dan and phil vday video – dan and phil vday video twitter

The “Valentine’s Day Video” (also known as “The V-Day Vid” or “The Video That Shall Not Be Named”) is an extremely personal video made by Phil for Dan as a Valentine’s Day present.

Discussing this video is highly discouraged and often met with scorn by the Phandom as most fans believe this to be extremely invasive and rude.

According to Dan,[1] it was originally intended to be an April Fool’s joke video, with Phil expressing his love for Dan and reminiscing their time spent together.

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The video was posted privately on LessAmazingPhil on February 13th, 2010, supposedly with the intention of being unprivated on April Fool’s Day.

On September 17th, 2011, the video was unintentionally unprivated by a YouTube glitch. Phil promptly removed the video, but during the three hours it was online, it garnered several views and at least one person saved it.

Due to the comparatively small size of the Phandom at that time, the video did not spread far.

Phil personally contacted fans who had seen it, claiming that it was originally intended to be a prank video for April Fool’s Day 2010 that was never used, and asked them not to spread it. 

However, on October 31st, 2012, the video resurfaced. The footage was reuploaded and circulated on Tumblr and went viral among the now much-larger Phandom.

Fans who saw the video were unaware of the supposed “joke” context, and it spread rapidly. Dan and Phil took action immediately.

Phil claimed copyright infringement on every reposted copy and had them removed from YouTube, and Dan repeatedly answered asks about the video on his Tumblr, explaining it as a prank that they decided was “too mean” to go through with.