IS PHAN MY OTP?? Taking Old British Youtuber Quizzes

[@biancana]

watching this video on the floor of the orphanage, when will my zalfie come 😔

[@AmazingPhil]

pinning so hopefully zalfie find u

[@ethangrayse]

@@AmazingPhil how altruistic

[@demongrubbs]

i luckily got adopted by dan and phil after scoring 101% yupp3rs on their test, goodluck finding zalfie 😔✌🏻

[@biancana]

⁠@@AmazingPhil thx put in a good word for me please 🫶

[@honeyswann]

BAHAHAHA

[@ryekat76]

phil: "I might not even be in the quiz" the author's username literally being Howlter: "am i a fucking joke to you?"

[@madeleinemccoy4791]

bro thank you i was saying the same thing

[@dehelenhowlter]

haha /remembering my own username/ wait

[@mirraonice]

I cant stop laughing at the "not all heros wear capes" LMFAO

[@paadoxal]

i remember reblogging that... aw man

[@accioyoongi]

could’ve sworn i reposted that somewhere

[@mollyisaverage]

“not all heroes wear capes, mine wear cat whiskers >•

[@wonderlandzer0]

​@@mollyisaverage no, not the war flashbacks 😫

[@raet6375]

@@mollyisaverage NOOOOO-

[@dontaskdontpastel]

This content feels kinda oldschool and that’s so comforting

[@honeyswann]

The title alone made me feel like it’s 2016 and they’re scaring us again

[@wittleclark1749]

dude, Trixie pfp and a Katya pfp??? huh?

[@monomarr]

ikr i really wish we could all go back to that time

[@TinaOe]

+

[@sunnivahelensandvik4998]

First time in forever I actually watch a KZbin video and not just have it on in the background

[@tearsofregret8743]

Can’t believe Phil made it through these quizzes without putting his hair into a messy bun, choosing an outfit, putting on his converse and going downstairs to the meeting room of the orphanage

[@erinmeyers-t9w]

i thought that said putting on his omegaverse

[@beckettlastname7894]

Phil saying "yes or no" for Y/N is so innocent

[@MyeonTokki]

IKRR

[@Jeevesie1988]

I'm reading this comment and I watched a bunch of Joe's content back in the early 2010s and I still don't know what Y/N is in the context of that quiz question lmao D:

[@talsegev677]

​@@Jeevesie1988 "your name"

[@Jeevesie1988]

@@talsegev677 Oooh! Tumblr fanfic terminology kinda passed me by, hahaha

[@GemShuffla]

Phil pls 😭

[@RobertIDK]

This video just single handedly revived tumblr

[@musicaldump]

Sometimes I forget your past, great to see you’re still here though LOL

[@elidoesthings297]

And Quotev 😭

[@kaisan8696]

tumblrs been doing just fine.... welcome back tho xoxoxox rats

[@aflyingfinn]

some of us never left….

[@belindasmith1983]

Wait a minute Robert

[@azzierulz]

Congratulations Phil on being adopted by Zalfie and meeting other youtubers including Dan and Phil!

[@philosophy_bot4171]

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on" ~ Immanuel Kant

[@ElpSmith]

@@philosophy_bot4171 The only fun bot. You have been a good bing

[@yoinkiezoinks]

Phil not knowing what Y/N stands for gives major dad vibes

[@rosesraeken]

phil calling us “little fuckers” was not on my 2023 bingo card

[@bethw762]

neither was April fools day theyre keeping us on our toes this year

[@dylanburton4955]

Caught me off guard

[@xanderlee1414]

Clutching my pearls rn fr

[@Sentientmatter8]

I didn't notice timestamp?

[@Orangewood76]

@@Sentientmatter8 3:10

[@supershepherd]

I like how this is suppose to be British KZbinrs and yet Tyler, Connor, and Troye are somehow involved😂

[@QueenKrypton]

And joey! They were big in the British KZbin side for some reason.

[@tova1412]

I meannn they were back then too so it make sense

[@grff_]

No bc i was expecting the quiz to have more doddie, sam, hazel etc LOL

[@supershepherd]

@@tova1412 I know, but they weren't British. So I feel like all it takes to be considered a British KZbinr is having enough British friends😂

[@riverstyx7251]

@@supershepherdactually yes that’s how it works lol

[@abbyzoetewey538]

Adopted by KZbin/Musician couples was such a funny genre of the time. Like “Yes, I want to live with these people I’ve never met”.

