Daniel Lara is a student at Riverside High School in California. Daniel became famous when his friend Joshua Holz tweeted a video called "Damn Daniel!" which has a lot of shots of Daniel dressed fly. The video went viral on the Internet, it was retweeted over 400,000 times.

Daniel's video earned him a lifetime supply of Vans, some of which he donated to Loma Linda University Children's Hospital- because Daniel is a charitable young man.

Popularly known as the face behind the viral " Damn Daniel" video that was posted by his friend Joshua Holz. The video was an edited collection of Snapchat videos posted by Holz where he continually says the phrase "Damn, Daniel." His social media fame skyrocketed to more than 480,000 followers on Instagram and more than 130,000 followers on Twitter. ^{[15] [16]}

Holz filmed the Snapchat clips at Riverside Polytechnic High School.

Daniel received a life-time supply of Vans shoes from the company, and he would later donate shoes to California-based Loma Linda University Children's Hospital. He and Holz made a cameo in the Weezer music video for their song "California Kids."

He is is single.

He grew up in Los Angeles, California.

He has posted pictures of his sister and his mother on his Instagram account.

Ellen DeGeneres had him and Holz on her show almost immediately after the video became a viral sensation. The show is created and presented by Ellen DeGeneres, the comedy talk show surpassed the Daytime Emmy Award record that was previously held by The Oprah Winfrey Show.

He has nearly 500,000 followers on Instagram^[17]