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Long time lurker, first time poster. This guy's been on my radar for a while now, and with just how convoluted and long his online history is, this should be a nice exercise for anyone who's willing to turn this into a fully fledged thread.
Do keep in mind that this mockup OP is incredibly unfinished, as I don't have the time or motivation to really dig super deep on him, and I don't know him nearly enough to write a proper one. Plus, I am a newfag and all that, I've never done any of this before.
I checked and this guy has never been directly discussed on the forum, only a few posts in Acerthorn's thread where he just so happened to show up.
This wall of information is very screenshot heavy, and it looks like all my images are automatically thumbnailing but if I fucked anything up somehow please let me know and I will try my best to fix it.



Daniel Gene French / Josh Anderson(?) / nirvgorilla / nirv / Painbow / Saythatoverthephone / Many, many others
Oldschool skitzocow / Internet Tough Guy, prints out profile pictures to use as target practice, tracks down TIs to harass them, terminal Reddit ban evader, call his phone number or else you're a COWARD
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Other clinchers that won't fit in the title: Keeps massive lists of users who piss him off, allegedly argues with himself in reddit threads, multiple hours-long sperging streams, former(?) /pol/ namefag, alleged TI "perp"

Assorted links / archives with information:
Reddit thread with username history & several screenshots of him sperging out & supposedly arguing with himself: link / archive
Preservetube link to nirvgorilla, with some videos archived: https://preservetube.com/channel/UCVvbr58tX9NV8vNu7xBFwqg
"Nirvgorilla Is a Ticking Time Bomb." Evidence of harassment & clip of using photos as target practice: preservetube / odysee

Where the hell do I even start with this guy?

Reddit
Information on him is spotty at best, much of it appears to be old deleted threads scattered across dead forums and whatnot. I'm sorry for not finding too much but there's just so much bullshit that I really can't be bothered, and I'd rather highlight the juicy bits.
The earliest documentation I could find of his insanity is on Reddit, where a few people posted about his antics, along with a massive list of usernames he registered.
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It's interesting to note that the "roadbike" account apparently belongs to him as well, and he tells them off, referring to them as "Dan" and describing how they're a stalker who floods people's inboxes, and supposedly beating a girl and getting kicked out of college. :thinking:

Youtube
He joined Youtube on July 28, 2007, and his early videos are mostly World of Warcraft, video game OSTs, and a live performance at the Varsity theater in Minnesota.
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His most popular video was about Gabby Petito, something about zooming into someone's dashcam footage to show the van door closing.
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Otherwise, most of his videos are not very notable, mostly old computer stuff / emulators.
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It's not immediately clear to me when he started getting involved with Targeted Individuals / TIs, but there are countless videos where he tags them and demands they get on a private voice call with him so he can debate them like the Alpha he is.
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Supposedly he also called the workplace of one and tried to get her fired, though you can take that with a grain of salt considering these people are already mentally ill as is. He's frequently called a "perp" or a government agent because of his chronic cowtipping.

He did a hate stream on Mikayla Raines, the Saveafox lady who killed herself a while back:
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preservetube
Something interesting I found in the comments: "Some dipshit" made a site about a random user named Dominik Nye, who Nirv just so happened to pin.
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What's on the site, you may ask? The good old Goatse-Tubgirl combo, of course!

Even on innocuous videos like "86box PC emulator now has hard drive sound emulation!" you can find massive walls of text tagging hundreds upon hundreds of users who even slightly piss him off.
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preservetube

I found a reupload of some TI claiming to "unmask" Nirv as one Josh Anderson of Hopkins, Minnesota. A few people in the comments said they got roped into his bullshit from the Saveafox video.
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However, someone else says Nirv's name is actually Daniel Gene French:
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That checks out with another 15 year old Reddit comment claiming that's his name:
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link / no archive because archive.today is shitting its pants
If you recall the Reddit arguments from earlier, it's interesting that the names are so similar. (Granted, Dan is a common name, but it's not out of the question for this freak.)

Namefagging on /pol/
On a whim, I decided to search up "nirvgorilla" on 4plebs to see if there were any posts about him. One of them said the nirvgorilla account belonged to one "Painbow":
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I also searched "nirvgorilla" in the filename search, and another post popped up mentioning Painbow with a supposed photo of Dan:
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Here's the thread the first post is from, and we're mentioned here too. Dan's likely aware of us. Hi Dan! :)

Using photos of schizophrenics as target practice
This is by far the most concerning thing I've found about him. A TI by the name of Still human made a video on Dan, titled "Nirvgorilla Is a Ticking Time Bomb."
Local archive:

preservetube / odysee

In the video, clips are shown of Daniel Gene French talking about how fun it is to be anonymous on the Internet and to "insult the living shit out of schizophrenics and see what they do or say, see if you can somehow have an impact on their life, without them physically assaulting you or trying to kill you".
And then there's another clip of Daniel Gene French printing out photos of TIs and using them as target practice at a gun range, chuckling to himself. :stress:
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"You said don't shoot, but you're still a TI. Had to get you."
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"We've got this guy, the famous Brandon." "Brandon gets the 30 round, and those are hollow points."
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"In my personal life, or anybody's personal life, they don't have to care about ethics. They don't have to be fired from their job for expressing themselves on the Internet. Isn't that great?"
-Daniel Gene French



