Basic Timeline

This is the timeline of DanPlan personalilty and videowise.

## Pilot (July 12, 2014 - May 13, 2016)

### The Start (July 12, 2014 - August 1, 2014)

* This is when the channel was started and it's first video "By the Way: Moral of the Pooping Robber", was posted.
* The aforementioned video is the first instance where "By the Way" was used.
* This era contained the first appearances of Dan and Hosuh.

### All Fun and Games (February 15, 2015 - May 13, 2016)

* This was when DanPlan was a gaming channel.
* This era contained the first appearances of Jay and Stephen.

## Season 1 (May 23, 2016 - January 3, 2020)

### Animation Transition (May 23, 2016 - May 16, 2017)

* This was when the channel stopped being a gaming channel and started to be an animation channel.
* This era contained the channel's last appearance of Jay before 2019.

### Growth (May 20, 2017 - July 30, 2018)

* This was the instance when the channel slowly grew.
* This era was when Ann was introduced.

### Golden Age (May 20, 2017 - January 3, 2020)

* This was when DanPlan was at its peak of success.
* The channel had more guests from other channels during this period.
* It created more varied content on March 15, 2019.
* Jay came back during this period.

## Dark Ages

### Downfall (January 4, 2020 - April 17, 2020)

* This was when the channel started to lose its subscribers (it had 2 million).
* Stephen left the channel during this period for being underpaid.
* Hosuh left for the military during this period, however he is still an official member.
* Ann remained an official member during this period.
* Jay left the channel during this period. for similar reasons as Stephen.
* Dan posted his response to the drama then went on hiatus for a few months.

## Season 2

### Season 2 (April 18, 2020 - )

* After Dan left all social media, he came back to YouTube on April 18th, 2020 with a new video titled "Experiments with DanPlan."
* As of now, Season 2 is only live-action, unlike Season 1, which was mostly animated.
* Season 2 contains a new cast.
* Stephen is currently making animated videos similar to DanPlan's "By the way" series, as well as doing live streams, on his own channel Actually Stephen, with the help of his brother Gavin

## Personalities

### Before DanPlan

* Daniel and Stephen met together back in middle school.
* Hosuh met Stephen when he wanted someone to play DOTA with.
* Hosuh showed Dan's English class his animation (which he won second place in the region for). Dan thought he was good and wanted to do something with him
* Hosuh would come to Stephen and Dan's Chem 12 class.
* Dan decided to come over to Hosuh one day and decided to look at his work. Then, he decided that he wants to create a YouTube channel with Dan and Stephen.
* On July 12, 2014, they created DanPlan.

### During DanPlan

* Dan met Jay at University and asked him to do YouTube with him and he complied.

### Business Transition

* When they started making money off of it, Dan divided the money 50/50 with Hosuh and left Stephen out.
* When Hosuh asked for the money to go help the channel, Dan decided to split the money 85 for him and 15 for Hosuh.
* Somewhere around this time, Stephen got $25 dollars per hour of recording.
* In March, Stephen found out about this and asked Dan for 20% of the revenue, which Dan says "No, you’re just an employee, you have no share."
* After the fight, Stephen got $100 per video they recorded.
* Stephen tried his hardest to show to Dan that he was worth something to the channel by doing several personalities to show his talent.
* Stephen also found out how much the animators got paid (~$450 per month).
* Jay felt like something was off, so in July he started an investigation. Dan tried to make him stop.
* When Jay found out all the problems DanPlan had and tried to fix it with Dan, Dan just dismissed him because he knew what he was doing.
* Jay learned that he was going to replace Hosuh due to mandatory military service.
* Dan said to Jay that he was not going to get paid during that time.
* Then, Dan said he would $25 per hour of recording, but Jay refused.
* On December 14, Stephen officially left DanPlan.
* On January 4, 2020, Stephen posted to his channel about him leaving DanPlan.
* On January 17, 2020, Jay posted his side of the story.