rooting for you always !

love you so much

You’re amazing x

We'll always support you

We will always love you!!

thank you for giving me someone with values to look up to

John Green and Dan Howell combo = joy

We really are! Truer words have never been said and they were said by the other best youtubers of all time. :)

Aww all the wholesome YT feels, love you all xxx

As there is a mysterious Hank vs John podcast beef, I suggest a Dear Hank and Dan episode? Or maybe Dear John and Dan? Even a solo Dear Dan episode 🤣

hhashahhaahahah

You forgot: “which isn’t a lot”

You messed up the quote

😭💀

@@pepesilvia429 🤫

Agreed xx

I was waiting for anyone to say it so I could agree. We're here

100% same.

you know the lurkers are here cuz all we do is like all the other comments we agree with lol we just never comment on anything haha

There is nothing better than silent appreciation.

me too :') except after he said, I decided to comment, so I guess im not that person anymore hahaha

I comment sometimes but rarely it takes a lot to make my lurker self be like “I want to give some love here’s a random comment”

I use dAn toilet some time

@@heyarnold04 you commented when it meant something big, and that is cool

they made me feel less alone when i was home alone all day basically as a 2000s latchkey kid. i’ll always be a grateful lurker lol

Someone has to do it :'((

it’s a shame he felt like trapped in his “brand” of misery etc :( i cant imagine how draining it is to keep that up

Crossing my fingers for a plant tour in the near future ❤

is that what happens when you turn 30? if so, I can’t wait.

Now all we need is for her to also do a comeback

AND AT THE SERIES FINALE, NO LESS

GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toenails... NEVER! I am the feet UKpostsr. Thanks for being a fan, dear ches

We stan positive character growth

That's it, that's what happened, we're just calling it as we see it and we are all freaking here for it!

Do you believe in vampires TICS and wear wolves? T I c blood sucking tics......

LMFAOOO

😂😂

Yes like a cat, except I worry mine has crossed the busy street and didn't make it to the other end until he shows up the next day.

this is such an accurate description lol. Like I had no questions about this disappearance, just figured he'd be back whenever

YES

❗️❗️

I couldn’t have said this better myself! They fucked him up and over and I’m just so sad for him. Like WHO does that?!

@@jacquelinesanabria755 Major corporations who just want money and don't care about their clients sanity or mental wellbeing. It sucks but its how they've been going since social media took off.

TOTALLY AGREE. and while I’m sad that Dan was jerked along and agreed to do different projects while being ghosted it really shows his professionalism. Even though that was a shit show I hope other networks/ investors see how passionate, professional, and creative he is and it becomes a stepping stone for something greater !

I wonder ris there's a way to Kickstart or gofund to help finance this project

for real!! I feel like I really really would’ve liked it

Hello, fellow "48yr old, self confessed Grumpy Git."

@@Alan_Duval Welcome. 2 grumpy gits? We're like the 2 old guys sat in the box in the muppets, Statler and Waldorf LOL

​@@DDTC73 No I'm not, you are! No we're not, he is! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! etc.

Lovely comment!

What is Winnersh Triangle?

I think he should still do it

Agreed!

Sounds like Fleabag in the best way possible…. I need to see this happen

SAME it’s so smart??? I’m really excited for when it finally comes out!!! When or wherever that might be :))

I really hope he manages to, if not make it on another platform, cannabalize some of the ideas for a future project.

dan, 50 years old: Why I Quit Quit UKposts (part 2) me: My Savior You’re Back

Same

Literally me

Hard same

A mood... me here at almost 2 am seeing this video is 1 and a half hours long... well fuck it

I would throw all of my money at it omg, every last cent

Please!

Dude I want to watch it so bad!! it sounds amazing

I’d donate to a fundraiser!

YES YES

👏

Never heard of him

@@kicnbac .... and?

The world doesn't deserve Dan Howell, let alone UKposts

Well he does make boatloads of money from them so….

