Daniel Middleton (born 8 November 1991), better known through his online pseudonym DanTDM (formerly The Diamond Minecart), is an English YouTube personality and professional gamer. His online video channels have covered many video games, mainly the popular game Minecraft. As of August 2017, his channel has over 10.7 billion views and 16 million subscribers, and has been listed among the top YouTube channels in the United Kingdom. In 2014, Business Insider estimated Middleton's annual income to be somewhere between $213,000 and $2.15 million. In July 2015, his channel was listed as one of the most popular YouTubers in the world by viewership. He has earned several Kids' Choice Awards as well as set Guinness World Records for his gaming and presenting. In 2017, Middleton topped the Forbes list of Highest-Paid YouTube Stars, earning $16.5 million (about GB£12.2 million) in one year.
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Early life
Middleton was born on 8 November 1991 in Aldershot, England as the elder of two siblings. His parents divorced when he was a child. He attended Northampton University and started a YouTube channel in 2010 dedicated to Pokémon while at university, in which he called himself "PokemanDanLv45".
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Career
In 2012, Middleton created The Diamond Minecart, a gaming channel whose audience consists of mostly children ages 5-10. He changed his YouTube channel name to TheDiamondMinecart // DanTDM, and then, on 12 December 2016, to just DanTDM. He produces videos out of his home studio in Wellingborough. In an interview with The Big Issue, Middleton describes his process in making videos: he gets up around 9am and starts working on the video an hour later. He checks for Minecraft updates, edits the videos in the afternoon, and uploads the finished product at 8:30pm, after which, he checks for comments. He said "There isn't another game where free content comes out every day made by fans, and some of it is mind blowing." On weekends, he prepares videos in advance. In addition to Let's Play videos, he makes mini films that involve original characters.
Middleton has been a regular guest at the Insomnia gaming festivals. He was also featured twice on CBBC's Technobabble, where he commented on several videogames, and once on ITV's Lorraine, where he talked about being a YouTuber.
He released a graphic novel called Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal on 6 October 2016. The graphic novel features characters from his YouTube shows including: DanTDM and his dog Grim, the scientist Dr. Trayaurus, evil lab boss Denton and sidekick Fin. He was a featured guest at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and went on a book tour that included parts of the UK and a visit to New York City. In 2017, he has gone on another tour to the United States to 21 venues. In that same year, he went on another tour in Australia.
His online video channel had focused primarily on the popular game Minecraft, but as of 2016, he has allocated part of his channel to playing other video games, such as Roblox and Tomodachi Life.
He was in Skylanders Academy in episode 3 of season 1 voicing C-4 "Cy", Middleton's Skylanders character.
DanTDM Creates a Big Scene(also known as Dan Creates a Big Scene or DanTDM's Big Scene) is a British live-action/animated web series starring English YouTube personality Dan Middleton, Danni Tabor, and an ensemble cast of other social media entertainers and professional actors and actresses. The series premiered on April 7, 2017 exclusively for YouTube Red, YouTube's subscription service. The season finale was released on May 5, 2017. DanTDM Creates a Big Scene follows DanTDM and his group of animated friends as they battle to keep their live show on the road. Each episode catches their behind-the-scenes exploits as they learn skills, overcome challenges and face impossible odds. Along the way, they find that putting on an epic show isn't as easy as it looks.
Personal life
In June 2013, when his channel exceeded 100,000 subscribers, he posted a video showing his real-life self for the first time, thanking the fans, and announcing plans to create video blogs about his real life. The channel was called MoreTDM in 2014, in which he posts videos about his daily "non-Minecraft" life.
Middleton married his girlfriend Jemma on 17 March 2013; she also enjoys Minecraft: "we spend a lot of time gaming together, and I bounce ideas off her as well".
Awards
- Guinness World Record for "Most goals scored in a game of Rocket League for a team of 2". and "Most goals scored in a game of Rocket League (team of three)."
- Guinness World Record for "Most views for a dedicated Minecraft video channel".
- Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in the category UK Favourite Tipster: 2015 and 2016
Books
- Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal (HarperCollins, 2016)
Notes
References
External links
- DanTDM's channel on YouTube
- Official website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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