me, waking up drenched in sweat, violently sitting up in bed and letting out a gasp: IT'S A METAPHOR FOR BEING A YOUTUBER
idk if someone already thought of this and this is also probably the most obvious reading of it but here i go anyway: i was just walking a dog and listening to potato prints and when phil said "you've come a long way daniel" i was like "huh phil is in the teaching position in all of these just like he was for youtube" like phil just gives editing pro tips the whole time and it all parallels their story as a youtube duo.
and obviously the entertainment industry is rife (not proper usage of that word but it Feels Right so fuck you) with satanic symbolism/imagery/iconography/motifs. being an entertainer is "selling your soul to the devil" etc etc and we know dan hates being a youtuber and does feel that way. you gotta upload twice a day every day in order to be the number one art channel on youtube dot com after all. you gotta make those crafts for satan. bo burnham has a ton of lyrics/songs that i'm thinking about rn like "you used to do comedy when you felt like being funny but now you're contractually obligated so dance you fucking monkeeeey DANCE MONKEY DAAAANCE" and in "repeat stuff" which is a commentary of how mainstream pop love songs and pop stars have to be really superficial and unoriginal because they need to appeal to everyone and at one point he sucks satan off lmao and is like AHFRUEHQFWIIO I AM A VESSEL IDUSHISKA 666 KAJSDFI ILLUMINATI UIGDFSAHIO FREEMASONS. highly recommend looking at the lyrics to that song if you're into that kind of thing.
also the (very rightful) dig at phannies for the "don't cry craft" spamming like "we love all of our crafty audience that spread the message of this channel on all the other videos on the internet! everywhere! everybody enjoyed that!" is how creators who want to keep status have to address their audiences no matter how annoying or harmful they're being. thinking of the ajr line "stay out of politics, stay on the fence / stay out of all of it to keep half your fans" because like,, yeah if a creator ever expresses an opinion that declares their feelings on one side of an issue then they will lose support (smosh is a perfect example of a bunch of people never ever ever expressing an opinion if it could be considered controversial among their audience, like refusing to address the genocide happening right now and just taking their zionist member who the fans are mad at out of some videos to be like "shhhhh nothing to see here we don't know what you're talking about"), ESPECIALLY if that issue is the behaviour of their audience.
obviously the first dapc video was not made with any intended meaning, they just woke up and were like "let's be weird and freak people out" and they did that, and then adding in symbolism and making it all mean something developed with time. but i'm gonna pretend that it has always had consistent meaning because i'm neurodivergent and love overanalysing silly little media.
i am so jhfbvdahfkiufadkhlj right now so if anyone has more theories or things to add lmk and thank you for coming to my ted talk
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I think this was the best way to end their craft channel, and it was a good time to end it. Potato prints was a very creative craft too. When Dan stared into the camera after he said Don’t cry and Phil wasn’t their to say Craft with him, it honestly made me kind of sad. I always thought that Dan sacrificed himself to Satan, but I didn’t know he would make Phil go. Perhaps the daily struggle of putting out 2 videos of quality crafts was too much and they decided this was the only way they would find peace. Of course now they are going to have to serve Satan for the rest of eternity, so they really won’t get peace will they? So my fellow Crafties, even thought it is over, they will live on in our crafts. What we’ve learned is not to sell your soul to Satan, no matter how hard it gets. Remember: Don’t cry, craft!
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a few days ago i started a discord server for a collaborative analysis of danandphilcrafts because of the response to this post and we want to see if more people are interested, especially artists but anyone who has any ideas or wants to participate in any way whatsoever can join!
i imagine there are people who wanted to join originally but i didn’t tag anyone in my post with the link that i didn’t see explicitly saying they wanted to do it, so please let me know if you’re interested and i’ll send you the discord link!!
(it’s very low stakes and if someone thinks they want to do something but then can’t for whatever reason or change their mind it’s all good, it’s just for fun)
