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''"Music" redirects here. For information on Daniel's career as a singer/songwriter, see [[Music Career]]''{{CW}}{{Contact|subject=the Longmont Humane Society about Daniel, or anything relating to him. The staff have already dealt with enough due to actions of weens. Unless you want to adopt a pet, or volunteer, please leave them alone}}{{Videos Need Archiving}}{{More Citations Needed}}{{Infobox|infoboxHeader=Zola|image=Daniel Dog.jpg|imageDesc=An image of Music (Zola), from the Longmont Humane Society's Facebook page.|name=Zola|Knownas=Music|Alignment=Pet|Race=German Shepherd mix|Gender=Female|Arcs=Dog Arc}}

Even more confusingly, Music was later found to have [https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/giardia-in-dogs Giardia], a parasitic infection that affects the digestive system. Daniel would later claim that he got dry food for her, but no video or photo evidence of this would ever surface, which lead community members to question the validity of this. Daniel initially did not post about Music at all, only having her posted when a fan named Keith, who was in the area, took a video of her.{{Citation Needed}}   

This sparked immediate calls to collect Music and bring her back to the Longmont Humane Society. Despite the fact it is likely illegal to take the dog from him, Daniel had lied about his living arrangements to adopt her and had therefore adopted her fraudulently. Secondly, Daniel was a frequent caller of the Denver police, so the odds of him being taken seriously when calling in were ultimately slim. Third, Daniel has little idea of how the [[Daniel and the Law|legal system]] actually works (and additionally, he has been sent to jail several time), and no matter how many unspecified legal threats he would make, it is most likely that no charges would be pressed.  [[File:"Yes, I don't lie".png|left|thumb|Daniel is confronted as a liar after saying he lives in an RV, which is untrue seeing from his videos during the era.|250x250px]]

In the meantime, other people who were out of state or unable to reach Daniel were trying to spread awareness of the situation, such as Goated Mines and SmokeyMcc, who made videos explaining the situation.{{Citation Needed}} There were also members of the community who were making Facebook posts, trying to spread the word so Music could be found.     

Because doxxing was not allowed on the subreddit, many, including [[Goated Mines]], created Discord servers where people could work together to find Daniel and Music. In these servers, some members made posts to Longmont and Denver pages, urging people to look out for Daniel and to immediately report him when seen. Some people even claimed to have seen Daniel in the area, having been worried about his mental state.     

While the live stream went on, it seemed as though Music was mostly ignoring Daniel. He had repeatedly tried to call her name to get her attention, though she did not listen to Daniel. Additionally, Daniel would constantly refer to Music as a "he". The dog seemed to frequently bark at the people around Daniel, which people speculated to be a sign of stress. Daniel said her barking was because of her "guard dog nature", and spoke at length about how he'd gotten Music so she could act as protection for him. The stream was mostly uneventful as the members of Expo Productions continued to film their music video.   [[File:Expo Productions Message.png|left|thumb|Goated Mines message to a member of Expo Productions.|310x310px]]Eventually, Daniel's location was found: under Cherry Creek, on Lake Street.{{Citation Needed}} As soon as Daniel was found, multiple people contacted Animal Control and informed them of Daniel's location and abusive past. Animal Control said they'd send over someone to the area. As the live stream came to a close, Daniel announced that he was going to Starbucks; Animal Control had missed their window of opportunity.   

Daniel failed to provide adequate food for Music several times. Daniel claimed to have had a bag of dry food for her, which is most likely the truth, considering that the Humane Society gives all people who adopt animals food, however, Daniel claimed that Music refused to eat. In every video of Music that Daniel had posted, she was seen audibly whimpering with her ears down, visibily stressed.  

The only other 'food' Daniel claimed to get Music was a, "puppacino," which is essentially a small cup of whipped cream, beleiving that to be appropriate dog food.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/14ws4x3/daniel_larson_believes_a_pup_cup_and_nachos_are/</ref>  

===Goated Mines===

On July 10, 2023, a YouTuber called '''[[Goated Mines]],''' known as [https://www.reddit.com/user/GoatedPiston GoatedPiston] on Reddit, uploaded a video titled, [https://archive.org/details/daniel-larson-got-a-dog "Daniel Larson Got a Dog... We need to save it...”] where he documents the situation up to that point, as well as talking about his contact with animal control and the Longmont Humane Society. He also announced a reward of $100 for anyone who could get Music away from Daniel.  

On the same day, Goated Mines made a post on the subreddit discussing Longmont Humane Society’s response to him.{{Citation Needed}}

Later on, Goated Mines would make a Discord server with several other members of the community, including [[Flexburger]], dedicated to saving Music. Unlike the others, this would prove extremely successful.  

