Danny Duncan

Danny Duncan is a popular YouTuber.

He has more than 7.3M subscribers on his eponymous YouTube channel.

Introduction-

Danny Duncan was born on 28 July 1992 in Englewood, Florida, U.S.

His mother, Suzanne Davis, used to work as a bartender.

His father’s name is Scott Duncan.

Danny has two siblings, a brother, David Vielhauer, and a sister, Gwendolyn Johnson.

Education-

Danny did his schooling from Lemon Bay High School in Englewood, and he passed out in 2010.

Later, he studied from State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota.

Initially, he worked at Walgreens.

A born prankster-

Since his childhood, Danny has been a prankster.

While growing up, he used to prank in Walmart and as he grew up broke, he couldn’t afford a camera, so he couldn’t shoot his initial pranks.

Dreaming to become rich-

Since his childhood, Danny wanted to become rich.

He used to cut out magazines related to wealth and stick it to his walls.

As Danny was very interested in sports, he wanted to grow up to become a professional athlete.

A sports enthusiast-

Danny started with baseball and at 14, he started skating.

Later, he switched to running and then to triathlon and other sports.

At 20, Danny realised that he couldn’t become a professional sportsperson but as he wanted to be involved in sports, he started training athletes.

Sports trainer & landscaper-

Danny moved to Los Angeles and began working as a personal trainer for athletes.

He was providing active isolated stretching training to athletes participating in Tampa Pro and Damn Am skateboard competitions.

While in Los Angeles, Danny used to visit parks like Stoner Park, etc. and would set up his massage table and would stretch the skaters.

During that time, he was homeless and used to survive on Ramen noodles.

At that time, Danny used to move to and fro between Los Angeles and Florida.

He used to work as a trainer in Los Angeles and in Florida, he used to do landscaping.

Danny hated landscaping thanks to the hot weather of Florida.

Introduced to YouTube-

As Danny was working as a trainer to skaters, he got referred to Jason Lee, an American actor and a former professional skateboarder.

He began working with Jason on training people and Jason observed that he was funny and was confident that he could become a good actor and so, he told him to work on Instagram and YouTube, so that it would become easier for him to get a gig in an acting audition.

As Danny was inspired by his words, he started working on Instagram and YouTube.

YouTube & Instagram-

On 6 March 2014, Danny started his eponymous YouTube channel.

Initially, he made stretching and skating related videos but later, shifted to pranks.

Danny’s friend Chris Chann was a prankster and he had many subscribers on his YouTube channel and this inspired him to do pranks on Danny Duncan YouTube channel.

And as he was a prankster since his childhood, he had no problem doing pranks.

Danny also began working on Instagram and eventually, he grew his number of followers.

His first viral video-

Danny’s first video to get viral is ‘Surprising My Sister With A New Car!‘

It was published on 2 August 2017 and has received millions of views.

Becoming successful-

Since the beginning, Danny believed that he would definitely become a successful YouTuber.

He has been publishing videos on a regular basis for many years and this made him a successful YouTuber.

When Danny received his first brand deal which was worth $5000, he quit landscaping.

Then he received another $5000 when he signed for a YouTube network.

Thanks to all these, Danny’s financial struggles ended.

As of November 2023, he has 7.36M subscribers on his eponymous YouTube channel, 3.7M followers on Instagram, 189.3K followers on Twitter, and 1M followers on his Facebook page.

He also has a website.

After Danny became a successful YouTuber, he persuaded his mother to resign from her job.

Thanks to his financial success, he has been able to buy a couple of houses and his dream cars.

Many earning sources-

Apart from AdSense, Danny earns from many sources.

Initially, he partnered with Teespring and sold merchandise and made good money off it.

Later, Danny started selling merchandise through his website.

He also invested in stocks.

His future plan is to start a production company and produce his own films.

So, how are you inspired by the success story of Danny Duncan?

Share with me in the comment section below.