40 Fun Facts About DanTDM

The letters TDM in DanTDM's name stand for which phrase, the original title of his YouTube channel?

The Diamond Minecart is a nod to Minecraft, the game that made him famous. He shortened the channel's name to plain DanTDM in December 2016.

DanTDM worked at which British supermarket chain until his YouTube earnings matched his wage there?

Tesco kept paying him while he made videos on the side. Once YouTube brought in as much as the shop did, he says his wife talked him into going full time.

DanTDM's pets Ellie and Darcie, who joined the cast of his live show, are which breed of dog?

Pugs are the perfect dog for YouTubers, he once said, because they are lapdogs that love sleeping while their owner works at home.

DanTDM's live show was the second-fastest sell-out in the history of which famous Australian venue?

Sydney Opera House crowds were one stop on a tour that reached 97 venues worldwide. He called touring a side project that got out of control.

DanTDM voiced a character in the UK cinema version of which 2018 animated film?

Ralph Breaks the Internet cast him as an eBay worker who updates the hero on a listing's deadline. American audiences heard actor Sean Giambrone in the part.

Which 2021 Ryan Reynolds comedy features DanTDM, Ninja and Pokimane commenting as themselves?

Free Guy is set inside a video game, so real streamers react to its hero on their own channels. Jacksepticeye and LazarBeam pop up too.

Which magazine named DanTDM the highest-paid YouTube star of 2017, with earnings of $16.5 million?

Forbes put his haul at about £12.2 million for a single year. That placed a former shop worker ahead of every other creator on the platform.

DanTDM called Minecraft's creative mode "an unlimited box of" which toy, one you can then explode?

Lego was his comparison while praising the game's creativity. He added that he had seen players aged 10 to 12 code complete maps of their own.

Which clumsy villager scientist is DanTDM's lab partner in his Minecraft videos and graphic novel?

Dr. Trayaurus began as an ordinary villager helping Dan explore a dinosaur mod. His clumsiness comes from the character blundering into lava pits by itself.

At 22, DanTDM was notching up more monthly YouTube hits than which chart-topping boy band?

One Direction were at their peak, yet his videos, made in a home studio, drew more than 70 million hits a month, mostly from children aged five to ten.

In which game did DanTDM score 10 of his duo's 11 goals to set a Guinness World Record in 2015?

Rocket League is football played with rocket-powered cars. Guinness set the pair a target of 11 goals against the computer, which they only just managed.

In which English seaside resort did Madame Tussauds unveil a waxwork of DanTDM in 2021?

Blackpool got the figure after a young superfan, whose mum works at the attraction, pitched the idea. It stands in a replica of his office.

Which British radio station hired DanTDM in 2025 to present a series about video game music?

Classic FM gave him a Saturday night hour called Next Level for soundtracks from Zelda, Final Fantasy and The Elder Scrolls. He said his teenage self would not believe it.

Which 2024 launch by MrBeast, KSI and Logan Paul did DanTDM criticise for selling to trusting kids?

Lunchly is a boxed snack kit that includes a Prime drink and a Feastables bar. Dan posted that creators were selling to kids who trust them, and told them to do better.

Before Minecraft, DanTDM started a YouTube channel in 2010 devoted to which game franchise?

Pokémon came first, on a channel named PokemanDanLv45 that covered the trading card game. His Minecraft channel started out as a side project.

DanTDM plays himself in "USS Callister: Into Infinity", a 2025 episode of which anthology series?

Black Mirror ends the episode with a space battle among the players of an online game, so real gaming YouTubers turn up in the vengeful crowd.

Which TV network's Kids' Choice Awards shortlisted DanTDM for Favorite Gamer in 2020?

Nickelodeon held the ceremony virtually that year. Its young voters gave the prize to SSSniperWolf ahead of Dan, GamerGirl and PrestonPlayz.

What is the real name of DanTDM, the English gaming YouTuber who started his channel in 2012?

Daniel Middleton says he was really shy at school, the kind of pupil who would sit and listen rather than speak in front of people. YouTube brought him out of his shell.

What is the first name of DanTDM's wife, a fellow gamer and vlogger he married in 2013?

Jemma has known him since he was 11, which makes them childhood sweethearts. A gamer with a channel of her own, she has often appeared in his videos.

DanTDM was born in which Hampshire town, long known as the home of the British Army?

Aldershot fits the family story: his dad was in the army, which meant Dan moved around a lot as a child.