[@MultidimensionalSock]

It's really I have parental issues core

[@elviradistress]

@@MultidimensionalSock absolutely

[@elviradistress]

its always so funny because they were like 20 at the time

[@paadoxal]

yeah haha as someone who wrote one of those fics it was mainly parental trauma and seeking comfort in other people🙃 but it was a fun outlet for that atleast

[@nononononononononono]

I should be discussing those fanfics in therapy lol

[@maxwellwillows]

Phil is here bringing us all back to before we came out as gay/trans

[@AerCloud]

Yeah...

[@maniimanii9164]

deadass 😂

[@CharlieDaClown]

🫡

[@heyehyemoboy]

too accurate 😭

[@ghostwormies]

yup…

[@theoriginal1971]

“Collabing with youtubers you didn’t even like” god what would I give for dan and phil to give the tea

[@bubblegumbunny]

I hope this was about Pewdiepie because that would be hilarious sjdsbdusd

[@MissesPeanutButter]

I thought it was a joke about Dan bc he is shown when he says that lol

[@kiruti5498]

The fact that Phil is still using that firework effect makes me so glad cause it means he's getting his money's worth for the purchase

[@Sailor_S]

That quote has been living rent free in my head since that video came out, and I too, think the same thing everytime I see it.

[@devonmmi]

real

[@dotdotdot...176]

Yes!

[@blanket4763]

That’s the best use of 8.99 ever

[@mrd7560]

i like the implication of the adoption quiz that dan and phil wouldnt adopt an orphan child if they werent a fan

[@cosmic_bobatea]

As a person who made quizzes involving Dan and Phil when I was younger, I am so sorry Phil lmao

[@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken]

no same. thank god I made them private years ago. so cringe looking back👍😭 gosh.

[@crabtoes2210]

The “would dan and phil date you” quiz to coming out as lesbian or transmasc pipeline

[@pigeondance]

reeeaaall

[@WishGender]

my trans guy ass is feeling very called out

[@dragonshadow4145]

That’s because the people making the quizzes are also probably lesbian, lol

[@riverstyx7251]

16 y/o me: “do I have a crush on Dan and Phil?” 23 y/o me: “no but you do have them as transition goals (especially Dan)”

[@masoncallihan127]

@@riverstyx7251actually same, it all makes sense now

[@norrie2460]

I love how Phil didn't think he would be in the first quiz when he's literally one of the biggest KZbinrs and an cultural icon

[@philosophy_bot4171]

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages" ~ Shakespeare

[@ciara04]

phil lester acknowledging martha feels like he just broke some code of silence across the internet

[@talsegev677]

What's Martha? 😬

[@Lollogy]

Where is the hound

[@talsegev677]

No wait I'm genuinely asking

[@ciara04]

@Tal Segev Jim Chapman and Tanya burr were married and had a dog called Martha but then they got divorced, and the dog mysteriously vanished. both of them have banned (or at least Tanya has??) the word Martha and dog from their instagram comments because people wouldn't stop asking so people decided to start commenting "WHERES THE HOUND" instead

[@ciara04]

@@Lollogy WHERE'S THE HOUND !!

[@nataliabarragan7885]

Phil keeping the phandom alive

[@alexandraRatliff]

That picture with you, Joey, Troye, Dan, Tyler, and Connor from when most of you are in the closet and all later came out as gay is so relatable. I swear not one person was out but 90% of my friend group from back in high school came out as some part of the LGBT+ community over the years. It’s crazy how similar people are drawn to each other without even knowing how alike they are

[@krishashah3661]

Omg same! Only 2 people from my school group actually ended up being straight 😂

[@j_fenrir]

Same dude. All of my current friend group met when we were like 11, now every. single. one. of. us. is lgbtq

[@_Oof_]

I had a group of friends like that in 9th grade. One day I randomly said "is anyone else here kind of gay?" and 5/6 of them said yes 😂 The 6th recently realized she's bi

[@dragonshadow4145]

I have this with fellow autistic/ADHD people, works great

[@nemnyoom]

all the girls in my high school friend group are men

[@tasha1955]

I just like the idea that Zoe went to this fucking Orphanage and straight up went 'well I wanted a toddler, but me and this 30 year old man get on so well, I'll take him instead'

[@NerdySalemSays]

The concept of all the British KZbinrs having sleepovers and playing truth or dare like high schoolers is so funny to me.

[@MarleneRodriguez711]

"for some reason British KZbinrs hit their peak-" It's so refreshing to hear this time period be acknowledged by someone who was very close to the situation. That Brit vlog squad era was insane

[@Gretchasketches]

‪If being adopted by you guys meant I’d meet the same fate as your house plants I’ll pass… ‬

[@bruhsuke9039]

pass away more like

[@harryr5785]

@@bruhsuke9039😭🤚🏽

[@riverstyx7251]

They’d definitely forget to feed a child

[@BeetBonk]

If being adopted by Dan and Phil means the same fate as their houseplants, I’ll gladly accept😂

[@gregorywiederecht]

Well, only if left in Phil's care for an extended period of time. I think Dan's plants have a better track record

[@HeisenbergFam]

2015 feels like yesterday, looking forward to what 2016 has in store for us

[@justyourlocalrat_]

LOL

[@berrystrawbs]

don’t get your hopes up 💔

[@music2012pink]

📉🔥😷

[@honeyswann]

Phil: “I’m not innocent!” Also Phil: says Y/N as “yes/no” instead of “your name”

[@Sentientmatter8]

I've been in the ff world since 2001 and I'm certainly not innocent but self insert has never been my thing. I didn't know what y/n was until a few months ago.

[@moodycowcrafts4862]

@@Sentientmatter8 it took a lot of readerx[blank] summaries (not my flavour of fanfic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) to cotton on that y/n stood for 'your name' never understood why the / is there though it coulda just been yn

[@MaggieWillow]

straight off the bat mentioning martha is BRUTAL and i’m so here for phil stirring the drama

[@jackya8654]

Who’s Martha 😭

[@rachel-rx6ol]

@@jackya8654Jim & Tanya’s dog

[@ConiferConnieTreeCow]

@@jackya8654 same idk who martha is

[@MarioMVasilev]

​@@ConiferConnieTreeCowA dog Jim and Tanya got that has disappeared since their divorce and both of them are keeping quiet about what happened

[@mollyisaverage]

phil you were the backbone of the british youtubers of course you’ll be in the quizzes

[@mollyisaverage]

13 year old me would sit and take these quizzes during school and now im watching phil take them this is a full circle moment for me

[@memoriam.victoriam]

i was getting ready for school, putting my long brown hair into a messy bun. as i looked at my blue orbs in the mirror, my mom came in. “i sold you to pay our debts” she said. “come meet your new masters.” i went downstairs and there they were...PHAN

[@ambseyyy]

oh god not the blue orbs

[@theau.1536]

The fact that Phil read Y/N as yes/no .... what an innocent soul

[@BlazeDupree1525]

Phil you and Dan practically raised us in the first place we got through the 2010's fairly mildly traumatized thank to you guys 😂

[@CatieMannino]

Phil basiclly completed a fan fiction of always choosing himself and I am here for it 😂

[@lunastarsx]

It’s so weird because now that I’m in my mid twenties I cannot imagine creating and engaging with the KZbinr quizzes/fanfics but young teenage me ATE IT UP 😂

[@cheyenne9565]

Imagine being an entire adult seeing one of the quizzes you made as a kid featured in an AmazingPhil video in 2023 😂

[@KarolYuuki]

Teen you must be so proud

[@tikvahlanz6335]

This felt like classic AmazingPhil content and that + Phil being confident in himself and his sexuality made me so happy. I’m trying to imagine how mind blown I would have been in 2016 if he’d casually said “the gay in me” in a video haha

[@Lillespast]

2023 and they're still milking this phan thing i love youtube

[@liisa1662]

as they should

[@pigeondance]

jhfdkhdryks icon behavior of I ask me

[@rivkavermeij]

At this point it's practically part of their branding

[@reaverkai]

I love that for them and im here for it

[@togerkun1336]

this is so nostalgic and comforting but also so painful and embarrassing at the same time 😭 ty for making me feel like a kid again Phil :)

[@James-io3zq]

Those quizzes are so bad but the nostalgia is top tier

[@aval00]

My god, this took me back to being a preteen taking One Direction quizzes and replaying them until I got Harry for every answer. Also, Phil, too late. You have adopted all of us. You are the Phather. See you at Christmas

[@annakelly346]

the fact phil doesn’t know what y/n stands for is brilliant

[@Liamella23]

This was so nostalgic to watch. It's weird looking back at how many quizzes from this era were basically role-playing fanfiction. Crazy how many of these KZbinrs fizzled or burnt out.

