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Dan and Phil are courting!
In truth, they’ve been a pair the entire time.
So many YouTubers make headlines for being terrible individuals, for tragedies, or for sensational new stunts.
Now, after sixteen years, Dan and Phil are displaying followers that love is actual — and might outlast a variety of marriages.
Dan and Phil affirm that they’re in a relationship!
On the Monday, October 13 episode of their long-running YouTube channel, Dan Howell and Phil Lester determined to interrupt followers’ minds somewhat bit — and make sure a long-held perception of a lot of their viewers.
“Alright, let’s get this over with,” Dan started the video, posing the query: “Are Dan and Phil in a relationship?”
To that, Phil replied with a easy: “Sure.”
The pair then joked as if that had been the tip of the video. And, if they’d wished, it may have been.
However, particularly figuring out what number of of their followers have spent the previous decade and a half admiring their chemistry and speculating about their relationship, they opted to share extra.
If you happen to aren’t acquainted, Dan and Phil are an inseparable YouTube pair who’ve been mainstays on the web since 2009.
Again within the early days of Tumblr, earlier than the platform shot itself within the foot to adjust to egregious congressional overreach within the type of FOSTA/SESTA, their fandom was successful.
There are simply shy of 20,000 fanfics devoted to their relationship (which was solely confirmed this week) on one fanfiction web site alone — with the earliest courting to 2010.
As is usually the case with sure forms of web duos, long-term followers stick round for fellow followers’ artistic works, for the duo’s dynamic, for his or her personalities — and for “crumbs” to feed their delivery.
Some individuals insisted that they had been secretly courting. Others merely wished that they’d date, and even simply appreciated to think about a romantic relationship between the 2 web personalities. Because it seems, the primary group was proper the entire time.
‘We simply ended up dwelling collectively and right here we’re’
It was a full ten years after they met — in 2019 — that Dan and Phil got here out as homosexual. They got here out in separate movies in June of that yr.
Six years later, Phil famous of their relationship reveal video that the fan obsession with their once-alleged entanglement is likely to be “partly our fault.”
“We began filming YouTube movies collectively on the day we met,” he famous. The 2 had met on social media.
Dan chimed in: “We signed as much as be skilled entertainers to create content material so that you can get pleasure from.”
Nonetheless, he shared that they “fell laborious and quick” immediately in 2009. “And right here we’re,” Dan continued, “nearly 16 years later.”
Although they’ve now been collectively for longer than a lot of marriages final, they’ve by no means actually put a lot of a label on issues.
“We simply ended up dwelling collectively and right here we’re,” Dan famous. (The 2 moved in collectively in 2011)
Phil joked that they by no means stated the phrases and thus usually are not “technically” collectively even now. Extra severely, although, he shared that they’re “companions in every little thing.”
Vitally, he burdened that “it’s not at all times good. Don’t get into your head that we’re the perfect of human partnerships.”
Dan agreed, including: “We’ve had ups and downs. Like anyone, if you happen to’re a large number, we’re a large number.”
Will this reveal impression their model? That’s as much as followers
“We’re bizarre,” Dan added with amusing. “We’re a weird instance of a relationship. Like, we’ve been hooked up on the hip 24/7 for 15 years.”
Throughout that point, they’ve mused over whether or not to deal with issues like their sexuality, not to mention their relationship.
They anxious about whether or not sure issues had been followers’ enterprise.
Additionally, they acknowledged that their standing as confirmed boyfriends may impression their comedy work — even when they don’t plan to vary something on their finish.
“A giant factor with sharing the small print of your private life is the way it impacts what you do,” Dan summarized. “As a result of Dan and Phil, the comedy duo and Dan and Phil, the homosexual boyfriends, it hits totally different.”
Congratulations to them each! And to the hundreds upon hundreds of followers who hoped — and even predicted — that this announcement would come sooner or later.
