 Welcome to world's best videos we've come by the list of facts about YouTube's sensation of diamond minecart Let's get into it Daniel Andrew Middleton are better known as Dan TDM was born on November 8th 1991 in Aldershaw, England He is currently 25 years old and resides in Wellingborough, England Growing up he had a rough childhood his parents decided to divorce and his family would constantly be moving around This is due to his father being in the military so wherever his father was stationed they would go along as well He is the eldest child in the family. He has a younger brother that is two and a half years younger He attended Northampton University to pursue higher education He studied music production and got a degree in that field Unfortunately, he never actually became a music producer because he pursued YouTube instead The first console he got was a Super Nintendo When he was in university he used the name Pokemon Dan level 45 as his name to create a YouTube channel He would mainly do unwrappings of Pokemon cards and a post videos of him doing playthroughs of Pokemon He fell in love with the game because it allowed him to travel because he would participate in tournaments Pokemon also made him feel smart because it was full of strategy and thinking He first started dating his wife Jenna in 2009 They grew up together after Dan's family moved to his current town and they were in the same friend group When he was 18 years old him and Jenna decided to move out together They eventually got married on March 17 2013. He said it was the most amazing memory of his life With the convincing of his girlfriend. He took the big risk to quit his current job to pursue YouTube full-time He created his channel on July 14th 2012 and his channel is known for mainly posting Minecraft He has accumulated over 9 billion views and has over 14.9 million subscribers He posts daily and his videos average over a million views and over 30,000 likes Then is also popular on social media amassing over 950,000 followers on Twitter across the 659 posts on Instagram. He has 2.3 million followers while only following 51 people his verified Facebook page has over 900,000 likes and 900,000 people are subscribed to it as well Daniel has gained a huge following among children earning him multiple kid choice awards in 2016 in 2016 he also released his first book called trace and the enchanted crystal The book reimagined the Minecraft style worlds and characters He's created it like you've never seen them before the book was so popular It was awarded the number one Amazon bestseller and the number one New York Times bestseller Well that concludes the video guys Hopefully you guys didn't enjoy the video and if you did remember to smack that like button Let us know in the comment section below which would like to see you next and if you haven't already subscribed Please do subscribe to keep up with the worlds best videos