[@obv10usly5]

Makes me wonder what a phannie quiz of 2023 would be about. “How long would you be alive if you were their houseplants?” “How gay are you comparing to dan and phil?” “Rank the extinct DanAndPhilGames” 😅

[@SunOceana]

Not extinct anymore!

[@alexandra6924]

I have been Quotev sober for like 5 years now and this video just sucked me back into the pits of Naruto quizzes. Thanks, Phil.

[@lizlintonen9846]

god this was SO comforting. this was the peak of my pop culture years i feel so seen and heard

[@loonachoerry]

im crying at this i would watch an hour of you taking these quizzes

[@hopelesslunar]

phil saying y/n as yes or no 😭 and then like five seconds later saying “i don’t think i’m innocent” 💀

[@waluigipinball2756]

the zoella adoption role-play had me crying with laughter

[@jusong]

petition to get the british crew to reenact one of these quizzes

[@existentialpotato]

who is gonna play y/n though?? i guess phil could play both y/n and himself. i’d pay for that content. let’s make it happen.

[@existentialpotato]

@/existentialpotato just got an image of dan bringing y/n!phil home to watch a movie with himself and phil!phil and so it’s just 2 phils and 1 dan watching avengers all eating out of one bucket of popcorn and getting covid because i guess they don’t have bowls in the phouse

[@geneva1895]

that last quiz gave me flashbacks to the "adopted by phan" story I HAND WROTE in my diary in 2016. It was basically the same plot.

[@lovelilmeowmeowgacha1132]

Quiz: yeah, Dan and Phil would adopt you Everyone, looking at houseplants: I'll pass

[@user-es7ui5mc1m]

It's so insane looking at where all of these youtubers are now! Also kind of crazy how much of a "core group" of youtubers there was at this time, I feel like now there are so many big channels and there's not a group like this, especially not one that meets up regularly, not even within one country, let alone across countries (counting Tyler, Troye and Connor as part of this group)

[@eloisestanley7739]

Why is Phil derailing as this video gets further in, starts calm and ends in chaos

[@user-es7ui5mc1m]

I feel like Louise was kind of underrepresented in these quizzes? She was such a core part of the Brit crew for me!

[@ChristieCora]

same

[@amberowens7004]

haven’t even watched the video yet, but i’m having a bad day and just know it will cheer me up. thank u phil for still uploading comfort content and healing my inner child

[@emiliaseidita2098]

this felt so nostalgic and comforting omg i miss 2014 youtube everything was so much simpler

[@ashleyhota1225]

I am having severe emotional whiplash from this video with the amount of memories resurfacing from this era.

[@ellaelliott4415]

Doing quizzes and roleplays about yourself has to be one of the weirdest experiences ever 🤣

[@greenieboo]

this is the ultimate comfort video for me

[@Lama-ms4nz]

Phil I literally scream laughed all the way through this video and I’m still coughing with laughter this was hilarious aaah

[@Lama-ms4nz]

Apparently I am laughing so hard my mum needed to check on me

[@knittedrachael]

phil at 5:21 when he puts himself at a higher speed sounds almost exactly like he sounded in a video from 2008/2009 when he did the same effect. spooky

[@simona_merkinin]

That "not all heroes wear capes" laugh sounded so genuine that it made me laugh too😂😂

[@am7846]

Phil laughing while trying to read the tragic story of how the mc's parents died had me cackling. This was such a funny throwback video!

[@boridomolki]

Phil: *has intense anxiety about answering the door, meeting new people, etc* Phil: "it's gonna be me, I answer the door"

[@kikiandthebrain]

please i just choked from laughing so hard adfsfjksgsd as an orphan who's now in their 30s i appreciate the dramatic reading and hope i too can be adopted by zalfie (also i stg if you don't stop using the p word i'm gonna block you some of us are still traumatized from 2015 phil)

[@MistyMemory-22]

Havnt commented or watched in years. Your voice is comforting still. It's insane how many people you have impacted. 💖

[@0t.r.a0]

i miss the british youtubers era so much, life was so much easier back then.

