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"Daniel James Howell (born 11 June 1991) is an English YouTuber, presenter, comedian and author. He gained prominence through his YouTube channels Daniel Howell (formerly known as danisnotonfire), which has over six million subscribers (as of August 2025), and Dan and Phil (formerly DanAndPhilGAMES). He is known for his frequent collaborations with his partner Phil Lester as part of the entertainment duo Dan and Phil. Together, they presented the Sunday night entertainment show Dan and Phil on BBC Radio 1 from January 2013 until August 2014, and the station's Internet Takeover slot from September 2014 until April 2016." [source]

"Howell uploaded his first YouTube video titled "HELLO INTERNET" on 16 October 2009. He was encouraged by "some friends" including Phil Lester to regularly upload videos to the platform. Howell gained prominence on his main channel through anecdotal storytelling. Series included Reasons Why Dan's a Fail and Internet Support Group.

He also has a second YouTube channel, danisnotinteresting, which has over 1.6 million subscribers and 57 million views, as of November 2025. Between 2013 and 2018, Howell broadcast weekly hour-long live shows on YouNow, which, from 2017, were also broadcast to danisnotinteresting.

On 1 May 2017, Howell posted a video on his channel announcing that he had changed the name of his YouTube channel from danisnotonfire to Daniel Howell as he felt the former no longer represented him, particularly in professional contexts.

From 2019 to 2022, Howell took a hiatus from his YouTube channel, making only a handful of public appearances. These included an NHS Charities Together livestream in April 2020; announcing he had bought a home with Lester in December 2020 via Stereo (the video of which was uploaded in January 2021); as well as the YouTube Originals Gay and Not Proud and Hometown Showdown in 2021. Howell explained the break in a May 2022 YouTube video titled "Why I Quit YouTube". Alongside his subsequent solo tour We're All Doomed!, Howell began a YouTube series called Dystopia Daily, which ran from 2022 to 2023." [source]

"On 12 September 2014, Howell and Lester posted the first video to their gaming YouTube channel, DanAndPhilGAMES. It was, for a time, the fastest growing channel on YouTube. As of December 2023, it had amassed 2.8 million subscribers.

Popular recurring series on this channel include their Sims 4 series, Golf with Friends, Spooky Week, and Gamingmas. The channel was on hiatus from December 2018 to October 2023.

The 2023 revival of DanAndPhilGAMES was introduced with a comedy sketch written by Howell, "Saying Goodbye Forever", which depicted an interrupted funeral for the channel. They were among several YouTubers popular in the earlier days of the platform to return to it that year.

Following the rebrand of the channel to simply Dan and Phil in October 2025, Howell and Lester began hosting a weekly podcast called Hard Launch. Each episode includes a companion video version available on their YouTube channel." [source]