rylee wrote:I'm so late but I just got around to watching the liveshow phanshows is my savior but overall I liked it! He seemed chatty and happy enough and while he didn't really spend a lot of time on anything serious it was still alright. I knew that business meeting explanation was coming but I'm not sure if I believe him 100% phan goggles on too long probably or if I fully believe him about the tweet thing either. I mean surely as sweetmm said if he was friends with someone they would know his twitter and see what he said? Or maybe he just had his share of philgaritas afterwards and was slightly bitter, who knows. I never know when to think he's lying or not anymore
So I just watched the live show myself; time for *opinions*
I thought he was quite sincere about meeting an old friend from high school. He talked very quickly, didn't really seem to back track, and I thought the way he worded it made it seem really truthful because of how in-depth he went. It didn't seem to be the demeanor of someone fabricating a lie (to me, anyways). I think the philgaritas did do their share, and tbf we don't even know whether this old high school friend he met up with had twitter. If she didn't, then Dan wouldn't have much to worry about indirecting her - especially as it was vague enough to pass of as something else. Maybe the girl is the clueless kind who doesn't realize she is a total gossip, and Dan figured she'd never make the connection, nor care about his Twitter with thousands of teenage girls @replying with "DAD!" every two seconds.
Lbr, his Twitter is less of a "me" thing than it is a for-us thing.
I guess I just don't understand why he would make up that whole story if he was lying, instead of saying something along the lines of "It wasn't an indirect, just general advice." But maybe I'm just really bad at reading facial expressions. This is Dan, after all. He made the bottom favoriting into a full feature-length film.
Perhaps it's a mix of the two. Perhaps he
did meet up with someone who blabbed everyone's secrets, but it wasn't someone from high school. With his lips loosened from Phil's alcoholic concoction and his judgement damaged, he might have tweeted it and then later realized what he'd done. Perhaps Dan knew that it was too late to go back, as there was already a huge fuss about it (*cough*Evan*cough*
), and deleting the tweet would only cause more rumors. Perhaps he decided to tell the truth on YouNow, but he just replaced the person's name with "an old high school friend."
I don't believe I have enough evidence to draw a sufficient conclusion.
As for the dinner, he skidded over it quite quickly (in contrast), which makes me more suspicious of whether it was actually with the publishers. I know
I asked before (btw thank you, zvk), but I did some stalking of my own on their social media (and the heads of FlipSide), and none had mentioned anything about dinner on their Facebooks or Twitters, but idk whether they're the kind of people to share about going out to eat. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt,.
Loved the HP talk (my one true fandom)
If all live shows go like this, I'll have no room to complain.
tymyky wrote:I just want to contribute to the gasman mystery. I have this theory that Dan has some bullet points on his laptop and you can sometimes see him looking at it when there is a awkward silence and then he suddenly comes up with another topic. In the previous liveshows I sometimes noticed that he has a look at the laptop and then tries to cover it by looking at the chat and then coming up with a question like it was asked by someone in the chat and it's usually asked by John or Tom (sometimes he even hesitates before saying the name). imo he thought that he tweeted about the gasman (but didn't), wanted to talk about it in the liveshow (had it in a document on his laptop) and then just made it seem like someone had said it in the chat. idk
Oooh!
I usually just assume he's glancing as a way of thinking, but I really like this theory! Dan has said in the past that he often does bullet points for videos, so live shows might be same. He might be even more motivated to do it because it's non-editable.
You would think that he would have just said, "So we had a gas man visit the apartment the other day.." instead of making the effort to make up a name, though.
Either way, the idea of someone knowing that they had a gas man visit the apartment is creepy af, so I'm just going to hope you're right.
(Tom, ey? Does this mean that giving advice for asking guys out was apart of that list as well?
I kid...I kid.)