[@thisrandomperson1843]

I do miss the fun of doing these types of quizzes from time to time back in middle school, so seeing this does take me back.

[@maria_helenaa]

this made me so nostalgic i might just have to go and take random quizzes from 10 years ago now too

[@xi5450]

I lost it at the squeak 😂 2015 was truly simpler time

[@melissam7]

PHIL YOUR TITLES KEEP GIVING US HEART ATTACKS PLS BE GENTLE WITH US

[@melissam7]

DID YOU REALLY JUST REFERENCE MARTHA - PHIL.

[@i_dont_know_who_i_am_93]

Please be gentle with the handcuffs, I have sensitive skin

[@pot-ay-topot-ah-to4325]

@@i_dont_know_who_i_am_93 HELP NO

[@ashley-xq2fy]

Read this as titties instead of titles

[@ravinlove7839]

Phil reading Y/N as “yes or no” made me laugh for 10 minutes 😂

[@izzymorgen62468]

I'm desperate for Zoe and Alfie (who are ACTUALLY PARENTS) to watch this bizarre video

[@charityk34]

phil this is one of my fav videos of yours, i keep coming back to it

[@TheBrookieMonster3]

Wanting a part two with dan bring back Tumblr tag days ❤❤❤😂

[@kirstylouuise]

back here after years, these were the daysssss omg. take me back ❤ love u and dan always

[@i.a.munizphotography]

this made me feel a calm wave of the feeling I used to have watching your videos all day in middle school...a sense of safeness. awe miss those times

[@olivermundell4742]

2013-2016 was when I was superrrr into KZbin! What a throw back, I loved growing up with u guys 💕

[@nicoyeetzawa5342]

I love all of this, especially seeing how much Phil’s grown from the shy, anxious person he used to be. He’s amazing and the reason most of us were able love ourselves

[@nicoyeetzawa5342]

(In terms of sexuality, able to love ourselves)

[@carnivalbears]

this makes me so nostalgic for when every youtuber was taking these youtube quizzes for videos

[@hannahvmh]

i could not stop laughing throughout this. 2015 was really something else hahaha

[@cagedstar]

I need a part 2 of this

[@pricken]

This was such a wholesome throwback video to simpler times. I loved it! ❤

[@genericname8727]

Genuinely enjoy all your videos and they’re always guaranteed to make me smile.

[@AChilly]

Hope you’re well Phil! Love the video as always

[@manu_cnt]

the roleplay proves that there's no universe where dan doesnt... want to watch a movie... with phil

[@ChelCM03]

2:44 Phil thinking Y/N means 'Yes/No' and not 'Your Name' is hilarious to me

[@ccb36]

Actually this is so cute bc I just realized that I think I started watching Phil's (and Dan's) content in 2015, which was also when I started getting more into the KZbin space (and many of the other British youtubers LOL). What a throwback.

[@bigtimednp]

Woah this brings be back to when I first started watching you and Dan! This was so funny, thanks for an early bday present 😊

[@simonelebaron4985]

Just rewatched this video and forgot how much of a nostalgic punch to the face it was, I think it deserves a sequel!

[@alicenham]

This was so nostalgic and fun! I used to love doing quizzes!

[@thewillow3457]

Phil is changing when he easily uses curse words without it bothering him lol

[@sabrinayavari4502]

Anyone else feel like Phan in 2016 was like those cousins that took you in at every family event… but on the internet 😂😂

[@arieleandalon2262]

waitttt i've never seen anyone else describe it in this way but i literally felt like the people i stanned as a teenager were my cousins and everyone gave me shit for saying that 😂

[@emilyssubarashiiadventures]

aw this video was so wholesome, the whole 2010s british youtubers time was really comforting tbh.

[@luvindannie]

i was looking on netflix and couldn't decide on what to watch and then i got this notification! thanks phil :) you helped me out

[@seekersuxtoes]

I've never been this fresh to an amazing Phil video

[@lesliehall7161]

This was such a great video! What a throwback! I literally laughed out loud so many times! ❤️

[@yeeet3537]

that youtuber sleepover quiz was such a throwback cause it was a whole series that I got way too invested in when I was 10 and it was low-key a jumpscare