DanTDM
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Daniel Middleton 8 November 1991 Aldershot, England |
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| Residence | Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Video game commentator | ||||||||||
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| Pseudonym | DanTDM | ||||||||||
| Channel | TheDiamondMinecart, MoreTDM | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2012–present | ||||||||||
| Subscribers | 14.5 million (March 2017) |
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| Total views | 9.5 billion (March 2017) |
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| Subscriber and view counts updated as of 21 March 2017. | |||||||||||
Daniel Middleton (born 8 November 1991) is an English YouTube personality and professional gamer who goes by the handle The Diamond Minecart or DanTDM. His online video channels have covered video games, especially the popular game Minecraft. As of March 2017[update], his channel has over 9.5 billion views and 14.5 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.
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".
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.
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