Daniel Christopher Preda

Daniel Christopher Preda started using Twitter in June of 2009. Later in 2012, he joined Instagram and started to post photos of his fashion modeling and travel. Both his social media accounts started to gain popularity soon. He, however, is more popular as the boyfriend of Joey Graceffa, another internet sensation and YouTube personality. Joey found out about Daniel's steadily growing popularity through his Instagram account. After they started their relationship, Daniel started to appear on many of Joey's video. This brought him a lot of attention and his fame grew rapidly. Most significantly, Daniel appeared in Joey's coming out music video "Don't Wait" which made him very popular.

According to Daniel himself, he is a little bit of everything. He is a very successful model. He posts photos on fashion, lifestyle, travel, etc on his social media websites. He also writes on fashion and travel on his blog. Daniel was not very used to living in the limelight like Joey does. He, however, is a person who can adapt to new trends well. He himself acknowledged that even though he is part of many of Joey's YouTube videos, he hardly had any idea about the YouTube community previously.

Daniel Christopher Preda and Joey Graceffa came out as a gay couple in 14 February 2016, Valentine's Day. However, they had been dating before that and many of their fans had already started to speculate about their relationship. Early on in their relationship, Daniel even had to delete and lock his Twitter and Instagram accounts after Joey's fans started to take over his original Twitter handles and stalk him. According to Daniel, Joey wanted to keep their relationship secret which was very difficult for him. However, Joey's fans would still notice the slightest of evidences like when they spotted Joey wearing Daniel's clothes. In 2016, Joey Graceffa posted a YouTube video, "Our Love Story!" on his YouTube channel where he and Daniel opened up about their relationship, how they met, how and why they tried to keep the relationship hidden, and more. They first met online. Even though they had been to the same event a few times, they kept missing each other somehow. They first met in person at a bar in Los Angeles and they soon ended up in a serious relationship.

As an internet celebrity, Daniel courted controversy when he started posting a series of cryptic tweets on his Twitter account. Daniel had reflected on some comments on his Instagram account by posting generalized comments on character and personality. However, some of his followers mistakenly assumed that they were about popular Instagram personality Connor Franta. Daniel was harshly criticized till he clarified what the posts were actually about.