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Daniel James Gonzalez (born June 12, 1994) is an American commentary YouTuber and musician who originally came to prominence for his short comedy sketches on Vine in 2014. He created his main YouTube channel that same year, subsequently moving over to YouTube full-time when Vine closed down in 2017. His three personal channels and three group channels have collectively earned around 9.44 million subscribers,[a] and 1.88 billion views,[b] as of August 2024.[update]
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| Born | Daniel James Gonzalez June 12, 1994 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||
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Laura Fuechsl (m. 2017) | |||||||||
| Children | 1 | |||||||||
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| Location | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||
| Years active | 2014–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 6.69 million (main channel) 9.44 million (combined)[a][2] | |||||||||
| Total views | 1.65 billion (main channel) 1.88 billion (combined)[b][2] | |||||||||
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| Followers | 420 thousand | |||||||||
Last updated: August 25, 2024 | ||||||||||
Daniel James Gonzalez[P 1] was born on June 12, 1994,[P 2] in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois.[3] He lived in England for two years when he was around 8 or 9.[P 3] He has an older brother (born 1992), and a younger sister. His brother is a server at a restaurant in Austin, Texas.[P 4] Gonzalez attended Wheaton North High School.[P 5] As a child in the mid-2000s, he and his friends uploaded short comedy sketches to YouTube, but they broke off when he went to college.
Gonzalez graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in computational media in 2016.[4] He married his high school sweetheart, Laura Fuechsl[P 6] (/fjuˈʃɛl/ fyoo-SHELL[P 7]), on July 1, 2017.[5] On May 19, 2023, Gonzalez announced that he and Fuechsl were expecting their first child in October.[P 8] Their son was born in September.[P 9]
In Gonzalez's sophomore year of college, a friend of Gonzalez showed him Vine,[4] an app where users could only upload six-second short videos ("Vines").[6] While initially uninterested, Gonzalez was convinced to start making Vines in late 2013 after his favorite comedian Bo Burnham posted on the app.[4]
His early videos attempted to imitate Burnham's and were based around small quips. In early 2014, he tried to distinguish his Vines by using special effects, which few Viners were doing at the time, including using green screens to insert himself into music videos. Gonzalez's Vines began to grow in popularity with this strategy. His most viral Vine was one where he edited shoes onto the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) scenes while a digital voice sang "What are those?" to the theme music.[4]
Gonzalez appeared in the Vine-produced web series Camp Unplug (2016), where he first met fellow Viner Drew Gooden.[7] As Vine was a newer platform compared to other social media, most Viners knew each other—what Gonzalez described as a "tight-knit" atmosphere. When owner Twitter, Inc. announced it was shutting down Vine in 2016, he had graduated from college and moved to Illinois to join a group of other successful Viners. He became apprehensive with this news.[4][8]
Gonzalez had 2.9 million followers on Vine by the time it closed in January 2017. With large audiences but no platform, he and many other former Viners moved to YouTube. He told The New York Times that he decided on YouTube because it was a well-known website and also expressed interest in making videos on Twitter and TikTok.[8][9]
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From 2017 to 2018, Gonzalez wrote, edited, and starred in various shorts and "Corridor Crew" videos for Corridor Digital.
Drew Gooden also started a commentary channel on YouTube and the two began traveling to appear in each other's videos, becoming close friends.[7] A running joke between their fans is that they pretend to confuse the two YouTubers together because of their various similarities.[4] This inspired their We Are Two Different People Tour in 2019, with YouTuber Kurtis Conner as a guest star. The tour, with music, effects, and theatrical elements interspersed with sketches and comedy routines, was their first major live performance and ran from September to October.[10][11][12] The two also released a parody song called "We Are Not the Same Person" to promote the tour.[P 10]
Gonzalez's videos are often commentary on different aspects of Internet culture, criticism of YouTube, B movies, and general cultural criticism.[13] His 2018 Troom Troom reaction videos popularized the channel.[14] He is known for his criticisms of Jake and Logan Paul,[13] and for his commentaries on Musical.ly (later TikTok) stars.[15] In addition to commentary videos, he is also known for his parody music. He refers to his fanbase by the singular name "Greg".[4]
Gonzalez is associated with fellow YouTubers Drew Gooden and Kurtis Conner.[16]
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2018 | 10th Shorty Awards | YouTube Comedian | Nominated | [17] |
| 2019 | 9th Streamy Awards | Breakout Creator | Nominated | [18] |
| 2020 | 10th Streamy Awards | Commentary | Nominated | [19] |
| 2021 | 11th Streamy Awards | Commentary | Nominated | [20] |
| 2022 | 12th Streamy Awards | Commentary | Won | [21] |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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| Comedy Albums [22] | ||
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| "Vape Tricks" (featuring Aaron Chewning) |
2016 |
| "Beef with Me" | 2017 |
| "Spooky Boy" | |
| "Dab on the Haters (Young Face)" | 2018 |
| "Greg (Young Face)" | |
| "Hop Out the Whip (Young Face)" | |
| "Spooky Guy" | |
| "Johnny Johnny" | |
| "Slime" | |
| "This Video Is Over Now" | 2019 |
| "I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus" | |
| "We Are Not the Same Person" (featuring Drew Gooden) | |
| "Help Let Me Go" | |
| "Spooky Ho" | |
| "Daddy" | |
| "La Croix" | |
| "Sad and Deep" | |
| "Yummy" | 2020 |
| "My Dad Is Rich" | |
| "Spooky Man" | |
| "Circus" (as Fox Szn)[23] | |
| "In Love with a Creeper" (featuring Kurtis Conner) |
2021 |
| "I Ghosted Kevin Jonas" | 2022 |
| "Nepo Baby" (as Fox Szn) |
2024 |
| "Last Night" (as Fox Szn, featuring Kurtis Conner) |
2024 |
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