NathanDarkson984

Neil Hernandez (born: ),https://twitter.com/NDarkson984 better known online as NathanDarkson984 or Nathaniel Munoz Darkenson, is an Argentine-American YouTuber known for his gaming, music, and animation videos. He is an animator for the channel Team Level UP. He's also a dedicated artist known for drawing in an edgy, 2000s Newgrounds vibe.
==YouTube career==
He started out with his first video of a Minecraft "Super Mario" mod for Minecraft 1.5.2 back then. But due to him recording on a Mac, without any microphone or sound input, the video was privatized due to no audio input whatsoever.
As of right now, Nathaniel has been semi-active on YouTube, with the lack of uploading videos onto his channel. Reasons being is taking his time on high school, and preparing for college.
He is close friends, and mutuals to Level UP, Daniel T Gaming, ThatSkynyrdKid, DamonZomboid (Co-editor for his videos), DarioDoesNothing and Rivers (Gaussia on YouTube).
==Controversy==
On August 11th, 2023, a callout document against Nathaniel has been published, accusing him of sending images of the infamous 'Ronnie McNutt' live-stream to a user on Discord (gory images omitted), liking art of minors in sexual scenarios including incest art on Twitter and Newgrounds, ignoring his friend's vents, racism, toxicity towards others, and stalking someone online.https://twitter.com/PlanetJunkie/status/1690136681502916608/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gLKcM-JwgOpU08VLZUBK9sFYZudU7PnEj3OCdud3AkM/edit
The day after, one of his partners who wished to remain anonymous testified to the horrible experiences with him, with her words published in the follow-up document.https://twitter.com/PlanetJunkie/status/1690376564641300480https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzLmB3IF-_fL3kO7Z23-SknTuXxbbe-4b_IBvv0zpLQ/edit Some time after the document's release, few more people came out with stories of their harm inflicted by Nathan,https://twitter.com/karbunkelunkel/status/1690903301879918592https://twitter.com/g_norm_us/status/1690768888576049152https://twitter.com/kerrivantas7/status/1690212434177359872https://twitter.com/AmayaMizumiVT/status/1690979274155573248 with one of them claiming he cheated on and manipulated him for free art.https://twitter.com/BayNootParfait/status/1691508646952443904/
On August 17th, a user going by "Kilath" came out in defense of Nathan and proceeded to call the allegations fake and insult people that stood against him.https://archive.is/9Scs8https://archive.is/t6yC3https://archive.is/v4OL3 Due to some traits shared by him and Nathan, most notably their bisexual orientation, autism and interests in Sonic.EXE and Friday Night Funkin', the account was thought to be a burner made by the YouTuber.https://archive.is/7ykdN Nathan denied any relations to the account in a Tumblr post on August 20th, further stating that he condemns any actions committed by Kilath.https://nathandarkson984.tumblr.com/post/726221136680173568/disclaimer-because-apparently-someone-out-there-is
On September 22nd, Nathan posted an informal apology on Tumblr. In the post, he stated that Kilath continued to harass Ali, the writer of the original callout, and that he agreed with him in regards to Kilath. Additionally, he stated that he regrets the actions he committed himself, is working on a public apology towards all of his victims, responses towards unconfirmed allegations and plans to better himself after their release, and that he didn't expect his anonymous ex-partner to forgive him and admit her own faults.https://nathandarkson984.tumblr.com/post/729144532865859584/i-want-to-express-myself-right-here-in-this-one As of now, the apology is yet to be published.
Owing to personal circumstances, Nathan released his apology to his anonymous ex-girlfriend earlier than others, on November 7th. In it, he apologized to her for the misdeeds he committed, but also called her out in regards to the discrepancies in her story with him.https://twitter.com/NDarkson984/status/1722019030884573336https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DQwesmwh_M4Bu1gCHvykpGW25zxDmgiG/edit
On November 17th, in response to rumors of people still defending him and allegations of pedophilia based on his Amy Rose drawing and his favorited arts on Newgrounds, Nathan reiterated on Twitter that his actions should not be defended, discouraged anyone from defending him and denied the allegations, basing his response on Newgrounds strictly forbidding NSFW artwork of underaged characters and Sega removing ages from Sonic the Hedgehog characters in preparation for Sonic Frontiers, according to Sonic Channel.https://twitter.com/NDarkson984/status/1725693146854457651
On December 16th, the author of the original callout document made an update to it. He clarified that Nathan only liked art of aged-up underage characters, called for an end to pedophile allegations due to unfounded evidence, denounced the doxxing of him that occured when the author told his readers not to and requested that the concerned parties should wait for Nathan to speak before making conclusions.https://twitter.com/PlanetJunkie/status/1736078034204020790
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Argentine YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013
Category:Verified YouTubers