I’m so tired of missing dan, I’m just so tired. I just really want to see his little dimple and his eyes that twinkle and crinkle a bit at the edges and his neck that elongates sometimes and his grin that just gets bigger and bigger.
I just really want to hear his wholesome laugh and be susceptible to his unexpected little speeches and his beautiful personality and his clothing that makes me feel comfortable.
I just really want to feel represented and proud and belittled but happily all at the same time. I want to feel that aura of you’re not alone and we suffer the same way that rolls off of him, even through the screen.
I just really want to feel that astonishment I feel every time I see him and say wait he’s not even here right now he’s thousands of miles away and yet I feel so close to him and finally I feel content.
I just really want to see him with phil, banting and tickling and pushing and doing Best Friends Things™ with him because seeing phil alone makes me sad, that absolute angel.
And even though I want to see and hear and feel all of this, what I want most is for dan to be happy and yes it would hurt but even if dan doesn’t come back for years I will still wait patiently because his happiness is what’s most important.
phil using his platform of young and impressionable viewers to talk about mature topics such as sex and clubbing and stressing the importance of not embellishing your experiences to seem cool…. i stan 2019 phil
Not in a romantic way, but in a platonic, “You’ve helped me so much” way.
One happens to be taking a break, and that’s okay! I miss him, but he needs his rest and I still love him nevertheless!
And the other is being more active then he has in quite a while! It’s exciting! And he’s trying new things and is changing a lot about his brand, and that’s okay! I still love him!
They might be changing, or absent all in all, but I still love and care for them! They’ve always been there for me, and I will always love them for that!
That was such an interesting video. What particularly caught my attention was the way it was formatted? Usually when Phil talks about the past, like with the reading old emails and reading a letter from his younger self videos, he’s just simply reacting to things. He gives us context for where he was in life when he made the thing, describes why he made it, comments on its quality, etc. With this video, however, he gave us zero additional context. We don’t know why he made that old video or why he’s reacting to it now. The whole thing is formatted like an actual conversation, with Phil only mentioning things that his old self (for the most part) wouldn’t already know.
I also found it really interesting how he didn’t direct or even try to relate any of the advice he was giving himself to the viewers? It was solely directed at young Phil. It almost gave the video an oldschool vibe for me, like he was trying to present his audience with a story rather than just talking to us the way he normally does. Except for the brief acknowledgements at the beginning and at the end, it’s almost like we weren’t there. It was kinda cool, actually.
Different, but in a good way. That’s how I’d describe this video.
Mental health is definitely something, that needs to be talked about more in schools and teachers need to be more aware of students with mental illnesses and try to help them the best way they can.