Danny Gonzalez

Gonzalez and Fuechsl in April 2020

Daniel James Gonzalez[P 1] was born in Chicago, Illinois[2]^: 9:53 on June 12, 1994,[P 2][P 3] and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois.[2]^: 9:57 He attended Wheaton North High School,[P 4] before attending the Georgia Institute of Technology where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computational media.[P 5][2]^: 1:36

Gonzalez married Laura Fuechsl on July 1, 2017.[P 6][2]^: 10:43

Gonzalez began his career on Vine making six-second comedy sketches.[3] He later participated in Camp Unplug, a 2016 Vine mini-series, during which he met Drew Gooden.[4] Gonzalez accumulated about 2.9 million Vine followers before the service shut down.[5][4] In 2014, while still on Vine, he created and started uploading videos to his YouTube channel.[P 7][6]

From 2017 to 2018, Gonzalez wrote, edited, and starred in various shorts and "Corridor Crew" videos for Corridor Digital. In 2019, he and Gooden headlined the "We are Two Different People" comedy tour with Kurtis Conner as the opener.[7][8] The tour was named as such due to the similarities between Gooden and Gonzalez, both being self-described "skinny white guys on the internet".[9]

Gonzalez's videos are often commentary on different aspects of Internet culture, criticism of YouTube, B movies, and general cultural criticism.[10] His 2018 Troom Troom reaction videos popularized the channel.[11] He is known for his criticisms of Jake and Logan Paul,[10] and for his commentaries on Musical.ly (later TikTok) stars.[12] In addition to commentary videos, he is also known for his parody music. He refers to his fanbase by the singular name "Greg".[3]

Gonzalez is associated with fellow YouTubers Drew Gooden, Kurtis Conner, and Cody Ko.[13]