Dan has basically given up on YouTube from my perspective, which was a shame because I enjoyed his content when he wasn’t going too “existential crisis Dan”. I liked Phil, but always hated his content, it was too immature for his age. I felt as time went on Dan and Phil both went too far into their characters of Dan and Phil and everything seemed a bit forced, but because they avoided scandal nobody really called them out for it. DAPG was just terrible games mostly, which was disappointing, they kept pandering to the young ‘Phandom’ rather than maturing themselves.
Phil is definitely on a money grab right now, with YT Membership, AD deals, Q&A’s giving nothing interesting but forcing Phil into his brand character rather than actual real life Phil. And the content is terrible. Dan just needs to admit to having quit YouTube, that April Fools tweets was disrespectful to his viewers and it really pissed me off.
They both have the problem of having their Dan and Phil characters being too different from what they probably are like In real life.