Kusari

Kusari is an 18-year-old internet documentarian, a massive legend, and former TikToker from the anime community who first created his channel on Jan 4, 2020 and uploaded his first video, being about Daniel Larson, on Mar 14, 2023 at around 9-10pm PST.

Kusari's first video "The Daniel Larson Documentary" is a 2.5 hour-long documentary about Daniel and is revered in the community for its incredible detail and accuracy, especially for a brand-new YouTuber. The documentary got over 125k views in under 2 weeks, and is one of the most watched Daniel Larson videos on the entire platform.

As of 3/30/2023, it is the first search result when looking up “Daniel Larson” on YouTube. Kusari’s involvement in the Daniel Larson community started when he began teasing and advertising his documentary in the subreddit, which caused moderate buzz in the reddit and had people looking forward to it. However, Kusari claims at the end of his documentary and in several comments that he had been following Daniel and had been aware of him since July 2020. The night the video released, around 50 users watched the premiere on YouTube live.

His two videos on Daniel, one being the documentary, and a follow-up update video he made shortly after the documentary’s release, can be viewed on his channel. He has gained over 3,000 subscribers since the upload of “The Daniel Larson Documentary”, with him noting on social media that before the doc’s upload he had no videos and just over 100 subs.

Kusari used The Daniel Larson Wiki multiple times in his video, and cited it several times as key points of reference. He says that the wiki and the Subreddit were his two primary sources of info for the documentary as well as Turkey Tom’s video, and shouted out creators like The Daniel Larson Curator, Papa Gut, PERK 30, and other archive channels and redditors for providing valuable info about Daniel and helping him with his research.