Youtubers Dan and Phil: Why Dan Has More Subscribers

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YouTubers Dan and Phil: Why Dan Has More Subscribers YouTube is the new TV with its own stars like Dan Howell, known on YouTube as “danisnotonfire”, and Phil Lester, known on YouTube as “amazingphil”. Both are extremely popular with subscribers in the millions and even higher view ratings, but there is a big difference between them. Dan has many more followers and has been making videos for a shorter amount of time. Even though Dan and Phil are best friends and appear on each other’s channels often - they even share a flat - they are somewhat in a competition for YouTube subscribers. Currently according to their YouTube channels, Dan has 3.2 million plus subscribers with a total of 183 million plus video views while Phil has a respectable 1.6 million plus subscribers with a total of 103 million plus video views. Clearly something about Dan is making him more successful on YouTube than Phil, especially when one considers that Phil has been on YouTube for much longer than Dan. Dan uses social media differently than Phil and he also makes his videos generalized; this makes fans connect to Dan better and also creates a sense of community for the followers and prompts them to then promote Dan to their friends giving him more success on YouTube. Dan Howell, who is 22 years old, is an awkward guy who fills his videos with stories of his life and his attempts to stumble through it. In a video titled “Envy” Dan states about himself, “I’m about as violent and intimidating as a pink butterfly, that’s got stuck on a marshmallow,” which shows a bit of Dan’s humor that his fans connect to. Dan often makes videos for a series titled “Reasons why Dan’s A Fail” where he discusses what he does that breaks social norms or actions that are seen as an unusual way of handling himself or the issue he faces. Some examples Dan gives are things like piling loose CD’s, being

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