- What's up Greg?
I'm Danny Gonzalez
and this is the Wired Auto Complete Interview.
[chill music]
If you told me all of these questions are from my mom
I would probably not want to answer a lot of them honestly.
[chill music]
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.