I'm new to the phandom— what's your favourite bit of obscure Dan & Phil lore I probably wouldn't just stumble across?
hello!!! welcome!!!! i’ll be honest as soon as i read this i forgot everything Dan & Phil have ever done BUT one thing that's pretty obscure that always pops up in my brain is this lil-blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments from two random 2016 Dan YouNow liveshows. Thank you to @247landoffandoms for bringing light to this all the way back then ♡ I'll just expand on it below for new phannies!
If you didn't know, Dan used to do these very chatty and cosy liveshows on a site called YouNow every Tuesday for like. 4-5 years?. wild. and you can find the archive of them, along with Phil's, here!
At the beginning of these YouNows, Dan would typically show us his laptop with his own stream playing which made a horrible loop of him saying something like ‘Welcome to the liveshow!’ until it was just Loud Noise. During his show on January 26th 2016, you could see there was a teeny tiny bear sticker on the (our pov) right corner above the keyboard:
Please excuse the horrendous quality - YouNow / Dan's webcam was not high quality lol. I doodled what it probs most likely looks like:
What’s funny is in past videos we’ve seen that Dan does not put stickers on his laptop x
but you know who does? :3
and who even has a tendency of sticking stuff to Dan / on to Dan's stuff…? :3c
Phil! so it’s not far fetched to assume he put that bear there on Dan's laptop (,,> ᴗ <,,)
OK. SO... Why is this interesting?
WELL, for extra significance/context, Dan has told us a few times now that 'Bear' was his family nickname and he's previously said bears are his favourite animal aaaand has said if he was an animal he would be a bear. There’s even been instances where Phil had referred to him as Bear in tweets in the early days of their relationship (; ᴗ ; ) also, of course... cat & bear save the world ♡ (ty to phistorian @ahappydnp for this and this post btw!).
While imagining Phil sticking this to Dan's laptop is already a cute scenario in itself — Phil could've sneakily stuck it there without Dan noticing straight away or, more likely, it was a quick but v cute moment they shared while sat on the sofa together much like in screenshots above (╥﹏╥) it's just so cute — what’s actually even more devastating was what happened 2 weeks later in Dan's February 9th liveshow. While putting his laptop towards the camera in the usual fashion, we can now see there’s a little heart sticker next to the bear sticker:
♡ (╥ᆺ╥ ) I don't know why this gets me so much. It's so tiny and, yeah, is like based on assumptions...but I just really doubt Dan would've put those stickers there himself and it's 99% more likely Phil did it. Just imagining the lil tiny scenario between the two of them in those two weeks brings me so much joy. Especially when you consider they were probably busy preparing for the US leg of TATINOF and spending a lot of time sat next to each other on the sofa or at their office desk. What's worse is I don't even know if/when he removed them because in his next liveshow you can't (i think) see that part of his laptop and the one after that he doesn't even do the endless loop of noise. It's just sweet to imagine them being there for a while and becoming a more familiar sight in Dan's POV while he used his laptop. It's one of the many little things that kept him connected to Phil.
There's so many more tiny things like this sprinkled throughout their 16 years together that I'm sure you can find. It's so funny looking back now how certain things were impossible for them to completely hide because their love was/is so loud (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) !!!
I hope that was obscure yet fun enough. I realise i just rambled about two stickers for a good while.... I highly recommend @bluebirdlester's post for new phannies if you'd like some direction exploring the world of D&P! I'm always happy to answer any questions or have a ramble too! Have a lovely rest of your day!
