Daniel Thrasher

Daniel Thrasher is an American YouTuber and musician. He primarily uploads piano-based comedy sketches to his self-titled YouTube channel. As of May 2023, his main YouTube channel has accumulated more than 801 million views with more than 4.3 million subscribers.[1]

Daniel Thrasher
Born (1993-02-24) February 24, 1993
Miami, Florida
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • internet personality
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • piano
  • guitar
  • accordion
  • bagpipes
  • sousaphone
Years active2007–present
YouTube information
ChannelsDaniel Thrasher
Daniel Thrasher Plus
Genres
  • Music
  • comedy
Subscribers4.3 million[lower-alpha 1]
Total views801 million[lower-alpha 2]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2018
1,000,000 subscribers2019
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2022–present
Followers17.6 thousand
Last updated: May 14, 2023

Career

Thrasher went to Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a magnet school.[2]

Thrasher created his main YouTube channel, then titled muffinman3000, on January 5, 2007,[1] with the first video being uploaded on December 1, 2011.[3]

On November 13, 2012, Thrasher uploaded a video titled "How I Accidentally Wrote 'The Office' Theme Song", in which he explains how, after he got a new piano, he was testing a chord progression that sounded familiar, before he realized it was the theme tune to The Office.[4]

A few years later, when Thrasher was in college, the video went viral, and now has over 21 million views and is the third most-viewed video on his channel as of January 2023.[4][5]

In 2015, Thrasher graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts.[6]

In 2019, Thrasher quit his job as a barista to pursue YouTube as a full-time career. By that point, he had accrued over one million subscribers. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Thrasher continued to post videos. As a result, he almost tripled his amount of subscribers. He was able to increase the size of his operation to a four-person team.[7]

In 2021, American comedy duo Rhett & Link of Good Mythical Morning announced that a fund called the "Mythical Creator Accelerator" had been created to invest over $5 million into creators, through their production company Mythical Entertainment. Thrasher was the second beneficiary of the fund in April 2022.[4][8][9]

On December 1, 2021, Thrasher performed a one-day show at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, entitled Daniel Thrasher: Laugh or Die.[10] Thrasher also embarked on a five-show tour in August 2022, entitled Daniel Thrasher Live, traveling to three states across the Midwest.[11]

Thrasher is set to be a featured creator at VidCon in June 2023[12] and is set to appear in the US remake of British television Friday Night Dinner, titled Dinner with the Parents, to be released on Amazon Freevee.[13][14]

Awards and nominations
Year Organization Award Result
2022 Streamy Awards Writing Nominated[15]

Discography

Solo albums
  • Quick and Sketchy (2019)

Singles
  • "Once Upon a Paradise" (2018)
  • "The After" (2021)
  • "When You Make Musical Promise" (2022)
  • "I Play Piano Too" (2022)
  • "Shiny Object Syndrome" (2022)

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2018 Song of Back and Neck Alex

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2016 The Millionaires Daniel 6 episodes
2023 Dinner with the Parents Upcoming series

Web
Year Title Role Notes
2022 God of Work Chris 6 episodes

Notes
  1. Subscribers, broken down by channel:
    3.77 million (Daniel Thrasher)
    534 thousand (Daniel Thrasher Plus)
  2. Views, broken down by channel:
    717 million (Daniel Thrasher)
    85 million (Daniel Thrasher Plus)

References
  1. "@danielthrasher". YouTube. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  2. "Q&A Time!". Daniel Thrasher. Retrieved April 12, 2023 – via YouTube.
  3. Thrasher, Daniel (November 30, 2011). NEW CAR SMELL!. YouTube. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  4. Brown, Abram (April 22, 2022). "Rhett And Link's Investment Fund Takes New Stake In Musical-Comedy YouTuber Daniel Thrasher". Forbes. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  5. Thrasher, Daniel (November 13, 2012). How I Accidentally Wrote "The Office" Theme Song. YouTube. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  6. "SCAD Commencement 2022". Cision. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
  7. Kim, Victoria; Kirschbaum, Erik (October 11, 2021). "For these young people in privileged parts of the world, the pandemic was an opportunity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  8. Gutelle, Sam (April 22, 2022). "Rhett and Link are investing in creators who "have the ability to scale." Their latest target is musician Daniel Thrasher". Tubefilter. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  9. Mullin, Benjamin (December 4, 2022). "YouTube Stars Rhett and Link Think This Is Their Moment". The New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
  10. "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  11. Daniel Thrasher Live, retrieved January 21, 2023
  12. Cohen, David. "YouTube Returns as Title Sponsor of VidCon Anaheim 2023". Adweek. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  13. Bennett, Steve. "EXCLUSIVE: Who's in the US remake of Friday Night Dinner : News 2022 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  14. Wray, Daniel Dylan (May 13, 2023). "'I was a tiny cog in a machine of people all named vice-president of something': the reality of remaking UK sitcoms". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  15. Chan, J. Clara (October 27, 2022). "2022 YouTube Streamy Awards: MrBeast Leads Nominations for Second Year". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
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