If all of this comes off as rambly, I apologize. The main motive for this post is to get other people here interested, who are better at compiling/archiving information than I am.
For those of you who are autistic dedicated enough to sit your asses down and dig through this guy's online history, you are more than free to do so, but be advised that there is so much to get through. It's a real rabbithole.
As for DM chains and whatnot, for security reasons I don't plan on using this account much but you are free to invite me if you're working on a fully-fledged thread. There's no guarantee I'll respond or contribute much though.
 

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Daniel Gene French / Josh Anderson(?) / nirvgorilla / nirv / Painbow / Saythatoverthephone / Many, many others
I can't edit my posts just yet but I did a quick Google search and this may or may not be him.
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No specific address is given, but "Teaching assistant" is interesting:
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Looking the names up on Filmot, I couldn't find anything conclusive, but I did find him confirming Dan is his name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asv0q7uagEc&t=191s
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If that's not him, apologies for not being able to dawwx- I mean phonebook people properly. I must seppuku to restore honor. :'(
 
Apologies for the triple post, it really can't be helped because this thread is so inactive. I've made a few discoveries since my last post:
Something interesting I found in the comments: "Some dipshit" made a site about a random user named Dominik Nye, who Nirv just so happened to pin.
I'll give you exactly one guess as to who @jitsivoip4367 is a sock of.
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That's right, it's Dan. He straight up says it's him in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIUQFWiTWmc
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preservetube
Same desktop layout and everything. He doesn't even attempt to hide it.
Another sock that was mentioned in "Nirvgorilla Is a Ticking Time Bomb." is David L, @davidl4674 with much of the same phrasing and posting habits as Dan.
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I've been chipping away at archiving Dan's channels locally, this includes nirvgorilla, Painbow, jitsivoip, and David L. I'm using rebane2001's "Sensible yt-dlp Archive Scripts" along with downloading comments enabled. I'm not sure of the best way to host it considering it's hundreds of gigabytes across thousands of different files, not to mention it's not even done yet, but I was thinking of just chucking it onto archive.org and calling it a day.
Plus, I used filmot to export a huge list of URLs so this includes a bunch of unlisted videos too. Anything that's private or unavailable wasn't downloaded for obvious reasons, but this should include a lot of stuff Dan didn't want fully visible on his channel.

Speaking of unlisted videos, here's confirmation that Reddit user roadbike02 is him: Have a response? Don't type it, Skype it™ nirvgorilla
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preservetube
In it, he spergs out over weed and (once again) begs people to get on a voice call with him. It looks like there's a lot of instances of his autistic behavior on Reddit, but I really can't be arsed to sit down and try trudging through decades-old posts with only half of the comments still available to try and scrap together any pieces of the story.
(I couldn't confirm the nirvgorilla reddit account belonged to him as well, but if I do, I'll either edit or reply since that would confirm he was arguing with himself, thus implying the woman beating & getting kicked out of college was true)
nirvgorilla: I'm waiting for you to define the word troll. [...] Well I have bad news for you, I actually do mean it. I mean it so much that I've posted my phone number.
:story:
Another non-unlisted video I found just now is "Female Voicemail Unknown Number Leaves Threatening Message [Volume increased]" from the jitsivoip account. preservetube
There's something quite interesting in the description though:
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This tracks with a clip from the supposed unmasking of him (which I now realize I didn't actually link to or archive, oops, here's the preservetube) in which he leaves another voicemail to a schizophrenic.
For being someone who loves anonymity so much, he sure has no problem doxxing his own phone number to random strangers on the Internet.

And last but not least, I used breach.vip to search some email addresses and compiled what I found here:
Email addresses:
nirv.gorilla@gmail.com
nirv@qwest.net
caterweow@gmail.com (shown in one of his videos, likely a throwaway, no results)

Other known usernames:
caterwaul
whewhit

Passwords:
sna1979
ohweow
bubba19

IP addresses: (all from minnesota)
75.72.140.142
75.72.145.194
71.193.68.191
174.53.198.51

Known phone numbers: (i doubt these are being used actively anymore, also no results)
(612) 465-9202
(612) 208-7342
(612) 427-8423
No addresses are listed because I wasn't able to confirm any of them, and they probably belong to other people named Daniel French. If anyone here is paying for leakcheck or similar and can scan the emails, that would be greatly appreciated. (I didn't want to DM anyone and directly ask on account of me being a newfag but maybe I should just go ahead anyways)
I'd like to make a proper thread on him at some point, which will be a lot of work, especially for early life stuff, but I could get it done eventually.
 
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