Danny Duncan, the famous YouTube prankster we all know and love, has been the centre of many controversies over the years because of the extent of his pranks. What happened to Danny Duncan that made him this goofy and adventurous is one of the biggest mysteries yet!

Last year, he played an elaborate prank on his entire viewership on YT that left fans asking, did Danny Duncan got hit by a car, given the history of his risk-taking attitude in his videos, it was an absolutely plausible thing.

Earlier this year, we found Danny Duncan hospitalised for reasons that were again a mystery for the longest time.

So, let’s talk about what happened to Danny Duncan in these videos. Is this new situation just another prank, or is Danny Duncan hospitalised due to something serious this time?

Who is Danny Duncan?

Danny Duncan’s real name has been a question fans have asked since his career on YT began. He was born on July 27, 1992, in Englewood, Florida. Susan Duncan, his mother had given Danny Duncan’s real name Garry Winthrop, but later it was changed to the name the world knows him as today.

This 31-year-old started his YT channel a decade ago when he was a young blood of just 21. Since then he has made hundreds of videos and his content has spread across the globe like wildfire. Danny’s most popular video today “Falling with 30,000 pennies” is also his first video that crossed a million views. 

Before starting YouTube, Danny was an athlete, as his videos have made clear given the amount of bizarre adventure-filled stuff he does. 

He has been involved in many controversies and allegations throughout his career and has been trying to clear his name from these ever since. Among the most severe of these were allegations of abuse and grooming.

Did Danny Duncan get hit by a car going through an RV?

In August 2023, a video of his spiked across the internet, and it seemed like it had left Danny Duncan hospitalised or worse. Fans even suspected that the prankster had died in that accident.

In the video, Danny was seen doing a challenge to see if his old Mustang could crash through an RV and come out the other side intact. However, just before the crash, Duncan was seen filming inside the RV and the video was cut abruptly. This led to widespread worry and fans were scared as everyone had one thought, is Danny Duncan okay?

Thankfully, the answer was yes. Danny Duncan was not hospitalized, and the video was not real. It turned out to be nothing but a clever edit by the production team that showed him getting crashed into by a full-speed approaching Mustang.

However, the prankster had left the RV before the crash actually occurred and the scene was taken again with the car bursting right through it. 

What happened to Danny Duncan this time?

Danny Duncan’s real name wasn’t the only mystery about him. He has kept much of his real life separated from his online appearance. This year, in January, Duncan got into an actual accident while filming a video. Of course, the prankster made every joke out of it possible to keep the severity of it a secret. Fans later found out that Danny had dislocated his hip and many muscles in his legs had been torn due to that accident. As horrifying as it was, he made sure it stayed on a lighter note by introducing Gail Lewis onto his channel amidst all this. This gave the world new things to talk about, like whether the two best friends are now or what. 

Unfortunately, the injury to his hip joints left him in a wheelchair as his doctors explained to him that if he got up and did any of the things he usually does, the joint would dislocate again and it could lead to permanent damage. So, to recover, Duncan bolts around as usual, with his energy still high in his wheelchair.

He has been making videos with Gail Lewis, a TikTok celebrity who became famous after her video, in which she retired from Walmart and gave her final announcement on the PA speaker.

Controversies and Allegations Duncan Faced

Back in 2021, Danny was “attacked” on all fronts as he claimed, when some serious allegations came forward against him. One was that Duncan had physically abused one of his employees. The other was that he was involved in minor grooming, a heinous act of sexually manipulating minor children.

Aron Hall aka Sunhatkid, was Danny’s ex-employee and friend who had appeared in his videos doing challenges with him. Then suddenly the two stopped collaborating and Aaron wasn’t in any of his videos. After a while, Hall took it to the internet that Duncan had been physically and mentally abusing him. He claimed that Danny took 20% of his earnings, made him unfollow other content creators, and would lash out at him if he made mistakes during challenges. He said that Danny had allegedly taken a knife to Hall’s throat and this is when he decided to leave the celebrity’s channel.

Danny responded after a while and rejected all the allegations made against him, saying he had never even thought of doing something so terrible, let alone actually doing it. He went on to say that these allegations were baseless slanders meant to bring him down at his peak. He shared some solid evidence that rejected the so-called evidence Hall had of him being abused. Danny also shared an audio where Hall stated he is leaving the channel because he isn’t getting enough views on his channel. 

The second allegation was way more grave and could have led him straight to jail. This was a mere 3 days after Danny’s response to the previous controversy, surprisingly by the same YouTuber who had defended him. Keemstar uploaded three videos over the next month, claiming Danny was grooming girls he had interviewed. None of these allegations were backed up by any evidence and Keemstar was met with severe backlash and her following dropped significantly.

Conclusion

So to conclude, Danny Duncan, a YouTube prankster has been active on his channel for over a decade now and has posted several videos that brought him into the limelight.

His famous videos have been of challenges that have put him on the map for being so outrageously crazy and fun.

Being the prankster he is, he played a series of pranks on his fans, one of which was too serious when he let everyone believe he had been hit by a car. This year, he actually had an accident, and the details of it were released later.

Danny has faced a series of allegations and has been the centre of controversies. Thankfully the YT star has had his name cleared and all accusers were faced with backlash for their slander.

Danny is currently in a wheelchair due to his injuries this January but is expected to recover fully and will surely be back to his crazy self in no time!

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