#darkvictory

[poldobs]

For those who know: the most potent victories are often the ones you don't see coming. The Aston Martin Vantage. A champion, cloaked.

[openhandsanyway]

My phannie thoughts of the day:

I am mourning a project that was never gonna exist and that nobody except for me has ever even dreamed about: Dan and Phil animated "bro"mance... on Tubeclash!

Okay, so. Tubeclash was a German Youtube webseries back around 2014-2016. The concept was that it would be like a reality tv show with famous German youtubers including audiences voting for stuff, except it was entirely animated.

The creators were three guys with some background in animation and filmmaking who were otherwise just fans themselves. They would write, animate and dub one episode PER WEEK (insane schedule) and people got to suggest plot points for the next episodes in the comment section.

If you watched any amount of German youtube back in the day, you know that this was a huge thing. Each episode got over a million views, and many of the famous youtubers who were depicted in it were actively participating in the comments.

There was never an English version, but IF THERE HAD BEEN one I am 1000% sure that Dan and Phil would have been in it and they would have been the main characters. Which youtubers made it onto the show was decided via audience voting, as well as how quickly they were eliminated, and the phandom would have had that in the bag.

But here comes the best part: All seasons of Tubeclash ended up centering around a "bromance". Two male best friend youtubers who were shipped irl and who were pitted against each other for drama by the plot of the show.

This could have been cringe in so many ways, but it was actually neither weird/fetishistic nor was it mocking shippers. Two of the animators were, and still are, a real life gay couple (which you could reeeeally tell from how they drew male and female bodies lol). So they approached these plotlines with some amount of emotional sincerity, as deep friendships, just with some homoerotic tension.

And I don't need to tell you why Dan and Phil would have been perfect for this.

The creators never crossed the line, they never made these youtubers kiss in animation or stuff like that, but there were hugs and hand holding and dramatic fighting and making up again and okay, some shirtless guys and big bulges in pants...

It was a product of its time and it was never gonna be a thing internationally, but damn it, I think it would have been really cool.

[autistic-someone]

Ich glaube ich kann nie in meinem Leben normal sein wegen der Glpaddl stroyline in Tubeclash.

THEY'RE DOOMED! AND NOT REALLY GOOD FOR EACH OTHER! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH OMG!

[littlecafe]

darkvictory

[k-ayo]

[kfashion-moods]

lettuce hem mini dress

click source if ur interested!

[aceoflights]

If TubeClash would happen now, with an English speaking production, it would flourish.

Everyone would know about it and there would be so much fanart, animatics and theories. And it would be amazing because it would also be interactive.

Also, the songs would be used in so many animatics if they were English, because they're so amazingly angsty, especially when you put them together.

[death-by-elocution]