Trolls

There are largely two types of trolls in the Daniel Larson community. Successful trolls, and Weens (a term borrowed from the CWC community),

Successful Trolls

Successful trolls of Daniel tend to take a more long-term approach. The build-up to a successful trolling of Dan often takes weeks, if not months, of preparation. The below are examples of trolls who have successfully manipulated Dan long term.

Res2b

Res2b Is a friend is Murk, other renowned troll, who was known to send fake "pipe bombs" to Daniel Larson's mail. This subsequently followed of which where Daniel filed a restraining order on Res2b, where the two have since yet to communicate in person. However, due to a recent 1v1 wager on the popular game "Rainbow Six Siege", Daniel Larson was forced to de-abolish the restraining order, meaning that Res2b could now send fake pipe bombs again. Shortly after this altercation, the now popularly known pencil incident was brought to light due to Res2b's shenanigans.

Murk

Murk is a teenage troll and potential friend of Textkill who trolled and manipulated Daniel by impersonating people like Grace VanderWaal, and is allegedly the holder for the pencil incident video. He was doxxed and gave up trolling around the same time as Jix.

Jix

Jix, also known as Jasper, is an underage former troll of Daniel who was doxxed after fighting for control over Daniel. Jasper created the second DLR Discord, which was a discord dedicated to trolling Daniel. The discord went heads-up after mounting criticism for being intensely toxic and excessive, and he was eventually doxxed and quit trolling.

Flexburger

In March of 2021, Flexburger began his operation posing as a manager for Daniel under the name of "Zift". Flexburger was able to convince and persuade Daniel to comply with many crazy requests, such as the May 6th incident. Through working with Daniel, however, Flexburger discovered Daniel’s attraction to underage girls via his Pinterest account. Flexburger began to catfish Daniel, posting as an underage minor, and soon leaked this account.

Flexburger was doxxed in August of 2021 after he was denounced as an enemy by Daniel on the subreddit, r/Daniellarson, and soon ceased communication with Daniel.

While Flexburger has not communicated with Daniel ever since quitting his manager role, he is still a prominent figure in the Daniel Larson history, such as operating Larsonleak.

Ox

Ox (also known as Oxis or Ivan) is a troll and former manager of Daniel who managed to get the ire of the entire Daniel Larson community for the nuclear attack prank, raiding r/Daniellarson, doxxing children, exploiting Daniel for money, and attempting to monopolize Daniel.

IWishIHadADad

Main Article: IWishIHadADad

IWishIHadADad was known for operating a discord server, “Daniel Larson QnA”, which would be where Daniel would participate in a Q&A. The discord server was advertised on r/Daniellarson and other Daniel Larson related servers. IWishIHadADad’s server would be taken down on April 3rd.

On April 2nd, IWishIHadADad would be doxxed and subsequently revealed to be a convicted felon, having being charged with “Corporal Injury To Child”. According to him, the mother of the child was sexually and physically abusive, and he had only been thrown under the bus— a claim that was disputed with a Facebook post from said mother.

Clark

Main article: Clark

Clark was one of Daniel’s managers and will most likely be the last manager he ever has, considering Daniel is looking at a possible 65 years in federal prison. Clark was a financial enabler of Daniel, giving him money and gift cards, as well as fueling his delusions with Grace VanderWaal among other things. He was doxxed on December 17th, 2023, by Flexburger, yet remained as his manager. When Daniel had been arrested on April 30th, 2024, Clark dropped the façade and revealed to Daniel that everything had been faked— everything from the VanderWaal family to his own identity.

Clark has been deemed one of the most, if not the most, controversial manager Daniel has ever had.

TwentyTwoDope

TikTok user and Phi Kappa Tau member TwentyTwoDope (also known as Nathan) is a troll who may or may not be responsible for convincing Daniel that he was enrolled at CU Boulder, and certainly responsible for keeping Daniel on campus. On September 12th, 2023, videos were first posted to both Nathan and Daniel's TikTok accounts, as well as Daniel's YouTube channel, showing some of their activities.

Weens

Weening or failtrolling is the act of attempting to troll someone, but ultimately failing at it the whole way through, and not receiving any significant results, typically due to inexperience or just plain stupidity. Many Weens have popped up in Daniel's online experience, to the effect of doing almost nothing. Weens tend to act more on impulse. While a ween might be able to get Daniel to do something, or troll him, for a moment - they're ultimately short lived, misguided, and often very unfunny.

