Highest Paid YouTube Stars: Dan TDM The $18.5 Million Dollar Man

ByAmy Lamareon December 20, 2018inArticles›Entertainment

Daniel Middleton, now known as Dan TDM but formerly as The Diamond Minecraft, is a British YouTube personality. He was born on November 8, 1991 in Aldershot, England. He attended the University of Northampton. He started his YouTube channel in 2010 while in college devoted to Pokemon. Back then, he called himself PokemonDanLv45. Then, in 2012, while he was a shelf stocker at the grocery store Tesco, Dan launched The Diamond Minecart, a gaming channel with an audience of kids aged 5-10. He changed his YouTube channel name to TheDiamondMinecart/ DanTDM. In December 2016, he changed it to just DanTDM.

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Middleton has been a regular guest at the gaming festival Insomnia. He has also appeared twice on CBBC’s Technobabble, as a commenter on video games. In the fall of 2016, Middleton released a graphic novel called Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal. It features characters from his YouTube show including DanTDM and his dog Grim, evil lab boss Denton and his sidekick Fin as well as Dr. Trayaurus, a scientist. It reached the number one spot on the New York Times Best Seller list in Japan for 11 weeks.

In the past year, Middleton had a world tour that included four sold out nights at the Sydney Opera House. It was the second fasting selling show in the venue’s history. He also has a booming merchandise business.

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