you do if you had unlimited wealth” question...see live music & travel. so perhaps i am over identifying) i always wondered if it was the public persona thing...being worried about being recognized? because it seems like he (and phil) saw live music a lot more in the earlier days, but also maybe that was a bbc thing...

anyway. happy he saw someone he loves. he is living his best life lately!!!!

I love when the community comes together and does cute things like this:

Oh man that was adorable!

alittledizzy wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:56 pm I also wonder if he's facing any COPPA issues? The gaming channel might have since a lot of gaming channel seem to be swept up under the 'for kids' category regardless of actual content, but despite people referring to Phil as a children's entertainer sometimes I have a feeling demographic wise he's actually in the clear.

I got recommended a video about this earlier and went down a bit of a rabbit hole and ... this is a hell of a thing. The main issue at the moment seems to be the vagueness of the criteria that might make a video 'for kids', and while I wouldn't classify Phil as a kids channel at all, according to COPPA's criteria he has some videos that are in a bit of a grey area - things like making slime, spons from Disney and Pokemon (which weren't in the title or thumbnail but *were* in the description, so again a grey area), stuff about snacks or school. There's even specific mention of things like 'using bright, vibrant colours', 'pets' and 'snack food and cereal'.

Under the current version of the law, any creator, including Phil, who has videos that could *possibly* be interpreted as appealing to kids, has to decide whether to flag it as 'for kids' or 'not for kids'. If it's marked as for kids, they lose 90% ad revenue on it, no comments, it doesn't appear in searches or recommendations, no notifications. If it's flagged by the creator as 'not for kids' but someone at the FTC later decides it looks like it could be, the creator could be fined up to 40K *per video*. Yikes.

The gaming channel is tricky because you have things like Resident Evil or even CAH that are obviously not for kids, but then you have Mario, Pokemon, Fortnite, Minecraft. Doesn't matter if you're swearing up a storm - does the thumbnail and title look like it could be appealing to kids? The whole thing is a mess, and so many creators will get screwed. (This is why their innuendo-ey titles might actually come in handy, lol.)

It looks like it isn't 100% a done deal yet - you can still leave comments on the FTC's website for review before the final version of the law, and there's a petition - so hopefully they'll get a clearer understanding of just how big a problem this current version is. But just over a month reeeeally isn't long to sort that out. I doubt Phil will talk about it much, or at all, but it'll be interesting to see if it has any effect on his future content, if it goes into effect as-is. I hope not.

(No wonder so many YouTubers are doing merch/streaming/podcasts/diversifying...)

alittledizzy wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:46 pm Okay help me out guys - I need your favorite one line dan and Phil quotes. Funny, stupid, heartfelt - whatever.

IDK how I forgot this but:

"Hoot Hoot, bitch" ~Sir Phillip Lester, Knight of My Realm

The COPPA guidelines and plan sound so backwards.

I came here to ask a specific question and in gathering the info I answered it myself so I’ll ask another. Since they are back, did anyone find the (presumably) hotel where Dan did his voter registration psa from? The materials are very distinct. Also dang there are some gorgeous luxury and boutique hotels in Tokyo.