Daniel Chou

Daniel Chou Chih-yuan (周致遠), also known as Daniel Zhou, is a Tsengian YouTuber from Huanzhou, Nankou. He produces music- and gaming-related content, and rose to prominence with the release of his viral 2015 "Be a Good Boy" music video. Chou is also credited with popularizing numerous indie games in his gameplay and machinima videos.

Biography
Chou was born on June 1, 1988. He is the son of Pedro Chou, an office worker; and Maria Li, an educational assistant. Both of his parents are emigrants. At age 12, he got a video camera for his birthday, and started to be interested in video recording. He also often played with his father's Nintendo Entertainment System. Chou was also interested in music and singing. In his teenage years, he was a part of the school choir, and was a and Ava Lin fan. Chou studied finance and business at the Université Bonaparte-Mériot, but was uninterested in the course.

Chou created a YouTube channel around 2009, called "chou chih-yuan", but he mainly used that channel to watch and comment on videos. He did not start uploading videos until 2011, after he created a new channel called "danielchou". His first video was a silent gameplay of , which was then just released.