The fact that Dan actually used the Gossip Girl website and persona as a means to foster his relationship with Serena is very similar to how Joe stalks and studies Beck and Love in the hopes that they will fall in love with him.
Im convinced that the clip of Dan at 1:16 where he's narrating his whole plan inspired the show YOU. Like its also so similar to the way scenes from YOU are. And the way Pen narrates it like omg he has such an ability to come off so creepy it's crazy. Must've really made netflix wanna cast him
Penn/Dan actually said in an interview once that he see's Joe as a dark version of Dan in Gossip girl, and that he always found dan in gossip girl to be little sociopathic swell. So you're spot on!!! I can't remember what interview it was, but there ya go!
He sure targeted the woman he loved way to much. Cause Serena was the one he wrote about the most. Makes you realize how creepy Dan is he was pretty much stalking his girlfriend before and after they were dating and after they broke up
Jackie Mcelveen no, it wasn’t just about Serena, we just heard a lot about her because the whole show was ABOUT her and her friends and family so you can’t just include random gossip girl posts about other people in the show, that would be weird. If you watch the show, you can see and hear sometimes them mentioning other people on gossip girl.
annikay because they were all using gossip girl to hurt each other. Dan didn't work alone, he was largely helped by anyone else who was sending him gossips
softwlw The gossip was all given to Dan by a source , so even if gossip girl didn’t exist , the info would’ve still come to light. So it’s hard to be mad because in a sense he was just the messenger
It's just like Nate said, everyone is exactly where they wanted to be. Why would they be mad? If you're saying they should be mad at Dan, then I would say what did Dan do that was so much worse than anyone else in that group? He wouldn't have had material if they weren't trying to hurt each other at every turn.
@@SomethindrksideEVERYTHING is wrong with him. 1: He spread rumours about his sister's sex life(who does that?), 2: He told the world about Serena's pregnancy tests(does he want to ruin his relationship?), 3: He told world his sister is a drug dealer, 4: He told the world, Serena, is a drug addict, 5: He told everyone that him and Serena share a sibling. Overall he is creepy as hell, and I can't believe everyone just lets it slide after he spread rumours about his closest friends, that is unforgivable. Talk about a SOCIOPATH.
@@Strawberry-mv8hu everything about his sister was explained and Chuck is way more creepy and did way worse in just the first episode. He was just posting what he was sent. Morally bankrupt, sure, but so is everyone else in that group. Chuck sold blair out for a hotel and sexually assaulted two girls in just one episode (which was almost never brought up again). Serena slept with Blair's boyfriend and leaked Blair's diaries to gossip girl. Blair was constantly cooking up plots to hurt whoever got in her way and Nate slept with his girlfriend's bestfriend (and was pretty unapologetic about it). But they all still forgave each other.
I think the biggest clue was right in s1 episode 1. Who the HELL is going to write about "Lonely Boy" other than Lonely Boy? Nobody questions it but come on, lots of guys probably take a glance and stare at Serena. Why would anyone notice Dan of all people except for Dan himself? =P
Megan Bento Exactly my point!! I always had the hinge it was him since Season 1, Episode 1! I was too curious to find out who Gossip Girl is, amidst watching the finale of Season 2. Turns out I’m right XD
singingkid14 and I don’t think they even planned who gossip girl was from the start so it’s more of your predictions BECOMING true and not KNOWING that it was Dan.
felly it totally makes sense dan was gossip girl, he was a Lonley boy with no friends. I’m sure he would love to hear the gossip about everything and being lonely I guess he made gossip girl
I love the 4th wall breaking in Kristin Bell and Rachel Bilson's scene! They literally call each other "Bell" and "Rachel", Kristin is the actual voice of GG, and Rachel finished playing Summer on the OC in 2007 ("you can't pull off high school anymore"). They joke about how the books are really good and built-in movie audience lol. And the wink, so adorable. Literally the only good thing about the reveal.
I find it funny that Penn Badgley plays both Dan in Gossip Girl and Joe in You and are two different characters in two different shows in two different universes but they both somehow seem connected. 1: Dan mentions Fitzgerald in this scene, something Joe also mentions 2: Dan mentions about reading books, Joe is book obsessed and works at a book shop 3: Dan’s narration sounds exactly like how Joe narrates his plans 4: Dan talks about the rich and elite and how they’re all powerful, something Joe also talks about in Season 2 of You with the Quinn’s 5: Dan said he used the Gossip Girl website for his own use with his relationship with Serena, Joe also uses the internet to search and stalk the women he becomes obsessed with It seems like they are somehow connected universes and that they were both planned together in some way although that’s not true. It’s just funny that this predates You but has the same, or need I say, exact tone of You.
Also, both have a bit of a fucked up relationship with the mother. And no matter where Joe is-NYC, LA, London-he somehow always finds himself among the elite despite being an outsider. The similarities are so many that I keep myself wondering if the writer of You (the books) wasn't a huge fan of Gossip Girl and Dan. The main source of inspiration might have come from there. And the fact that they both got to be played by the same actor, and both with a narration just makes it more surprising.
So if Dan is Gossip Girl, many storylines suddenly make no sense. For instance: how on earth did he manage to do the sibling reveal at Blair's brunch for Chuck in S2? The minions sent the hit to GG while Dan was already at the party, and he had no internet access because Nelly had stolen his phone. He just had his dad's old cell, which wasn't modern enough to put out a blog post. Yet while he was there, GG put out the hit. Oh well. One of many instances you have to forget if you want this ending to make sense, I suppose...
