Aaron and Austin Rhodes, 19, broke into tears during several seconds of silence while building the courage to finally tell their dad they were both gay, but their fears were unfounded. 'You know I love you both. That'll never change,' the twins' father said.

The Los Angeles-based models behind The Rhodes Bros, a popular YouTube channel, were already nervous wrecks waiting for their father to pick up the phone."Leading up to this, we just hadn't told him. We knew he was the last person to tell," Aaron Rhodes, 19, told the Daily News.The big call found their dad busy at work in Ohio.As both teens tried to explain their news, they lost their words and silently broke into tears before Aaron finally spit it out: "I'm gay. Austin's gay, too."

Trying to explain themselves - speaking a mile a minute while wiping tears from their red faces - their father, Rodney, cut them off."Would you just stop it? It's the way things are, you know," their father said. "You grew up in a different generation that me ... You know I love you both. That'll never change."The heartwarming words heard over speakerphone in their video lifted what Austin described as "10 million pounds" off his shoulders."When he said 'I love you' ... that's all I wanted to hear," Aaron told the News.After years of "hiding" and pretending to be who they weren't, Aaron said it was time to come out. He and his brother prefaced their eight-minute video by saying they wanted to be "as authentic as possible.""We were out to close friends and our mother. She's known for like two years," Aaron said.

"We were always afraid of our dad. He's very masculine. He doesn't show a lot of emotion."Their fears, however, were unfounded.Aaron flew to Ohio shortly after their phone call and went came to face with his father. A photo shared on Instagram shows the two standing side by side, smiling.The video, even with its positive message toward coming out, is targeted at everyone "whether you're gay or bi or transgender" or even straight, to just be themselves, Aaron said.

The video, until Saturday afternoon at 3pm, has been seen by nearly nine million viewers.