Popular YouTuber Dan Howell has set social media alight with his latest Twitter picture which has left fans shocked.
Dan Howell found internet fame in the early 2010s as part of a popular YouTuber duo with Phil Lester. In 2019, Howell came out as gay, but his relationship with Lesster remains ambiguous.
His latest Twitter post has set fans talking after posing in a rather surprising outfit.
Dan Howell’s latest X post has sparked attention
Posting to X yesterday, November 27, Dan Howell promoted his merchandise online with a unique method.
Howell posed with a grey jumper from The Dan and Phil Shop, printed with an illustration of Dan and Phil. In this particular jumper, however, Dan and Phil were illustrated as ‘catboys’ with the text ‘Legalise Catboys’.
With the jumper, Howell paired…not much. The YouTuber seemingly wore no pants with the jumper, along with a cat choker.
The jumper is sold through the YouTuber duo’s merch store and costs $33. The artwork is by digital artist Usagi.
In less than one day, Dan Howell’s X post has gained over 5 million impressions and 8,000 quote retweets.
The meaning of catboys
Catboys and catgirls are popular in Japanese fiction and fandoms and feature humans with cat features or accessories, like ears and tails. Often, the catboy will se seen wearing a maid outfit with knee-high stockings. In online fandoms, celebrities and characters are often depicted as catboyws in fanart, editing their favorite celebrity with ears and tails along with the infamous maid outfit.
Although catboys aren’t always innately sexual they often can be sexualized and portrayed in a kink-like fashion. “Often depicted wearing a maid outfit and knee-high stockings, the catboy is sexualized and submissive, gender non-conforming and comforting” reports Dazed Magazine.
“The presence of catboys in the online canon is nothing new. With roots in anime culture, they’ve been a fixture on 4chan and messaging boards since the early days of the internet.
Reactions to Dan Howell’s X photo
Fans of the YouTuber were shocked to see Dan Howell’s latest Twitter post and the merch, after being surprised by what they saw. Many took to their own accounts to share memes in response.
“Daniel, my mother follows you????” joked one user.
“If you told me Dan Howell was going to be posting about catboys back in 2015, I would not have believed you,” added another.
One user joked that they’d accidentally opened the photo on their screen in public. “Oh my god, not me accidentally opening Dan Howell catboy picture at work,” they wrote.
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