Dan is manipulated by "Grace Vanderwaal" who later goes on to be one of the important members of the "DLR" discord (Chuck).

DLR Discord

Created in the aftermath of the original DLR Discord ran by Jix, a new discord was created. The new DLR Discord immediately began trying to troll Daniel by having one of their insiders pretend to be Grace VanderWaal, and coercing Daniel to send nude videos of himself. This proved unsuccessful, and as of late, no nude video has surfaced.

The DLR discord spent the next day attempting to get Daniel into the server, reaching out to him via his old Discord, email, stream; Daniel ignored all efforts. Ultimately, they never got Daniel into the Discord, and began claiming that getting Daniel to join the server was never the purpose of the server in the first place. They deleted their Discord page and began a collaborative process of finding Daniel's location wherever he went.

Throughout the entire existence of this Discord, the chat was characterized by intense toxicity. People poked fun at the owners of the Discord, maligning their attempts to get Daniel to join, purportedly leading to their pivot to claiming that they never wanted Daniel to join. The Discord started as a no-ban server (outside of spreading doxes, which was common at this time). However, with the DLR server owners facing more criticism, they began banning more and more people, finishing with a blanket ban of anyone in the Daniel Larson Live (Ox's) discord.

The Dan-tracking lasted for several (allegedly one or two) nights where the server members attempted to call every business Daniel visited to make employees aware of Daniel's activities and attempt to get him kicked out. The server members were successful in the endeavor, causing Daniel to become frustrated as he was unable to stay at any one place for an extended period of time. Daniel's tracking ended once Daniel began hanging out at Downtown Disney, the shopping district located in Anaheim, California.

Dan is unable to give the video to the trolls as he claims it's too large. The trolls give him various phone numbers and emails to attempt to get a hold of it. It is unknown if they did.

By coincidence, one of the moderators of the DLR Discord happened to have two friends who were at Disney on January 17th, 2023. The friends were contacted by the DLR Discord, resulting in the moderators obtaining photos of the pair with Larson which were taken earlier in the day. The DLR Discord claimed responsibility for a Disneyland ticket purchased for Daniel on that day. Purportedly, the two friends were not intending to troll Dan. Rather, they are claimed to have had pity for him and bought Daniel the tickets themselves. It was only later that the DLR Discord attempted to frame the purchase as a trolling attempt. It should also be noted that the two individuals were not aware of the climate in the Daniel Larson community. The image was shared without a full understanding of what might result from claiming to have participated in a public trolling of Daniel (at that point, doxing, trolling, and other forms of harassment); the picture was likely shared in without the two having full knowledge of the situation.

Screenshot of DLR Discord moderators sharing a photo they obtained of from one of their friends who had met Dan earlier that day.

The subreddit's reaction to the two buying Daniel a ticket to Disney was overwhelmingly negative. Accusations were levied of enabling Daniel's pedophilia through access to a large child population, as well as generally excusing Daniel's well-known pedophilloic tendencies and endangering the public health; at this time, Daniel was still an active carrier of scabies. The Reddit community quickly turned against the DLR Discord. The next day, multiple admins of the Discord - specifically, "President Zelensky" (seen in above picture) were doxed. Reports indicate that the leaders of the Discord were unprepared for mass-doxxing and immediately began to panic. "Threats of mother calling are flung" [unknown what this statement references] and by 4:00 PM CST, the DLR discord was gone, a victim to the cycle of trolling and doxing in the DLR community.

USSR

Extremely little is known about USSR, as they were doxxed less than 48 hours after appearing. They were a friend of Jix.

Combotter

Combotter was an underage troll of Daniel Larson and was one of Daniel's earliest trolls between 2020-2021. Many of his acts included making Daniel commit suicide as well as making him get naked and record himself. He was considered to be a de-facto manager, and had tried to maintain his presence within the community through the creation of alternative accounts under new aliases. During his time as a troll, he had attempted to expose Daniel for his Pedophilia through numerous reddit posts. Since then, he has been doxxed and ceased all his activity on the internet, including deletion of numerous accounts.