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I love that Danny always starts these videos with an apology for being “really late to this story” and it’s always about people I’ve literally never heard of.

the sentence 'tiktok live gift battler' would send a victorian child into a coma

Inflation is crazy these days. Between increased rent, more expensive groceries, and supporting Jason Nash on Tik Tok, I don't know how I'm supposed to save up!

It’s so dystopian the fact that a man can make his living (a good one at that) by essentially facetiming his wife

Danny says "I'm a dad now" like he hasn't been the father of Greg for the past five years.

"He gets it, i just dont think he cares" is a fire life lesson honestly

Knowing absolutely nothing about Jason Nash, I have a feeling that he is incredibly bad with money but also doesn't want to downsize his life

David showing up to Jason’s house wearing a crown and talking about how small his house is gives the same vibes as your old boss showing up to your new job and talking about how much better your old job was

It honestly hurt me a bit when Jason’s house got raided and his son said “it’s just one of David’s pranks it’s okay.” They messed up those kids too and it’s sad.

y'all remember the tweet "What's classy when you're rich, but trashy when you're poor"? Well I just found another example, asking for money when you have a million dollar home is "a job", but it's "begging" when you're homeless

I wanted to be an author. Really really bad. I worked on a book for years and I still got it. That wasn’t taking off for me like I hoped SO EARLY ON IN MY LIFE I told myself that I’d better learn something that I can always fall back on if I needed it. So I went into the electrical trade. I’m an electrician going on 10 years now and I honestly love my career. Am I still writing? Absolutely. Am I broke while I’m doing it? Nope. One thing I’m teaching my son is that it’s completely okay to pursue the arts or being a streamer or content creator BUT you gotta have a plan B before you even go through any of that. I’m glad I can provide a comfortable life for my kid and at the same time pursue my writing goals. Always think long term.

It’s definitely weird Jason would say he’s “in a financial hole” and then laugh at door dash/retail jobs, as if ppl don’t regularly do jobs “below” their skills because they fricken need money

david visiting jason's house in a king's crown and saying their house is a hobit's home is crazy 💀

life after david sounds biblical

i burst out laughing seeing the dobre twins again, it's like a superhero villain making a comeback in the season finale

even during david's vlogs, jason was already constating stating he was strapped for cash, but then he'd go around spending ludicrous amounts of money for his own vlogs, on his car, on rent or whatever else. Like, dude you don't need to rent a house in the hollywood hills, there are other cheaper houses, even in LA.

When he started dunking on other jobs as if they were beneath him, I basically stopped feeling bad for him at all. He’s literally panhandling on TikTok. It’s SOO undignified, especially for someone his age with children.

all of david's old friends sitting around talking about their glory days while david is still out there making millions is so depressing oh my god. i didn't know it was this bad for them

As a brazllian, thank you for the "come to Brazil" bit it takes a lot of effort to say that to everyone in every oportunity

Danny, I am so dead ass when I say Jason Nash is sitting in the hot tub next to me on my spring break trip. My friends and fam is in Cabo for spring break and him and his wife just walked in and I started fucking dying bc I just watched this video and I’m like.. they probably used the money from their TikTok fueds to fund their trip 💀💀 I pointed him out to my friend and she goes “that gross old guy?? That chick is way too young for him” she said it not me. I am so glad you came out with this video before hand so I have a reason to gaff 😭

Gift battles really takes E-begging to a new level

Jason is stuck in a place that many influencers will inevitably be stuck in. Being a full grown adult with a mortgage and spouse and children to provide for, being used to spending insane amounts of money, and only being qualified to do a minimum wage job outside of social media when your fame inevitably dwindles.

Danny really kept me in nuance mode by sharing both compassion and criticism for multiple parties in this video (on a topic i didn't even know existed)

I remember one time when Jason was still doing KZfaq, he put out like a 7 minute video where the last couple seconds of the video repeated over and over until it hit the 10 min mark for the algorithm

It's like Jason and David are battling for who could have the most empty life from different ends of the financial spectrum.

danny: i can be a dad and watch jason nash the baby's first words: Thank You For The Rose Guys

danny is one of the most genuine influencers i've seen. I've been following since like 2018 and he's always humble and smart and doesn't flaunt his fame

I hate to say it but he was a grown ass man acting like a teenager surrounded by teenagers. How long did he think that was going to last? I can’t muster up even a slight amount of sympathy for him.

It’s actually crazy how loyal David’s friends are even now after all that has happened. David pretty much used all of them and left them to fend for themselves other than Natalie and Ilya whom he invested in. None of them other than Jeff has ever said anything bad about David. It’s pretty fascinating.

jason said for years that he knew the vlogs wouldn’t last forever idk why he didn’t have a back up plan or more savings

the eyebrow raise I did when it showed Jason's wife and she looks half his age 🤨🤨🤨

what the hell your a dad now?? I've been gone a year oh my gosh CONGRATULATIONS!! Your videos literally built the foundation to me and my sisters relationship, discovering our shared sense of humor really helped bring us together after drifting during some family hardship. Been greg for like four years DONT PLAY. Like danny you dont understand the joy your channel brought to our lives, we grew up in an incredibly abusive household so we really looked forward to all our little parasocial relationships. No one ever made us laugh and smile more than your stupid ass ratatoing and hallmark movie vids. I hope you and your family are BEYOND happy

Okay seriously. As a fellow old person (I’m 45), I legitimately can’t even put into words how nightmarish this idea is. Having to drag my decrepit middle aged body out of bed (in a house I can’t afford) in order to spend every moment I’m awake staring with dead eyes into a phone screen while begging teenagers to send me sombrero emojis or whatever the f*ck. My god. This man is causing me to have an existential crisis. I need to lie down.

