Danny Gonzalez Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

What's up Greg?

I'm Danny Gonzalez

and this is the Wired Auto Complete Interview.

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If you told me all of these questions are from my mom

I would probably not want to answer a lot of them honestly.

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Okay, what does Danny Gonzalez Greg mean?

Greg is what I call my fans on YouTube.

It's sort of like how Grateful Dead has Deadheads

or I think Nicki Minaj has Barbies.

Is that Nicki Minaj?

Okay, back in like 2017 when like Logan Paul and Jake Paul

were getting popular, they had these cool fan base names

that were like puns on their own name.

Logan's was Logang and Jake Paul's was the Jake Paulers

which is a lot less clever.

I wanted to do something like that

with my own name but I couldn't come up

with anything and I thought it would be really funny

if I just started every video

by saying hi to some random guy named Greg.

What was Danny Gonzalez job before YouTube?

I've had a few different jobs

before I was a YouTuber.

When I was in college

I nannied like middle school kids,

occasionally I'll still get a text from one of them

every now and again.

Just saying that they watch one of my YouTube videos

or asking if they can be in one of my YouTube videos.

What is Danny Gonzalez Twitch?

Yeah, I do have a Twitch channel.

I don't really stream very much anymore but my Twitch

I think is just Danny Gonzalez

or maybe it's Danny Goonzalez.

I don't really stream that much anymore so probably

not that much going on there.

What degree does Danny Gonzalez have?

Okay, I went to college, I went to Georgia Tech

and my degree is in computational media.

I often tell people that it's computer science

'cause it sounds cooler honestly and nobody knows

what computational media is.

But basically I had to take like half computer

science courses and half like liberal arts degrees.

It's a degree that a lot of people get when they're going

into like game design or like web design, stuff like that.

I did none of that.

I make YouTube videos in my house.

What is Danny Gonzalez personality type?

I have taken personality quizzes before.

I don't remember exactly what my personality type is.

I think I've taken the one that gives you

like the letters like INTJ I think is mine?

Maybe?

[Interviewer] I have your Myers Briggs here.

Okay, okay.

[Interviewer] It's ESTJ.

ESTJ?

Is the E extrovert?

[Interviewer] It means you're reliable, steadfast

and self-assured.

I'm reliable to people who deserve it,

you know, self-assured not, I don't think so.

And steadfast.

I don't even think I know what that means

but I'm not stead slow.

I sure as hell know that.

What hair product does Danny Gonzalez use?

None since I shaved my head honestly.

I just step out of the shower and just let that shit dry.

Am I allowed to swear?

Before I shaved my head I used a product

that you can get at Target called Cremo?

I think it's just like C R E M O, Cremo, Cremo, Cremo.

I'm gonna call it Cremo.

So that is all the questions on this one.

Okay, next.

Does Danny Gonzalez have a tattoo?

I have one.

It is a snail and it is right here.

It's on my left thigh.

My wife Laura has a snail on her right thigh.

They were supposed to kiss

but we accidentally both got them facing the same direction.

So there's just kind of

like one snail following another snail.

Does Danny Gonzalez have a podcast?

No, I don't.

I've thought about starting one before

but I'm not good enough at having conversations or talking

for long periods of time

so I'm probably not gonna do that.

If I were to have a podcast...

I like true crime.

I feel like those are really interesting stories

but some of them are really scary.

So maybe something that's like really

interesting stories that aren't scary.

Does Danny Gonzalez work at Corridor?

No, but I did, I worked at Corridor Digital

for like maybe like three or four months

in 2018 and it was like right

as my YouTube channel was starting to like blow up

on its own and so I like I started this job at Corridor

and Corridor was like one of my favorite YouTube channels

like all through high school and college.

So I started working there

and it was like one my dream job basically aside

from obviously having my own YouTube channel.

So I feel really bad 'cause my channel started to blow

up right as I got this job

and then I quit 'cause my own channel started doing well

but they still make some of my favorite YouTube

videos that I watch so they're awesome.

