![]() Released in November, 2011, the game went on to sell 15 million copies over the following year. ![]() To understand how DanTDM (and, in tandem, Middleton) became so staggeringly popular, it helps to understand the breakneck cultural ascendency of Minecraft. What's more, Middleton also embarked on a 97-stop globe-spanning tour-and it's completely sold out. It instantly stole the number-one spot on both the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists. In October, 2016, he published his first graphic novel, DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal. ![]() Last year, for instance, he raked in a total salary of $16.5 million according to Forbes, which makes Middleton the highest-paid YouTuber on the planet. (To put it in context, that's more than every single currently-on-air late-night host Jimmy Fallon comes closest with 15 million.) DanTDM's social media accounts are nothing to sneeze at, either: affiliated Twitter and Instagram pages both have 7-figure followings.īut Middleton, the businessman behind the moniker, is even more of a whirlwind force. Currently, DanTDM has about 3,000 videos and more than 18 million subscribers. DanTDM-the last three letters of which are an acronym for "TheDiamondMinecart," a reference to Minecraft, the explosively popular video game-is the screen name of Daniel Middleton, a YouTuber from Northamptonshire, England. ![]()
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