It's not luck, really, or marketing or anything like that. People-parents, kids, people who post videos of themselves on YouTube-wonder how one guy making Minecraft videos gets rich and famous and goes on tour while the thousands of other people who make Minecraft videos don't. But to DanTDM, all that is a backdrop for his imagination, and he uses it to design entire worlds in which his imagination can live. Minecraft is all about constructing things, buildings and landscapes, which makes it better than your average video game. He has a rubbery smile, punky hair usually flopped over to one side, and hole-in-the-lobe earrings. He added a second channel, MoreTDM, a regular vlog of his life. Today, his videos show him playing other games as well, but mostly Minecraft, his 25-year-old boyish face almost always appearing in the corner of the screen, his running commentary now lively and funny. He first appeared on YouTube as DanTDM in 2012, when he posted a recording of himself playing Minecraft, over which he spoke a fairly humdrum narration. This guy-this guy is quite amazing, actually. You sit there for a minute, and then four minutes, and before you know it you've slid down onto the couch and watched the whole 12-minute thing, you and your boy, on a Saturday morning, post-pancakes. No bad language, no inciting of illicit behavior. So you sit on the arm of the couch for a minute to watch-to make sure it's okay.
He looks up from the screen for less than a second and says, "He's funny."įunny is good. Why, you ask your child, do you spend your time doing this, turning your brain to mush? Like the apes really are going to rise up and take over. The first time you witness your child doing this, you feel despair. Your child wants to sit inside on a sunny Saturday morning and watch a video of someone else playing a video game. Not just that your child wants to sit inside on a sunny Saturday morning playing a video game. If you're a parent, it might seem preposterous. Now our toons for today have taken over Bikini Bottom. . . . So let's spawn SpongeBob here-here he is, you see he looks a-maz-ing.
Dantdm playing cluster trucks mod#
This mod is said to be a lot of fun, so let's get straight to it. Welcome to another Minecraft Mod showcase, where today we're going to be looking at the Toon Town Mod which adds characters and items from your favorite cartoons into your Minecraft world-from SpongeBob to Snoopy and even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Hey everyone! Dan here, from The Diamond Minecart. YouTube, Minecraft TOON TOWN! Mod Showcase, 10,220,786 views: DanTDM looks the parents in the eye and thanks them back. He smiles at the ticket-buying parents, too, who can't resist popping over to shake Dan's hand and thank him for entertaining their kids. He lets each kid talk to him, and he responds thoughtfully, and he smiles. At the end, he high-fives each kid, and it's an enthusiastic high-five-if they miss, Dan repeats it until they get a good one. When each child gets to Dan, he asks the kid's name, answers nervous questions, autographs whatever the kid puts in his face, and poses for a photograph. "The Diamond Minecart." You have to play Minecraft to understand the TDM part, but it's a clever name.Īt the meet-and-greet, 150 kids and their parents hug the walls of the room. In front of him is a cardboard cutout of a Minecraft cart loaded with Minecraft diamonds, with the words TDM ON TOUR. Behind him is a black curtain hung from a metal frame, emblazoned with a picture of a Minecraft tunnel. Inside, Dan sits in a plastic chair at one end of a large reception room-industrial carpeting, fluorescents. on a rainy Sunday for a show that begins at 3, because they've paid an additional $95 for the chance to meet Dan, so that their children can see that the guy who they spend their Saturday mornings watching on YouTube is a real, live human. The parents of the kids who are already here have been standing in line since 11:15 a.m. The North American leg is being promoted by Live Nation, the massive company that put on 26,000 events in 40 countries last year. Almost every show on the 18-month tour has sold out, including two at the Beacon Theater in New York, four at the Sydney Opera House, and 32 straight shows across the U.K., where Dan lives. Tickets for today's show cost between $63.50 and $150, and it's sold out. The glass doors lead in to a 5,000- seat theater in Wallingford, Connecticut, a half hour from the closest city. Some of them carry pictures or posters of Dan.
The kids-it's almost all boys-run circles around each other to pass the time, or they twirl their fidget spinners, or they plead with their parents for a phone to play with.
They're already here, standing outside in a raggedy line that begins at the locked glass doors and ends somewhere near the parking lot.
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