About
Daniel John Hardcastle, or more commonly called Nerd³/Nerdcubed. Is a British YouTube gamer, comic creator, and comedian from Essex, London. Who’s known for his witty commentary and different types of series on his channel.
Online History
Nerd³ started his online life making a minecraft comic that’s been discointinued but available through download here. Before Nerd³ was a household name as a YouTube channel. He was working with Machinima and uploaded “13 Ways to Die in X” videos. On his off-time he made vlogs of himself doing general stuff for the sake of doing it. They were in the time when Dan was still kinda shy around the community, so any awkwardness is to be expected.
He gained more subscribers after he uploaded Let’s Play of Minecraft and Battlefield 3. So to keep his ranting side intact, he uploaded more rants, but they’re on his “IRL” channel Officiallynerdcubed.
Nerd³ stated that fellow YouTuber Hannah Hart(MyHarto) was his inspiration for the now popular “Nerd³ Play’s…” series. Which is a montage of a game that is played but still kept with the story but only focusing on the funny, memorable, or just plain confusing parts of games. Nerd³ continued to challenge himself(literally) by making new editions to the series. Adding Nerd³ Father and Son-Days, Nerd³ Permadeath, Nerd³ Completes,
Nerd³ Monthof(discontinued. Probably turned into Completes), Nerd³ Three Free Game Fridays(discontinued), IntheLittleCubed(discontinued), and Nerd³ Challenges.
“New” Channel
Nerd³ felt that the direction the channel was going was not what he wanted. So to please people and himself in the process he created 4 new series for his channel. Little and Cubed: Sandbox, Nerd³ Alpha Detective, Nerd³ 101, Nerd³ 102(for revisiting games), and Nerd³ Extra(just something Dan wanted to share). The changes didn’t sit very well with people. Most notably YouTube’s new copyright laws made the biggest series he had “Three Free Game Fridays” completely impossible without getting copyright infringement. While IntheLittleCubed is replaced with Little and Cubed: Sandbox. It’s safe to say nothing will replace TFGF for the time being. However, there is good to the changes. Nerd³ Plays may just be a weekly thing but Nerd³ now keeps us amused by posting videos with him and his dad playing Nerd³ Father and Son-Days and himself playing a game to the end in Nerd³ Complete’s. Along with occasional other tidbits.
Reception
Nerd³ has amassed an amount of 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube and 108,367 followers on Twitter.
Personal Life
Dan left school early to study astrophysics at university but didn’t finish the first year.
Supposedly, Dan suffers from the disease infectious mononucleosis, which has affected the way Hardcastle has run his channel. This led to him contracting myalgic encephalomyelitis, which means he is often unable to work due to symptoms such as aggregating pain.
Googe+ Issues
Due to the infamous change on the comment section in 2013. Dan decided to disable the comments in order to save his fanbase from encountering viruses, the anne.jpg picture(a flashing picture of Jeff the Killer with a loud screaming noise), ASCII phallus’, and things that made the comment section unable to enjoy. As a way to let the opinions not leave, he directed all commenting needs to his sub-reddit. Recently he had a poll done if the Procrastinators wanted to have the YouTube comments unblocked or keep using Reddit by likes and dislikes. Reddit won, and Nerd³ might never go back to YouTube comments again.
Officiallynerdcubed
This is mainly a vlog/skit site for Nerd³ ranting needs if he needs to get something off his chest. Though not as succesful as the main channel, Nerd³ just generally has fun doing whatever on this site. No schedule or series. Just him doing haphazard things.