Same

maybe he'll find a way. like he said, he knows that the community can be far more powerful than the people at the top

I wanted to watch it so bad

Now that is a series I'd put everything aside to watch! Maybe, just maybe he can make it happen someday.

He did say at the end he'll bring it to another platform (hopefully!)

Agree

Thank you for showing your support, on the surface this time❤

I almost cried at our little lurker shout out, I enjoyed silently for so many years.

I've been a lurker since 2012 and I need to say Dan has been my favorite parasocial relationship since then

Lurkers unite!

Hell yeah 😌

vrgguipt

g hung gutug😮hffc ouhgf o😅groupchat in

i would watch THE ABSOLUTE SHIT out of that show I'm so serious

Thanks for the synopsis. It's been a long day.

i cried reading the title and couldn’t carry on… you helped me get through that so thank you 😅

it is actually quite impressive how he is able to make my adhd brain actually listen to everything he says and remember it without needing to take a break at any point

I agree but this documentary type video is becoming increasingly popular in the past year. He did a great job but he didnt necessarily start this type of video

Dan could upload a five hour video of him just sitting there and i guarantee you people would watch it. Dan truly is what UKposts creator should aspire to be. He truly cares for his audience and its sad that UKposts couldn't see the opportunity they had before them

Yes! The prologue to an amazing journey once more!

i love you

well put, as a quiet lurker too this comment perfectly outlines how I feel

dan really meant a lot to me through middle school and continues to . I'm nineteen and I still appreciate him a lot as a person, I stopped watching consistently years ago but every time he pops back around i feel a lot of love for him still

yeah as a black woman i hated that he felt like he had to add that disclaimer. being privileged doesn't mean you can't be crushed when something awful happens to you, he deserves sympathy, what happened to him was absolutely shit.

As a quiet lurker…you have failed in your duty

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I wholeheartedly agree

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Shitting on while subsequently praising. Lol

Also it's still monetized which to me is enjoyable content in the art. I know UKposts also makes money off of it but he makes money off of talking shit ABOUT them skaksks

Me too!

You and me both!! 😄

Yessum

As long as it’s available everywhere… I don’t want to get a vpn 🤭🤭

Yee yee same here!!

Omg yes! This is exactly what I was thinking! Really scary!

They need a new platform utube is being too much

same😭

same

SAME!!!!!!!!!

Same. Saw Phil is not on fire 7 on my recommended page last night and still laughed and thought to myself how much I missed Dan. Then today he posts this.

literally

honestly i really want to watch this now ahh

Netflix you listening?

Yes I sure hope Dan pitches to other companies

I would watch that even without Dan, that sounds like an amazing story

The script sounds intriguing

Ikr, like they seriously pulled the funds from long format videos with meaning to put it into a cheap copy of tiktoks, which, may I remind you, are short format (usually) basically zero budget gags.

Dodie! Lovely seeing you here, and agreed, its a whole nightmare!!

The range of creators this video brought. Your music gets me through my depressive episodes ❤️

THANK YOUU

SAME!!!!!!!! i saw the amazing tour is not on fire when i was about 13 years old. i'm currently 19 and plan on begging my family to go with me on this tour LOL.

lol we're the same age

me too 😭😭 when did we get old

@@susie8799 don’t call yourself old until you’re in your mid-twenties like me 😩

Hello friends :)

i think i just like dan, i dont need anything from him, ill just enjoy whenever he wants to hand me something of his if he wants too. im glad to see him again, i missed his tone

How beautiful to see so many UKpostsrs i love and have watched for years coming together under this video. Of course, also somewhat sad, given the topic, but what a strange and wonderful place this platform can (and could) be.

Hey Jazza!

Yes yes he is!

Looking forward to the "How to draw a traitor" tutorial and you draw the whole UKposts corporation in extreme detail haha

Jazza!!!

Absolutely shocking to see them treat someone whos made them millions like that. They were such massive facets of youtube back in the day. Dan's show would have been like heartstopper but for queer adults. It'd have had a MASSIVE audience! Dan mentions it, but really the reason people scream "you should be on netflix" is because they will make any old piece of shit show. If he pitched this to them he'd find himself amongst netflix's other big blockbusters. Might pull them out of this hole theyre in too considering the stock collapse theyre seeing.

