The show started in the summer as audio podcasts and then each going to eachothers respective cities being Buffalo Ny and Seattle Wa shot by cameraman Scott Kinmartin and Daniel's high school friend when the idea came to turn in into a video show. In 2012, Daniel founded the "Bad Kid Show" podcast with YouTuber ONLYUSEmeBLADE. On October 26, 2021, Daniel announced that he will be stepping down as the host of DramaAlert in March 2022, coinciding with his 40th birthday. Because of his history of posting controversial content, including trolling videos, Daniel, despite being the creator and host of DramaAlert, did not have access to the YouTube channel and was permanently banned from operating a YouTube account until August 2016 when he realized his ban was lifted.Īccording to Daniel, the videos were being uploaded by Ryan Thomson, iPlayPRODIGY, Dan's personal manager who solely 'owned, accessed, and possessed' the YouTube channel in the interim of Dan's ban to keep it compliant with YouTube's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. On July 2, 2016, the ratings on DramaAlert were disabled but are now enabled once again. Daniel then created his fifth YouTube channel, FreeDramaAlert, which got falsely terminated by Spam404 sometime in June 2014, leading to the creation of the NewDramaAlert channel later that month which was owned and operated solely by Dan's manager, Ryan Thomson. Later in 2013, he created a separate YouTube news channel, TheDramaAlert which also got falsely terminated in early 2014.
Daniel created the first DramaAlert channel, DramaAlertNation, which was falsely terminated on January 10, 2013. One day he made a video about drama, which made the idea take off. He would “Shoutcast“ it with the hashtag #DramaAlert, which people seemed to enjoy. These would proceed to be featured on his XDJKeemstar at first, then later was passed on to many channels after each termination. It is unknown why the last two channels got terminated but it's possibly due to allegations related to his "toxicity" in the gaming community which eventually died down.ĭramaAlert was created when Daniel saw YouTubers fighting on Twitter in late 2012 and noticed the ridiculous popularity of videos discussing such topics.
Daniel then created his fifth YouTube channel, FreeDramaAlert, which got terminated sometime in June 2014, leading to the creation of the NewDramaAlert channel which has remained since. In 2013 he also created a separate YouTube news channel, TheDramaAlert which also got terminated in early 2014. That channel was then terminated in early 2014, possibly due to COD beef. He created another YouTube channel, KillerKEEMSTAR which is where the name Killer Keemstar comes from. However, this new channel would only last until Januaswell, when it too was also terminated.
Daniel moved DramaAlert to a main account, DramaAlertNation, with XDJKEEMSTAR being terminated shortly there after. Early DramaAlert videos mainly focused on Call of Duty information. The people who uploaded the video eventually contacted Daniel, asking him to be a part of their group channel called ( The Federation of Asshole Gamers) to make Halo trolling videos.ĭaniel created DramaAlert in October 2012 under the XDJKEEMSTAR account, the series's first video reporting on iFlynn's exposé on Raw Instinct. He was unaware of this until he received various messages about the video, learning it was on YouTube. Fellow YouTuber DERANKER would upload his game session, which showed Daniel talking trash about the game (in which Daniel was doing so as a result of drinking hours prior). In January 2009, Daniel got his start on his YouTube, after he was trolling while playing Halo 3. 5.14 Keemstar vs LeafyIsHere and GradeAUnderA Crisisĭaniel is possibly the one who has had the most terminated accounts consisting of over a dozen terminated YouTube accounts, multiple Xbox Live gamertags banned, a terminated Twitch account and as well as more accounts on various other websites.5.8 Big YouTubers' Responses to DramaAlert.5.7 Feud with Philip DeFranco (News Network and Betterhelp).5.4 False accusations against RSGloryandGold.