Yes, the whole thing was a terrible idea...and made less sense how idiotically opinionated he always was with his sister. God. I hate Dan Humphrey (and Rufus and his stupid waffles)
***** Hmm, could be, but GG never automatically posted everything. Sometimes she blocked certain entries or people. And in the later seasons, Nate's journalist cougar hacked into the GG account, and there were tons of infos that did not get posted. GG was selective that way.
Dorota why would she care posting about bunch of high schoolers with no skills to handle gg like she was literally illiterate to be even considered as gg while same goes to Eric why would he be interested in post about bunch of older guys with no motive or gain from blasting them also he was too young to create a gg website in the first place
Everyone hates on dan being gossip girl but I truly love it. He wasn’t evil or a villain. He was on the outside trying to get in. He was being a writer showing people how money and wealth can affect people and the plastic of people. And then he even admits he fell into the trap of the upper east side but in the end identifies with himself and himself only. He’s a remarkable character idc.
I agree! Him being Gossip Girl makes a lot of sense. Dan always wanted to fit in but unfortunately you can’t fit in unless you are born filthy rich and in the upper class. Every human would have wanted to live and be like those Upper East siders EVERYONE. Dan is just like us. Once you experience and are in this world there is no turning back. You want more, you want to be in it like them. I think Dan is a phenomenal character with much depth and he is very relatable.
LivingForTheJoker999 sorry for the late reply (I literally just got done binge watching the show for the first time), I honestly thought GG was Eric lol. He was the only one besides Jenny who hadn't been in the show for 2 seasons. And he barely had any gossip about him. It seemed weird that he was MIA until the very last episode.
This just show that Serena didn’t deserved Dan, she deserves Nate a lot, im so pissed on this, Season 1 is better when Dan is good and when Nate and Serena get back together is the best ever
If Dan being gossip girl doesn’t totally make sense here’s why: It wasn’t originally supposed to be dan it was supposed to be Eric. However, people were already suspecting it was Eric in the early seasons and putting out articles so that idea had to be scrapped. They were going to go with Nate afterwards because by that point he never sent a tip to gossip girl. But then somehow they changed their minds to Dan. Dan wasn’t the original plan at all, an article they saw took Eric out of the running. The writers/producers said that once they couldn’t use Eric anymore no one else really would have made complete sense. They thought about using a random side character but preferred it being someone from the main cast. Since the actor who played eric left they probably would have had to change it anyways. No matter who they chose from the main cast would have some kind of plot hole and they knew that. Also no one in the cast knew who gossip girl was until the scene was filmed. Pen said he was told right before delivering the line and he was shocked. He said it made sense why it had to be dan at that point but that it didn’t make sense because Dan also sent tips.
I always thought it would be jenny because she was so interested in the upper east side drama and wanted to fit in. And when she left constance gg became less relevant as she was not into the drama anymore. My first choice was her and second was dan. He was the obvious choice in the end.
I thought so, because I remember a specific scene, the one where Gossip Girl posts that Nate and Jenny kissed, and Dan seems shocked and tries to hide the post from Rufus. Dan actually seemed surprised that Nate kissed Jenny, and seemed to have no knowledge about it before that scene. That’s just one example out of many plot holes. But I like the idea of it being Dan more than Nate or Eric, because why would Eric do it. He’s got nothing to prove, and to me he seems to have no interest in that world (then again, it could’ve been out of boredom, the thrill of no one knowing that it was him) But Dan has a better reason, he was an outsider trying to fit in, and he decided to do that, he had to place himself into the game. (Sorry for the long comment 😬)
I honestly prefer the fake twist in S5 where we thought it’s Georgina all along. Yes, it would have been too obvious since Georgina is already one of the main antagonists but it was more logical. Heck, I even think that they could have actually keep Kristen Bell as the true Gossip Girl.
The Upper East Side was like something from Fitzgerald or Thackeray. Teenagers acting like adults, adults acting like teenagers: guarding secrets, spreading gossip, all with the trappings of truly opulent wealth. And membership in this community was so elite you couldn't even buy your way in. It was a birth right. A birth right I didn't have, and my greatest achievements would never earn me. All I had to compare to this world was what I'd read in books. But that gave me the idea. If I wasn't born into this world, maybe I could write myself into it. I'd overheard enough conversations to be able to mimic the language of the Constance girls. But every writer needs his muse, and it wasn't until that photo of Serena in the white dress that I knew I had something strong enough to actually create a legend and launch a website. Within weeks I was getting dozens of emails with stories about Upper East Siders, so I posted them anonymously. And then I got more. Before long, it was a monster. Everyone was sending in tips. And when Serena came back from boarding school, I wrote my first post abut me: Lonely Boy. The outsider, the underdog. I might have been a joke, but at least people were talking about me. -Dan Humphrey
Id love for YOU season finale to be that he’s done with the stalking but then sees Blake Lively and goes “hello you”… id be so happy w that ending lmao.
naahh i disagree.. what about the pregnancy scare, what about the picture of him and his teacher that serena sent GG.. you think he wanted her to get dismissed? and what about season 5 when blairs diary pages are posted and dan walks down a street ALONE, reading the post and stopping with that shocked glance..? i agree that there are too many loopholes.
mi11pi06 Dan as gg is weird but still the best choice. Serena sent GG the pic and to not make himself suspicious he had to post it and also he was talked about which was his goal anyways. Also the diary posts maybe he was shocked at the text message someone sent him before he posted it as gg
@@VonLanzeloth no. There are a lot of scenes of him ALONE reacting to GG post. What, he was acting for himself? Even the actors have said this. Look it up.
