Since being posted last week, it’s racked up 265,000 retweets and 334,000 likes, plus untold amounts of attention for its star, the titular Daniel, and its mastermind, a kid named Josh.įor those of you asking what is going on here and what makes it so funny, there’s not much to get: Daniel is a good-looking kid with swag-he’ll surely be played by Miles Teller in the movie adaptation of the meme-and the narrator, doing an unidentifiably funny voice, ambushes him several times going, “Damn, Daniel!” As in, damn, looking good today, or damn, nice outfit. This is “Damn, Daniel,” a BuzzFeed- certified viral phenomenon.
