Eighteen and an influencer: Meet a young Durban socialite

He is funny, friendly, and has great eyebrows. Lifestyle and travel vlogger Daniel, known as the Real Dan Duminy to his social followers, is turning his love for the social life and the camera into his career. Did we mention he is only 18!

No stranger to the South African music scene, Daniel has shot a number of vlogs for rappers’ Nasty C, Tellaman and Rowlene.

When he is not rubbing shoulders with the who’s who of the entertainment industry, @realdanduminy is either jet setting overseas or reviewing the latest products for brands and capturing it all on his Instagram.

“You know I’m just going where God takes me. Since I was young I loved to inspire people daily and make an impact on people. I admire how hard they work to constantly have daily uploads. I wouldn’t say I want to be an Instagram influencer but more of an all-rounder influencer on all platforms,” says the busy vlogger.

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With fame comes the fans and @realdanduminy has had his fair share of crazy encounters.

“I was in a mall and this girl came to me and for like five seconds she just stared at me, mind the fact I was actually having coffee with my mom. After what felt like forever she says, ‘Oh my word you are actually the Real Dan Duminy’. It was so funny,” says Dan.

With the diversity of the audience on Instagram, everyone has an opportunity to make money. And when you combine travelling and getting paid you sure have a winner. So, which destination gets the thumbs up from Dan?

“It has to be Mauritius. I went there for work and got to ride on these cool things called Seakarts which are like Go-karts that you can race on the sea! I did that for the company Seakart.”

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With 33 000 Instagram followers and growing, creating content that strangers will love is not an easy task but for this influencer there is nothing else he would want to do with his life. So how does @realdanduminy stay relevant?

“I admire Tanner fox, Jake Paul and Logan Paul. I admire how hard they work to constantly have daily uploads. My personal definition of being creative is definitely just being yourself in anything you do, because the more you are yourself the more creative you become. Because you are not scared what people think of you,” he says.

As they say, age is just a number and the future is really looking great for Dan.

“I’m really excited about the rate my Instagram followers are growing. It’s so encouraging to get such nice comments on my photos and make some awesome connections with my followers! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me so far and I’m excited to see where this goes,” he says.