On July 10, a group calling themselves, "'''Ceel Team Six"''', led by Goated Mines, would track down and save Music. The team spent two days locating and pinpointing Daniel's whereabouts, from finding a bridge that Daniel had filmed a music video at to the park he spent the night in. Ultimately, Daniel's love for nachos would be his downfall, as the resturant he was staying at would be pinpointed and tracked before he could leave.   

On July 11, 2023, WeenWeenmusic, also known as Ween (not to be confused with the [https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Weening term used for individuals who fail at trolling]), a member of the Ceel Team 6 Discord server, was able to rescue Music by finding the restaurant Daniel was loitering at. Ween was able to obtain Music by asking Daniel if she had permission to make sure that she was okay, pretending to be a vet. Not long after, she simply walked away and put her in their car, Daniel not putting up much of a fight.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/14wwqvs/music_rescue_information/ https://reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/14wwqvs/music_rescue_information/]</ref>  

Soon after, Ween started a voice call in the Ceel Team 6 discord server. During this call, Music was identified as having Giardia, a parasite that passes through stool.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5armsXYpvq4 (Timestamp 28:25-31:22)</ref> Soon after the call, Goated Mines posted an image of Music on Reddit with the caption, "MUSIC IS SAFE."<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/14ww7cu/music_is_safe/</ref> After requests for more proof, she later posted a [https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/14wx26n/music_rescued_more_proof/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 video of Music.]

About seven Hours after Goated Mine's, "MUSIC IS SAFE," post, Daniel became active on his YouTube community page, claiming that he had just gotten out of police custody and that he had received new criminal charges.<ref>http://archive.today/2023.07.13-001907/https://www.youtube.com/@DanielLarson-ob2jw/community</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxaIpEswmXa5caLW81EVwvcIAK52JYeeah</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxR98WU9l3SkDrdbICV0vFUWZiqNEFTQh5</ref> He asked the community to help him get Music back, and alleged that [[World of T-Shirts]] was somehow connected to, "the dognapping situation."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxAxL6mMNOboDXJffz2Kg44MXYR8zHtsNR</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@thisismichaelquinn/video/7254590818961476907 ''Note: Michael Quinn claimed that Daniel could be a "super dog dad" and that having a dog could benefit his mental health.''</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxW2mxdKh6QqPKbSJxCyny5jApofRkuySx</ref>  

Daniel explained that he was injured both due to "self-injurious behaviors" which is implied to be from him hitting himself repeatedly, along with Walmart security guards taking him down.<blockquote>A combination of self-injurious behavior and the Walmart security throwing me to the ground I hit my head pretty hard on the ground at the Walmart by security and they were sitting right on my knee so when they pin me down the guy pin basically put his me on my head not my neck or anything but on my head self and one other guy was on my knee pinning that like basically my kneecap pinning that to the Walmart floor -[https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcJ1j_9q2009IBhIhL-kyaOBTqLKDrvZB @DanielLarson-ob2jw (Daniel Larson)]  </blockquote>A few minutes after this post, Daniel began to tell his side of the story. He repeated parts of the story multiple times and used speech-to-text to write out the posts. The order of events from Daniel is questionable. Below is an attempt at putting the most relevant pieces in order.<blockquote>Somewhere along the line I got spotted with the dog and then I left the PetSmart after buying the $50 harness I then fit it on the dog and I went across the street to then get water once again this was around 11 am.</blockquote><blockquote>After sitting down for about 2 minutes, the same lady with the athletic pants and they were shorts she's got tattoos on her arms and legs shows up and starts talking to me hey I haven't seen you in a while I have a friend that is working here at the good times and I came to see them but they're not here yet.</blockquote><blockquote>She then asks me how my days going starts coughing and then she tells me she is sick and I woke up very sick this morning she then threw up like legitimately this is no joke she would she actually threw up on the f****** ground.</blockquote><blockquote>And then starts talking about how she's a veterinarian and then she starts talking about how my dog is breathing and saying that my dog can't breathe because she's skipping beats like heartbeats pretty much which at the time I knew that that was somewhat false.</blockquote><blockquote>She asks me if my dog is dehydrated and if my dog wants water I said I already got water I just came to the good times to actually get a cup of water and she then takes the dog leash from my hand she walks around in a circle around the table and she says see how and then she's also pointing at the stomach of the dog see how it's beating that's not normal.</blockquote><blockquote>That's what she said and then she says here I'm going to do it one more time and I'm going to show you again and then she grabs pretty much just completely kind of by that time the dog is already kind of just used to her if you know what I mean and then she just snatches the dog up and puts her in the car and just goes off after the dog was already kind of thing you know somewhat if if you know what I mean felt safe. That's what she said and then she says here I'm going to do it one more time and I'm going to show you again and then she grabs pretty much just completely kind of by that time the dog is already kind of just used to her if you know what I mean and then she just snatches the dog up and puts her in the car and just goes off after the dog was already kind of thing you know somewhat if if you know what I mean felt safe.</blockquote><blockquote>She's also been following on purpose like stalking she's done that before some allergic to what Ivan's done she's been stalking it is a female like I said with glasses and a tattoos on her arms and legs and she just like I said keeps following me around I have a feeling she was at the location last night that's why I texted you for security.</blockquote><blockquote>And when she drove off I basically started freaking out I started panicking I started hyperventilating to where I felt like I couldn't breathe because I was hyperventilating so much that like literally I just couldn't speak.</blockquote><blockquote>And I eat my phone was also dead at the time so I couldn't call security I couldn't call you or anything so then what I did was I all I could think about was trying to go to across the parking lot to where the Walmart was and I walk in there of course hyperventilating saying my dog got dog napped that's a security dog is what I said and I'm at that point of time then the security asks me to leave I then refuse and I say call the police at that point it starts like I said creating a scene about 50% of people in the checkout area I'll start rushing over to where I am and start crawling me pretty much and I at that point lash out that's a long story short of what happened I don't know if anybody got anything on camera because of my popularity the police said that there was no physical assault involved other than just reaction like I said out of fear after checking cameras and I had more than the right because I did nothing and yet they were instigating the situation so I had right to protect myself.</blockquote><blockquote>At that point the Walmart stupid Walmart like I said before decides that they're going to press charges of $2,000 of criminal mischief pretty much just two on purpose because they know I'm a celebrity they want all of my f****** money so they took it as high as they could go pretty much.</blockquote><blockquote>And they put me in basically I guess you would call protected custody at the time and instead of going to I guess the jail what they did is they take me to the hospital because I had injuries at that time.</blockquote><blockquote>Charges were pressed on the person that was the dognapper.</blockquote>

