it's like they're literally in their mid to late thirties and they've been dating each other since their late teens/early twenties and they're each other's best friend and nobody knows them better than the other person and they're actual dan and phil and they're a couple of sixteen going on seventeen years. that's almost two decades. FUCK
btw if you ever feel like experiencing an echo of the high you felt when they hard launched I recommend going on a decently long hiatus from their content (in my case a few months) and your brain will naturally revert to the state it has historically spent the most time in i.e. that of the pre hard launch / schrödinger's relationship / frog boiling era. and then one day the memory of the video big will hit you like a cement brick from the sky and you won't even believe yourself for a moment. because they did not actually do that. did they actually—