Does Danny Gonzalez have a dog?

I do, yes.

I have two dogs.

One of them's name is Sunday.

She's a mix of a lot of different breeds.

She's like a boxer chihuahua

beagle mix, cattle dog is in there too.

And then I have a dog Zero who is

a mini Australian Shepherd.

Zero looks like a little stuffed animal,

Sunday kinda looks like a dog that was taxidermy sometimes

'cause her eyes are like little black beads.

They don't look real

but they're both very cute and I love them both.

Does Danny Gonzalez use autotune?

Yeah I do.

I use a lot of it.

So I make music, I make like comedy music.

I'm not a singer

but sometimes I wanna make a song where I sing so

I use autotune and I'm not ashamed about it.

Technology makes our lives better in a variety

of ways and this is one of them.

Okay next, is Danny Gonzalez a dad?

I sometimes call my dogs my children.

I do worry that people who are actually parents

kind of are like, whoa dude,

you don't know what it's like to be a real dad.

And I so I feel weird about saying that

but in the privacy of my own home I do call them my children

and I do call myself their father

but in a literal sense, no I'm not a dad.

I didn't give birth to them or anything like that.

Is Danny Gonzalez a comedian?

I don't know exactly what makes you a comedian

'cause I don't do like stand up.

I don't act in movies, I just make YouTube videos

but I do make comedic YouTube videos

so I guess it just depends on your definition of comedian.

Sometimes when I'm talking

to older family members or people that are, you know

just ask what I do for a living.

If I don't want to explain YouTube to them

I'll just say I'm a comedian and then they get it.

So sometimes I call myself a comedian.

Is Danny Gonzalez real?

Deeply philosophical question for me to answer I guess.

I mean I have no way

of knowing for sure if any of this is real.

So yeah, I guess there's your answer.

Is Danny Gonzalez sponsored by LaCroix?

No I'm not.

I used to drink LaCroix

in a lot of my second channel videos.

I was just coming off of this thing where I was

like trying to stop drinking soda and so I was

like pushing LaCroix really heavily in my videos

at the start of every video I would drink a LaCroix

and I kind of was hoping at some point

that they would be like, yo that's really cool

like let's work together, we'll sponsor your videos.

That never happened.

Is Danny Gonzalez the fastest growing YouTube channel?

Okay, this is actually kind of fucked up

that this is on here 'cause I say in a lot

of my videos that I am the fastest growing YouTube channel

but I always preface it by saying do not look that up.

And the fact that this is on here means

that a lot of people have looked this up.

This is really disappointing to see.

I'm not even gonna dignify it

with a response, you already know.

And so as far as I'm concerned

this does not deserve a response, so.

Who is Danny Gonzalez best friend?

That's kind of a sweet question.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone ask that before online.

My best friend is my wife.

I know that that's kind of, some people you know

roll their eyes at saying that but she is my best friend.

I spent all day every day with her.

If I wasn't gonna pick my wife I'd probably pick my dogs

which would also be kind of a cop out.

So I mean what do you want me to say?

Who is Danny Gonzalez Dream?

Last year on April Fool's Day I did a fake face reveal

as the notorious Minecraft creator Dream

because he had never shown his face at that point,

he has now, and it's not my face.

The real Dream actually like DMed me

and said hey do you want to do like a fake face reveal

on my Twitch account?

I got on his Twitch.

I did like a whole presentation about how I'm really Dream

and like the whole thing was fake.

Up until Dream face revealed a couple months ago

people actually thought that I was Dream.

They didn't know that it was an April Fools Day joke.

They saw it after the fact when it

wasn't April Fools Day anymore.

I am not Dream unfortunately.

I know I was as disappointed as you

when I found out but I'm not.

Who edits Danny Gonzalez videos?

I have an editor, his name is Jake Mayer

and he is super talented.

He's a great guy.

He edits my videos, he also shoots my videos with me.

