fadedheart wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 9:54 am lmfao all jokes aside i'm being brave and posting my first Actual contribution so hello and sorry you have to read this dumbassery but i seriously have been wondering if anyone's thought about phil's story after people were analyzing wrist marks ahaha

Listen, overanalyzing and dumbassery is exactly what we do here so you did very well. Welcome!

Top of the page, cool. While I'm here I want to say that it's so fun to see so many new people here, both on idb and in the phandom in general. After months of people slowly leaving for different reasons I love seing some new usernames!

I read an AMA by a code solving specialist on reddit yesterday that seems oddly fitting: "I have had people call me at all hours of the day and night, usually because they've moved the Scrabble pieces around, found the word "the", and now want to "hand it off to me" to solve the rest. The most common method is literally that, they'll take a cipher, move all the letters around, find a message in English that they like, and then they'll just conveniently ignore all the other letters!"
(source)

TL;DR: What about the other freckles on Phil's arm?

Also, the VidCon Mental Health panel is today, right? Will there be a stream?

Ablissa wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 9:18 am

aliceness wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:19 am apparently it’s phils hand y’all

I saw this tweet and I'm still laughing now, seeing it again. This is what I love this fandom for, the detective work and the reaching.

I honestly don't mind, I'm loving the excitement even if it's baseless this time.

When I first saw the story, there was a small, demon part of my brain that said "Phil's hand???? Ring???", but I never really believed it was.

Also, I've just examined the freckle placement against my own arm and I have freckles in exactly those two places, as well as several others that match up fairly well to the other freckles on Phil's arm.

What I'm saying is

In this case

I'm Phil

lol but rly I wish I was Phil

fadedheart wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 9:54 am also if you want me to be mega mega as i feel like its a rite of passage on this forum dan's insta story of him walking also features him swinging his left arm around though it isn't slow enough for me to do ring analysis

I slowed it down and whilst there isn't a ring there is a big ol' band of lighter skin. Lighting or ring tan line, you decide

i still can't believe dan posted about phil's butt though, all tinhatting aside, that is REAL, Y'ALL. it is CANON

I feel like the freckles don't even line up that well, or at least I can't find an angle that makes my own appear farther apart than they are when my arm is flat.

I can't fucking cope.

I actually cannot cope I feel like I'm in a fanfic.

Phil Lesters ass has destroyed me.

angrymob wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:42 am I feel like the freckles don't even line up that well, or at least I can't find an angle that makes my own appear farther apart than they are when my arm is flat.

i think it's pretty well established it's tinhatting haha

feenix wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:28 am
When I first saw the story, there was a small, demon part of my brain that said "Phil's hand???? Ring???", but I never really believed it was.

Also, I've just examined the freckle placement against my own arm and I have freckles in exactly those two places, as well as several others that match up fairly well to the other freckles on Phil's arm.

What I'm saying is

In this case

I'm Phil

lol but rly I wish I was Phil

Me too. On this blessed day we are all Phil.

Really, really wish they would do a podcast together. Feels like it would be an awesome format for them

Hello everyone. I've been lurking around here for years (years!!!), but honestly, between Phil's-arm-gate 2019 and Dan using insta to promote Phil's butt, I had to make a post. I've been laughing about these two losers all morning - I can't believe this week has delivered so much and the convention content hasn't even happened yet.

(I guess I should intro myself slightly: I've been quietly watching d&p since ~2014. I can't even remember how I found them - I think youtube recommended a Dan video and I just accidentally fell down the rabbit hole of content and phandom from there. I genuinely never thought they would actually come out - certainly not in the way they did. I almost had heart failure last month. It was a lot. I'm so devastatingly proud of them both and incredibly glad the drought is finally over. I've missed them both!)

I don't even know what to expect from the rest of this week, all bets are off at this point. Although as long as we get some more solid gay jokes, I'll be happy as a clam tbh. The post coming out universe is truly a beautiful, beautiful thing.

LtrllySusan wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:28 am I read an AMA by a code solving specialist on reddit yesterday that seems oddly fitting: "I have had people call me at all hours of the day and night, usually because they've moved the Scrabble pieces around, found the word "the", and now want to "hand it off to me" to solve the rest. The most common method is literally that, they'll take a cipher, move all the letters around, find a message in English that they like, and then they'll just conveniently ignore all the other letters!"
(source)

TL;DR: What about the other freckles on Phil's arm?

Also, the VidCon Mental Health panel is today, right? Will there be a stream?

Doesn't look like it, unfortunately. Hopefully a kind fan will film it for us.
http://live.vidcon.com/
Ignore me, thats not this year's agenda

aliceness wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:17 pm Really, really wish they would do a podcast together. Feels like it would be an awesome format for them

I've been dreaming of a dnp podcast since Rhett and Link came out with Ear Biscuits. It'd be the perfect medium for them: it gives them the long-form discussions of a YouNow stream, but in a more controlled and scripted environment environment, WITHOUT the cringey audience participation. And I don't care what the show's theme would be; I could absolutely listen to them jabber on about anything under the sun and be perfectly content.

