Daniel Hardcastle

Daniel John Hardcastle (born 23 March 1989), known online as Nerd³, NerdCubed and sometimes as Forsinain42, is an English author, YouTuber, Company Director and CEO of Nerd Cubed Limited.[1][2] He is the author of Sunday Times bestseller Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd. As of 2020, his YouTube videos have accumulated more than 1.2 billion views.[3]

Daniel Hardcastle
Hardcastle at a book signing in 2019
Personal information
BornDaniel John Hardcastle
(1989-03-23) 23 March 1989
Southend-on-Sea, England
NationalityEnglish
Occupation
Spouse(s)
Rebecca Maughan (m. 2016)
RelativesSteve "Dad³" Hardcastle (father)
Websitewww.nerdcubed.co.uk
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2009–present
Genre
Subscribers2.53 million
Total views1.28 billion
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers 2012
1,000,000 subscribers 2013
Updated 22 June 2020

Career

Online

Hardcastle rose to prominence through a scripted, story-based webcomic made within Minecraft. After creating his YouTube channel on 20 March 2011,[3] Hardcastle initially began uploading a series of comedic vlogs before uploading his first Let's Play. His first series, called Nerd³'s Minecraft Buildy Thing, ran from 27 August 2011 to 22 August 2012. After creating videos on a few indie games, Hardcastle uploaded his first Nerd³ Plays video on 7 January 2012. In 2012, Machinma sponsored him to create the series 13 Ways To Die.[4]

In 2015, Hardcastle was nominated for a Golden Joystick Award for "online personality of the year".[5] He has since amassed more than 2.5 million subscribers and 1.2 billion total views.[3] He has previously collaborated on his YouTube Channel with Emma Blackery,[6] Tomska,[7] Hannah Hart,[8] Stuart Ashen[9] and InTheLittleWood.[10] In September 2019, Hardcastle's YouTube account was unverified for being not widely recognised outside the platform.[11]

In December 2019, Hardcastle made the decision to demonetise his channel, to avoid getting caught out by YouTube's much-maligned algorithm to prevent a breach of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which they broke earlier that year, resulting in a $170 million fine from the Federal Trade Commission.[12]

Books

Hardcastle began writing his first book, Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life & Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd, in 2017. On 4 June 2018, he began crowdfunding the book through the website Unbound. The book reached 100% of its target on the first day[13] and 1000% by 11 June. Reaching a total of 1903% of its initial goal, the book is the most successful crowdfunded book in the UK. The foreword of the book was written by Tim Schafer, and a chapter was written by Stuart Ashen.[14][15] It was released on 19 September 2019 and was a Sunday Times best seller.[16]

On 26 September 2019, crowdfunding began for Hardcastle's second book, The Paradox Paradox, a Sci-Fi novel he has described as "a bit Star Trek, a bit Doctor Who, and a bit fucked up."[17][18] It reached its funding goal within 20 minutes.[19]

Personal life

Hardcastle is married to Rebecca Maughan,[20] an artist who illustrated Fuck Yeah, Video Games.[13] The couple have a number of pets including a German Shepherd, two budgies, a corn snake and four guinea pigs.[21][22][23]

Hardcastle's father, Steve "Dad³" Hardcastle, with whom he has regularly collaborated, started a YouTube channel in 2013; it has accumulated more than 300,000 subscribers and 23 million total views.[24]

Hardcastle studied astrophysics at the University of Leicester, but dropped out after the first year.[25][26]

References
  1. "Nerd Cubed Limited - Officers". Companies House. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. "Nerd³". Nerd³. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. "About OfficialNerdCubed". YouTube. Archived from the original on 29 April 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  4. "Nerd³ Machinima Compilation - 13 Ways to Die, GTA IV, Pokémals and more!". Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  5. Reynolds, Matthew (1 September 2015). "Golden Joystick Awards voting now open". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  6. "Nerd³ Vs Emma Blackery - WWE '13". Youtube. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  7. "Nerd³ and TomSka Made A Video". Youtube. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  8. "Nerd³ and Hannah Hart Play... Kinect Party". Youtube. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  9. "Nerd³ Takes Ashens To Hell". Youtube. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  10. "Little and Cubed Vs Rockstar Games". Youtube. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  11. O'Dell, Liam (19 September 2019). "YouTube Reveals New Plans for Channel Verification". Teneighty magazine. TENEIGHTY DIGITAL LTD.
  12. "Nerd³ Plays with VR Boobies". Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  13. "Unbound crowdfunding record smashed by gamer Dan NerdCubed". thebookseller.com. 6 June 2018. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  14. Fogarty, Paul (18 September 2019). "Book Review - F**k Yeah, Video Games by Daniel Hardcastle aka. NerdCubed". Here is the City. GRV Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  15. "Nerd³'s Book Update - With BIG News!" on YouTube
  16. "The Sunday Times Bestsellers List — the UK's definitive book sales chart". The Sunday Times. Times Newspapers Limited. 29 September 2019. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  17. "The Paradox Paradox". Unbound. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  18. "The Paradox Paradox announcement". InfluencerUpdate. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  19. @unbounders (26 September 2019). "AND THERE IT GOES. 100% in 20 minutes!!!! @dannerdcubed's #TheParadoxParadox is happening!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  20. Maughan, Rebecca. "Hello, @DanNerdCubed and I did a thing". Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  21. Matilda Plays - Apps For Pets, retrieved 4 December 2019
  22. @Mr_Rebecca (20 February 2020). "We took 3 home as I've never kept Guinea pigs before and I wanted to make sure we didn't take more than we could cope with" (Tweet). Retrieved 21 February 2020 – via Twitter.
  23. @Mr_Rebecca (7 April 2020). "Say hello to Rhys" (Tweet). Retrieved 12 April 2020 – via Twitter.
  24. "About OfficialDadCubed". YouTube. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  25. "Nerd³ Plays... Universe Sandbox". Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  26. Hardcastle, Daniel (September 2019). Fuck yeah, video games : the life and extra lives of a professional nerd. London. ISBN 978-1-78352-787-8. OCLC 1080999469.


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