This is
D'Angelo Wallace, a very popular YouTuber with 3 million combined subscribers.
He's mainly known
for his videos of controversial YouTubers and internet personalities.
He managed to achieve success rather quickly due to him
standing out by single handedly canceling the YouTube beauty community.
And Shane Dawson,
who was once viewed as an innocent, charming guy until D'Angelo Wallace made an
hour long documentary.
And with that video reaching 20 million views,
the outcome for D'Angelo was 700,000 subscribers.
D'Angelo's content falls into the commentary niche.
He is known for many things,
including his dry humor, witty personality and asmr-ish voice.
He is often called the commentary king and managed to become one due to his well
researched and produced videos on his main channel.
But nowadays, we haven't heard from Daniel in a while.
He basically vanished without warning well, from YouTube.
At least he hasn't posted a video on his second channel in five months.
In his popular channel hasn't seen any uploads since the very beginning
of 2021, and fans have noticed the inactivity of his channel,
with the fans
often expressing concern in the YouTube comments section and elsewhere.
D'Angelo Wallace has been gone for a while now, but why could it be as simple
as a burnout or something deeper than that?
To answer this question, we first need a better understanding
of D'Angelo Wallace as a person and his channel.
So let's go back to around 2018.
When D'Angelo Wallace first started making videos at the time,
At the time,
he was an art channel making digital art videos as well as art
commentary where we would see him doing his patented ranting.
Except it was ranting towards art instead of him talking about whatever he wants.
He kept doing art
style videos for about a year and a half until he took a sudden two month break
and came back and completely ditched the art videos to the now-familiar
quote on quote "keeping up with the trends" type commentary.
In 2019, D'Angelo created another channel.
D'Angelo Wallace same name, but with no spaces.
This channel's intention was to post commentary videos
frequently in which he did have success doing that for a while.
But there was an inevitable problem...
Burnout.
He had stretches where he would post every single day
while still adding the quality factor to his videos.
As you can imagine, that's a lot of work and stress for one person to research,
edit in post videos every single day.
In its first video, D'Angelo said quote, "But then, of course,
it got to the point where the burnout was so intense, and I had made
20 videos in 30 days and I was like, This is not maintainable."
End quote.
D'Angelo decides to put daily videos on hold on the second channel
and put his focus on bigger projects, so that meant taking more time
to post the video rather than upload daily.
He started the transition right here by posting a video exposing Shallon
Lester for being accused of stigmatizing mental illness.
He then made a video about Lana Del
Rey and Jeffree Star exposing them in similar fashion.
But it wasn't until he posted
the Shane Dawson video where things changed for D'Angelo's channel by a wide margin.
He saw a crazy amount of success.
This video easily made him go to about 400,000
subscribers or so, to achieving 1 million subscribers within a month.
Sadly, the video isn't up on his channel due to personal reasons,
but you can easily find it online if you want to.
With this fame came popular media articles D'Angelo was featured
on like Insider, Vulture, et cetera, et cetera.
So you get the message how you blew up and became a commentary icon
in this short amount of time.
So let's fast forward to the present.
D'Angelo Wallace is missing. Where has D'Angelo gone? And why?
Well, for longtime
fans of D'Angelo, you would know he takes breaks from time to time.
Hell, even his banner confirms that, but this time around seems a bit different,
as he hasn't posted any videos on his main channel in the past year
and hasn't posted a video on his second channel nearly a half a year ago.
He made an appearance on Twitter and YouTube around December, hinting
that he would make a comeback, but made a tweet two weeks
later and dismissed what he said two weeks prior.
So now we are here currently with no sign of him returning any time soon.
But why could this be?
Well, I have three hypothetical reasons that could factor in D'Angelo's absence,
starting with the least likely reason, but could very well be a major factor
in his absence.
The "SNEAKO beef". In a nutshell
SNEAKO is a fellow YouTuber who also makes commentary vids,
but not like the commentary channels that you originally see across YouTube.
Here's more of the controversial channel, to say the least.
I made a video on him
if you want a more in-depth dove into his channel link in description
Anyways, this beef between D'Angelo and SNEAKO started back in February
2021, with D'Angelo commenting "he's for the streets" on SNEAKO's
"We broke up😔" video.
For context, the video was about SNEAKO
admitting to cheating on his then girlfriend.
The comments on SNEAKO's video were ruthless, and D'Angelo
decided to add to the fire by commenting a semi-joke. SNEAKO saw this
and retaliated with a 20-minute video basically roasting the hell
out of D'Angelo Wallace.
SNEAKO: ...at his braces and the fact that he looks like
a Tik Tok Lil Tecca.
Not even just the fact that he dresses
like Ellen, just his voice, his face, his-
Remember when you had to run the mile back in middle school,
he was the dude he was wearing the knit suit, walking in the back.
No, I'm not going to run and get my suit sweaty-
There is some weird hater energy inside of you dawg.
If you have any friends, I bet when your friends like,
get something accomplished, you're like, "Oh, that's that's great-
Heh..heh
*Twitches head*
Heu-heugh!
Oh, you got a new job?
Heh...
Wow."
Officially Ronny: But keep in mind, though, the motivation behind this video was based
on a comment, but again, I put this as at least likely reason for his absence
because this beef happened all the way back in February 2021
and from what it looks like, D'Angelo pretty much ignored the situation by not
responding and continued to post regularly up until his recent disappearance.
The last two reasons that factor into D'Angelo's absence is in
no specific order, because I think there are both significant reasons
for his absence, starting with the second to last reason Canyon County.
This is a project D'Angelo has been working on for a while now.
Now we don't know that much info on this, as he hasn't told anyone about it (as much).
All we have so far is some community post talking about it is pinned tweets
a website for Canyon County, and a welcome letter from D'Angelo
Wallace that promotes Canyon County if you join his newsletter.
The last logical reason is depression.
Depression is something D'Angelo talks about a lot he mentions it
when talking about his grandparents in the "Influencer-19" video and Twitter,
he said quote,
"It's unlikely that I would be making any long-form video
about these kinds of situations ever again.
People enjoy the content because I take emotionally
charged situations and present them calmly.
But the amount of emotional labor that requires is not something
I'm willing to repeat for my mental health." end quote.
He also uploaded a total of 46 videos in 2021,
most of which have been emotional and disturbing topics to cover.
It's a no brainer that all these factors led to D'Angelo suffering creators-burnout
and who knows what else D'Angelo is suffering from behind closed doors.
All we see is the calm, charismatic commentator that never fails to entertain
but he is obviously going through some things.
All that we can do now is wait for his return and see what he has to say
for his unexpected but kind of expected leave since he disappears all the time.
(Suspense Music drones in the background)