How I joined the phandom / Phil appreciation birthday speech thing
In 2010 I saw my first Youtube video. I only remembered this recently when rewatching it once again. My friends at school told me to check out the sight so I did. Robot Death Machine by AmazingPhil was one of the first that popped up (Which is weird since it was uploaded a year prior). In 2012 I got on it a bit more and rediscovered him and this dude dani house fire or something and started watching them maybe once a month? In 2013 something pretty bad happened and that's when I got my first actual device. A white iPad mini (not spon). It came with Youtube I think so I finally made an account, which was a stop motion account. Got 9000 views on one and I was 11 so I was like woAh IM faMouS!!! Anyways. Subscribed to them and started watching a bit more. Then in late 2014. I think before Christmas we got evicted. Or near that. They shut off our water/power and we couldn't pay the bills. So we had to move back to our old house with my cousin and her, now, ex husband. We had no wifi, no tv and no data on our phones so all we could do is watch movies on the vcr and dvd player. I did art and cooked, but couldn't do my schooling. Basically I slept on a couch not being able to sleep till 3 and being woken up at 6 every morning by Michael who could not clOSE THE FRIDGE QUIETLY FOR SHIT. Until we got wifi we'd go to starbucks or target every week or something so I could talk to my friends, get on this game Onverse and sometimes watch Pewdiepie, Wassabi Productions, AmazingPhil and Danisnotonfire videos. We got wifi after months. Almost 8 I think? Honestly all I'd do is sit on my ass all day talking to my friend Angel and watch videos and play Onverse. Once I sat in my new room (Which was actually my old old room before I moved to another) and *cringe incoming* roleplayed for 8 hours. Not in a sexual way... Moving on. Slowly I sopped watching them as I began to focus more on school and having an online social life until last year. I logged onto my old acc (this one) to see I had a bamiltrillion (new word) of notifications from them. I decided to watch some of the ones I missed and slowly caught up with them. Only about 5-7 months ago did I properly join the phandom. I mean sure in 2012-2015 I saw all the theories in comments but I didn't really have any social media and didn't watch them enough to be considered a part of this great community. And in this short amount of time I've made many friends and acquaintances, joined at least 4 group chats and honestly grown as a person. They may seem like 2 plain youtubers with a crazy fucking fanbase but they've saved a lot of people. So personally. I would like to thank whoever decided to put a promotional camera in that box of cereal for this amazing man to find. Catch the pun? Sorry
Happy birthday @amazingphil
