Community Proxies Explained XL — Danglish 101
Danglish 101 By Artist DJ_Knuckles
Welcome to another edition of Community Proxies Explained, where we take a look at community made DangPacks cards. We explore the card art created by the talented artists of The 596, as well as the meaning behind the various references found in their cards.
In this special XL version of the series, we look at the unique series of cards by DJ_Knuckles where each rarity of the card contains new and interesting details for us to dive in to. Each card shows a professor teaching various terms that streamer Dan Gheesling uses. His frequent use of unique phrases and word combinations has spurred his community to dub his vernacular as “Danglish” and this series of cards expand upon that theme.
What is in the Common Variant of the Danglish 101 Card?
In the common version of this card, we see some interesting details. The professor is wearing a red blazer and has a black mug on the desk, a reference to Dan’s famous red shirts and his “even when it’s empty” mug respectively. The professor is teaching the specific phrase that Dan uses when thanking someone where he will say “TY Hilton” or “TY TY Hilton.”
This is a play on the name of former American Football player for the Indianapolis Colts (another Horsin reference) named T.Y. Hilton. As with many of these it is unclear why Dan started saying this but it has become a common phrase among Dan and the community.
The card also makes reference to the phrase DAE which Dan uses to highlight when something is overly complicated and the word (KKona) which is reference to a twitch emote denoting that something is “American.”
This also references the recent “horsin” Danglish term, a recent entry into the Danglish Dictionary, which refers to when Dan gets distracted and off task in games from his main objective and is just “horsin around.” The next Proxy series article will dive deeper into this theme so keep an eye out for future releases!
What is in the Uncommon Variant of the Danglish 101 Card?
The uncommon variant of this card features the dynamics of Twitch’s prediction feature in which viewers can wager channel points throughout the stream on various “prop bets” created by the moderators of the channel. Channel points, specifically known as DangCoins in Dan’s community, are virtual currency earned from simply watching the stream, subscribing, donating bits, and gifting subscriptions. In Dan’s channel, these points can be redeemed for various bonuses like unlocking emotes, highlighting messages, or even redeeming DangPacks for the luckiest bettors.
This card shows the “doubter economy,” which represents the base of viewers who constantly bet against Dan completing specific goals and victories as well as the “believer economy,” which represents the bettors who will wager their DangCoins hoping for Dan to complete whatever challenge he is up against.
Thanks to the extremely difficult challenges Dan sets for himself, known in Danglish as “Suffercore,” the odds are typically pretty high that Dan will fail at his goal on any particular event. This results in a small payout for “doubters” in the case of a correct wager. On the contrary, this also leads to some particularly high payouts for those who can correctly predict when Dan will complete the challenge.
Other small details include the critical point for each graph is labeled as “the run” and the label on the Believer Economy graph is “sedl hodl,” another common phrase in Danglish.
It is important to note that the end of each graph nobody comes out ahead.
What is in the Rare Variant of the Danglish 101 Card?
The rare variant of the Danglish 101 card expands upon the “Doubters” and “Believers” dynamic that we touched upon in the uncommon version of the card, as well as the reference to “horsin” in the common card. In a clever use of an equation, DJ_Knuckles represents a Danglish term known as “The Due Principle.”
The Due Principle basically states that no matter what, in life or DangPacks, things will balance out. If you go through a streak of bad packs, a cacophony of “you’re due” messages will flood the chat. And if you still miss out on a big hit, it means now you’re even more due for a big hit.
Extra details pointed out by artist DJ_Knuckles:
- E is energy from the audience, either believer or doubter depending on the subscript.
- H (in case the obstruction is hard to intuit) is “horsing.”
- (Math time) The quotient being 1 means that the numerator and denominator will always be equal, which means an increase in one will cause the other to increase as well.
- The 50/50 chance is also a reference to odds always being 50/50 (don’t say it, chat).
What is in the Uber Rare Variant of the Danglish 101 Card?
The Uber Rare variant of the card, encased in the best looking border of the bunch, shows the chemical breakdown of an element called Resin. This is a Danglish term used for anything that makes a game too easy beyond the point of any kind of challenge. It is named after a substance from the Dark Souls franchise known as Resin, which Dan calls all kind of cheats and game breaking features in games.
This card also has some interesting Easter eggs in it in the chemical breakdown of the substance itself. It contains the elemental symbol HO which stands for Holmium which has a density of 5.96Hg. The drawing also contains 5 covalent bonds and a chemical tensile strength of 96. Also if you take the numerical value of where the H’s and O’s are in the alphabet together they add up to 59*
- Nothing in the above paragraph is true. I haven’t taken a chemistry class in 19 years.
Extra details are pointed out below by the artist himself:
- “Blue Decks” is a Magic: The Gathering reference.
- I borrowed the chemical structure of Apigenin, a flavonoid found in many foods (notably including honey, which the dangResin Emote closely resembles).
- Below the chemical structure is an MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) I fabricated whole cloth, but the important part of it is the bottom quadrant. This quadrant is for the category “special hazard,” and in this case, the hazard is that you’ll be trunked (hence the chalk arrow from “you will be trunked”).
What is the Full Art Version of the Danglish 101 Card?
The full art version of the card opens up some details even beyond what is on the chalkboard. For starters we can see the character from Dan’s community known as OneGuy with a big pile of coins sitting next to him. Often times Dan will get wrong or outright malicious advice from viewers that will often times get him killed or fail a challenge. Clearly this OneGuy must have benefitted from whichever bet he was able to ruin.
We also see the Green Sword featured on the DangCard of the same name hanging on the wall. On the chalkboard itself we see reference to Dan’s multiple phrases to the Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek actress Catherine O’Hara. The musical notes at the bottom are reference to one of the background songs in Elden Ring to which Dan cleverly (or disturbingly) inserted the verse “Catherine O’Hara’s Dangly Things” into. Dangly Things referring to her earrings, or as Dan himself says, “a shoebox full of ‘em.”
Extra details are pointed out directly from the artist DJ_Knuckles below:
- The song from the Elden Ring OST is “Godskin Apostles.”
- I like to think the One Guy is built from the same cloth as the Average Doubter (getting their 2% returns and Warchest in the millions), but I like the idea that his fortune came from ‘tricking’ Dan into a suffercore challenge that pays out the doubters handsomely. Any and all headcannons are valid.
- On a miscellaneous note, the card type is Land, and the stat is Intelligence, represented by the brick icon in the bottom corners. I’m mirroring the type/stat categories of the official cards, so that the cards are “compatible” with official DangPacks.
We hope you enjoyed this dive into these great community proxies. Special thanks to DJ_Knuckles for creating these wonderful and unique cards as well as providing addition insight into the card. You can tell how much time and thought they put into these. Have you created your own dang proxies, or appreciated proxies made by someone else? Let us know in the comments and maybe it will be featured in a future article!