So when I did a video recently where I went

to the Stanley Hotel, Jake came with me.

He is technically an employee and I did feel bad

like making him stay at a haunted hotel.

I do feel like there's some like ethical issues with that.

But in fairness I did book him a non haunted room

and he didn't see any ghosts as far as I know.

Who does Danny Gonzalez look like?

There's so many people.

The newest one that I kept getting a lot was

the the new Buzz Lightyear

from the Pixar Buzz Lightyear movie.

I don't think that shaving my head has helped.

I think that I actually look a lot more like him now.

That was not intentional.

I feel like it's a lot of Pixar movies.

I swear that like every time they look

for a new character they like load the same 3D model

into their program and it's kind of like a gangly guy

with a large nose and then they just like modify it

a little bit and then they're like,

this is the new main character of the Pixar movie.

So it's them, okay.

It's not me, they're doing it.

I swear.

Where was Danny Gonzalez born?

Okay, I feel like that's probably like a security question

on my bank account or something.

So I'm gonna give a vague answer.

I was born in the suburbs of Chicago.

I've lived there for most of my life.

I grew up in Wheaton, Illinois so I was born close

to there with my mom in the room.

Where does Danny Gonzalez stream?

I don't really stream that much anymore

but when I did, I did on Twitch.

There's a couple things I didn't like about streaming.

One of them was that I had to like read comments

in real time from people.

I feel like for YouTubers or anyone that's online

like reading comments is like the worst thing

about like doing social media 'cause a lot of them

are kind of mean and having to read them in real time

while people are watching you is like the worst thing ever.

I don't stream that much anymore, that is why,

but when I did it was on Twitch.

When did Danny Gonzalez get married?

Another possible security question

but I will answer this one 'cause it's public information.

I got married on July 1st, 2017.

The date is a palindrome I think is the word,

7/1/17.

Pretty cool.

A lot of people think it's pretty cool.

Did Danny Gonzalez okay, we're on to past tense.

Did Danny Gonzalez dye his hair?

Did I?

No, I don't think so.

I'm trying to think if I've ever dyed my hair.

No, no I didn't.

I shaved my hair.

I cut my hair.

Did I dye my hair?

No.

Oh maybe people ask that

'cause I have like a gray streak in my hair.

That's all natural baby.

My dad has it too actually.

He's got a little gray right here.

Did Danny Gonzalez quit YouTube?

No, I didn't quit YouTube.

I do wonder why someone would ask that though.

I feel like you could just search my name

on YouTube and like a recent video would come up

unless it's like did he quit YouTube in the past like day?

You could probably get a better answer

by just going into my YouTube channel

and I would probably post a video being like I quit YouTube.

So if you're ever curious about that again

just head on over to my YouTube channel to Danny Gonzalez

and subscribe.

Did Danny Gonzalez work on Lightyear?

This is a double layered question, okay.

Because now we're getting into,

not only do I have a lot of lookalikes, Buzz Lightyear,

but I also have several people

that have the same name as me.

There's a guy that works on every Marvel movie

and a lot of like animated movies too, named Danny Gonzalez.

So I'm in the credits

for like every time a new Marvel movie comes out

I get a lot of tweets being like,

you worked on the New Avengers movie, dude, that's sick.

I did not, it's some guy.

Or maybe I should just take credit for it.

Maybe I should say,

yeah, it was me.

It was me and then I'll have to change his name.

Yeah, it was me.

I worked on Lightyear, super great experience.

I actually was given the opportunity to model the character

to look exactly like myself.

So that was.

Did Danny Gonzalez ghost Kevin Jonas?

I think so.

I think I did.

There's been some recent controversy about this

because I made a song called I Ghosted Kevin Jonas.

It's about this one time in 20, like 2015 I think, or 2016.

I was doing Vine at the time

and Kevin Jonas like DMed me outta nowhere

and asked if I could do a favor for him.

I DMed him back.

I was like, yeah of course.