For some reasons, i like that dan is gg. In in season 1 when gg released the labels, it said Dan was labeled the ultimate insider. And that was true because he knew every hit of gossip the student cook up
Dan and joe are very similar. Like Dan being gg makes him very stalkerish and creepy. And the way he lusted over Serena in a white dress and then became so obsessed he started an entire website just to be part of her life. Sound like something Joe Goldberg would do
I honestly thought GG was Eric lol. He was the only one besides Jenny who hadn't been in the show for 2 seasons. And he barely had any gossip about him. It seemed weird that he was MIA until the very last episode. Book author Dan storyline kind of made me assume he was GG in later seasons though
I honestly think that Dan being GG made no sense. Because I mean when I first started watching it, I didn't know he was then my friend accidentally spoiled it to me. Then after some time I stopped watching somewhere in S05 bc man it gets so effing boring there. But I have rewatched the show a couple dozen times from the beginning keeping in mind Dan is GG and so much of it made no sense at all, even if I consider Jenny also posted still, they could have at least try to solve the loopholes from the beginning, or did they just randomly decide since the show is ending and we have to reveal GG let's make Danny boy, it
Still a better reveal than Uber A in Pretty Little Liars. I mean at least it's a person that existed from season 1 on and not like suddenly appearing in the last season lmao
i mean true the thing i'm upset with here is that the suppose gang of friends just decides to still be his friend/mutual afterwords and doesn't just get mad and angry they did all this shit to them. like the reaction was like ''oh em geeh i can't believe i didn't notice zyx'' ''clever that you where GG son can't believe you pulled it off'' like i was expecting more of an uproar 🙄
I honestly prefer the fake twist in S5 where we thought it’s Georgina all along. Yes, it would have been too obvious since Georgina is already one of the main antagonists but it was more logical. Heck, I even think that they could have actually keep Kristen Bell as the true Gossip Girl.
Blair- Queen of schemes. Serena- Queen of style. Chuck- King of bad boys. Nate- King of good boys. Dan- King of writers. Jenny- Queen of being hated by fans.
The girl at 00:35 sounds exactly like gossip girl and winks at the camera when she says who's gossip girl. And at the end of this episode the same girl talks about gossip girl not being over. I don't really believe that Dan is really gossip girl. I think I'm alone with that theory.
Also, Gossip Girl isn't over because there will be gossip EVERYWHERE ANYTIME. So it will just take one person to take up Dan's legacy and continue it... Nobody will really believe Dan did it anyway, just the people near him. ^^U And with that in mind... anyone can be gossip girl.
As someone who got “spoiled” to this having just finished season 1. Nah I’m new and fresh faced but my immediate thought was how the writers didn’t plan this reveal at the start. In episode 1 they straight said gossip girl was already a thing and an institution because the girls asked if Jenny was on there. Dan here says he didn’t create the website until after ep1. Also the first time that they even show a sign of dan being involved is when “gossip girl” putted Jenny’s boyfriend as gay. But to be fair gossip girl being the omniscient narrator of the show and also the limited blogger makes no sense. Like does she know all of what
@@letswatchyoutube2642he didn’t say he created gg until episode 1 he simply said the first time he posted on gg about himself was when serena came back from boarding school and gg website was created when they were all in 9th grade by that time Dan already saw serena at that 9th grade bday party and got the motive to win serena since then which lead to creating gg website
I like this scene, i understand his reasons it makes sense ...except for all the times he basically humiliated his future wife who even thinks this to be a love letter to her...you've got to be fucking kidding me!
I’ve never watched the full show but throughout season one I could’ve sworn to god it would be Jenny, the younger girl that had an itching to be part of the older popular crowd seemed easy to figure, maybe that’s why they didn’t use her 😂
I always thought that when the reveal was going to happen,everyone was going to be mad at Dan(I knew already because I got spoiled) and when I saw everyone be like "omg you are GG?That's so cool" except Blair I was shocked.Dude literally treated his friends like trash in order to make an entire city talk about him
He literally helped each of them at the end and also throughout the show there is no point in being mad at him also Blair still in denial that he has more power than her all the time pissed her
My theory to why Dan acts surprised when a gossip girl post is sent is that he does that to practice his surprise place if he ever were to post in public and he had to act shocked. There is a lot of plot holes to this reveal, but that’s just my theory. i wanted nelly yuki or Eric to be gossip girl
I think this started when Dan saw how his dad lost women he loved (her mom and Lily) because he wasn't enough for them and money was a problem in their relationships. He thought that Serena would end up doing the same, when she is older shoe wouldn't respect Dan and just leave him for other man of her world... So Dan decided to make fortune and a name for himself.
LMBO Dan makes perfect sense for Gossip Girl. He fits. But it seems that for convenience sake they dropped him as GG for certain episodes which thus leaves loopholes. They should have just never unveiled who GG was.
Worst part everyone is surprised and Blair said “He ruined our lives” when they all were sending in tips to destroy each other and build each other too. Dan just reported what they all said and felt
“The Upper East Side is like something from Fitzgerald or Thackeray, teenagers acting like adults, adults acting like teenagers.” Could not explain the NYC like style better.
I always like his voice especially in YOU where he gets to say several inner monologue in sassy voice some dialogues creating such a humor was point on
I've never seen an episode of Gossip Girl, so I just assumed this was a voiceover from You just placed over a scene from Gossip Girl until I realized the audio wasn't from You.
I love how this sounds exactly like a scene from YOU.
Other way around dude, this came before You
@@kezziahvalentino2450 That's why it's funny...
Right I was just gonna comment about it
RIGHTTTT
Absolutely 😱 New York or something...
It's just YOU but over 10 years difference...
O W nope fuck off
omg you’re right
you're not wrong
aha im dead
Well, in YOU, he is a psychopath.
The fact that Dan actually used the Gossip Girl website and persona as a means to foster his relationship with Serena is very similar to how Joe stalks and studies Beck and Love in the hopes that they will fall in love with him.
