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getting canceled it it seems that at
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some point or another every big YouTuber
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in some way gets gets cancelled gets in
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drama or has allegations brought against
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them all all that I'm glad I've I've
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managed to avoid it so far but somebody
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who seems to survive cancel culture is
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uncan DanTDM what a what a great man and
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we're going to watch a video by tick ziz
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that is entitled how did DanTDM survive
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cancel culture how did he do it and on a
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side note if you like the sweater that
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I'm wearing it is on S sp737 do store
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it's it's going to be there for winter I
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I think it's very very cool and maybe
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you've got plenty of jumpers you don't
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need anymore but you might need a mouse
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M there you go we've got a we've got a
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cool Mouse M that you could get as well
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and if you buy both of them you'll get a
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discount as well I even got a
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photographer to go do a cool cinematic
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shot of me playing Minecraft using the
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mouse M yeah I really really went all
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out this time yeah let's go ahead and
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and get into the video nearly every
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YouTuber has faced serious allegations
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that permanently altered their
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reputation but few YouTubers stand above
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them having been free of serious
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controversies for decades and remaining
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loved by millions around the world from
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making Pokémon videos in his room to
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moving houses because of crazy fans DM's
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rise to fame has come with many stories
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but unlike many only one I'm just going
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to say this now all right I love DanTDM
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he's such a nice guy I mean I've spoken
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to him you know we did Shady Oaks with
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him he's such a nice guy anyway let's
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continue maybe that is why all right
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he's he's never been canceled or
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anything he's just a nice guy he says
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what he thinks he doesn't get involved
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in drama he doesn't care enough to get
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to like for people to try and cancel him
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like he he he has a life you know what I
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mean it's his life is outside of the
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internet really you know for the most
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part hey I'm tix I make weekly internet
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documentary amazing tix Minecraft's most
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notorious YouTubers his biggest passion
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was Pokémon cards he still loves Pokemon
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do epod 42 where the first tournaments
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of the new season are quickly
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approaching in the early 2010s he had a
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channel fully dedicated to Pokémon cards
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Pok I only just found this out a few
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days Channel he posted of videos such
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poon tournament news reports today I'm
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going to bringing you a full report of
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my experience at regionals just last
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weekend Card Pack openings so I guess
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did he like go and do like Pokémon card
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tournaments I sound like a boomer doing
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that I don't I don't really know I'm not
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a boomer by the way but I don't really
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know enough about Pokemon card like
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trading and and like how to do against
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him my brother would know he collects
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them and he gets it all me too busy
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playing Sonic and Minecraft aren't I and
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J and we're going to be opening three
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different packs watch this video day
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that's the most latest one that he did
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on that SL state of boundaries crossed
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to take a look at blasto CIO a deck born
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straight from the set halfway into the
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Channel's lifespan Dan's Brother would
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introduce Dan to Minecraft so my brother
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showed me Minecraft I absolutely loved
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it went and downloaded it the same day
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and I probably played it every day since
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Dan went on to open a second Channel
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called the diamond Minecraft this is his
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second Channel slightly better than his
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first channel series videos hey
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everybody dan here from the Diamond
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mineart this is it because this is his
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first video on the diamond mine cart and
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when I watched this I was like he is way
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too good at YouTube to say that this is
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his first video on YouTube you know at
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this point and it wasn't cuz it was his
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second channel that it made so that that
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makes so much more sense now knowing
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that it it is the second channel that he
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made cuz yeah nobody's that good
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straight off the bat at commentary and
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today I'm starting a brand new adventure
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not long after Dan's new channel began
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growing exponentially even overtaking
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Channel with
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Dan's Crazy by the way can I just say
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even overtaking his Pokémon channel to
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get
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223,000
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subscribers in a
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month is crazy and he did it in 2013 wow
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I didn't realize it was that long ago
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with Dan's unique videos back then he
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was butes sense he managed to reach 1
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million subscribers just a year after he
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started the channel while you're here
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you man to reach 1 million subscribers
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just
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a why do I feel like that looks like
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tank mat I don't think it is him but it
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reminds me of tank
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mat after he started if you watch my old
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murder mystery videos you'd know who
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tank mat was while you're here you might
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as well subscribe I'm trying get to
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100 lots of people knew his name hey
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everyone Dan here from the diamond mine
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cart and welcome to an epic new series
