Daniel Middleton

Not to be confused with his channel.

Not to be confused with his fictional counterpart.

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Daniel Robert "Dan" Middleton (born November 8, 1991 [age 33]), better known by his internet pseudonym DanTDM (which is short for "Dan TheDiamondMinecart"), is the main protagonist in DanTDM's Custom Mod Adventures and Minecraft Hardcore series. He is from the UK. He used to record daily but as of now he records videos but every week or so. He currently has 29 million subscribers. He's married to Jemma Middleton and has 2 kids, Asher Middleton, and Miles Middleton. Dan currently has his own show called "Challenge DanTDM". It can be seen in Sky Kids.

Early Life

Daniel Middleton was born on November 8th, 1991 in Aldershot, England. He was the elder of 2 siblings. His parents divorced when he was just a child. He attended the University of Northampton where he studied music production. Prior to his career as a YouTuber and author, he worked at Tesco, telling the BBC in 2017 "When I earned enough money off YouTube to match it [my wage at Tesco] my wife persuaded me to do it."

Middleton married his girlfriend, Jemma (b. 9 April 1992), in March 2013. Their first son, Asher, was born on 5 January 2020, and their second son, Miles, was born on 22 November 2022. He opened up with viewers about his struggles with mental health after experiencing severe depression due to the isolation of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

On 6 September 2023, Middleton posted on his Twitter and Instagram about the unexpected death of his dog, Ellie. On 7 September 2023, he posted on YouTube a video titled "goodbye ellie."

Characters

• Dr Trayaurus: Dan's childish and pesky scientist Villager friend. He is mostly seen in Mod Showcases and Custom Mod Adventures helping Dan out.
• Grim: Dan's skeleton-wolf companion, in most of his Custom Mod Adventure often goes with Dan on adventures. He was killed by accident when Trayaurus put him in his prototype duplicate machine that accidentally turned him into bones. However, Trayaurus soon built a machine that could revive Grim from the dead. The machine worked; however, it left him as a skeleton-wolf hybrid. Whenever he dies, he immediately respawns. Grim can never truly be gone now.
• Melbot: Dr. Trayaurus and Dan's robot assistant and secretary for the lab. She helps Dan and Dr. Trayaurus with any help that they need. She hasn't appeared in Dan's lab videos recently and it is unknown what has happened to her.
• Craig the Mailman: a character who occasionally delivers crafting ingredients. He is meant for comedy in Dan's lab series. He seems mildly insane. He often says "HEEEEEEEEHHHHHH!" and often picks up random items and uses them, such as a banjo.
• McDuck: a chicken which extremely rarely appears in the videos. Its last appearance was in TRAYAURUS' OPERATION.
• Denton: Introduced in the Mutant Bugs Mod. He got fired and is now portrayed as somewhat of a villain in the Secret Agent mod, the Robot Supersuit mod, and at Insomnia 53 where Dan made a live Custom Mod Adventure titled TRAYAURUS GETS KIDNAPPED, the 2014 and 2015 Dr Trayaurus' Christmas Countdown, and an live Custom Mod Adventure titled GREAT LONDON ROBBERY!! during MineCon 2015. He is the villain of the channel and is very evil and pesky, and now appears extremely rarely on Dan's videos. However, he made a return in Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal. He had also appeared in On Tour and Creates A Big Scene.
• Terrance: A pig who lives in Trayaurus' Lab in the PC world of Minecraft. He wears a saddle and loves carrots. He appears rarely in Dan's Mod Showcase Videos and Custom Mod Adventures, usually as a form of transport.
• Iron Man: An Iron Golem who lives in Dan's Xbox Survival Series. The first Iron Golem to be spawned was Iron Man.
• Eve: Dan's assistant in the theatre show, On Tour. She is addicted to her phone and loves taking selfies. Her second appearance was on the YouTube Red series, DanTDM Creates A Big Scene.
• protecc: An Iron Golem who lives in Dan's Hardcore Survival series. He was the iron golem who spawned on top of the Villager Vending Machine and accidentally named by Dan. His name was based on the meme.
• atacc: An Iron Golem who also lived in Dan´s Hardcore Survival series. He is protecting the Villager Vending Machine together with his good friend protect. He died while Dan was at his AFK Fish Farm together with protecc. Since this Dan said he would kill any Monster that comes near his House/Village. (Dan also build a shrine with a Music box in which he plays in honor of both of them)
• Skinny: DanTDM's favorite cat from his Hardcore series. She dies after getting hit by Dan's trusty bow, "Le Shoot." Skinny had a Husband, a son, and two daughters.

Minor Characters

• Boris: A minor character who stole Dan's dog Casper and got jailed in Dan's Xbox Survival series.
• Rosalie: Dan's wife in the Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play. She died in Season 3, alongside with Craig.
• Nikki: Dan's second wife and current wife as of marriage in Episode 223 in The Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play.
• Craig: Dan's son in the Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play. He died in Season 3, alongside with Rosalie.
• Toby: Dan's son in the Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play as of Episode 224 and named he was named Toby in Episode 225. He also had appeared in the announcement video of Dan's new rebooted Minecraft series, Minecraft Misadventures telling Dan to fix all the mess he has made.
• Far: Dan's farmer clone in the Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play.
• Ralph The Piggycorn: Introduced in the 2014 Christmas countdown series and is used to compete in a race of presents.
• Fin: An elf who was Dan's first present in the 2014 Christmas countdown, which turned out to be a robot made by Denton to stop Christmas.
• Trayaurus' Mom: Introduced in TRAYAURUS AND THE WITCH and didn't appeared in videos for a while until Minecraft | WIZARD TRAINING SCHOOL!! | Custom Mod Adventure and Minecraft | TRAYAURUS' MOM MOVES IN!! | Custom Mod Adventure.
• Rosa: Dan's NPC fiance before she died in The Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play.
• Nicki: Toby's wife in the Diamond Dimensions Modpack survival Let's Play. This was discovered as of Episode 246 when Dan was looking at Toby's info list.
• Luna and Jason, his two best friends in the Minecraft High School series.
• GranTDM, Dan's grandmother in one of his custom mod adventures.
• The Watcher: A mysterious character from The Diamond Dimensions Modpack Survival Let's Play. He/She/It has been referenced only through a book found in Episode 5. It is believed that The Watcher is actually the wraith found in The Diamond Dimensions.

Books

DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal

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Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal is Dan's first debut graphic novel set in the Minecraft franchise, and features characters that have appeared in his videos for all ages.

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Official DanTDM 2017 Diary and Activity Book: Lots of Things to Make and Do

Main Article: Official DanTDM 2017 Diary and Activity Book: Lots of Things to Make and Do

Official DanTDM 2017 Diary and Activity Book: Lots of Things to Make and Do is a book/diary where you could write anything. It is also filled with puzzles and acitivities. You could also make your own experiments.

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Subscriber Milestones

This is a list of every subscriber milestone Dan has reached on his channel. It includes the dates.

• 1 Million Subscribers: December 7th, 2013
• 2 Million Subscribers: April 5th, 2014
• 3 Million Subscribers: July 21st, 2014
• 4 Million Subscribers: October 25th, 2014
• 5 Million Subscribers: February 7th, 2015
• 6 Million Subscribers: April 27th, 2015
• 7 Million Subscribers: July 11th, 2015
• 8 Million Subscribers: September 23, 2015
• 9 Million Subscribers: January 2nd, 2016
• 10 Million Subscribers: March 25th, 2016
• 11 Million Subscribers: June 4th, 2016
• 12 Million Subscribers: August 5th, 2016
• 13 Million Subscribers: November 15th, 2016
• 14 Million Subscribers: January 30th, 2017
• 15 Million Subscribers: May 15th, 2017
• 16 Million Subscribers: August 8th, 2017
• 17 Million Subscribers: December 19th, 2017
• 18 Million Subscribers: February 25th, 2018
• 19 Million Subscribers: May 30th, 2018
• 20 Million Subscribers: August 18th, 2018
• 21 Million Subscribers: January 22nd, 2019
• 22 Million Subscribers: August 19th, 2019
• 23 Million Subscribers: May 18th, 2020
• 24 million subscribers: October 28, 2020
• 25 million subscribers: April 4, 2021
• 26 million subscribers: January 31, 2022
• 27 million subscribers: June 10, 2023
• 28 million subscribers: October 4, 2023

Trivia

• Dan's overall views are currently over 20 billion views. This makes his channel the most viewed gaming YouTube channel.
• For a very long time, people thought that Dan’s middle name was Andrew, but later it was revealed to be Robert.
• Dan has written a song called “Mirror, Sailboat” for a video, and currently uses it as his channel outro.
• Dan has known how to play the guitar since he was 15 or 16.
• Dan really hates the dab, as proven in “I Couldn’t Sleep So I made This Video..” and “The Dab Must Be Stopped”.
• Dan created The Dab Police to encourage people to stop dabbing. This has lead to Dan having a minor meme status.
• Dan’s Dab Police uniform consists of a white T-Shirt with a police badge drawn using a marker pen on the left chest, which has the word “Police” written in a rectangle.
• Dan loves eating chocolate cake while drinking tea.
• Dan has severe arachnophobia (the fear of spiders).
• Dan is a big fan of an animated series, which happens to be Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time.
• Dan is also a massive fan of The Walking Dead.
• Dan’s favorite animatronic from the Five Nights at Freddy’s game series may possibly be Freddy Fazbear (and his variations).
• Dan uploaded a video of him playing Surgeon Simulator titled “His Eyes Fell Out!!!”. The video got age-restricted for 24 hours. Dan took down the original video and re-uploaded the video again, with some minor changes. Luckily, it wasn’t age-restricted anymore.
• Even though Dan’s trademark color is blue, his favorite color seems to be pink. This is referenced a few times, as shown by how he wants to pick anything that is pink-colored.
• Dan has two alter-ego: Fake DanTDM and DannyDarko.
• Dan made an appearance in YouTube Rewind 2017.
• Dan collaborated in an advertisement for Nintendo, which showed him playing a Super Mario Maker 2 Course.
• Dan had written a song called 'Spacedog' on January 24, 2024 where he often uses it as his background track for his live streams.
• On May 16, 2024, DanTDM tweeted out that he had went to the hospital to get his appendix removed because he had appendicitis.
• DanTDM was invited to the new Minecraft Movie set, showing behind the scenes footage.
• DanTDM has his own radio show on Classic FM where he would showcase video game music series such as Minecraft, Pokémon, etc.

See Also

(Note: We have both links for Daniel Middleton and DanTDM here, DanTDM is the Minecraft form and Daniel Middleton is his IRL Form)

• Daniel Middleton/Appearances
• Daniel Middleton/Gallery
• Daniel Middleton/Games Played
• Daniel Middleton/Series
• Daniel Middleton/Inventory
• Daniel Middleton/Merchandise
• Daniel Middleton/Events