DanTDM made his earliest videos while studying for a degree in which English town?

Northampton was where he studied, with a part-time shop job on the side, when he started filming. He went full time once the channel made money.

What subject did DanTDM study at university while working part time in a supermarket?

Music production came full circle years later when he was given a radio series. He called the show a meeting of the two worlds he had studied and worked in.

In which East Midlands town did DanTDM set up the spare-bedroom studio where he made his videos?

Wellingborough was also home to the shop where he worked the till and stacked shelves before YouTube took over.

What is the name of the skeleton dog that DanTDM found in a lab in his Minecraft story videos?

Grim is Dan's bony pet in the videos and in his graphic novel. The story of how the two met was watched more than two million times within weeks.

Which evil laboratory boss is DanTDM's nemesis in his videos and his 2016 graphic novel?

Denton has an elf sidekick called Fin. In the book he races Dan for the pieces of a fallen crystal, hoping to use its power to create an evil clone army.

DanTDM's graphic novel spent eleven weeks atop which newspaper's bestseller list for graphic books?

The New York Times list for hardcover graphic books had him on top for eleven weeks running. He set out, he said, to write the kind of book he would read himself.

The 2017 series DanTDM Creates a Big Scene premiered on a paid tier then called YouTube what?

Red was the tier's name before it became YouTube Premium. The six episodes follow Dan and his animated friends as they battle to keep their live show on the road.

In which Netflix animated series did DanTDM voice Cy, a banana-headed hero built by his teammates?

Skylanders Academy has its heroes build Cy as a new teammate equipped with all of their powers, then squabble over whose fighting style he should copy.

Which studio made Minecraft: Story Mode, whose 2016 murder-mystery episode stars DanTDM as himself?

Telltale Games wrote him into A Portal to Mystery beside Stampy Cat, LDShadowLady and CaptainSparklez, with a mysterious killer called the White Pumpkin on the loose.

Which YouTuber, real name Tom Cassell, joined DanTDM to set a two-player Guinness World Record?

Syndicate had reason to look relieved: Dan scored ten of the pair's goals on stage at Legends of Gaming, held at London's Alexandra Palace.

At which UK gaming festival did DanTDM's trio beat the computer 41–0 to set a Guinness World Record?

Insomnia, held at the NEC in Birmingham, saw the three YouTubers smash a benchmark of 13 goals in a five-minute match. Dan netted the majority of them.

What part does DanTDM play in his 2025 cameo in A Minecraft Movie, alongside Aphmau and Mumbo Jumbo?

An auction-goer is all he gets to be, seated among the bidders with fellow creators. The waiter in another scene is Jens Bergensten, one of the game's lead designers.

What did cinema audiences have to use to play along with DanTDM Presents The Contest in 2019?

Their phones, for once welcome in a cinema, let the crowd join the games on screen. Audiences were split into tribes and urged to dress in their tribe's colours.

DanTDM described his scripted touring stage show as a mix of gaming and which kind of theatre?

Panto, but not cheesy, was how he put it. The show was fully rehearsed, with a team of about 25 to 30 people behind it and his characters on stage.

DanTDM told the Big Issue that his 2.3 million YouTube subscribers outnumbered which broadcaster's?

The BBC had fewer subscribers than he did, which he called pretty cool. Picturing two million viewers beside a 45,000-seat football stadium, he said, was mind-blowing.

Which robotic toy did DanTDM burn with a blowtorch in a video criticised by London's fire service?

A Hatchimal, a toy animal that hatches itself from an egg, went up in flames in a clip that passed five million views. He has said he was unprepared for being a role model.

Which animation website inspired a young DanTDM to make stop-motion films and post them on YouTube?

Newgrounds was where he watched other people's animations. YouTube, he said, was the only way to show his own without sitting people in front of his screen.

Which musician sang the mock-operatic "DanTDM Betrayed Me" after a promised team-up went quiet?

Endigo kept the joke running through a string of mock-villain songs, with Dan replying in videos of his own, before closing the saga in 2022 with Goodbye DanTDM.

How did DanTDM arrive on the beach to meet his Madame Tussauds waxwork for the first time in 2021?

By helicopter, landing on the sand before coming face to face with himself. The figure took around 800 hours to create, with experts in hair, makeup and sculpting.

Who first introduced DanTDM to Minecraft, the game he then played every day for the next five years?

His brother showed him the game, and it stuck. Dan said Minecraft is special because you can make it any game you want: build, go on adventures or load other people's worlds.