Daniel Thrasher
Born (1993-02-24) February 24, 1993
Florida, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Instrument(s)
Years active2007–present
YouTube information
ChannelsDaniel Thrasher
Daniel Thrasher Plus
Genres
Subscribers5.33 million[lower-alpha 1]
Total views1.23 billion [lower-alpha 2]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2018
1,000,000 subscribers2019
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2022–present
Followers18.4 thousand
Last updated: December 12, 2023

Daniel Thrasher (born February 24, 1993) is an American internet personality, comedian, actor, and musician. He primarily uploads piano-based comedy sketches to his self-titled YouTube channel. As of November 2023, his main YouTube channel has accumulated more than 1 billion views with more than 4.5 million subscribers.[1]

Personal life

Daniel Thrasher was born on February 24, 1993[2] in Florida, United States.[3]

Career

Thrasher went to Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a magnet school.[4]

Thrasher created his main YouTube channel, then titled muffinman3000, on January 5, 2007,[1] with the first video being uploaded on December 1, 2011.[5]

On November 13, 2012, Thrasher uploaded a video titled "How I Accidentally Wrote The Office Theme Song," in which he explains how, after he got a new piano, he was testing a chord progression that sounded familiar, before he realized it was the theme song of The Office.[6]

A few years later, when Thrasher was in college, the video went viral, and now has over 21 million views and is the third most-viewed video on his channel as of January 2023.[6][7]

In 2015, Thrasher graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts.[8]

In 2019, Thrasher quit his job as a barista to pursue YouTube as a full-time career. By that point, he had accrued over one million subscribers. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Thrasher continued to post videos. As a result, he almost tripled his amount of subscribers. He was able to increase the size of his operation to a four-person team.[9]

In 2021, American comedy duo Rhett & Link of Good Mythical Morning announced that a fund called the Mythical Creator Accelerator was created to invest over $5 million into creators, through their production company Mythical Entertainment. Thrasher was the second beneficiary of the fund in April 2022.[6][10][11]

On December 1, 2021, Thrasher performed a one-day show at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, entitled Daniel Thrasher: Laugh or Die.[12] Thrasher also embarked on a five-show tour in August 2022, entitled Daniel Thrasher Live, traveling to three states across the Midwest.[13]

Thrasher attended as a featured creator at VidCon in June 2023[14] and is set to appear in the US remake of the British television show Friday Night Dinner, titled Dinner with the Parents, to be released on Amazon Freevee.[15][16]

Awards and nominations

Year Organization Award Result
2022 Streamy Awards Writing Nominated[17]

Discography

Solo albums

  • Quick and Sketchy (2019)

Singles

  • "Once Upon a Paradise" (2018)
  • "The After" (2021)
  • "When You Make a Musical Promise" (2022)
  • "I Play Piano Too" (2022)
  • "Shiny Object Syndrome" (2022)
  • "Igowallah" (2023)
  • "The Wiener Song" (2023)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Song of Back and Neck Alex

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2016 The Millionaires Daniel 6 episodes
2023 Dinner with the Parents Upcoming series

Web

Year Title Role Notes
2022 God of Work Chris 6 episodes

Notes

  1. ↑ Subscribers, broken down by channel:
    4.62 million (Daniel Thrasher)
    761 thousand (Daniel Thrasher Plus)
  2. ↑ Views, broken down by channel:
    1.120 billion (Daniel Thrasher)
    144.226 million (Daniel Thrasher Plus)

References

  1. 1 2 "@danielthrasher". YouTube. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  2. ↑ Thrasher, Daniel [@ThrasherDan] (February 24, 2012). "Geeze. It's my birthday. Feels strange to be 19... I feel like I was 18 yesterday. Time really does just whiz on by" (Tweet). Retrieved July 28, 2023 – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ Thrasher, Daniel [@ThrasherDan] (October 18, 2020). "As someone from Florida, I'm gonna pretend I've been a baseball fan this whole time" (Tweet). Retrieved July 28, 2023 – via Twitter.
  4. ↑ "Q&A Time!". Daniel Thrasher. Retrieved April 12, 2023 – via YouTube.
  5. ↑ Thrasher, Daniel (November 30, 2011). NEW CAR SMELL!. YouTube. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 Brown, Abram (April 22, 2022). "Rhett And Link's Investment Fund Takes New Stake in Musical-Comedy YouTuber Daniel Thrasher". Forbes. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  7. ↑ Thrasher, Daniel (November 13, 2012). How I Accidentally Wrote "The Office" Theme Song. YouTube. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  8. ↑ "SCAD Commencement 2022". Cision (Press release). Retrieved April 12, 2023.
  9. ↑ Kim, Victoria; Kirschbaum, Erik (October 11, 2021). "For these young people in privileged parts of the world, the pandemic was an opportunity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  10. ↑ Gutelle, Sam (April 22, 2022). "Rhett and Link are investing in creators who "have the ability to scale." Their latest target is musician Daniel Thrasher". Tubefilter. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  11. ↑ Mullin, Benjamin (December 4, 2022). "YouTube Stars Rhett and Link Think This Is Their Moment". The New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  13. ↑ Daniel Thrasher Live, retrieved January 21, 2023
  14. ↑ Cohen, David (January 18, 2023). "YouTube Returns as Title Sponsor of VidCon Anaheim 2023". Adweek. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  15. ↑ Bennett, Steve. "EXCLUSIVE: Who's in the US remake of Friday Night Dinner : News 2022 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  16. ↑ Wray, Daniel Dylan (May 13, 2023). "'I was a tiny cog in a machine of people all named vice-president of something': the reality of remaking UK sitcoms". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  17. ↑ Chan, J. Clara (October 27, 2022). "2022 YouTube Streamy Awards: MrBeast Leads Nominations for Second Year". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
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