Im convinced that the clip of Dan at 1:16 where he's narrating his whole plan inspired the show YOU. Like its also so similar to the way scenes from YOU are. And the way Pen narrates it like omg he has such an ability to come off so creepy it's crazy. Must've really made netflix wanna cast him
@@avanolan9758 Lifetime…Netflix bought the show after season 1
@@avanolan9758 The show You is inspired by a novel.
@@lagaleriedesmots3177 lol plot twist: Dan Humphrey was Joe Goldberg all along.
Penn/Dan actually said in an interview once that he see's Joe as a dark version of Dan in Gossip girl, and that he always found dan in gossip girl to be little sociopathic swell. So you're spot on!!! I can't remember what interview it was, but there ya go!
This decision to make Dan Gossip Girl makes sense if you don’t plan on rewatching the show or forgot about all the times Dan reacted to GG blasts.
Literally😂
I’m just ignoring it and believing they added it at the last moment so it isn’t really valid
I just started gossip girl and i already know it😭its going ti be fun lol
It actually makes sense him reacting on the blasts. I mean he didn’t want to make it obvious it was him…
@@Random___________ they mean all the scenes when he was reacting to the blasts when he was all alone when there was no reason for him to pretend.
He sure targeted the woman he loved way to much. Cause Serena was the one he wrote about the most. Makes you realize how creepy Dan is he was pretty much stalking his girlfriend before and after they were dating and after they broke up
Hell yeah watch YOU. It's amazing and worth
Bella Strawberry same actor too haha
Its practice for his new current series called You where he is basically a stalker XD
Jackie Mcelveen dan was definitely a creep
Jackie Mcelveen no, it wasn’t just about Serena, we just heard a lot about her because the whole show was ABOUT her and her friends and family so you can’t just include random gossip girl posts about other people in the show, that would be weird. If you watch the show, you can see and hear sometimes them mentioning other people on gossip girl.
i don't understand how no one besides blair was mad at him for at least a minute?! wtf
annikay because they were all using gossip girl to hurt each other. Dan didn't work alone, he was largely helped by anyone else who was sending him gossips
Sara Autumn Yeah because if you think about it Gossip Girl was only as powerful as those who used it
Sara Autumn ok so?
softwlw so that is why they were not that mad at him only Blair because he was more powerful that her🤷🏻♂️
softwlw The gossip was all given to Dan by a source , so even if gossip girl didn’t exist , the info would’ve still come to light. So it’s hard to be mad because in a sense he was just the messenger
why is everyone in the show so cool with this?
it's funny because someone in real life tried to do it and everyone complained and it got taken down
It's just like Nate said, everyone is exactly where they wanted to be. Why would they be mad? If you're saying they should be mad at Dan, then I would say what did Dan do that was so much worse than anyone else in that group? He wouldn't have had material if they weren't trying to hurt each other at every turn.
@@SomethindrksideEVERYTHING is wrong with him. 1: He spread rumours about his sister's sex life(who does that?), 2: He told the world about Serena's pregnancy tests(does he want to ruin his relationship?), 3: He told world his sister is a drug dealer, 4: He told the world, Serena, is a drug addict, 5: He told everyone that him and Serena share a sibling. Overall he is creepy as hell, and I can't believe everyone just lets it slide after he spread rumours about his closest friends, that is unforgivable. Talk about a SOCIOPATH.
@@Strawberry-mv8hu everything about his sister was explained and Chuck is way more creepy and did way worse in just the first episode. He was just posting what he was sent. Morally bankrupt, sure, but so is everyone else in that group. Chuck sold blair out for a hotel and sexually assaulted two girls in just one episode (which was almost never brought up again). Serena slept with Blair's boyfriend and leaked Blair's diaries to gossip girl. Blair was constantly cooking up plots to hurt whoever got in her way and Nate slept with his girlfriend's bestfriend (and was pretty unapologetic about it). But they all still forgave each other.
@@Somethindrkside Well that is true, but how the hell are they okay with this😂
"you're the only one who owns a hoodie"
that is literally the best line in this whole episode hahahahahaha
She andd Blair had the best comebacks. Michelle Trachenberg is brilliant.
I dont get it
Just like Joe Goldberg its creepy how Dan and Joe are similar
I think the biggest clue was right in s1 episode 1. Who the HELL is going to write about "Lonely Boy" other than Lonely Boy? Nobody questions it but come on, lots of guys probably take a glance and stare at Serena. Why would anyone notice Dan of all people except for Dan himself? =P
Megan Bento Exactly my point!! I always had the hinge it was him since Season 1, Episode 1! I was too curious to find out who Gossip Girl is, amidst watching the finale of Season 2. Turns out I’m right XD
i agree the biggest hints were exactly in episode 1 and 2 when he was actually a lonely boy and the quiet kid after a few episodes he fit right in
They already revealed who Gossip girl is in the first episode of season1 not even 15minutes later
THIS!!
remember he was dating serena and she was the most popular girl
if Dan is really GG. Then he is a real sicko.
True lmao
Not really he would not of had anything if no one was posting besides the others did way worse things
Gumball Watterson he outed his sister sex life
@@houseofmatrix6174 if you keep watching the scene he tells his dad that was his sisters choice to upload that information, that way she could leave
He is
This guy looks like Joe Goldberg
It is 😂😂😂
He looks more like Will Bettelheim
Charly & Ruby r/whooooooshhhh
Hahahahhaa
i wonder why 🙃
I knew that Dan was Gossip Girl from season one because he was sitting at his laptop writing as the voice was speaking :)
singingkid14 yeah, but there are probably a lot of examples like that, and there are too many plot holes to have assumed for me.
singingkid14 and I don’t think they even planned who gossip girl was from the start so it’s more of your predictions BECOMING true and not KNOWING that it was Dan.
