{"id":2419,"date":"2025-10-14T23:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:08:40","slug":"dan-and-phil-turned-a-16-year-relationship-reveal-into-a-lesson-on-parasocial-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/dan-and-phil-turned-a-16-year-relationship-reveal-into-a-lesson-on-parasocial-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan and Phil turned a 16-year relationship reveal into a lesson on parasocial boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dan-and-phil-turned-a-16-year-relationship-reveal-into-a-les_3uuh.640.png\">In the YouTubers&#x27; own words: &#8220;Dan and Phil are here to serve PHUNT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Howell and Phil Lester \u2014 mega stars of a mid-2000s cohort of British <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/youtube\">YouTubers<\/a><\/u> that blazed the trail for what we now know as the creator economy \u2014 are in love. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, those of the terminally online ilk, it&#8217;s true. No, people who had been half paying attention \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the YouTubers&#x27; own words: &#8220;Dan and Phil are here to serve PHUNT.&#8221; Dan Howell and Phil Lester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}