DanPlan

Daniel Lim (born: August 6), and a few more members, better known online as DanPlan, is a Canadian YouTube animation channel. Their most well known for their "By the way, can you survive" series in which someone who's a member of the channel, or often a guest, places the participants through various scenarios in which they have to answer questions to obtain an outcome.
==Origin==
The channel originated back when DanPlan founders Daniel Lim and Hosuh Lee were attending high school. The original inspiration for the soon-to-be YouTube channel DanPlan was formed during an English class lecture, where Lee showed the rest of the class a piece of art he had created. Lim soon took notice and was inspired to create a YouTube channel with Lee. During a Chemistry class lecture, Lim told Lee about his idea of creating a "narration and art-based" YouTube channel with him, after seeing more of Lee's artistic work. Daniel then asked Lee if he was willing to accept his proposition, with Lee making the drawings and animation and with Lim doing the narration. Eventually, Lee agreed and the two uploaded their first video titled "By the Way: Moral of the Pooping Robber" to the DanPlan YouTube channel on August 1, 2014.
==Members==
===Current===
====Daniel====
Daniel Lim (also called Dan for short) is one of the two (formerly three) major members of the channel. He's often the one asking members and guests questions, and acts as the channel's primary narrator for the By the way, can you survive series. He's the only main member known to have shown his face.
On January 5, 2020, Lim and fellow DanPlan member Stephen became central figures of controversy when Stephen posted a rant-oriented video about his current situation regarding money and his work pertaining to the DanPlan channel on his personal channel titled "Actually, I Quit DanPlan ". In this video, Stephen accused Lim of subsequently not acknowledging his work over the past few years, and described how he felt about his altercations with Lim and his final decision to leave the channel. 
As a result, both parties received backlash and criticism, which has led to several members and contributors to the channel releasing videos detailing their point-of-views regarding the situation. This led to a temporary hiatus of the DanPlan channel after the posting of the video titled "By the way. ", and the permanent departure of Stephen from the DanPlan line-up. On April 18, 2020, DanPlan released its first video after the channel's 3-month long hiatus.
====Melodify====
Annabelle, better known online as Melodify, is a former animator of the channel. Although not a current member of the channel, Melodify occasionally makes appearances in some of the group's videos, such as "I Got My Friends High on Helium".
===Retired===
====Stephen====
Stephen was a contributing member of the channel. He has shown himself to be the more "brutal" member, often joking about murder, knives, etc. While his appearance is not known, it is known that he doesn't have a mohawk nor purple hair in real life, unlike his animated counterpart. As seen in "Actually, I Quit DanPlan", Stephen is portrayed with black hair.
====Hosuh====
Hosuh Lee was one of the two founding members of the DanPlan channel. Originally, Lee was the main artist and animator for the channel, until he was relieved from his position after a decision to hire animators instead. According to various videos on the channel, Lee has an affection for cooking, as seen in videos such as "COOKING WITH HOSUH! Oh and also #TeamTrees" and "By the Way, What is Your LOVE LANGUAGE?". It was revealed that he retired from DanPlan in the description of "Somewhat Shopping" on the Plan 3 channel.
===Others===
====Jay====
Jay was a recurring member but was never an official member of DanPlan. He was introduced in Dan's early videos but had to leave midway due to his college dormitory having poor internet service. He was later re-introduced in By the way, Are You a Sociopath?.
====Elias====
Daniel's brother, his character is usually animated with long bangs and blue hair, now he edits the videos under the supervision of Daniel. He pops in here and there in a few videos like; COOKING WITH HOSUH! Oh and also #TeamTrees, DanPlan Animated | That Time I Met Doctor Who, DanPlan Animated - Are You Lucky? (ft. NelFather), etc.
====Nelly====
A friend of Daniel and he has a channel of his own called NelFather on YouTube, his character is usually animated with a snapback and brown hair. He made his first appearance is in a video titled Can You Understand Foreigner English? | CHALLENGE. He reappears in videos like Are You A Twisted Person?, DanPlan Animated - Are You Lucky? (ft. NelFather), DanPlan Animated | Can You Survive A Bear Attack?, etc.
==== Theo====
Also a friend and roommate of Daniel, his character is animated as a spikey hair that goes upwards and red hair. He made his first appearance in a video titled I Surprise My New Roommate with a Makeover. He reappears in videos like; Are You A Twisted Person?, DanPlan | Can You Survive A Quiet Place?, etc.
==Downfall==
===Stephen's Departure===
====From Stephen's Point of View====
On January 5, 2020, Stephen left DanPlan after he got into an argument with Daniel concerning money and Stephen's relevancy to the channel. In Stephen's video titled Actually, I Quit DanPlan, he explained to viewers his current situation with fellow DanPlan members Daniel and Hosuh, revealing that he felt that he was being "underfunded" and "unrecognized" for his efforts during his time contributing the DanPlan channel. In the months before Stephen's departure video, he had been having altercations with Daniel concerning money and other concerns. Stephen explains that Daniel made remarks claiming that Stephen only contributed less than 1% to DanPlan's success, which led to Stephen confronting Daniel regarding those remarks. According to Stephen's evidence, he was being paid less than US$300 while working as an editor and contributing member to the channel, while Daniel was earning and paying Hosuh allegedly tens of thousands of dollars. This led to a lengthy argument between the two that lasted for a total of 2 days. When Stephen asked Daniel what he could do to make more money in DanPlan, Daniel responded with "Nothing; you're just an employee, you have no share". Daniel's remarks have led to Stephen considering quitting the channel as soon as possible but decided to stay when he saw Hosuh desperately trying to fix the situation between the two. Stephen additionally claimed that it would be "selfish" of him to say that Hosuh was the only reason he stayed, and claimed that the intoxicating nature of being famous was also a contributing factor. Likewise, Stephen mentioned that he wanted to prove that he was a founding and integral member of DanPlan to Daniel in the following months. Over the next 9 months after the confrontation, Stephen came to the conclusion that no matter how much more effort he put into developing his character, the more he realized how little Daniel would value it. In the final recording of DanPlan with Stephen in November 2019, Stephen went up to Daniel and asked: "How many views were garnered by me?" Daniel simply didn't have an answer to Stephen's question, which led to Stephen asking Daniel the same question a few weeks later, only to be met with similar results. Stephen eventually came to the realization that no matter how hard he tried, Daniel would never consider him an equal on DanPlan. In the ensuing weeks following one of the latest videos from the DanPlan channel, Stephen quit the channel entirely. In multiple live streams, Stephen was asked on various occasions by viewers whether he ever regretted joining DanPlan, with Stephen responding that he did at some points, only because if he said no to Hosuh about staying, he would still be friends with Daniel. He later made a statement to future DanPlan, "...know their own worth because Daniel won't".
====From Daniel's Point of View====
On January 21, 2020, Daniel made a reply video. Because of the accusations that Stephen made towards Daniel, He had to take a break because he thought of Stephen as his precious friend. Because of the break, people start saying and believing that Daniel is in the wrong, while in his "reply" video titled "By The Way.", he explained that Stephen wasn't interested in YouTube as a career path. That's why Stephen never really cared about the pay, but Daniel insisted since Stephen participated in the recording too. But then in Stephen's video, he stated that Daniel didn't pay him enough. Daniel replied to Stephen wanting to talk it out, but the strange thing is that Daniel has been wanting to talk with Stephen (as he showed the receipt in his video), you might think that he needs consent, but in Daniel's video, he stated that he wanted to just talk it out in private, but since Stephen wants to make the matter public, then Daniel won't have any choice but to also publicize the receipts and evidences. But it came across as Daniel wanting to talk it out after getting "exposed" or so fan might think. In the negotiation, Daniel thought they were going to talk about Stephen leaving Danplan, but instead Stephen brought an associate into the discord call to help him discuss about the pay. Eventhough Daniel already gave Stephen an opportunity to make Stephen's own channel to let Stephen know how hard it is to manage a channel. But Stephen declined the channel offer and wanted his pay raised instead. Stephen stated that the animators are "underecognized" and "underpayed". Though, Daniel denied this false accusation by explaining that he always does what he can to help the animators in any way and that if any animators feel scared of Daniel, please talk it out with Daniel. He also shows receipt by telling a story that an animator once wants to leave the channel because they wanted to pursue their studies, and so Daniel helped by giving a large sum of money to hopefully help them in pursuing their education. Daniel also stated that he hopes no one attacks any party included in this drama.
==Subscriber milestones==
*1.5 million subscribers: July 2019
*2 million subscribers: December 12, 2019
===Decline===
*1.9 million subscribers: January 21, 2020
==Videos==
===By the way, series===
WIP
No.	Title 	Upload Date 	Runtime	Views 	Video Link
1 	Final Episode 	January 5, 2020 	10:08 	4M (4,090,664)	https://youtu.be/tpe3BEjVR0E
2 	By the way, Can You Become A SUPERHERO? (ft. Dingo Doodles)	December 22, 2019	10:45 	3M (3,644,903)	https://youtu.be/SeAtF5EdWEU
3 	The Settlement 	December 7, 2019 	12:43 	4M (4,978,987)	https://youtu.be/bVCfs3-1jOs
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===Memes===
Video 	Title 	Date 	Runtime
120 px	The Quack Song 	May 25, 2018 	3:31
120 px	Pranking Daniel Back 	April 1, 2018 	0:27
120 px	Daniel reacts to hosuh's prank 	April 2, 2018 	3:31
120 px	Daniel doesn't know that I'm posting this video.	August 6, 2017	3:42
120 px	MIDGET SPINNER 	June 7, 2017 	1:29
120 px	Relationshit Advice 	July 9, 2017 	2:04
120 px	The Fiiinest Gift a Man can Give another Man 	August 6, 2018	5:13
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