*screeching*
Alright guys, half the phandom will hate me after this but I feel it’s worth it just because I’m worried about what will happen to Dan if it is fake. So in case you didn’t know, earlier a video on twitter surfaced of Dan’s twitter name being “Daniel Lester” rather than “Daniel Howell”. Since a moving text is extremely hard to edit, it’s really believable but I just want to go over a possibility. First step, go to Dan’s twitter page. Next, right click anywhere on the screen (that isn’t a link/interactive for your cursor). Click Inspect Element.
All this HTML will come up. I’ve had some experience with it, and anybody with any basic experience can mess around with it.
You’ll notice as you hover over the different inputs and lines, that some highlight certain places on the page in blue. These are the areas effected when you edit the HTML. The box above highlights Dan’s display name tweets/replies/media etc.
Right clicking the second input from the drop down menu and selecting “Edit as HTML” will bring you to more HTML in a small box, and scroll down until you see “Daniel Howell” in black text. This is Dan’s display name. You can freely delete and write whatever you want here (as long as you don’t delete the surrounding symbols).
I just decided to put “DJ-Danny-Fire” because of my blog. As you can see it changed his actual display name, but it only changed for me on my own screen. This however doesn’t change the tweets screen name, which is where we run into an issue because there was a screen shot of one of his own tweets with the name being “Daniel Lester” beside it.
Here it is without the HTML window, and until you refresh the page (I mean refresh not go to a new page and come back, stay on his twitter page and click refresh. It’ll go back.)
And here, I just put it as “Daniel Lester” to show that his display name can be easily modified if one wants. The search bar can easily be manipulated, but in the video the tab also said “Daniel Lester” where as if you just change his display name with the method above it won’t change the tab. For the record I am not calling anybody a liar. I love the phandom and I love Dan and Phil but the main reason I did this was to try and shine light on reason. I’m worried the bad side of the phandom (we know who they are) will just bother Dan about how he “changed his name to Daniel Lester” and practically harass him about it. For now we don’t know if it was real or not, so please don’t just spam him with screen shots or videos of something that might’ve just been greatly edited and manipulated HTML. Don’t try and ‘force’ him to ‘admit’ to his marriage (which is honestly so damned crazy??) or come out. That’s terrible and not what the phandom is about. So yeah that’s about it. Please don’t be mean to Dan. (And yes, harassing him about this is mean even if you don’t think it is).