Daniel Larson

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Daniel Robert Larson (born November 15, 1998), also known as Danderson, is an autistic, schizophrenic, American man, who is also a self-proclaimed professional singer/songwriter, fashion model, actor, and internet celebrity. He has gained a large following due to his intriguing and controversial content, including his multiple bans for nudity on live streams, him "running" for President of the United States, allegations of pedophilia, and his obsession with various celebrities, most notably Grace VanderWaal.

Daniel considers himself to be a mainstream celebrity, however this status is entirely manifested off of his own delusions. Despite this, he is at least a niche internet microcelebrity, having a following of "fans" who watch his antics.

Early Life

Daniel as a child.

Daniel Robert Larson was born on November 15, 1998, in Lancaster, California, to his parents Elisabeth Lee Shimer and James Travis Larson. Tragically, he had two younger twin sisters who passed away shortly after birth for unknown reasons. He also has a half-sister named Aurora.

There is scant information regarding Daniel's early childhood. However it is known that at about age 11, Daniel's grandmother, Nancy Shimer, became his legal guardian due to his neglectful upbringing thus far. Despite her far kinder treatment of Daniel, Nancy was known to be enabling of his bad habits. Daniel's father claimed that in response to Daniel painting on his grandmother's walls, rather than punishing him, she instead opted to give him M&Ms. Nancy would enroll Daniel in the Tennyson Center for Children, a center for rehabilitating and assisting children with intellectual disabilities.

A 2012 news report on KWGN regarding Daniel's time at the Tennyson Center for Children states that he grew up in an extremely neglectful home.

At the Tennyson Center, Daniel was diagnosed with ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, and an intellectual disorder. There is immense speculation that Daniel has more mental disabilities. Such beliefs are fueled by Daniel's father who speculated that Daniel has a, "...laundry list," of mental issues. It is certainly possible that his neglectful upbringing may have left him with a great deal of childhood trauma, which may exacerbate his already chaotic behavior. There also appear to be signs of fetal alcohol syndrome, meaning his mother likely consumed alcohol during her pregnancy.

In July of 2019, when Daniel was 20, Nancy passed away from cancer. Before her death, she sent Daniel to a state-run group home program for the disabled, where he remained for about two years before alternating between living with other individuals and living on the streets. Daniel's mental health began to deteriorate significantly due to a confluence of challenging circumstances. These circumstances include living on the streets, geographical isolation from family/friends, and limited access to mental healthcare.

Early Internet Career/Trolling

In March of 2020 that Daniel would start using social media, creating the account @daniellars20 on TikTok, however this account was hardly used. He would then make the @daniellarsonfans account, which gained a large following rather quickly due to his odd looks and behavior. Daniel's first video to gain attention was called "Good night everyone," in which he stiltedly wished his fans good luck while his phone buzzes on in the background.

Daniel would begin posting increasingly popular videos on his various TikTok pages in May of 2020, notably during the George Floyd protests/riots which he believed were led by his fans. His posts quickly drew the attention of trolls, who would become increasingly aggressive in their methods over time. What started off as simple annoyances, such as spamming comments, would soon turn into harassment as some trolls would go as far as to call Daniel's cell phone. However a few trolls in particular would take advantage of Daniel's gullible nature in order to manipulate (or in rarer cases help) him. In early 2020, signs of Daniel being manipulated by managers became quite apparent in his TikTok posts. One such video is of him claiming to be a model for "Southwest Models and Talent Agency."

Flexburger would become Daniel's first of many managers in early 2021. Flexburger obtained this role by impersonating an executive of a record label.

Daniel would start to post some of his most well known videos around this time, such as the infamous "Jumping Jacks for George Floyd" video and his announcement for his Presidential Campaign. Iconic posts such as these would cause Daniel to accumulate over one million followers on TikTok, which would prompt the creation of r/Daniellarson in October of 2020. Daniel would also start live streaming on TikTok live and host zoom meetings with his managers, who would get him to post a music video called "Fake News."

Due to his virality, Daniel began posting multiple videos daily of him doing incredibly monotonous things like eating food, as well as various videos of his zoom meetings.

Pinterest Leak

On November 20, 2020, a Pinterest account belonging to Daniel was leaked by Flexburger. This leak would be one of many instances which showed Daniel's pedophilia. The account had albums filled with images of children, maps of the United States which listed the age of consent for each state, and photos of his various underage celebrity crushes. Daniel posted his first apology/confession hours later, in which he admitted that he had used the, "...pictures of girls and masturbate[d] to them... a long time ago." He would then delete the Pinterest account and immediately go back on his apology, claiming that the account wasn't his and that, "...the media blew up the Pinterest situation out of proportion."

