Grace VanderWaal
Grace Vanderwaal is a 19-year-old American singer, songwriter, and actress whom Daniel Larson has had a lecherous, perverted obsession with since as early as 2021. Daniel's obsession with her started with his hyper-fixation with fame and America's Got Talent, when Grace was 17 years old. Daniel has claimed to be in either a romantic or sexual relationship with Grace depending on how he's feelings, or delusions.[1]
Be it romantic, he claims that Grace is his girlfriend. Be it sexual, he explains the various explicit sexual acts he'd do to her. Nonetheless, it is all very disturbing. Beginning on May 12th, 2021, he claimed that he and Grace had some sort of collaboration in the works that would be coming out soon. This soon escalated to telling random strangers on that streets that he was dating her, to him recording multiple videos of himself moaning and whispering in a suggestive way supposedly for her, to becoming hysterical about her allegedly "breaking up" with him, to him apologizing for the multiple sexually charged videos made about her. Regardless of malicious trolls tricking and persuading him that he was dating Grace, he went above and beyond to show his unbridled obsession with her.
Daniel always reserved a special place reserved a space of Grace as his primary target of harassment and delusion. Every once in a while, posts made by Grace on TikTok or Instagram would be filled to the brim with comments by Daniel, as if he were having a conversation with Grace in real time.
During a moment of delusion, an extremely distraught Daniel, seemingly because he is without access to his phone, posts on TikTok for people to get him information. Based on the content of these videos, he is under the impression that there has been some kind of accident and that the VanderWaal family, whom he believes were in contact with him up until this point, is refusing to give him information in regards to something he claims to have happened to Grace. In this video, he hits himself and threatens to end his own life. This never ended up happening.
Later, on the 4th of July, 2021, he uploads a video to YouTube mourning the supposed deaths of Dave and Grace VanderWaal. In this video, Daniel simultaneously believes Grace has commit suicide and had a heart attack, but before he does any of that, he cries and apologizes for sexting minors and sending Grace, or whoever he thought was Grace, pictures of his genitalia. He promises to repent for the bad choices he's made and continue her legacy. Eventually, he discovered that Grace had not died, and continued his regular obsessive posting about her, resuming instantly.
Grace has never publically acknowledged Daniel, but according to messages from her mother, Tina VanderWaal, she wants nothing to do with him. Grace is most commonly impersonated person by "trolls", due to making it extremely easy to gain Daniel's trust because of his desperation and lust for her. On multiple occasions, he is shown to have made a fool of himself by talking to these trolls.
Contact
Grace has never publically acknowledged Daniel despite thousands of spamming attempts and posts by Daniel and other trolls. However, this obsession culminated into Daniel being contacted on July 25th 2022 by Grace's mother, although not on the best of terms. She contacts Daniel telling him to stop making contact with her family, especially her daughter, and that all of Daniel's actions and feelings are in his own mind. Along with this, she claims to be in contact with the police, and if Daniel refuses to stop making videos about her daughter, she will presumably press the issue to possibly get him arrested. Daniel responds by stating that he understands but will be ending his life that night. He does not and most likely did it as a way to guilt-trip her.
This interaction with Graces mother would be the focus of multiple videos for quite some time after. Daniel would post multiple videos apologizing to the VanderWaal family, and continuously adressing the "Allegations", which fluctuated from admitting his misdeeds to pretending they had never happened at all.
In an act of what can only be described as pity, mixed with empathy, Tina made a comment on one of his livestreams begging him to stop, once again. After this, his posts about Grace would dwindle, but never completely die down.