He either has a music label or some kind of agency

where he represents music artists and one of them,

one of his artists was working on a music video.

They were trying to get a bunch of Viners

to like lip sync to the same song I guess.

So he asked me to do that

and then I just didn't respond, I guess, ever.

So this did happen.

Okay, last one.

This one just says Danny Gonzalez, okay.

They're just like making a declaration into Google.

Danny Gonzalez first video.

There's like a lot of different answers

to that question 'cause like this could be like

what is the first video on my current YouTube channel?

What is the first video I ever posted

to YouTube or what is the first video that I ever made?

And there's a different answer to each of them.

The first video I ever posted on my current channel

I think it was just

like a vine compilation cause I was doing Vines at the time.

The first video I ever posted

on YouTube was in middle school I think.

I think I started my first YouTube channel

in like 2006 with a group of my friends.

We made a channel called Highlight Zone Productions.

I think we only posted like three videos on that channel.

The first video I ever made, I couldn't tell you.

When I was probably like five,

my parents and my siblings used to make

like a Christmas video every year

which explaining this to other people is really difficult

'cause I guess other people didn't do this

but we would do like a little talent show that was

like Christmas themed and then film it.

A lot of the like talents would be

like doing magic tricks where we would have

the camera filming and then we would stop filming

and then I would like leave frame

so it would look like I disappeared all of a sudden.

Danny Gonzalez, I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus lyrics.

So I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus is a music video

that I made based on the movie

The Santa Claus with Tim Allen.

The premise of that movie is that Tim Allen's character

accidentally kills Santa and then for some reason

from that is entitled to become Santa.

There's a clause that's like written

in his jacket I think that says like

if you find this then you're the new Santa now.

And I've always thought that was kind of messed up

that if you kill Santa you just get to become Santa.

But then I thought about it and I was like

actually this is kind of cool and if I could get my hands

on this guy and actually do it myself

this could actually be really awesome.

So I wrote this song called I'm Gonna Kill Santa Claus.

Most of my videos are commentary videos

but this one that's just like a music video

is my most viewed video on YouTube.

I think that it just passed 20 million views.

Danny Gonzalez Cool for the Summer Vine.

This was a Vine that had the song

Cool for the Summer by Demi Lovato.

It was just joking about the lyrics I guess.

The lyrics are, don't tell your mother,

kiss one another, two pretty playful fun lyrics.

And then the third one is die for each other.

And I always thought that was

like a pretty big leap to make.

I mean even the title Cool for the Summer

implies like a pretty lightheartedness

and then the lyrics are just die for each other.

I always thought that that was like a little bit of a,

a little bit strong.

TikTok more or less fills the hole in my heart

that Vine left.

Danny Gonzalez fan fiction.

This is probably referring to one

of my other most popular videos.

It is me reading a fan fiction

of myself and Drew Gooden, who's another YouTuber.

And the fan fiction is about both of us

and both of us are in the video reading it together.

And it is a romantic fan fiction between us.

It's like us and the Paul Brothers.

There's like some sort of love triangle going on between us.

Somehow I think Drew gets pregnant

and then we get married at the end.

I did read a fan fiction that said I had a six pack once

and I was very flattered by that.

Danny Gonzalez end song.

For a long time my videos had a song at the end called

This Video is Over Now.

It's a video that I made myself

and honestly it kind of slapped so I put it at the end

of every video just as like a fun little outro to my videos.

I've since kind of stopped using it.

I guess like YouTube really values

like what percentage of a video people watch

and I found that a lot of people just

like clicked off when I would play the outro songs.

I don't know if it's had any impact

but I do kind of miss that song.

It is on Spotify though, so you can find it.

So there you go.

So I guess Drew Gooden did one of these two.

I think that this video is gonna be

a little bit more interesting

than his video because these questions were about me.

His was great and it was funny and everything.

It's just like if his questions could have been

about me also, I feel like that actually would've been sick.

That would've been a lot funnier.