Darren A. Nichols

**Darren Alexander Nichols**, who goes by the name **Darren Pipster**, **Pip Pip**, and **Pip2010**, and known by his mascot fursona **Pipster Cat**, (born on September 25, 2000) is an American writer, director, producer, voice actor, animator, and showrunner, as well as the founder and CEO of Darren Pipster Studios, as well as the chief creative officer of DLE Corporation. He is well-known as the creator of his hit series *Ronald Gets Grounded*, *Tina's World*, *The Orville & Hooch Series*, and the director/writer of his fan film, *Banjo the Woodpile Cat*. He is also set to direct the upcoming film, *The Katnapping*. From 2020 to 2021, his partners included Dan P. Lyons, Alexander Mortensen, Marshall Bourne.

Since 2021, he became infamous for grooming minors on Discord, throwing massive meltdowns during his livestreams, and also drove everyone to kill themselves. Because of his behavior, Darren has been noted as one of the internet lolcows including Christian Weston Chandler (Chris-Chan) and Keegan Salisbury.

## History

### Internet incidents

On January 8, 2021, Nichols went after Katie Melany for spoiling *Zack: The Movie: The Vengeance of Derek* twice. MJ the Spirit and GoMultiverseLegacy394 attempted to stop the fight, but Nichols dwelled on it and pulled a suicide card, which resulted in him getting placed in timeout in the live chat twice. He was also demoted from the GGU Creative Department shortly thereafter.

#### Bill Jensen car wash video incident

On January 16, 2021, Nichols released a video on his channel showing Bill Jensen and a few others at the car wash which originally came from one of Jensen's stories on Instagram. The part that made it controversial was when Nichols placed laughing emojis in the title and description. In result, several LMNB employees called him out for it. Nick Fischer (also known as Brony T. Pony; now NyxWuff) posted about Nichols' actions on his YouTube community page (those posts have since been removed). The following day, LMNB released a statement on their Twitter page apologizing for Nichols' behavior and informed that he's talking with an online counselor to help fix his behavior. Three days later after the incident, all Bill Jensen talk was banned from LMNB and all of its other affiliated servers.

At some point later, the ban of discussions related to Bill Jensen was lifted.

#### BTP livestream incident

On the evening of February 8, 2021, ten minutes before the livestream, Nichols threw a tantrum over Mildred/Danny and Ize coming in before him. In result, Fischer had enough of him and fired and blacklisted him from BTP Enterprises.

#### Sexual misconduct and grooming accusations

On February 16, 2021, following the completion of the script of *Life of Danny Cat*, polygamy was discovered in the script which featured Dan with multiple wives, and it also featured him sexualizing a 17-year-old character despite Dan being 20 years old. This led to him facing a ton of negative criticism and backlash due to the pedophilic and polygamist nature of the project, due to the concept of him having multiple wives and technically sexualizing a minor. Nichols was also involved in the script, and several users began to cut ties with Nichols as well, including James Dahlbender, Yuvi Rathour, Dafni Cortes, Roszina Head, and Keebie Palmer. Alex Bentley, on the other hand, was also infuriated by this and made an exposure livestream on March 11, 2021, in which he and Nick Fischer called Nichols out over everything he did (As of April 14, 2021, the stream was removed after Nichols' mom forced Bentley to take it down for slandering). Christian Payne and Nakiebra "Keebie" Palmer (Mr. 64) also posted about Nichols' actions on Twitter, with Mr. 64 almost threatening to swear at Nichols, Lyons and Mortensen as well as yelling at them for what they have done to him.

As of May 2021, Nichols and Lyons were accused of grooming minors between the ages of 13 and 15, including GlideFan, a former friend of Darren. Jason Animates went undercover conforming that Daniel and Darren were pedophiles. On June 14, 2021, he and Danny admitted their wrongdoings (including the grooming accusations) on a livestream on his alternate channel, "The Radical Side II". Two months later, his mom forced him to remove the stream and said to him that he should not be admitting stuff that he didn't do. After that, Nichols began the process of improving for the better and supporting poor victims of other internet criminals. However, his behavior got even worse.

#### The Spaka Furryton Incident

On July of 2021, Nichols along with Lyons and Mortensen have been accused of causing the suicide of YouTuber named Mark Lucas (a.k.a. Spaka Furryton.) Lucas was only 26 years old when he died of alcohol poisoning.

### Channel termination

Around April 2022, Nichols' YouTube channel was terminated after receiving false copyright strikes. His channel was later reinstated.

## Filmography

* *Ronald Gets Grounded* (2016–2021) - Creator and head writer
* *Comix Minis* (2017-2021) - Voices of Cameo (Since 2020), Akihiro, Anna, Tatertot (Tater), Jackson (Since 2020), Camden, Zayden, Hanson, Orville, Kenton
* *The Jungle Forest Show* (2020-2021)
* *Tina's World* (2019–present) - Creator
* *Banjo the Woodpile Cat*(2019) – Director and screenwriter
* *The Rodfellows Movie*(2020) - Co-director, Screenwriter, voice of Tatertot (Tater), Zayden, and himself
* *The Amazing Gang* (TBA 2020) - Voice of Rocco the Master Cat
* *Armada*(2021) - Co-director with Tanner Goethals, voice of Zack Lightman
* *Cobedra*(2021) - Screenwriter, Voice of Cobedra
* *Yoyo and Doc Croc: The Movie*(2023) - Producer, screenwriter, voice of Haden
* *The Katnapping*(2023) - Director and screenwriter
* *Cats*(TBA) - Director and screenwriter, voice of Munkustrap