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today is the beginning of my brand new
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series an epic Modded Survival he he
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play Survival he just did what he
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enjoyed the series was a modded survival
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that ran for 259 episodes spanning
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across three years the crazy thing is
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look at the thumbnails they're all the
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same a massive old YouTube was so easy
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you didn't have to make
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any uccessful one Dan's Channel had
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barely seen a fraction of the growth
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that he'd fac after posting his how I
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met video tris's first appearance it was
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the first time we got to see the lab in
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all its Glory the beginning of something
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I know that was the first time from here
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Dan started posting more and more videos
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in the classic lab where he'd run
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different
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experiments friend Dr trius his dog grim
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and a special reoccurring guest Craig
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the
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mailman this series went to gain over 67
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million views but this series wasn't his
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only one with Dr trur there were
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numerous the playlist got 67 million
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views the videos themselves got mil
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around the early 2020s many YouTubers
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began facing a common problem
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allegations from dream allegedly
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cheating in his speeduns to wil's abuse
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allegations there were loads but few
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creators stood above them Dan's time on
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YouTube came with a few small the only
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truly notable one for burning a
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hatchimal with a blow that led him being
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called a brainless vlogger the
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cont I'm sorry what they for doing that
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I'm Sor you could do what you want in a
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video the whole idea of videos is to do
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what other people can't do so they can
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see what happens ah you can't get you
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can't get any drama for that that's the
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worst effort at putting someone in drama
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begins with this egg cost me $150 Dan
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would buy a hatchimal however it didn't
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hatch this led Dan to do the only
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reasonable thing smashing it open with a
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hammer a week later he make another
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video titled what did I do to him
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inspired by Mr Gear's 1,000 Dee knife
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videos Dan thought it would be a fun
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idea to try it on his videos the only
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difference being that Dan didn't want to
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just use the blowtorch on a knife so he
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used it directly on the hatchimal after
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adding a warning in the video just Weeks
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Later news articles began slandering Dan
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for his actions in the video male online
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laboring him as a brainless vlogger for
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Dan are they literally saying this
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because of his audience like because I
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don't know if if if somebody can heat up
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a knife and cut things open and do
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really dangerous things but suddenly
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because DanTDM's viewers like Minecraft
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and are a bit younger it's like oh he
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can't do that even though he puts
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warnings in the videos not do I mean I
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can kind of understand what it what it
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it can mean but at the same time he's
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warned them and it's the parents
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responsibility you know to educate the
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kids I mean I can see it from both sides
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I guess but I don't think you can get
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canell over something like that but
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that's like a lot of responsibility
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isn't it really on do minuscule damage
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to his Public Image and he wouldn't even
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respond until much later Dan addressed
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his side of the controversy did he do I
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didn't know he said that pretty much
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clearing it up completely shall I
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finally talk about this the context that
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was left out is on YouTube the most
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popular videos that were getting tens of
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millions of views were hot knife videos
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that's why I wanted to replicate but I
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didn't feel comfortable heating up a
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knife with a blowtorch so I just blow
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torched it this left Dan as one of the
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only mic YouTubers who managed to
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survive cancel culture they take the
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context out of it don't they Twi time on
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YouTube he has managed to keep up with
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the trends and not fall off the face of
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the platform when starting out he was
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making one to two videos a day for
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numerous years it's crazy that us used
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to be able to do one to two videos a day
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on YouTube leading him to be severely
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burnt out this wouldn't stop him though
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and it was a sign that he needed to get
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18 he began rekindling his love for
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Content Creation with a surging
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motivation and a massive amount of extra
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time to work on videos his style began
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slowly adapting with each video such as
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a change in background music captions or
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just an entire I guess he has his videos
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have evoled that his style has changed
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throughout the years and his aim towards
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which I think is any successful YouTuber
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that's been able to be successful over a
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lot of years the style has to change
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it's always a gradual change you can't
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just go change it like f and switch but
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gradually little things change you
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change a little thing in each video just
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it just happens like I've done it like
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say see dant DM's done it loads of
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YouTubers does it do it and it just
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these gradual changes they all build up
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and then you like compare a video from
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here to ages ago and you're like whoa
