Talk:DanTDM

Semi-protected edit request on 29 May 2024

Hopefully I'm doing this right. Anyways, it says "is an English YouTube and video game personality and author known for his video game commentaries." The "YouTube" is suppose to be YouTuber? Can anyone please fix this? The fixed text goes as follows:

Daniel Robert Middleton (born 8 November 1991), known professionally as DanTDM (formerly TheDiamondMinecart), is an English YouTuber and video game personality and author known for his video game commentaries. His output has covered many video games including Minecraft, Roblox, Pokémon and Sonic the Hedgehog, along with other content. ErrorOliver (talk) 19:30, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done I've also removed "video game personality" altogether to fix the flow of the sentence. I think what was meant before was that he is a [Youtube and video game] personality, not that he is a Youtube and [video game personality], but that wasn't very clear. Tollens (talk) 19:43, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

References

Recent channel content changes

Recently Daniel has started uploading content not targeted for children, most of which dark horror games because of him wanting to "pursue his own interests more instead of the channel's". This can also be linked to his more frequent livestreams and less frequent uploads on the main channel. So, stating that his audience is mostly children is outdated and just invalid. It should be updated. GranularGuy41 (talk) 18:40, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Lunchly?

Should we include the Lunchly conflict with DanTDM, Logan Paul, and MrBeast? HiGuys69420 (talk) 19:25, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 October 2024

I think for the Lunchly part that Dan tweeted about, it'd be good to have a sic where he says "can't not", since can't is an abbreviation of cannot.

"What happened to YouTubers man.. I can't not [sic] say anything anymore. This is selling stuff for the sake of making money, simple. How does this benefit their fans? This is selling crap to kids who don't know better than to trust the people who are selling it to them. Do better." Toptier5stars (talk) 21:46, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: Unless I'm reading it wrong, he's essentially saying, "I can't continue staying quiet anymore". With that reading, though it's not the most grammatical way of getting his point across, it's not exactly wrong and doesn't warrant a [sic] tag. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 20:00, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

He might be saying that, I'm not sure. But essentially saying "I cannot not say anything anymore" is an unusual way of saying that he can't continue staying quiet. On the page for Sic, it says that unusual grammar would warrant a [sic], and Dan having unusual grammar here would warrant a [sic] for that part, since it might be a error on his end. Toptier5stars (talk) 20:28, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm worried that adding the tag makes it sound like we, in Wikipedia's voice, are saying he made a mistake, when I don't think it's clear that he did (despite it being "unusual grammar", as you say). I may be in the minority with that opinion, though, so I'm reopening this request so that other parties can weigh in. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 20:57, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

To me, "can't not X" feels pretty natural, while "cannot not X" doesn't (even though they are logically equivalent, but language isn't always logical as the saying goes). It seems pretty clear to me that the intended meaning is, "I can't continue staying quiet anymore," because he is speaking out publicly as opposed to not saying anything. So in this case I would personally think that a "[sic]" wouldn't be needed, although I do recognize that the language would seem unusual to some.

My proposal is to just pare down the quote to remove the phrase in question entirely. I don't think the full tweet is necessary to get the point across. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 23:34, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

A very good point, so I went ahead and trimmed the confusing wording out of the quote. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 00:23, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Classic FM Show

Don't know if there should be a paragraph on it, but I just wanted to point out that Daniel has a new show on British radio station Classic FM called 'Next Level With DanTDM', talking about and playing famous video game scores. Again, don't know if it's relevant enough to have a section on it in this article.

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/dantdm-next-level-video-game-music-series/ Fwn499 (talk) 18:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC)