--- title: Watch the 'Damn Daniel' Twitter Video That Is Going Viral description: Sometimes the best things to come out of the Internet are the most inexplicable. canonical: https://time.com/4232465/damn-daniel-viral-twitter-video-white-vans/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-22T17:05:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:22.508Z og:title: Watch the 'Damn Daniel' Twitter Video That Is Going Viral og:description: The Internet is a weird place og:url: https://time.com/4232465/damn-daniel-viral-twitter-video-white-vans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the 'Damn Daniel' Twitter Video That Is Going Viral twitter:description: The Internet is a weird place twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 'Damn Daniel' Viral Twitter Video Is the Internet's Latest Obsession > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 22, 2016 5:05 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 22, 2016 5:05 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/josholzz/status/699432086965366784) Sometimes the best things to come out of the Internet are the most inexplicable, and the hilarious [viral video](http://time.com/4232192/obama-white-house-virginia-mclaurin/) of [Daniel Lara](https://twitter.com/daniel%5Flaraa) and his [white Vans](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1002001,00.html) is exactly that. Titled “Damn Daniel,” the video features several clips of a teen wearing a variety of different outfits as the person recording repeatedly exclaims, “Damn Daniel,” and, “Back at it again with the white Vans,” in a bizarre voice. The montage was filmed by Lara’s friend [Joshua Holz](https://twitter.com/josholzz) and was uploaded to Twitter on Feb. 15 where it has been retweeted nearly 264,000 times and liked over 331,000 times to date. **Read More:** [Here’s How People Make Money From Viral Videos](http://time.com/3956080/viral-videos-money/) Of course, once the post started to spread, it quickly [began to be meme-ed](http://time.com/3725356/dress-blue-black-white-gold/). Fellow Twitter users have already remixed the clip’s audio with a sick new beat: And responded with a slew of amusing jokes: > [](https://twitter.com/Four%5FPins/status/700032783834546176) > [](https://twitter.com/cheeyennnne/status/700195947691659264) > [](https://twitter.com/deadpoooI/status/700763253782097920) > [](https://twitter.com/tinawoodsss/status/700746709740052480) Even Daniel himself has weighed in to say he is, “stoked by all this.” > [](https://twitter.com/daniel%5Flaraa/status/701076352192020480) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4232465/damn-daniel-viral-twitter-video-white-vans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4232465/damn-daniel-viral-twitter-video-white-vans/"},"headline":"The 'Damn Daniel' Viral Twitter Video Is the Internet's Latest Obsession","datePublished":"2016-02-22T17:05:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:22.508Z","description":"The Internet is a weird place","url":"https://time.com/4232465/damn-daniel-viral-twitter-video-white-vans/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Vine","memes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4232465/damn-daniel-viral-twitter-video-white-vans/","name":"The 'Damn Daniel' Viral Twitter Video Is the Internet's Latest Obsession"}}]}] ```