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this is like two completely different
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styles but it's always it is always like
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gradual and then when you look back
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you're like oh wow this is completely
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different now older audience now so I
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did make that conscious decision to cut
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out swearing and also be careful about
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what was in my videos like any Bloods I
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wouldn't play the game any like extreme
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violence I wouldn't play the game it's
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different now because everyone's grown
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up so I'm a little less conscious about
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that my main channel is still and will
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always be family friendly I wouldn't say
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it's kids orientated because the kid
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orientated stuff now is like really fast
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pace in your face shouting ere excited
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I'm just not I'm not about that anymore
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I can't it's like his audience has grown
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older and kind of appealing nothing can
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last forever and on February 11th 2023
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after the birth of his second son Dan
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posted a video titled retiring from
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YouTube believing the day had finally
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come many fans hesitantly clicked on the
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video expecting Dan to be talking about
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quitting YouTube That's not quite how it
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went though Dan speaks about how he'd
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improved his mental health and instead
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of feeling forced to make videos for his
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fans he now wants to do it additionally
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he was going to be posting you know a
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side point I know I'm talking a lot in
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this video I've realized with YouTube
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you have to be excited to make the video
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and want to make the video to do it for
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a long time you know what I mean if
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you're kind of like doing a video
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because you just feel like you have to
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do it and you have to get it done and
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you don't really want it does kind of
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get to a point where it rubs off and it
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doesn't do well and it's like what why
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am I doing this you know what I mean and
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I experienced that from time to time you
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know there is certain series or videos
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and stuff and it's been like why why am
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I doing this I don't want to do it why
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don't I just do something that I
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actually want to do in Minecraft you
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know so I try in my hardcore world to do
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projects that I want to do and find
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interesting I try in lifestle to find to
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do stuff that I want to do that I find
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fun you know what I mean and and like
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even the second Channel videos it's like
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I I want to kind of be excited about
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making it which it can be easy to be try
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and Chase like a trend or like a certain
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amount of views and it's like no no you
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don't you don't want to do that you need
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to bring it back and yes still work
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within Trends and use them but try and
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do it in such a way that you enjoy it
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and and are excited to make a video I
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think that's the the easiest way to to
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put it I don't know if that made sense
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let's continue watching less videos but
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improve the quality of them what Dan
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went on to do after was though would
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shock many Dan secretly made a new
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channel he did didn't I remember he
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posted a video titled welcome to the lab
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on August 31st 2024 hey I'm Dan this is
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my buddy Trey orus or Trey for sure and
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this back to the old is the lab now
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we've been doing this for quite some
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time this was our old lab back in 2013
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we've had a lot of memories here good
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times really good times but now we have
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this DDM makes a 3 hour and 45 minute
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video of him in the lab spray your bum
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for you technology is so Advanced these
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days he will probably get a lot of a lot
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of views I don't know if that's what he
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want we' seen so far it looks like the
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that kind of scripted content that's
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really really long that people watch on
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the TV seems to do really well on
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YouTube at the moment so that's just
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just my two thoughts on that Dan is
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attempting to relive his Glory Days in
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the lab with Dr trus unfortunately the
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lab is the newer one and not the classic
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one we all know and love but it is still
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something to look forward to got with
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the new all this leaves us with the
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question how did DanTDM survive cancel
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culture firstly unlike many creators Dan
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stayed true to his consistent with his
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personality whilst keeping a positive
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attitude even when times were tough for
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him this helped Dan maintain the Loyalty
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for his core audience included them in
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decisions on his channel and doing
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various videos with them in his early
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days this caused fans to feel like they
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knew him more personally leading them to
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defend him when there was even a whiff
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of controversy lastly his over Public
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Image is positive Dan has a
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long-standing position in the community
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and that is very unlikely to change
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anytime soon unless something is going
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on that we don't know about if you guys
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enjoyed this video awesome yeah DanTDM
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what a great guy and yeah love his
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channel really nice guy don't think
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it'll ever get canceled don't forget to
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go to s727 store and check out my merch
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and check out the mouse map too yep um
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let me get back to to use it it's
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actually really really good good for
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gaming and I'll see you guys in the next
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video