The leaking of his Pinterest account made Daniel go into full lockdown. He not only disabled comments, but he also deleted or set to private several of his videos, especially ones about Grace VanderWaal. He even went as far as to disable his TikTok account, but only temporarily.

A cropped meme of the May 6th incident.

Following this brief period of heightened paranoia, Daniel's posts would return to normal. However, the leaking of his Pinterest account would make certain actions of his particularly alarming, such as several instances of him duetting very young girls on TikTok. Yet despite his usual posts returning, he then entered a feud with (trolls impersonating) The Diligent Broadcast and Roach Records. In posts regarding the feud, he threatened to sue them for ganging up on him and faking the Pinterest account. Following many subsequent schizo-posts, Daniel would take a brief respite from TikTok beginning on December 20, 2020, and lasting all the way up to March of 2021.

2021

After returning to social media in March of 2021, Daniel immediately declared war on Flexburger after discovering that he had been the one who leaked his Pinterest account. In response to this, Flexburger manipulated Daniel into flashing his penis on TikTok live in front of 500 people, thus resulting in an immediate and permanent ban from TikTok. in order to circumnavigate the ban, Daniel created many different alternate accounts, however these too would often get banned. For the time being, Daniel went to YouTube and Likee, however he did not give up on his TikTok career.

Flexburger was already an enemy of r/Daniellarson, and following this declaration, was doxxed and ceased communications with Daniel.

After returning to TikTok later that year, Daniel would mostly just post about Grace VanderWaal. Notably, he would release Roaring Thunder on July 15, which became his most well known song. It's around this time that The Fog started appearing in his videos.

The Fog

This instance of the fog was posted in July of 2021 on one of Daniel's previous TikTok accounts, @daniellarsonishere.

Daniel embarked on his first distinct "Arc," known as the Fog arc. Following the instructions of his management, he covered his camera with tape, resulting in a hazy, fog-like visual effect over his recordings for several months. During this period, he shared various videos featuring this unique visual style. One of the most memorable videos he posted was on TikTok, in which he said, "Rest in Peace George Floyd, the police should be terminated." In addition to these more serious videos, Daniel continued his typical schizo-posting, with videos such as him rubbing his nipples to Darci Lynne and Grace VanderWaal, and apologizing to "Penus Ajun Grill," and a three-minute altercation with his caretaker, Jonas.

These "Fog" videos gained significant attention on social media, coinciding with the peak of the "Fog" meme trend. This meme warned viewers of an ominous, Lovecraftian fog. Many comments on Daniel's videos referenced this meme, with phrases such as "The fog is coming." It's probable that Daniel didn't fully grasp the meaning behind these comments.

California Sidetrack

Daniel took the midnight train to California on August 20, 2021 in a failed attempt to meet his father, Travis Larson, who in fact was merely a troll impersonating him. As a result of his unannounced departure, Daniel was dropped from his disability program, thus leaving him almost entirely dependent upon Bob and the kindness of strangers. Some highlights of Daniel's brief stay in the golden state include threatening Grace VanderWaal's boyfriend, shaving himself a mohawk, and accidentally ending up in Emeryville instead of Los Angeles.

He would almost instantly be relocated back to Colorado Springs by his case manager, Samantha.

Colorado

Daniel would go silent for a week after his TikTok account @daniellarsoninsocal, made in preparation of him going to California, was banned. Upon his return, Daniel declared his hatred for the police and made a video of him twerking while mouthing off about how bad they are. In another video in which Daniel is visibly inebriated, he exclaimed that he, "...wants there to be riots."

In November of 2021, Goldberg Shacklestein, a stereotypical Jewish pseudonym, was first mentioned by Daniel. Goldberg was actually Samantha incognito. According to Daniel, Shacklestein was the supposed leader of the New York mafia, thus making him a particularly threatening figure.

Jonas returned in another video, which featured a verbal altercation between Daniel, Jonas, and Gavin in their group home. This theme of meltdowns and conflicts continued, as Daniel's current Grace VanderWaal and Jojo Siwa trolls seemed to get bored and broke up with him. This led to Daniel threatening Jojo Siwa and experiencing a full-on meltdown over Grace. This didn't seem to hold him down too much, though, as he would soon start asking young women to date him. He would also fire his case manager Samantha at the prompt of his management, cutting off the last truly positive influence in his life (at the time, at least.)

2022

Unhinged Arc

After the firing of his case manager, Daniel would completely lose his last professional source of mental healthcare and would further succumb to the influences of his management and manipulators. 2022 would start off with a particularly violent and unhinged spree from Daniel; he would record videos of him humping his camera for Grace, threatening to break down his walls, his streak being so bad that his current manager, Bianka, quit out of feelings of mistreatment.

This streak wouldn't end, as he would post videos of him crying in bathrooms, punching himself in the dick, and more absurd Grace Posting (mostly him bleating about his relationship with Grace). This would reach his apex on May 13th with the Porch Charging Incident, where he called some random man whose property he trespassed on the n-word.

Daniel's unhinged posting would seemingly end with him running the Denver Colfax Marathon. He would then stop posting anything of interest until June.

Daniel Larson Golden Age

In the rest of 2022, more events regarding Daniel would continue to occur. Daniel would blame one of his case managers, Andrew, for everything, and begin to have massive meltdowns over him. Daniel would also join the Roe v. Wade protests, marking the second incarnation of the Daniel Larson riots.

Los Angeles Arc

On December 10th, Daniel would have a meltdown which escalated into a physical altercation with Bob. This would result in Daniel being immediately flown out of Denver by Bob, with him now being homeless in Los Angeles, California.

Personal life and family

Daniel’s personal life and thoughts, despite his incessant posting, have large blind spots either due to both the vague and complex topics not being able to be fleshed out because of Daniel’s lack of cohesive and consistent thought, and Daniel typically not caring about things that don’t affect or instantly gratify him.

His family life is tumultuous. His dad was never there for him in the first place and his mom whom he was taken away from was neglectful, partly impacted by her being paralyzed from lupus and mostly her lacking foresight. His grandmother definitely did not know how to properly care for a child as troubled as Daniel, her consistently enabling his activity and unintentionally feeding his delusions. His two step-sisters are unknown (and should stay that way), and his two potential siblings passed away almost immediately after birth. He’s had numerous caretakers, either voluntarily or assigned by the state. He had Bob Proctor, who left him after he was beaten by Daniel.

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Mental and Physical Illness

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Daniel, as previously mentioned, is mentally ill and is afflicted with, quoting from Daniel’s father, “a laundry list of mental illnesses”. His physical health isn’t much better either, as he always seems to be falling apart at the seams.

He has scabies, trench foot, hypodontia, autism, ADHD, bipolar, schizophrenia, and probably more issues we do not know about.

Finances

Due to Daniel's mental issues, Daniel has a huge lack of ability to handle money.

Daniel lives in homelessness and off of the charity of others, and despite that, he has gone to Disneyland, paid thousands of dollars of legal fees (either through fines or court/bond fees), and destroyed over 1 thousand dollars of electronics in one short fanatical spree.

Not only that, but he has a huge gambling issue due to him not understanding statistics, probably because of his autism. He hasn’t been a huge gambler, but often spends small amounts of money at casinos which compounds into a large amount of spending over a long course of time.

Infamy and social media

Many people, including Daniel, would refer to him “famous”, and possibly even a celebrity. But “famous” is a really, really bad word to describe his internet popularity, and infamy would be a better, but not entirely accurate, word to describe his popularity. Daniel wasn’t always infamous, however, and could be described as famous in his early days, before the many controversies (listed below) happened or were exposed to the general public, or the public at all really.

Daniel’s fame comes entirely from social media, although it is precipitously crossing into the real world due to his travels to NYC. He’s had a countless amount of social media accounts on TikTok, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, Reddit, Pinterest, Quora, Likee, and many, many more.

Presidential Campaign

See also: Political Activism and Presidential Campaign

Daniel, in early 2020, ran for president of the United States for unknown reasons, probably a mix of manipulation, mental illness, and overinflated ego. Weens and followers of Daniel often refer to him as "Mr. President", which has currently unknown effects on him.

Controversies

Despite Daniel being mentally ill and losing a lot of his culpability, he is still an awful person whose actions reflect his actual thoughts, despite the manipulation and insanity. Daniel has a long history of violent and repulsive actions, so many in fact that it’d be difficult to not write it down in a condensed form. Here is a short list of horrible things he has done/does:

Controversies

Is a pedophile	Talked in more detail below
Stalks and harrasses Grace VanderWaal	Started following Grace from childhood due to unintentional influence from his grandmother, still talks about her over a decade later
Beat up Bob Proctor	Had a meltdown over a hotel supposedly having a gun
Stole thousands of dollars worth of food	From small businesses in the form of dining and dashing
Spread scabies around Disneyland	Self explanatory
Tormented Miss P	Destroyed her house after being confronted over damaging a window, encouraged weens and trolls to show up to her house and ship packages to her
Punched a random Bodega Worker	Punched a random bodega worker for kicking him out after he made a bunch of noise in his store
Is incredibly racist	Repeatedly uses the N-word, hates jews and talks about Goldberg Shacklestein and the New World Order.
Tried to sexually assault a random homeless man	A man he dubbed "Sleepy Joe" was at a movie theater, peacefully resting when Daniel walked up to him, started messing with him, and talked about filming porn with Joe

Pedophilia

Main article: Pedophilia

Daniel Larson is, transparently, a pedophile. Even if you wave away the admissions and stalking of child celebrities and sting operations, there is still irrefutable evidence he is a pedophile because of things like his Quora account and Pinterest.

