{"id":20485,"date":"2025-10-17T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/dan-and-phils-relationship-revelation-is-a-reminder-of-how-toxic-fandoms-can-be-eilish-gilligan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:38:11","slug":"dan-and-phils-relationship-revelation-is-a-reminder-of-how-toxic-fandoms-can-be-eilish-gilligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/dan-and-phils-relationship-revelation-is-a-reminder-of-how-toxic-fandoms-can-be-eilish-gilligan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan and Phil\u2019s relationship revelation is a reminder of how toxic fandoms can be | Eilish Gilligan"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the British YouTubers\u2019 latest video, the pair confirm their romantic relationship \u2013 after suffering frenzied speculation for the last 16 years<\/p>\n

This week, longtime British YouTubers Dan Howell and Phil Lester uploaded a new video<\/a> confirming they have been in a secret romantic relationship for the past 16 years.<\/p>\n

If you weren\u2019t a deeply online child during the 2010s, you probably have no idea who Dan and Phil are, or why this matters. But to those who formed a robust parasocial bond with the duo \u2013 who have more than 13 million collective subscribers on YouTube \u2013 this was a revelatory moment. It was also a sobering reminder of the emotional damage that toxic fandoms can wreak on their subjects.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the British YouTubers\u2019 latest video, the pair confirm their romantic relationship \u2013 after suffering frenzied speculation for the last 16 years
\nThis week, longtime British YouTubers Dan Howell and Phil Lester uploaded a new video confirming they have been in a secret romantic relationship for the past 16 years.
\nIf you weren\u2019t a deeply online child during the 2010s, you probably have no idea who Dan and Phil are, or why this matters. But to those who formed a robust parasocial bond with the duo \u2013 who have more than 13 million collective subscribers on YouTube \u2013 this was a revelatory moment. It was also a sobering reminder of the emotional damage that toxic fandoms can wreak on their subjects. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the British YouTubers\u2019 latest video, the pair confirm their romantic relationship \u2013 after suffering frenzied speculation for the last 16 years This week, longtime British YouTubers Dan Howell and Phil Lester uploaded a new video confirming they have been in a secret romantic relationship for the past 16 years. If you weren\u2019t a deeply …<\/p>\n

Dan and Phil\u2019s relationship revelation is a reminder of how toxic fandoms can be | Eilish Gilligan<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}