#04.07.17

Und jetzt war sie da, die große, schreckliche Zehn, und stürzte über mich herein, immer wieder, während ich still und allein in meinem Bett lag und an die Decke starrte, und die Wellen warfen mich gegen die Felsen und rissen mich wieder hinaus ins Meer, um mich wieder gegen die gezackten Klippen zu schleudern, und die ganze Zeit trieb ich mit dem Gesicht nach oben auf dem Wasser, ohne zu ertrinken.

'I'm so tired'. Of life or right now? Get rest, it's important. Stay hydrated. Try to get eight hours of sleep. If you don't get eight hours of sleep, have a nap. It's better to get eight hours of sleep but if you ever don't get eight hours of sleep, when you get back from school or work, just have a little nap. Because you should always try to get the right amount of sleep in a day.

‘Any advice for starting uni?’ … Learn to use a laundromat. Basically if there’s any household chores that you’ve been kind of lazy and leaving to your family to help you out with, you need to learn to do them. You need to learn to shop for basic supplies, you need to learn to cook, you need to learn to clean, you need to learn to do your laundry. 'Cause you might be like 'I know how to do my laundry’ and then you get shoved into a queue in a laundromat, honestly traumatising. When I was at Manchester Uni, I’m like 'okay, got to go wash some clothes’. I go down there. There’s like a hundred people. I start freaking out, 'cause you know, people, outside, you know, experience. And they’re like queuing and I’ve never used a laundromat 'cause my family had a washing machine, so I was like 'I literally don't know how to work this machine’. What’s the etiquette of waiting? Do you just leave your clothes because then I’ve heard horror stories of people like taking other people’s clothes out and I was just like *freak*. So you need to… That’s what I say. Join some societies, even if you don’t go to them. Because it’s good to make friends and just get to know people. 'Cause the thing is, at university these days - and I don’t care how old or young you are - you can join a club. There will be something that represents you. There’ll be a YouTube fan club, there’ll be an anime club and you might be like 'I don’t like meeting people and making friends. That’s scary’. If you’re at university and you go to a freaking anime society, everyone there is going to be a weeb nerd like you and then  you’re probably going to make a couple of friends. And even if they’re not your best friends ever, sometimes it’s just nice to know some people. And if they have like some crappy activities or you meet up every Wednesday, it’s just nice to have some human contact regularly in your life.

That’s good [being an exchange student]. That’s scary. That’s exciting. That’s brave. You know what they say: travel is the antithesis to bigotry. If you really go out there, and you really see the world and you meet different people and you experience the reality of people that have different languages and religions and different ways of life then, you know, it makes you a happier, more accepting person. So you go and be an exchange student. That’s rad. Go, you.

Phil was like ‘I want you to curl my hair with some curling irons’. Who cares? Give the people what they want. Some people were like ‘Dan, you could have done a better job’. I was so scared of actually injuring Phil. 'Cause these things are like 300 degrees and as I said in the video, there’s so many clips on YouTube of girls curling their hair and doing a tutorial and ripping off their entire fringe. Actually think for a second if I actually ripped of AmazingPhil’s fringe. He probably has it insured. I don’t know but it’s like oh my god. So yeah, I was scared I’d burn his flesh. … I didn’t want to be the guy that melted his face on YouTube. So yeah, I hope you had fun with that.

I feel bad sometimes because conventions are so expensive. They’re not like going to see someone on tour. They’re like the price of seeing 7 people on tour. And it’s a shame the performances aren’t as good as when people do their own shows. Like I guess if someone care about the industry, the community panel and maybe going to a meet-up, or seeing someone on stage for ten minutes isn’t that big of a deal you know, that’s what a convention is. But I feel like for the people in the community and the followers of YouTubers that are really there to maybe get a chance to meet them or mainly see them perform in real life, I just feel bad. You know what I mean? Compared to when people do tours. Dan rambling.

‘Did you have fun overall at Vidcon?’ I always have… I mean it’s very crazy for anyone with any amount of social anxiety it’s like *internal screaming* for 72 hours. But you know, it’s very …  to connect with the real people that watch you is good 'cause YouTube, it’s not good for your mental health 'cause it’s all up in your head and it's imaginary. To see it irl, it’s grounding. It’s good. That’s the thing with the Internet.