They apparantly planned that Eric was Gossip Girl, but people caught up on the clues so they changed it🤷♀️
he isn't gossip girl.. google it.
@@kyliewhitman5575 yes he is.
no wonder they chose him to play joe in "you"
maybe the real Gossip Girl payed Dan to lie everyone that he's GG or something.
MyLifeAsLouis nope it's him and I'm honeslty sooo happy it's him
gossip girl being dan makes no sense it should have been eric or dorota lol
IcyFelly nah... but every one has their own opinions i guess.
felly it totally makes sense dan was gossip girl, he was a Lonley boy with no friends. I’m sure he would love to hear the gossip about everything and being lonely I guess he made gossip girl
Bell is the voice of gossip girl bit dan was the one writing all the stories
I'm on season 2 everything is spoiled 😭😂
Well then why watch a video entitled 'Gossip Girl is revealed'?
Omg same!😂
same !!
Same but im on season 3
then why r y here, lmao
omg I was honestly so shocked seeing the official girl saying " hey upper east siders"
She also voices 'Anna' in Frozen.
natalie noel and is Eleanor in the good place
And just in general Kristin bell she’s a god
kristen bell is so good
Kristen bell is her name.
The fact that Rachel who wasn’t even part of the show got more lines than Vanessa on the final episode has me weak. 💀
I love the 4th wall breaking in Kristin Bell and Rachel Bilson's scene! They literally call each other "Bell" and "Rachel", Kristin is the actual voice of GG, and Rachel finished playing Summer on the OC in 2007 ("you can't pull off high school anymore"). They joke about how the books are really good and built-in movie audience lol. And the wink, so adorable. Literally the only good thing about the reveal.
I find it funny that Penn Badgley plays both Dan in Gossip Girl and Joe in You and are two different characters in two different shows in two different universes but they both somehow seem connected.
1: Dan mentions Fitzgerald in this scene, something Joe also mentions
2: Dan mentions about reading books, Joe is book obsessed and works at a book shop
3: Dan’s narration sounds exactly like how Joe narrates his plans
4: Dan talks about the rich and elite and how they’re all powerful, something Joe also talks about in Season 2 of You with the Quinn’s
5: Dan said he used the Gossip Girl website for his own use with his relationship with Serena, Joe also uses the internet to search and stalk the women he becomes obsessed with
It seems like they are somehow connected universes and that they were both planned together in some way although that’s not true. It’s just funny that this predates You but has the same, or need I say, exact tone of You.
Also, both have a bit of a fucked up relationship with the mother.
And no matter where Joe is-NYC, LA, London-he somehow always finds himself among the elite despite being an outsider.
The similarities are so many that I keep myself wondering if the writer of You (the books) wasn't a huge fan of Gossip Girl and Dan. The main source of inspiration might have come from there. And the fact that they both got to be played by the same actor, and both with a narration just makes it more surprising.
So if Dan is Gossip Girl, many storylines suddenly make no sense. For instance: how on earth did he manage to do the sibling reveal at Blair's brunch for Chuck in S2? The minions sent the hit to GG while Dan was already at the party, and he had no internet access because Nelly had stolen his phone. He just had his dad's old cell, which wasn't modern enough to put out a blog post. Yet while he was there, GG put out the hit. Oh well. One of many instances you have to forget if you want this ending to make sense, I suppose...
Yes, the whole thing was a terrible idea...and made less sense how idiotically opinionated he always was with his sister. God. I hate Dan Humphrey (and Rufus and his stupid waffles)
That was just one of MANY examples of how that does not make sense.
*****
Hmm, could be, but GG never automatically posted everything. Sometimes she blocked certain entries or people. And in the later seasons, Nate's journalist cougar hacked into the GG account, and there were tons of infos that did not get posted. GG was selective that way.
uclmu2008 Maybe he allowed selective people to get their entries posted without approval?
+uclmu2008 he got help of diana jenny and gorgina and serena but serena didnt know she just wanted to find out who gossip girl was
Dan played it smart by sometimes even exposing himself throughout the seasons so that no one suspects anything
Why did Dan act surprised by some gossip girl blasts even when he was alone. And what about the time he texted gossip girl
@@arnavshah122 cause everyone was always posting on it it wasn’t just Dan even though he created it
@@arnavshah122because he wasn't the original choice of gossip girl
Dorota had to be GG :(
It would've been to unsurprising
it was supposed to be eric
@@aletab3051he was the best choice
I thought it was Georgina. And she was for a while. But not the real one.
Dorota why would she care posting about bunch of high schoolers with no skills to handle gg like she was literally illiterate to be even considered as gg while same goes to Eric why would he be interested in post about bunch of older guys with no motive or gain from blasting them also he was too young to create a gg website in the first place
Everyone hates on dan being gossip girl but I truly love it. He wasn’t evil or a villain. He was on the outside trying to get in. He was being a writer showing people how money and wealth can affect people and the plastic of people. And then he even admits he fell into the trap of the upper east side but in the end identifies with himself and himself only. He’s a remarkable character idc.
this makes him a psychopath
I agree
I agree! Him being Gossip Girl makes a lot of sense. Dan always wanted to fit in but unfortunately you can’t fit in unless you are born filthy rich and in the upper class. Every human would have wanted to live and be like those Upper East siders EVERYONE. Dan is just like us. Once you experience and are in this world there is no turning back. You want more, you want to be in it like them. I think Dan is a phenomenal character with much depth and he is very relatable.
By exploiting his own family?
AGREE
So I take it that I wasn't the only one who was shocked and disagreed with the choice of the reveal?
