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[[File:Larsoninparis.png|alt=Daniel takes a selfie in front of the replica Eiffel Tower at night.|thumb|Daniel's first photo upon arriving in "Sin City."]]

[[Daniel Larson]] left Palmdale, California, on February 13, 2023 on a bus to '''Las Vegas''', Nevada.  

His reasoning for going to Las Vegas was to gain, "...more popularity," and hoped to win enough money to rent a $3,000 dollar apartment in Beverly Hills, California. Many fans speculated that he would get arrested due to the police in Las Vegas being more strict than in California due to the city's notoriously high crime rate.   

== February 13 ==

Daniel arrived in Las Vegas on the night of February 13, 2023; as posted a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower replica as well as a video of him wandering the Strip.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7199914028473535790</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7199915629477088558</ref>

As soon as Daniel arrived in Las Vegas he met a group of people whom he claimed to be his new friends. Per the videos posted on @daniellarsonalone, he posted videos of him and his new friends messing around and doing various activities with each other.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7199999957330398510</ref> Throughout the day, Daniel recorded and posted numerous videos, including his funny reaction to accidentally donating 40 cents to "fucking children's hospital" which went viral.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7199984146809212203</ref>

One of the videos Daniel posted involved him approaching a drunken couple. When the female accidentally dropped her coin purse, resulting in coins spilling out on the ground, Daniel helped pick up the coins and handed the purse back to the young woman. He then attempted to convince the inebriated couple to pay for a room for him to stay the night in. This did not succeed. He eventually, "...lost them," and made multiple videos asking them to meet him in multiple places. It is assumed that they abandoned him once he reached the Mandalay Bay.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7200005305588010283</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7200002913937378606</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7200062240752422190</ref>

He wandered through various casinos, including Mandalay Bay and Circus Circus, interacting with fans and seeking donations. Despite attempting to search for his new friends by visiting places like the Adventure Dome, Rainforest Cafe, and Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen, he continued to request financial help. His phone battery was low, and he faced pressures from his online popularity, promising to go live later once settled in a motel.

On February 15, 2023, [[Mythic Sparrow|Mythic_sparrow]] discovered Daniel Larson's location, leading to calls to MGM Casino. At approximately 2:00 AM, Daniel was found in The New York-New York casino bathroom by two security guards. They aggressively began trying to get Daniel off of the toilet in order to remove him from the property. Daniel responded by screaming and told the security guards that they weren't going to do anything as the guards continued to yell at him to leave. Eventually, the guards managed to open the stall door. This prompted Daniel to seemingly lunge at the guard at the stall door. The guard told him that he needed to calm down and asked if he was acting stupid. Daniel fought with the guards the entire way out, repeating that he hadn't done anything wrong.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/112uhqt/current_meltdown_in_casino_bathroom/</ref>

 

Daniel was left extremely distraught by the incident. He posted many videos of himself visibly distraught along and hitting himself. At one point, a park guard asks what was going on, causing Daniel to explain that the hotel staff had, "...sexually tried to harass me." The park guard explains to Daniel that the area was closed and that he must leave. Daniel does not, however, and continues to ramble nearly incomprehensibly to the man.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7200315903295180078</ref> Later in the day at another casino, Daniel was reported to have trespassed, which escalated into him being banned. The security guard explained that Daniel was caught sleeping three times, which Daniel denied. At this point, Daniel came very close to being arrested, but eventually he gave up and left on his own terms, stating that the security guards were, "...lying about everything."

 

 

By daytime, he visited MGM Casino Hershey World, requested donations, and claimed he was going blind. After this, A group of people on the Daniel Larson World Discord server found Daniel's location using his TikTok videos. A member named "Stoney" confronts Daniel and tells him "not to talk to the kids" nearby, Stoney and others then confront the security about Daniel's pedophilia resulting in Daniel getting kicked out of the establishment. Stoney later claimed security told him Daniel is banned from all MGM properties and will be arrested on sight if seen at one again. A Reddit also user revealed Daniel was now in the casino's Biometrica database.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1136yvc/i_do_surveillance_at_a_casino_daniel_is_now_in/</ref>  

Daniel is also led to believe that him recieving donations will acrue MGM rewards points, so he can get free motel rooms. This is despite the conversion rate from points to rewards being very poor.<ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7200564986744278314</ref> Apparently, nachos were more important to Daniel than a roof over his head. He blew his remaining $50 on these nachos, likely costing him $25-40, even though a room at The Strat was only $32 (checked by a fan).<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1139be5/the_prophecy_has_been_fulfilled/</ref><ref>https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellarsonalone/video/7200467869212331310</ref>

Following a very eventful February 15 morning, Daniel posted a TikTok around 6:00 PM (TikTok epoch: 1676515770) stating that if he was able to get a motel room that night, he would do a two-hour livestream.<ref>https://archive.org/details/72005803486762140592</ref> However, that livestream never ended up happening, and it became the last post Daniel made before going missing for a little while. According to "Stoney", Daniel had been spotted by fans hours prior at The Aria Casino on the strip, where he was sitting at a slot machine and supposedly had $14 in credit.  

== Dark Age ==

The Daniel Larson community faced a tense week, with no sign of Daniel for over seven days. The subreddit even went dark for a while, marking the first major information blackout concerning Daniel Larson in over two years.

Users on r/Daniellarson began to speculate that Daniel Larson had been placed into a psychiatric hold.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/117tmh2/no_shot_in_hell_this_sub_doesnt_have_one_schmock/</ref><ref>https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Daniellarson/comments/117tmh2/_/j9dp8gg/#comment-info</ref> Others speculated he was living in the storm drains under the Las Vegas strip, becoming a "[[wikipedia:Mole_people#Las_Vegas|mole]]", where there was no cell service or place to charge his phone.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/114t8e3/daniel_is_living_under_the_strip_where_there_is/</ref>  

Around February 18, users of [[r/Daniellarson]] would raid the r/LasVegas subreddit, after he went missing, posting Daniel-related topics such as "EMERGENCY" and missing posters of Daniel. Other content posted was the [[The Toothbrush Incident|Toothbrush Incident]] video, these posts were quickly removed by r/LasVegas mods. Notable users on the siege included [[Mythic Sparrow]].  This caused the r/Daniellarson mods to close the subreddit "until further notice."<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/115rqee/rlasvegas_has_now_been_colonized_by_the_daniel/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/1164e5v/please_quit_brigading_the_rlasvegas_sub/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/11b02s6/so_after_the_las_vegas_subreddit_fiasco_the_mods/</ref>