ALSO, prime opportunity for a recurrent sponsorship deal. I'd honestly be surprised if at least Phil hadn't raised the idea already...

woopdada wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 11:55 am

feenix wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:28 am
When I first saw the story, there was a small, demon part of my brain that said "Phil's hand???? Ring???", but I never really believed it was.

Also, I've just examined the freckle placement against my own arm and I have freckles in exactly those two places, as well as several others that match up fairly well to the other freckles on Phil's arm.

What I'm saying is

In this case

I'm Phil

lol but rly I wish I was Phil

Me too. On this blessed day we are all Phil.

Truth. I have some of the same. Re: Dan’s walking Insta (just because I’m amused) you know they both don’t have to have rings if they are engaged.

No, I’m more curious about where/when/why/how this photo shoot was done. Was this particular merch not ready when he dropped the skeleton shirt? Or was the “back from the dead” always meant to be an appetizer? If it is the former, how last minute was this? Could the photo shoot just have been done in the last few days? I do get dropping merch for a con, but yeah the shipping aspect really sucks.

It would have been funnier if Dan’s badge has his name in brackets. Do you suppose they’ll make him a new one?

I truly hope there will be a livestream of Dan’s panel, whether official or not. I think I saw a fan say they would be providing that service a few weeks ago. It’s not quite 6 am there so there’s time to breathe.

It might be recorded and put on the vidcon youtube channel later; not that that helps us today as they’re not usually very quick about it... but I’m sure some fans will provide details. It’ll be nice to see an official, HD version once vidcon get around to posting it, though.

JLynne wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:50 pm

aliceness wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:17 pm Really, really wish they would do a podcast together. Feels like it would be an awesome format for them

I've been dreaming of a dnp podcast since Rhett and Link came out with Ear Biscuits. It'd be the perfect medium for them: it gives them the long-form discussions of a YouNow stream, but in a more controlled and scripted environment environment, WITHOUT the cringey audience participation. And I don't care what the show's theme would be; I could absolutely listen to them jabber on about anything under the sun and be perfectly content.

ALSO, prime opportunity for a recurrent sponsorship deal. I'd honestly be surprised if at least Phil hadn't raised the idea already...

A friend of mine is a streamer (twitch) and I fucking haaaate audience participation. Some of it is just so cringe. I think if you're doing it solo it's good, because it keeps the conversation going, but if you're in a pair/more you really shouldn't need it. Would much prefer to just have them chat about things they've been up to and topics going on in the world and maybe getting some LGBTQ icons in for a bit of sofa chat. Dream podcast tbh.

fadedheart wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 9:54 am

hey there! currently hating myself for this being the first post i'll ever make on the main forum but also laughing my ass off over it. anyway, when i saw the ring conspiracy (if you can even call it that) the first thing i could think of is how phil's instagram story (if it wasn't taken with any sort of selfie camera) has his left hand strategically cut off so you wouldn't be able to see if there's a ring.

sonicgreen wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:06 pm

all this content, its overwhelming

also if you want me to be mega mega as i feel like its a rite of passage on this forum dan's insta story of him walking also features him swinging his left arm around though it isn't slow enough for me to do ring analysis

i think they're.... TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING.....

lmfao all jokes aside i'm being brave and posting my first Actual contribution so hello and sorry you have to read this dumbassery but i seriously have been wondering if anyone's thought about phil's story after people were analyzing wrist marks ahaha

Hi and ! This is exactly the kind of content we love here, so you're going to fit right in

I agree with kavat, it's great to see new people here and in the phandom in general. Whether you just stopped lurking after some time, or you're genuinely a new fan, it's awesome to see you.

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Oh man, those stories yesterday had me sobbing. I love this timeline so much, never wanna go back.

I'm under the impression that the merch is something charity related. It makes sense that it'd be released today as the mental health pannel is taking place and it'd provide a reason for why it wasn't included on the previous release with such short time inbetween. But guess we'll see.

I completely agree about audience participation in streams, drive's me crazy everyone wanting shootouts and to be noticed, it's as bad as the youtube comment section.

In all honesty I'd be happy with any hint at joint content on a semi regular basis and if I can get a selfie of just the two of them I'd be eternally grateful.

AltMay wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 2:17 pm I'm under the impression that the merch is something charity related. It makes sense that it'd be released today as the mental health pannel is taking place and it'd provide a reason for why it wasn't included on the previous release with such short time inbetween. But guess we'll see.

That's actually a really good shout!

Threads move fast in the Post Coming Out Universe! When thoughts for a good thread name strike you, put them here and they will appear on the next poll!

IDB went down for an hour and naturally that caused a content dump.

Is IDB back? If so, that was a very short down-time, and yet while it was down Dan tweeted, Instagramed, dropped new merch, and both Dan and Phil's and Dan and Phil Productions account/tax statements dropped 3 months early on Companies House (why? ).

I love Dan and I'm happy for him, I normally wear a lot of black, but this aesthetic is not for me. I loved his skeleton merch, this just doesn't do it for me.

VidCon has signed posters of them for sale, a Dan and a Phil. (edit: apparently Dan's is just his skeleton drawing) I'm curious why there's no joint merch whatsoever, and no joint poster. I suppose it's all outdated but surely they know people would throw money at it like crazy.

Edit - also dropping this here