A few weeks ago you might have been hearing people all around the school saying “Damn Daniel, back at it again with the white vans.” This is all because of a series of Snapchats put together about a fourteen year old boy named Daniel. His friend Josh started doing it as a joke on Snapchat where he would film Daniel and say things like “Damn Daniel” or “Damn Daniel back at it again with the white vans.” People thought that it was so funny and they wanted Josh and Daniel to keep on doing the videos and posting them to Josh’s Snapchat story.

After a while Daniel started getting recognized by people at the mall and around town. At parties Daniel would have to call Josh so that everybody can hear him say his famous line. It was an Internet hit and he caught the eyes of many. He knew it was a hit and even tweeted “Josh, and I are stoked by all this. Thank you guys.” People like Cameron Dallas (viner) and Madison Beer (singer/ actress) saw the video and tweeted about it as well. I thought that the video was funny but after a while it was starting to get  annoying.

What’s so bad about it is that everybody was trying to act like Josh at school, every five minutes I would hear “Damn Daniel,” from across the hall and it would bug me even more than the time before. This happened a few weeks ago and I still hear people talking about Daniel.

On the bright side Daniel and Josh are famous now because of this. They both got to be in a Weezer video called “California kids”, and they also went on the Ellen show where Daniel  got a lifetime supply of vans, and Ellen got Josh a personalized surfboard saying “Damn Daniel! I was on Ellen”. Daniel put the lifetime supply of Vans that he got from the Ellen show to very good use.

Recently he donated vans to the people at Loma Linda children’s hospital in Loma Linda, California. They were very touched by this and could not thank Daniel and Josh enough for what they did for their patients. I think that not everybody would do that.

Some people who get noticed on the Internet and  soak up the fame for as long as they can, after that you don’t hear much from them, they kind of vanish from everything. I think that it’s great that people are using their fame for good and they are not keeping it all to themselves, we need more people like Daniel and Josh who use their fame for good.