Daniel Middleton
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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 | 14.1 million (February 2017) |
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| Total views | 9.26 billion (February 2017) |
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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 channel mainly focuses on the popular game Minecraft. As of January 2017[update], his channel has over 9.1 billion views and 14 million subscribers, and is 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, the elder of two siblings. His parents divorced when he was a child. He attended Northampton University and started a YouTube channel dedicated to Pokémon while at university, in which he called himself "PokemanDanLv45".
In 2012, Middleton created The Diamond Minecart, a gaming channel whose audience includes mostly children ages 5–10. His YouTube channel name eventually changed to TheDiamondMinecart // 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-styled videos, he makes mini films that involve original characters.
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