50 Million Views with Coolman Coffeedan

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, on the Colin and Samir Podcast, we’re joined by Danny Casale aka Coolman Coffeedan. Now we actually recorded this episode a few weeks ago and we are working on a YouTube video with Danny, but felt like right now was a good time to release it because Danny’s story is extremely inspiring and he built a lot of his career from his bedroom...which is where a lot of us are spending most of our time now. Danny is a NYC based artist who has gained popularity through his surreal, and poorly-drawn animations. He calls himself a Bad animator, but his bad animations have made there way on to the big screens at times square… he’s got 2M subscribers on YouTube, 2 Million on Instagram 1.5 Million followers on Facebook and another 1.3 Million on Tiktok, so clearly his animations connect with a lot of people. He recently released an album on Spotify Although he’s been uploading to Youtube for over 10 years for His style first took off in 2017 when he released an animation titled Snakes have Legs, which was basically a PSA for people to stop believing everything they read on the internet. The video has over 10 million views on Danny’s facebook and has been shared all over the internet. Spending the day with Danny was awesome, he’s a big inspiration to us, his message is strong and his style is so relatable. I would recommend checking him out on instagram before you listen to this so you can get a feel for his style, he even recently put out a song about washing your hands. We met Danny earlier this year at Samsung Unpacked and we quickly bonded over our mutual love of emo music… so if you’re into that too, tweet at us @colinandsamir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For that month, I probably raked in like 50 million views in that video. That's when I was like,
0:08.9	oh my God, like this is what I'm doing now. Like, I just made a drawing that was goofy. It was
0:15.1	probably the most viral video of the month. It reached every corner of the world. It was huge in Brazil. Teachers were
0:22.9	DMing me that they were showing their students in their classroom. It really did launch
0:27.7	an entire new career for me. This week on the Colin and Samir podcast, we're bringing you an
0:33.3	interview with Danny Casal, aka Cool Man Coffee Dan.
0:37.7	Now, we actually recorded this episode a few weeks ago, and we've been holding it off
0:41.6	to release it with a YouTube video that we did with Danny, but we felt like right now was
0:46.1	a really good time to release it because Danny's story is extremely inspiring.
0:51.2	And he built his career from his bedroom, which is where a lot of us are spending most
0:56.1	of our time now. Danny is a New York City-based artist who gained popularity through his
1:02.3	surreal and poorly drawn animations. Now, he calls himself a bad animator, but his bad animations
1:09.2	have made their way all the way onto the big screens
1:12.4	at Times Square. He has 2 million subscribers on YouTube, 2 million on Instagram, 1.5 million on
1:19.9	Facebook, and another 1.3 million on TikTok. So clearly these animations are connecting with a lot
1:26.3	of people.
1:30.8	Danny is a multifaceted creator along with his animations.
1:34.6	He's also a fantastic writer and musician.
1:41.0	He recently released an album on Spotify and had big plans for a tour with some of his fellow animators, but due to the current situation in the world, that has
1:45.4	been postponed. Although he's been uploading to YouTube for over 10 years now, his style
1:50.7	really took off only a few years ago when he released an animation titled Snakes Have Legs.
1:56.6	I was going down my Facebook timeline, man, and it said snakes have legs.
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