{"id":46535,"date":"2025-01-28T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/danny-duncan-responds-to-abuse-allegations-from-former-employee-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:11:37","slug":"danny-duncan-responds-to-abuse-allegations-from-former-employee-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/danny-duncan-responds-to-abuse-allegations-from-former-employee-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Duncan responds to abuse allegations from former employee &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Duncan responds to abuse allegations from former employee YouTube: Danny DuncanYouTube star Danny Duncan has published an official response to former employee and fellow content creator Aaron \u2018SunhatKid\u2019 Hall, who accused Duncan of multiple instances of physical abuse. On December 3, Hall released a video accusing Danny Duncan \u2014 a YouTube prankster with over 6 million subscribers \u2014 of purported physical abuse. In his video, Hall claimed that Duncan had repeatedly punched him in the head, pressured him to sign a contract that allegedly prevented him from collaborating with other influencers, and even said that Duncan had threatened him with a knife. Hall also cited himself as being the brunt of many jokes, claiming that \u201cno one cared\u201d about him unless he was \u201cacting like a clown\u201d for Duncan\u2019s content. On December 7, Duncan released an official response video to these accusations, beginning with a recorded conversation between himself and Hall, who was purportedly \u201cunhappy\u201d with not being included in Duncan\u2019s videos. In the conversation, Duncan can be heard saying that he was \u201cbothered\u201d by Hall purportedly \u201cthreatening\u201d him. Hall responded by wondering what he would do \u201cnext\u201d after being on his own, saying: \u201cI gotta play it smart, I gotta play the LA game. \u2026 I think I\u2019m good at starting drama.\u201d Danny Duncan denies abuse allegations from SunhatKid Duncan then reacted to Hall\u2019s accusation video, saying that he had never forced the YouTuber to unfollow anyone on social media. He claimed that the wrestling and head-punching altercation was a \u201cjoke,\u201d citing multiple recorded instances of roughhousing with friends. Duncan stated that he and Hall had spoken three times about his concerns prior to his video, and added that none of the purported abuse had been brought up in these discussions. Instead, Duncan claimed that Aaron had felt \u201cripped off\u201d by his contract. View this post on Instagram In his response, Duncan also claimed that Aaron had \u201calmost killed\u201d his dog after leaving the animal in a cage for \u201cdays\u201d during his first tour, and even said that Hall had nearly \u201cdestroyed\u201d Duncan\u2019s \u201cbrand-new house\u201d with water damage from not mopping up water from his shower. \u201cThis dude is out of his mind,\u201d Duncan said. \u201cHe makes a mess with everything. \u2026 I am a d**k at times, I\u2019m not gonna ever deny that. This is how I would handle it. I\u2019m not saying this is the best way, but I\u2019m not an f**king abuser, and I don\u2019t beat him.\u201d \u201cI loved Aaron. I literally would have done anything for him. Anything.\u201d SunhatKid reacts to Danny Duncan response video Fellow influencer JiDion later called Aaron Hall during a live stream to discuss Duncan\u2019s response video. Hall repeatedly accused Duncan of lying and denied creating his accusation video to boost his channel. Hall also claimed the audio discussions between himself and Duncan were taken \u201cout of context.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s lying,\u201d Hall said. \u201cThat\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna leave it at. He\u2019s lying. I was very, very distraught when I found out that he lied. Supposedly he was always so honest, but his fans are gonna find out he\u2019s a liar. They\u2019re gonna find out.\u201d No further statements have been made regarding the situation at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Duncan responds to abuse allegations from former employee YouTube: Danny DuncanYouTube star Danny Duncan has published an official response to former employee and fellow content creator Aaron \u2018SunhatKid\u2019 Hall, who accused Duncan of multiple instances of physical abuse. On December 3, Hall released a video accusing Danny Duncan \u2014 a YouTube prankster with over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}