LivingForTheJoker999 sorry for the late reply (I literally just got done binge watching the show for the first time), I honestly thought GG was Eric lol. He was the only one besides Jenny who hadn't been in the show for 2 seasons. And he barely had any gossip about him. It seemed weird that he was MIA until the very last episode.
Frostbite Gaming he left GG to go on another show. I was sad to see him go without a major storyline for him but thats show business
LivingForTheJoker999 it would have been a plot twist if it was like all the kids right
I did dislike that dan was GG sorry all da fans, I literally started crying of anger😭😂
It’s because they never planned it to be like this. They decided at the last minute.
This just show that Serena didn’t deserved Dan, she deserves Nate a lot, im so pissed on this, Season 1 is better when Dan is good and when Nate and Serena get back together is the best ever
AdelVice Bautista no
Finally someone who agrees with me Serena and Nate should have ended together
Jessica Reaza Serena was a bitch
Dan was never good
noo nate was blar boyfriend
the only thing missing was that we didn't hear the iconic line "xoxo Gossip Girl" in Penn Badgley's voice.
Who’s here after You....
If Dan being gossip girl doesn’t totally make sense here’s why:
It wasn’t originally supposed to be dan it was supposed to be Eric. However, people were already suspecting it was Eric in the early seasons and putting out articles so that idea had to be scrapped. They were going to go with Nate afterwards because by that point he never sent a tip to gossip girl. But then somehow they changed their minds to Dan. Dan wasn’t the original plan at all, an article they saw took Eric out of the running. The writers/producers said that once they couldn’t use Eric anymore no one else really would have made complete sense. They thought about using a random side character but preferred it being someone from the main cast. Since the actor who played eric left they probably would have had to change it anyways. No matter who they chose from the main cast would have some kind of plot hole and they knew that.
Also no one in the cast knew who gossip girl was until the scene was filmed. Pen said he was told right before delivering the line and he was shocked. He said it made sense why it had to be dan at that point but that it didn’t make sense because Dan also sent tips.
I always thought it would be jenny because she was so interested in the upper east side drama and wanted to fit in. And when she left constance gg became less relevant as she was not into the drama anymore. My first choice was her and second was dan. He was the obvious choice in the end.
I thought so, because I remember a specific scene, the one where Gossip Girl posts that Nate and Jenny kissed, and Dan seems shocked and tries to hide the post from Rufus.
Dan actually seemed surprised that Nate kissed Jenny, and seemed to have no knowledge about it before that scene.
That’s just one example out of many plot holes. But I like the idea of it being Dan more than Nate or Eric, because why would Eric do it. He’s got nothing to prove, and to me he seems to have no interest in that world (then again, it could’ve been out of boredom, the thrill of no one knowing that it was him)
But Dan has a better reason, he was an outsider trying to fit in, and he decided to do that, he had to place himself into the game.
(Sorry for the long comment 😬)
@@batsy2214是的，如果是Dan感觉更够drama，
I honestly prefer the fake twist in S5 where we thought it’s Georgina all along. Yes, it would have been too obvious since Georgina is already one of the main antagonists but it was more logical.
Heck, I even think that they could have actually keep Kristen Bell as the true Gossip Girl.
if Dan was really gossip girl he would have known who Georgina was when she arrived in season 1
I just thought about that and now I’m RAGING
I don’t understand that one
Probably acted clueless to show that he wasn't familiar with Serena's world and their culture and people.
Yeah lol all the cast said that the ending didn’t make sense but they just wanted the show to end because they didn’t like being a part of it.
knew he had to act like he knew nothing about her? Was curious to see where it would go? Was curious to see how many of the stories were real?
The Upper East Side was like something from Fitzgerald or Thackeray. Teenagers acting like adults, adults acting like teenagers: guarding secrets, spreading gossip, all with the trappings of truly opulent wealth. And membership in this community was so elite you couldn't even buy your way in. It was a birth right. A birth right I didn't have, and my greatest achievements would never earn me. All I had to compare to this world was what I'd read in books. But that gave me the idea. If I wasn't born into this world, maybe I could write myself into it. I'd overheard enough conversations to be able to mimic the language of the Constance girls. But every writer needs his muse, and it wasn't until that photo of Serena in the white dress that I knew I had something strong enough to actually create a legend and launch a website. Within weeks I was getting dozens of emails with stories about Upper East Siders, so I posted them anonymously. And then I got more. Before long, it was a monster. Everyone was sending in tips. And when Serena came back from boarding school, I wrote my first post abut me: Lonely Boy. The outsider, the underdog. I might have been a joke, but at least people were talking about me.
-Dan Humphrey
awsome
Amelia Saleta smart
Sounds like something Joe Goldberg would say.
Id love for YOU season finale to be that he’s done with the stalking but then sees Blake Lively and goes “hello you”… id be so happy w that ending lmao.
😂☠️ guess Serena was his target bf Candace
I'm on season two and decided to ruin everything for myself... love it
same
To be honest. I love it. It makes no sense in retrospect, but I love it nonetheless.
MEEE
I'm on season one :(
naahh i disagree.. what about the pregnancy scare, what about the picture of him and his teacher that serena sent GG.. you think he wanted her to get dismissed? and what about season 5 when blairs diary pages are posted and dan walks down a street ALONE, reading the post and stopping with that shocked glance..? i agree that there are too many loopholes.
mi11pi06 Dan as gg is weird but still the best choice. Serena sent GG the pic and to not make himself suspicious he had to post it and also he was talked about which was his goal anyways. Also the diary posts maybe he was shocked at the text message someone sent him before he posted it as gg
@@VonLanzeloth no. There are a lot of scenes of him ALONE reacting to GG post. What, he was acting for himself?
Even the actors have said this. Look it up.
Well one point says Georgina had opened it and then Dan just took it back
This doesn’t make sense, there are many incidents that wouldn’t add up if Dan were gossip girl
Yes. That's what bothers everyone, including the actors.
But the writers don't give a fuck
From the beginning he is the only person that I ever thought was Gossip Girl. I knew I should have went into the P.I. business. Damn.
Dan walked so Joe could run
So this is how Joe came into being
it was Dan? omg...ok it is awesome but still it does not fit...it doesn´t make any sense.
love the bit with Kristen and Rachel
SAME
For some reasons, i like that dan is gg. In in season 1 when gg released the labels, it said Dan was labeled the ultimate insider. And that was true because he knew every hit of gossip the student cook up
this was an amazing scene, I love how they showed all the guest stars from the previous seasons cause everyone had a taste of gossip girl 😂❤❤
The part with Kristen and Rachel had to be my favorite song. Her voice is just . . . the best.
Dan and joe are very similar. Like Dan being gg makes him very stalkerish and creepy. And the way he lusted over Serena in a white dress and then became so obsessed he started an entire website just to be part of her life. Sound like something Joe Goldberg would do
Maybe You is just a creepy spin off of Gossip Girl😂
x Aə archangel Haha lol
Dan just changed his name to Joe and moved away he probably killed Sereena
And in Season 2 he changed his name to Will!
OMG LAUREL AND THEA FROM ARROW ARE IN THIS SCENE ❤️
Pinche Yamilex Not just this scene they had small roles in the show as Juliet and Agnes.
Yamilex De lReal THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO! Black canary and Speedy ❤️
YEEEEES
Laurel in this show had a huge role during season 4 of gossip girl and Thea in this show had a semi small role
I honestly thought GG was Eric lol. He was the only one besides Jenny who hadn't been in the show for 2 seasons. And he barely had any gossip about him. It seemed weird that he was MIA until the very last episode. Book author Dan storyline kind of made me assume he was GG in later seasons though
Apparently Eric was supposed to be GG but it got leaked so they changed it to Dan, I guess that's why there's a bunch of plot holes.
That's right when you don't fit in stand out, dan proved that in a world where you dont belong or fit in, you can create your own reality.
I honestly think that Dan being GG made no sense. Because I mean when I first started watching it, I didn't know he was then my friend accidentally spoiled it to me. Then after some time I stopped watching somewhere in S05 bc man it gets so effing boring there. But I have rewatched the show a couple dozen times from the beginning keeping in mind Dan is GG and so much of it made no sense at all, even if I consider Jenny also posted still, they could have at least try to solve the loopholes from the beginning, or did they just randomly decide since the show is ending and we have to reveal GG let's make Danny boy, it
Eric was originally supposed to be GG...too bad it got leaked...
Sima Roy i completely agree!!!
This scene is one of the best from the series I feel like. I love the meta aspect and the montage reveal.
OMG its like Joe Goldberg's College years
True 😄
Still a better reveal than Uber A in Pretty Little Liars. I mean at least it's a person that existed from season 1 on and not like suddenly appearing in the last season lmao
i mean true the thing i'm upset with here is that the suppose gang of friends just decides to still be his friend/mutual afterwords and doesn't just get mad and angry they did all this shit to them. like the reaction was like ''oh em geeh i can't believe i didn't notice zyx'' ''clever that you where GG son can't believe you pulled it off'' like i was expecting more of an uproar 🙄
@@baymoo he literally helped everyone sitting there why would they be mad?
I honestly prefer the fake twist in S5 where we thought it’s Georgina all along. Yes, it would have been too obvious since Georgina is already one of the main antagonists but it was more logical.
Heck, I even think that they could have actually keep Kristen Bell as the true Gossip Girl.
Blair- Queen of schemes.
Serena- Queen of style.
Chuck- King of bad boys.
Nate- King of good boys.
Dan- King of writers.
Jenny- Queen of being hated by fans.
Honey , Blair is the real style queen she was the most fashionable
@@reginarichter5502 alright love.
@@sadwhitesoxfan17 K sweetie
jenny was the best character imo
This reminds me that part on Season 2 when GG sends a whole bunch of "labels" about some of them.
This made me so angry legit i dont accept this ending...
i think rufus should have been gossip girl lmao
i really hoped that gossip girl was Kristen Bell:(
why is it her voice if it's not her?? i don't understand how dan can be gossip girl
Marie they just used her voice, they couldn’t use Dan’s voice, it would have been oblivious. But i agree Dan being gossip girl made no sense
Actress's who plays Laurel and thea in arrow are in this show wow
The girl at 00:35 sounds exactly like gossip girl and winks at the camera when she says who's gossip girl. And at the end of this episode the same girl talks about gossip girl not being over. I don't really believe that Dan is really gossip girl. I think I'm alone with that theory.
she makes the voice of gossip girl that's why
Julissa Covarrubias
Some Kid she's the voice of gossip girl so that's probably why she winked
Some Kid omfg ofc its kristen bell
Also, Gossip Girl isn't over because there will be gossip EVERYWHERE ANYTIME. So it will just take one person to take up Dan's legacy and continue it... Nobody will really believe Dan did it anyway, just the people near him. ^^U And with that in mind... anyone can be gossip girl.
I honestly feel like the ending was so rushed and it just didn’t really make any sense am I the only one?
As someone who got “spoiled” to this having just finished season 1. Nah I’m new and fresh faced but my immediate thought was how the writers didn’t plan this reveal at the start. In episode 1 they straight said gossip girl was already a thing and an institution because the girls asked if Jenny was on there. Dan here says he didn’t create the website until after ep1. Also the first time that they even show a sign of dan being involved is when “gossip girl” putted Jenny’s boyfriend as gay. But to be fair gossip girl being the omniscient narrator of the show and also the limited blogger makes no sense. Like does she know all of what
@@letswatchyoutube2642he didn’t say he created gg until episode 1 he simply said the first time he posted on gg about himself was when serena came back from boarding school and gg website was created when they were all in 9th grade by that time Dan already saw serena at that 9th grade bday party and got the motive to win serena since then which lead to creating gg website
I like this scene, i understand his reasons it makes sense ...except for all the times he basically humiliated his future wife who even thinks this to be a love letter to her...you've got to be fucking kidding me!
Guys don't look too deep writers themselves said that they weren't sure who was gonna be gossip girl until like the last season
omg I love how Kirsten bell is in this episode! she’s actually the voiceover of gossip girl!
I see why he played “ you” so great 😂😂😂
no wonder he was so good at YOU he’s amazing as a stalker and speaker he’s the best actor
I think the series would have better if Georgina was gossip girl. It would have make more sense.
Yes
It would have been a really interesting plot twist if it wasn't for all the plot holes
There were a lot of moments where it was just impossible for Dan to Be GG
my life is complete now that kristen bell finally appeared in gossip girl
I’ve never watched the full show but throughout season one I could’ve sworn to god it would be Jenny, the younger girl that had an itching to be part of the older popular crowd seemed easy to figure, maybe that’s why they didn’t use her 😂
I knew it was Dan since episode one, I told my friend that recommended me to watch this show and she just ignored me lol! I loved it!
Jesse Maslany sameee
How did you know ?
@@reginarichter5502 Typical person who pretends to not be interested or bothered but deep inside they desire what others have.
i made a joke that Dan is gossip girl because the way she narrates sounds like how Joe from You does but i was not expecting this
I always thought that when the reveal was going to happen,everyone was going to be mad at Dan(I knew already because I got spoiled) and when I saw everyone be like "omg you are GG?That's so cool" except Blair I was shocked.Dude literally treated his friends like trash in order to make an entire city talk about him
You realize everyone contributed to it. If know one wanted to hurt their friend they wouldn't put it on. Also GG was the only thing honest on the show
He literally helped each of them at the end and also throughout the show there is no point in being mad at him also Blair still in denial that he has more power than her all the time pissed her
Dan Humphrey walked so Joe in YOU could run
I knew it was Dan from episode 1 when he was looking at gossip girl and closed the laptop. wasn’t shocking to me at all
My theory to why Dan acts surprised when a gossip girl post is sent is that he does that to practice his surprise place if he ever were to post in public and he had to act shocked. There is a lot of plot holes to this reveal, but that’s just my theory. i wanted nelly yuki or Eric to be gossip girl
why does it literally make sense dans gossip girl HES A WRITER DUH
I think this started when Dan saw how his dad lost women he loved (her mom and Lily) because he wasn't enough for them and money was a problem in their relationships. He thought that Serena would end up doing the same, when she is older shoe wouldn't respect Dan and just leave him for other man of her world... So Dan decided to make fortune and a name for himself.
Rewatching gossip girl knowing Dan is gossip girl make it creepy
Do love the addition of Kristen bell with the wink after saying you won't believe who gossip girl is
well... I didn't see this one coming I thought it was gonna be Jenny!!! but Dan was unexpected!!!
Indeed
Am I the only one who actually likes Dan as Gossip Girl
Same.. I think people are just complaining to complain at this point.
Cats Rule I actually love him as as gossip girl I’d didn’t before but now I do
You're not. I love this ending !!
Well apparently it was actually supposed to be Eric,but it got leaked and they changed it to Dan (at least that’s what other people are saying)
Shallow shadow Fire but he would of known who Georgia was, so it doesn’t make sense-
LMBO Dan makes perfect sense for Gossip Girl. He fits. But it seems that for convenience sake they dropped him as GG for certain episodes which thus leaves loopholes. They should have just never unveiled who GG was.
Worst part everyone is surprised and Blair said “He ruined our lives” when they all were sending in tips to destroy each other and build each other too. Dan just reported what they all said and felt
after watching you (all season until season 4), i can’t rewatch gossip girl thinking penn isn’t playing a stalker/creeper that also murders people.
There are 206 bones in the human body. 207 if i'm watching Gossip girl.
The fact that he sent inappropriate things to serena in the first season makes him being gossip girl even creepier -
I honestly think this was awesome how Dan was actually gossip girl. Plus I saw it coming.
YOU with extra steps.
but seriusly, theres like a million clues if u look back.
I don’t know how people didn’t know it was Dan from the season 2 finale. He was labeled “the ultimate insider” lmao
THE PEAK MADE AN APPEARANCE
No wonder they hire him for "YOU" 😂😂
“The Upper East Side is like something from Fitzgerald or Thackeray, teenagers acting like adults, adults acting like teenagers.” Could not explain the NYC like style better.
Can someone appreciate pen badgleys voice here… ofc he is a gifted actor too
I always like his voice especially in YOU where he gets to say several inner monologue in sassy voice some dialogues creating such a humor was point on
YOU is the sequel to gossip girl lmaoo
Tbh there was a scene in the first episode of season one where Dan was looking at his computer and I called he was GG from then on
He was the only one who made sense
Dan being gossip girl was a terrible idea
I hope pll don't end up like this. It needs to make sense!
I'm going to cry if this happens tbh
ironic
Message from captain hindsight: it was worse than this.
😂 they're still dragging PLL out.
The pll ending was shit, coming from a person who hates gossip girl and loves pll
I've never seen an episode of Gossip Girl, so I just assumed this was a voiceover from You just placed over a scene from Gossip Girl until I realized the audio wasn't from You.