He's a dad now 🫄 He's got better things to do 💅

Dude you are one of the most level-headed youtubers out there. I have no worries there will be life after youtube for you, whenever that ends up happening.

He said he's losing his house and everyone on the pod chuckled

Why doesn’t Jason get a DoorDash job? Because DoorDash doesn’t support a million dollar home and a wife half his age.

Danny mentioning he’s a father still feels so illegal 😭

Seeing he had a history of acting and stand up, I do feel for him. A lot of actors have a hard time once work slows down for them. A few years ago an actor from the 90s went viral because he was working at a grocery store. But he had no shame about it. Acting didn’t work out anymore so he got a job.

I just love Danny. I feel like this video really showcases his character. Like he’s very funny, I was very entertained, but I definitely noted like the asking people not to send hate to anyone, encouraging people to not conflate their career with materialism, etc. I’m sure his kid will grow up with a very upstanding moral compass

Imagine adults playing "Give me more money than that person!" being the new big thing.

I don’t understand the concept of Jason being broke now because he is still making wayyy more money than I am and can sell his house for a lot of money and transition into a “normal” home which will still be better than anything I’d be able to get. Invest his money and stuff. He’s not broke, he’s just less rich now Edit: I’m gonna use this lil bit of clout not to thank you guys for the likes🖕🏻 but to say we need to bring back Danny and Kurtis on twitch 😂

the ad for Airup was implemented in the most genius way into the video!

I have been watching your channel for so many years. Though I don't watch as often now because I don't have the same amount of spare time, I am so glad you are still doing well 💜

why can't fallen youtubers just work in retail like normal people?

Danny has been on the grind recently

Man, you deserve every ounce of your success and happiness. Kudos for being mentally strong to stay out of awful circles of people

danny is FEEDING us this month holy moly guacamole

I’m a DoorDash driver and average $25 per hour. It may not be glamorous but I’m proud of what I do, and would rather do this than beg online any day.

I feel like I've lost my mind, Jason Nash looks more like he'd be Dobrik's dad, rather than his friend

Loved this take!! I knew nothing about this situation but you explained everything fairly and with respect.

im so happy to hear that your a dad. I totally forgot about it. i wish you and laura the very best and enjoy your time with your baby. also on a different note your hair looks so good! this greyish shade of brown and the lush hair looks awesome

are we just gonna mull over the fact that he SLAMMED HIM INTO AN EXCAVATOR😭😭

I don’t use TikTok so I thought Danny was saying “gif battle” instead of “gift battle” at first. And I imagined it would be like seeing which creator’s viewers could send them the coolest gifs and then that person would win. That would be a lot more fun.

I just found your channel about a week ago and I’ve been binging the heck out of it, so thank you for being on the Internet your videos are great

This is such a good interesting video, I really like this more video-essay-ish sincere type of thing! I’m a film major in college but I’m also interested in a lot of different stuff and I’m also like I want to have stability too so this definitely resonated

danny drew and kurtis are the three horsemen of cool hair

Danny’s whole speech about careers in entertainment and saving for a future and stuff was so dad coded of him. More evidence that becoming a dad just hits you like a truck and you begin to change overnight. Soon he’ll be wearing baseball cap, cargo shorts and and socks with sandals

Danny's kid is lucky to have such good parents, I'm really happy for all of them💕💕

Danny is already making great dad-like advice videos, love it🎉🎉

ngl this is making me think of that theory where certain things are looked down upon if poor people do it but acceptable or even glamorized if rich people do it. “tiktok gift battles” are basically just glorified panhandling

I'm a lawyer who works in the entertainment industry in LA and this video sparked me to share a few observations about the business: 1) like Danny said, when you're hot, you're hot but it won't last forever; the people who thrive in the entertainment business longterm will have ups and downs in their career; I've heard famous people say there is no high quite like it and when the star fades the comedown can be really hard, 2) similarly, the money will be good and bad; I was trying to counsel a young social media star (no one in this video) a few years ago to put aside some of his money and I just couldn't convince him - no one will; 3) boring things like accountants, insurance, and managers are essential and you should listen to them -- DD's stunt with the excavator could have killed his friend and landed DD into bankruptcy easily; lawyers, insurance, planning - boring things - are essential; you need an adult in the room

This is when the high is so high and the low is so low.

this was a really insightful take; i thought it was gonna be all jokes, but it was really cool to hear what a creator actually thinks about this kind of thing!

When Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby he probably hallucinated about David so I’m gonna consider this canon lol

Its crazy how a decade ago, this guy was on Vine and had a comedy central special (never saw it), and ended up in David's gang, surrounded by guys half his age, and now relying on this strange ... life based on just if people can keep watching you and giving you likes. It sounds like an exhausting career.

I needed this video thank you for your thoughts

DANNY WORKED AT CORRIDOR?! this man is full of surprises

People being born with a TikTok account or a realtor’s license is such a dystopian thought. Almost as dystopian as installing a smart light switch in one room of your house.

I feel like people forget two key things when they say "why doesn't (insert now-irrelevant influencer) get a normal job?" One, most regular jobs nowadays will google you during the hiring process to see if anything of concern might come up. Jason Nash obviously has a plethora of stuff about him out on the internet, and even if it's all pretty harmless, he was never being filmed in one of David's vlogs thinking "man I should probably say something that won't set off any red flags for the regional hiring manager at jiffy lube." It's not a guarentee that his internet presence would be a dealbreaker, but it probably wouldn't help. (But if he was doing something like doordash it probably wouldn't matter, to be fair.) The other thing is that he's clearly spent like 2 decades building a career for himself in the entertainment industry, pivoting careers entirely to real estate or whatever would basically mean having to start back at zero for career building and connections, at entry level positions and pay, which is obviously pretty demoralizing, especially at his age. Danny brings up a good point though that having an internet presence CAN net you jobs, but it's likely they'll be less glamorous and autonomous than being a normal influencer. He doesn't need to leave the entertainment industry and ignore all these connections he's built, but, like Danny said, he needs to be okay with an adjustment in lifestyle in order to get back to having a stable income. Otherwise, he's gonna have to keep embarassing himself on tiktok live.

That was the best ad possible, actual effort put into it

I have to say, it's been about a year and so since I've watched long-form content like this due to my short attention span. I've been trying to build it up and expand and the first youtuber that I know I can sit through more than 5 minutes of is Danny. His video quality never decreases and it's always entertaining. Love this guy truly. Now let me go see what the other Danny is up to :D

THE DOBRE BROTHERS CONFUSED STARE SENT ME 😭😭😭💀

Still convinced that this dad thing is a prank, that's how much this man has scarred me

i love the video essay style videos danny :D

First Danny video I’ve ever watched. I’ll be sticking around, because 10/10 on entertainment, research, and sass.

It’s been a hot second. The emotional whiplash I had when this man dropped “I’m a dad” casually. I’m sitting here waiting for the punchline where he’d say “…of a new five month old labrdoodle.” I had to google this shit to see it for my own eyes. I am fucking floored. Congratulations, man.

I appreciate Danny's perspective in this video, especially the later end where he mentions that there are avenue like marketing, writing, social media etc that still allow people to explore interests in creative/ entertainment industries

i actually needed this thank you

This reminds me of your old school videos! Enjoyed it a lot. Keep them coming.

the dobre brothers just staring blankly while jason is getting swatted is insane and so expected

Danny really gave real dad advice at the end. He really is a dad now.

Danny will always have the best videos 👏

i love this it’s like a short podcast

honestly crazy how there was a million-dollar deal for Jason and david to do a podcast every week, only for an hour. . There was life changing money for that deal and instead of taking it and helping his friend and himself, he doesn't. I just dont understand why

The funniest part of all of this is that Danny actually did a collab with Jason on Vine a good ten or nine years ago. It goes to show how small the influencer world is, yet a good majority of them ended up fading into obscurity or became a shell of themselves after Vine’s end alongside the end of the 2017-2019 KZfaq era. So glad Danny didn’t meet that fate(and probably never will because he’s actually funny and talented)

Your hair sculpture is beyond amazing. I will watch your vids4life

It always baffles me how the most uninteresting, un-passionate, cookie cutter people get famous. This isn’t necessarily specifically about Jason but like a huge population of influencers are just the most boring people who do the exact same things and get paid millions for it. Then on the other hand there’s influencers who just seem to hate what they do like Jason, and the dobre brothers. The dobre brothers constantly look like they’re clocking in for another unpaid 24 hour shift at the steel mill. I simply don’t understand the people who can watch creators that clearly have zero passion and enjoy their content because if the person making it isn’t enjoying it then how am I supposed to enjoy watching???

At 2:20, the reason a lot of those accounts are 18, is simply because a lot of kids just pick that age so they can access anything without restrictions.

“They made him famous as much as he made them famous” fr

I'd just like to say that I basically grew up watching you on KZfaq. I started watching you in the 8th grade and now I'm in my second semester of my Freshman year in college.

Hope Laura is doing well! Being new parents, and especially a new mom can be very tough. Sending her good wishes ❤️

Jaw absolutely dropped when David called their house a "hobbit hole"??

Thanks Greg

I’ve been waiting for this video for ages

The dog walking past for about 3 seconds was the best part. 10/10 Edit: 800 likes!? Thanks!

I can’t wait for Jason’s clap back. This is the most exciting thing he’s experienced in years.

Every point made in this video is excellent and extremely well-made.

I'm soooo glad someone is finally talking about this