I‘ll join you

Agree. Why does Dan keep making me cry? Every video he's made in the last 2 years on his channel has made me cry.

he’s very strong i don’t think i would have ever recovered

I'm a writer so it hit me goddamn hard

Please could you explain what happened?

@@Lala47362 watch the video and find out

It feels so crazy for us to be adults now with our own money for tickets and merchandise, I can't wait for this tour and joining everyone again

Hahaha immediately after watching i texted a middle school friend who bought me a “danisnotonfire” tshirt. Cant wait for tour

@@strugglebeauty same! Me and a friend of a couple years, we separated a bit but I'm hoping this brings us together again

I was 14 when i started watching him, im 22 now! That's crazy

Me as an adult being time to drain my savings so I can see them on tour, at least I don’t have to beg my mom this time

There was a UKposts Union - the Internet Creator's Guild, started by (among others) Hank Green a few years ago. It didn't last very long and it didn't scale enough to be as useful as it could have been. IMO, this happened for two reasons: First, it can be hard to get creators to see past their own challenges and busy schedules to focus on working together. When you're going crazy trying to keep your own head above water, it's difficult to look at the bigger picture. This is SUPER common, by the way, and not limited to creators. It's a fairly fundamental social control mechanism - making sure people are individually struggling keeps them too busy to organize. It's why, for example, hot button political issues tend to be things that immediately affect individuals (such as gas prices) and not broad/universal long term issues that will affect everyone, like the climate crisis. There's no time to worry about climate change when you're struggling to keep a roof over your head and your kids fed. Secondly, because unions are not profit-driven enterprises, they depend on membership to fund operations. I don't remember the exact fee for ICG ($60/year?), but this creates an inherent catch 22 - you need a ton of members to have the scale and the funding to make real changes on big issues, but to do that you have to grow past a smaller membership total. However, until you have that huge membership, the people who get in early end up feeling like they're paying $60 for nothing, so they're less likely to recommend joining when others ask a simple straight forward question - "is it worth joining?". Because up until the union has real power and momentum, the answer to that is honestly usually "not really". I do think there are ways around these challenges and there will be future attempts for creators to collectively organize, but it will take more people talking about this and more people making comments like yours to get it started.

Exactly what I was thinking UKposts is using American poor standards for labor rights on people everywhere, which includes a lot of countries with much better labor rights dealing with American bullshit attitudes about workers rights, etc

Also, is suing an option here? I feel like he has a case... For like restitution or whatever?

@@EMNstar Lmao, how in anyway does he have a case to sue?

same here! the premise was very compelling, and i know i would be interested to watch it, even separately from wanting to support dan.

Feels unlikely. I feel like if there was any actual option still on the table, he would not have given away the whole idea in this video.

"Dan is not okay" reminding me of "Please like me". I adored this show...

@@baguettegott3409 He did say he was willing to seek it out, though. Maybe there's hope!

@@baguettegott3409 he did say he had turned down other offers. I hope the popularity of this video opens up those opportunities again

!! At a certain point I was thinking, "can he sue for this?"

This almost certainly is not legal like holy shit

This

Well said

Love you, man

oh hi kwite

🙌🏻

fancy seeing you here hoodie man

Excited for I spent a day with markiplier 👍🏻👍🏻

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Imagine this duo

The alliteration in this comment is immaculate 👌

amazingly awesome alliteration anthony

this is so real

this is actually so true, i was just on at twitter and people were sharing the comfort and sense of community they found from here, and i actually got so emotional because me too when i was younger. “we’re old now”🥲

this 100%.

They have done so much more for me than what my psychologists have done

@@ginsengstrip2002 oh man this hit me

I completely agree

AWWWWW 😭😭😭

Okay this made me cry 😭💙

your content is absolutely fantastic, cheers

The Mandela catalogue is great and you should be proud 👍🏻

Personally i laughed too many times to count and am still crying my eyes out. Was quite relaxing while I did a hollow knight rando but dropped literally everything to watch the video.

SAME! I would personally like to multiply those reactions❤

this is the cutest comment I've ever seen

Honestly

Thank you for writing it. I thought it was only I who did not understand the creators dilema. I saw it exactly the same way as you.

I saw them as different aspects of Dan as well. Just like different parts of your personality comes out around different people. Yet I do understand trying to balance different wants and needs between yourself and others around you, in this case your followers. Really sorry that it felt so difficult for you Daniel xx

I feel the same way!

I don't know of any of you know it, but there's a show about what you're referring to! It's called Sanders Sides by Thomas Sanders!

I think it might be because you are monetizing yourself. You stopped being a person with different sides and became a brand, a product. Brand consistency it's important because you need people to attach something to your name and stablish said brand. When they think of something they would also think of you, it also helps with the algorithm. I can see how dehumanizing it can be to turn yourself and parts of your personality a business. I have always seen UKpostsrs as people with different aspects, people that grow and change just like me but there's plenty of people who just want Dan the brand and not the person.

Love your comment, well said ♡

YOURE SO LUCKY YOU GOT TICKETS OMG

With you on that one

The early 2010s are back

YES YES YES! Seeing them in Milton Keynes!

@@claire6754 Me too, enjoy!

I can't fathom how strong Dan is, to have gotten back up and kept fighting after all that exploitation and disrespect. I feel dirty just for thinking about still uploading after watching this. I hope Dan's expose here can incite some change in UKposts's management.

Creators are often exploited

netflix is broke now too😂

yes! or anyone else! it sounds very interesting and the entire bts process allows for channel content as well!

not Netflix! Netflix is dead!

The same netflix that cancels valid shows with original premises and instead gives money to shitty writing and milked out ideas? Pass

No please i am poor sir 😭😭😭

Same! I started watching Dan and Phil in 2015 when I was 13 and man what I would give to go back to those days of UKposts! I have both their books (signed), went to their tour and some Christmas merch and they are honestly my prized possessions lol

I was watching Shane too 😭 I'm just glad the Phandom took up more of my time

Same age, same story. I was a fan of all three and there's a reason I'm back here and not watching Shane's "comeback".

yeah, anthony from smosh and dan and phil are some OGs still doing great

damn what? can't believe the tour was SIX years ago??

Hi Pierre

Bro Pierre you are everywhere

Didn't know you watched Dan Pierre

nyeeeeeehhh squidward

You always managed to be in the most unexpected places.

I'm kind of glad I progressed into video essay part of UKposts. it's pretty chill

Except the part where he says UKposts isn't homophobic which is a lie. It definitely is homophobic, maybe not to him but thousands of small creators trying to make important lgbt content and getting demonetized.

@@kittykahdy He says that the Algorithm can be accidentally homophobic at times, since it learns from the community. Since there's so many homophobes online, it sometimes accidentally learns that gay stuff isn't wanted by everyone. But that doesn't mean that UKposts itself is homophobic. They're not actively demonitizing gay content. That's what he meant I believe

Yes, that's what he said. But YT is it's algorithm therefore YT is homofobic. There's a lot of videos on the subject from lgbt creators struggling out there. If it's an accident it's one they haven't fixed in years. Saying it will solve itself is naive at best.

@@SnooLuna well it's not true then, since most of the LGBT creators get demonetized. If they don't fix the algorithm ther ARE homophobic.

I'm honestly on board with this format

It’s littrelly and whole movie

It should be showcased in Theatres every time he does

@@brishlyalcantar4675 yess

I could not agree more. I'm so happy that he's back and excited 😊

I agree

That’s the thing. UKposts has never cared about its creators, and this is literally the evidence of that. All they care about are money and their direction

It also sounds like something likely to succeed rn !!!! Shows like that (dealing with mental health & therapy with dark comedy) are getting made & getting popular - it immediately reminded me a bit of the shows I hate Suzie & work in progress personally.