After the flurry of posts attempting to describe what happened, Daniel stopped to call someone. That person put Daniel on speakerphone and played it through a Discord call, where Goated Mines was able to record it. The recorded call was later posted on YouTube. Goated Mines provided a very brief description in a Reddit post. At the time, the specific details of this incident would be unknown, but it would soon be identified as the [[7/11 incident|7/11 Incident.]]<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/14x8rly/he_threw_a_fit_and_destroyed_shit_in_the_walmart/</ref>

While still posting on his YouTube community page, Daniel also uploaded some videos regarding the situation. He started by demanding, under the threat of murder, that [[Bob Proctor|Bob]] needed to make a social media account, go live, and, "put it out there, right fucking now, that I am not lying"

 

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}}{{Quote|Okay. I ain't fucking lying about shit! Bob, I need you to go live right now, I need you to go a make a social media account and put it out there, right fucking now, that I am not lying, or I will kill you as well. My life is in danger right now.}}

Daniel then uploaded a video stating, in between heavy breathes, that he is taking this to the Supreme Court and that security companies refuse to work with Daniel as they don't believe what he tells them.

 

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}}{{Quote|My entire family is in danger, and no one believes what we are saying. My entire family is now famous, all of our houses have been doxxed, we are homeless, and my fans are doxxing, getting criminal charges on us that are all false. We will take this all the way to fucking Supreme Court. We are not playing around. We have contacted security companies, and they've all refused to work with us because they don't believe what we are saying about our popularity. I am done, and I will not stop until the White House is blown up!}}

Daniel calls 911 multiple times; on one of the calls he claimed to have screamed that he had a bomb and hung up. He believed this would help him get his story heard, and claimed that people were assaulting his [[Family|family members]], despite almost all of them wanting nothing to do with him. Despite this seeming like it would have no consequences, Daniel would [[Second Jail Arc|go to jail almost a year later]] for threats like these.  

 

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}}{{Quote|Okay, so, I just called 9-1-1 and I just literally just screamed I have a bomb on the 9-1-1 number and randomly hung up in hopes to get this situation heard, and to get my family the rights that they deserve and the security and protection.  

Not long after, Daniel would post another video. {{#evt:

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}}{{Quote|So I just called 9-1-1 again. I'm trying to still get security services or something since I'm being spotted by fans on almost every single corner, and I'm being followed, and I got attacked earlier today and the issues that have been going on that people are posting to social media. I'm sick and tired of people saying is fake because it's really happening.  

== See also==