Planet Dolan

About

Planet Dolan, previously known as Danger Dolan, is a collection of YouTube channels that focus on either "Top ___" list styled videos (Planet Dolan), "Question and Answer" videos and music videos (Super Planet Dolan), or assorted gaming videos (Planet Dolan Gaming).

History

Planet Dolan originally started out under the name "The DD Guides" in 2012 by Australian YouTuber Daniel James Johnson on the channel now called Planet Dolan Gaming. The "DD" in the name originally stood for "Double Dragon," but was later changed to "Danger Dolan" in order to avoid possible copyright problems, and Johnson found the Dolan meme amusing at the time^[1]. From late 2012 until early 2014 Johnson focused almost exclusively on gaming videos, particularly videos pertaining to Blizzard Entertainment's popular World of Warcraft MMORPG. It was in early 2014 Johnson first did a "face reveal" by posting a video of him asking Blizzard developers a question at Blizzcon 2013^[2].

In March of 2014, Johnson created a second channel, originally called "DD Top 20," later "Danger Dolan," and finally "Planet Dolan" in 2016. The focus of the second channel is creating "Top ___" countdown videos. At first these videos were narrated exclusively by Johnson himself (going under the "Danger Dolan" handle), but in 2015 he began hiring more voice talent to take on the work load and add more personality to the channel. Said new talent consisting of either previously unknown personalities like Shima Luan, Melissa Morgan, and Johnson's own brother, or other YouTubers such as Hellbent, Pringle The One, and Doopie Do Over. Months after creating the second channel, the popularity of said channel soon eclipsed that of the original gaming channel, reaching millions of subscribers before the end of 2014. As of September 2016 the main Planet Dolan channel has reached over 5 million subscribers.

At one point, a channel focusing specifically on countdowns relating to movies was created in order to avoid possible copyright issues from happening with the main channel, but the movie channel was eventually abandoned when Johnson felt it was simply too excessive.

Super Planet Dolan

In September of 2015, the channel "Super Planet Dolan" was created, focusing on "Question and Answer" videos and music videos, but unlike the countdown videos on the main channel, the Q&A and music videos are animated by various animators hired by Johnson (such as Ghost Toast, Return of the Goo/Vin, Sweetcommando, Klowncar, and more), with the hosts of the videos being represented with animated avatars. The Q&A videos follow a format where a question submitted by a fan is first read aloud, one host (usually Dolan) giving a ludicrously humorous wrong answer, and the second host giving the correct answer to the question. The music videos are usually animated takes on either public domain children's songs, or original songs created for the Planet Dolan crew. The Super Planet Dolan channel has also had guest appearances from other well known YouTube personalities such as Boogie2988 and Cr1TiKal .

The Super Planet Dolan channel helped add more popularity to the Planet Dolan channels as a whole, attracting people who enjoyed the addition of new personalities and their animated avatars. Johnson/Danger Dolan has stated he hopes to one day create story based animated videos that focus on said animated avatars and the world of "Planet Dolan" itself^[1].

Online Presence

On deviantArt searching "Planet Dolan" brings up over 800 pieces of fanart, and fanart of Planet Dolan characters is also easy to come by on sites such as Tumblr.

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