DannyB Plays

DannyB Plays is an American YouTuber known for his Super Mario Maker 2 videos.
==History==
=== Inception ===
DannyB Plays created his channel on November 22, 2017. He made his YouTube channel a few months after buying Super Mario Maker on the Wii U. His content started out simply being playthroughs and other content on the game. Upon the release of Super Mario Maker 2, he shifted focus to that game, giving tips and content on it.
=== Rise in Popularity ===
By 2020, he began making parody videos, including animations, on Mario Maker 2. On June of 2020, he uploaded the video of “Mario Maker 2 Rejected Updates That Didn’t Quite Make the Cut”, which showed a series of fake updates Nintendo supposedly rejected from Mario Maker 2. 
The video quickly went viral and has garnered 2 million views as of February of 2024. Since then, he shifted complete focus from MM2 lists and coverage to more parodies regarding the game, including making more “Rejected Updates” videos as well as other stand-alone parodies, animations, and fake trailers for supposed MM2 spin-offs under the titles of “Super __ Maker 2”. 
In the third part of Rejected Updates, all updates were comment-suggested from subscribers, something which would continue for all future installments in the series and other videos Danny would put out. Danny would go on focusing on Rejected Updates, animation parodies, and trailer parodies all focusing on Super Mario Maker 2, or occasionally simply part of the Mario Universe. 
=== Changes ===
In the beginning of 2023, Danny’s channel was going near 100,000 subscribers. By the early days of the year, Danny stated through community posts on his channel that the channel would become less active than usual, feeling creative burnout from his content, to shift focus on a separate channel titled DriveByGrape, which would focus on mashup parodies of movies, shows, and games. The DannyB Plays channel would go inactive for five months, as Danny was uploading videos on DriveByGrape and garnering more subscribers through there. In May, Danny announced that he would no longer upload on the DriveByGrape channel due to lack of views, and that he would return to DannyB Plays, where he had an established subscriber base. He went back to uploading Rejected Updates videos and MM2 parodies, while also trying to try new, different Mario content. 
In June, when the new Super Mario game Super Mario Bros. Wonder was announced on a Nintendo Direct, Danny stated that he would try to use the game for new content on the channel, citing MM2’s declining popularity. In July, Danny uploaded the final Rejected Updates video, the 25th installment. Sometime prior, DannyB Plays reached 100,000 subscribers, with Danny doing an unboxing video on July. Afterwards, Danny stated that he would do a rehaul on the channel, wanting to slow down making MM2 parodies and more on analysis content about things from the game’s community. Upon the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Danny uploaded many parody videos on the game on the channel. 
In the beginning of 2024, Danny stated on community posts that he is unsure on the new direction of the channel, wanting to continue doing Mario videos but citing the declining popularity of both MM2 and Mario Wonder as a drawback. He didn't upload a video between November 2023 and April 2024 for personal reasons but then began posting similarly themed Mario Maker 2 parodies like he had done before, citing that he wants to upload what the community wants to watch. He also began experimenting with an ongoing series in the style of his 2 previous "Mario vs Maker" videos where Mario(and sometimes others) fight against the editor hand in Mario Maker 2 and his new series focuses on shorter videos with community involvement, using ideas from comments in sequel videos, similar to how he has done with his Mario Maker 2 parody videos.
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*50,000 Subscribers: September 2021
*100,000 Subscribers: August 2023
===Video view milestones===
*10 million views: March 2021
Category:Users who joined in 2017
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers