Daniel Lord

Daniel Jason Lord, most often referred to as Daniel is the protagonist of the Hiding in my room channel. Daniel was born on March 20, 1989, in Maidstone, England.

Overview
Daniel Lord grew up in England, UK. He claimed to have very few friends growing up and spent most of his free time playing the video game World of Warcraft. In his teenage years, Daniel grew an obsession with anime and Japanese culture. Due to this, he taught himself Japanese earned a level 2 certificate in Japanese and eventually made his first trip to Japan by himself in 2010 and lived in a guest house. Since then, he had made four subsequent trips to Japan using a tourist visa until he married a woman named Chihiro, who he lived with for nearly two years. Due to conflicts with KC The Hong Kong GuY, Daniel divorced Chihiro for the final time in December 2019.

YouTube Career
On October 23, 2014, Daniel created Hiding in my room. Originally, he created the channel to document his life in Japan and to express his frustration with social anxiety. His video style mostly consists of vlogs and commentary, either Storytime or a complaining rant.

Additionally, Daniel commonly ends his videos with a segment called 'cooking with Daniel', where he records himself preparing food to stretch the video to 10 minutes.

Criticism
Daniel has been the subject of much criticism throughout his career online. The most notable example of this is the video called The Asian Onision uploaded by user Elvis The Alien Due to Daniel's tendency to share much of his personal life like Onision does, he has faced a similar quarrel with his audience.

Non-Comprehensive List of things Daniel is disliked for:
 * Cheating on his girlfriends and wife
 * Clickbait and trolling
 * Talking badly about his partners on Livestream
 * Acting narcissistic
 * Showing creepy, incel-type behavior towards women
 * General complaining