Rage and Meltdowns

Main article: Meltdowns

Daniel proven on multiple occasions to be very volatile and vulnerable to sudden fits of rage (probably due to his autism), them almost always being captured from the perspective of Daniel’s phone. Daniel acts out in multiple ways for a sleuth of reasons, most of his rages being mostly verbal, but sometimes physical, sometimes involving him hitting people, like Jonas and Bob Proctor, and himself.

A rare external video of Daniel was uploaded to Reddit on September 30, 2022 of Daniel hitting himself and kicking store windows. The video was supposedly filmed by Brink.

Refusal to accept help

The mere fact that Daniel is not institutionalized, given all his problems, probably means that the American system has failed him. Regardless, while some people have offered to turn Daniel's life around for the better, as well as services existing for this purpose, he actively refuses real help and instead decides to spend money from fans on $700 hotel rooms, Dave and Busters nachos, and other useless things. As such, Daniel is still homeless, broke and continues to occasionally wreak havoc once he finds out he's been talking to another Grace VanderWaal yet again.

Trolls and Manipulation

Trolling. Trolling never changes. The end of the troll happened exactly as we predicted; too many trolls, not enough lolcows or bandwidth.

Trolling is a classic staple of the internet and will happen in some way to almost anyone that uses the internet. Be it ragebait, clever pranks, or constant harassment, trolls have a plethora of ways in getting reactions out of their victims/targets. Trolls, either directly or indirectly, are the main driving force behind events in the Daniel Larson story. Trolls have many different motivations behind associating with Daniel, whether it being positive like Ox, or negative like Flexburger, or it being extremely negative like Quacko, there are some commonalities between them all, most notably that they all harm Daniel in some way, intentional or not.

Manipulation Tactics

Here’s a short list of ways trolls and other Daniel Larson followers are able to get Daniel to do various things, good or bad.

• Catfishing
  • Trolls will usually imitate celebrities, such as Darci Lynne or Grace VanderWaal, and catfish Danderson. They will occasionally branch out and riskily imitate little girls to catfish Daniel.
  • This usually works, even when Daniel is already dating as Daniel is just as manipulative as the manipulators and constantly cheats on his catfishes with other catfishes.
• Managing
  • Trolls will approach Daniel claiming to be various important figures for record labels and celebrity managers and will draft Daniel onto their fake labels.
  • These people can also directly manage Daniel, instead of being assigned to him by a company, which usually tends to have a greater grasp of control over Daniel.
  • This type of trolling was more prominent in 2021, which can be best seen in the Headset Era.
• Saviors
  • Various people with a hero complex will approach Daniel, under the naive presumption they will “fix” him because short conversations over the phone can solve extreme psychological issues and years of manipulation.
  • These people, if not immediately rejected by Daniel, will usually very quickly become frustrated and abandon Daniel the only exception really being Ox.
• Ween-ing
  • Weens (i.e. low-level / amateur trolls,) will write him in the comments section or gain a short period of contact with Daniel and will either scold him or feed him some random piece of information. These usually fail, but sometimes succeed as in the case of Goldberg Shacklestein and Cryaxx.
• White Knighting
  • White Knights are often found in comment sections of Daniels videos giving him praise, telling Daniel they love them, or more prominently, actively defending Daniel's actions.

Trolling Tactics

Trolls, much like the manipulators, have their own tactics and strategies to get what they want out of Daniel, this being him raging. There is some crossover between the manipulator tactics, but there are some unique ways that trolls mess with Daniel, mostly in ween-ish ways.

Calling

Daniel's number is leaked with ease, in fact, he has leaked it himself on multiple occasions - and with no accessible way to change it, he is subject to constant calls from trolls. This can be seen during his live streams (and formerly, many of his TikTok videos) where his ringtone and vibration is constantly cutting off the audio to his streams.

The trolls who call and text him usually just harass him, but in some of the more notable and infamous examples where they impersonate others, much like the manipulators, and get him to do harmful things.

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