Lets Play / Daithi De Nogla

David Martin Nagle (born 6 July 1992), better known as Nogla (previously Daithi De Nogla), is an Irish gamer and YouTuber, who largely makes Let's Play videos with Call of Duty, Garry's Mod or Grand Theft Auto, usually alongside the VanossGaming crew. In addition to this, he supplements his content with video blogs, other games and the occasional live-action video such as games of Cards Against Humanity. His endearing Nice Guy qualities, combined with his accent, and his trolling, have helped him gather over 6 million subscribers on YouTube.

He is part of a group of Irish YouTubers known as the Irish Lads.

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This gamer provides examples of:

• The Alcoholic: In his video for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, especially for the "Wrath of the Druids" DLC, he plays Male Eivor like he's the most drunken viking who wants to hit the pub the moment he lands in Dublin.
• Angrish:
  • When excited, failing time and again, or pushed too far by trolling, he tends to let out an incoherent stream of rage. Especially when dealing with Call Me Kevin.
  • Daithi's accent is such that he can sound like this when speaking normally.
• The Artifact: Daithi's animated icon lacks his huge beard that he has grown in real life.
• The Chew Toy: When playing with Vanoss and the rest, he really doesn't get much slack.
  • In this video alone, the guys cheat in a Grand Theft Auto V tournament, and as a result Daithi gets mugged three times by hired muggers (discounting the fourth that he killed), disrupting his performance immensely. He went on to kill the people that did it repeatedly and win the tournament.
  • This GMOD vid is a good example as well. Halfway through the map, the guys started to continuously kill him. When they reach the padded room, Nogla tries to improvise a story for the map and Evan kills him. He repeatedly tries to start it up only to get spawn killed again and again. He eventually goes into god mode and fly away from them. After they finish the map and return to the padded cell, they continue to spawn kill him. Terroriser later gets caught in the crossfire. Theirs also Evan messing with Nogla by making "Cocktus" (A cactus that looks like a cock that Nogla had been carrying around with him through the map) disappear.
• Crossover: Aside from being a regular participant with VanossGaming & Company, we have these examples:
  • He's played games of Garry's Mod with CaptainSparklez, SeaNanners and GassyMexican, among others.
  • He briefly appears in a Hat Films Gamescon vlog, with Smiffy later popping up in Nogla's vlog.
  • He regularly plays with Jacksepticeye.
  • He and MiniLadd joined the Yogscast for their Christmas 2015 livestreams, specifically Lewis Brindley, Duncan Jones, and Zylus.
• Call-Back:
  • One of the rewards for a later round of Axe Roulette is a "Cocktus".
  • The swinger for the LA Lakers started out as an excuse for Nogla holding a baseball bat as his default weapon during a heist, but it has come up a few other times after that, mostly in the context of GTA.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In a Rockstar-livestreamed series of Grand Theft Auto Online Last Team Standing matches between "Mae and the Boys" (which Nogla was a part of alongside missesmae, Lui Calibre, and MiniLadd) and the Sidemen (which were represented by Vikkstar123, Miniminter, Zerkaa, and KSIOlajidebt), Nogla's team trounced the Sidemen in every match, only losing one round in the last match as a fluke.
• Deadpan Snarker: Nogla has a good way of keeping focused and deadpan while making outlandish statements to annoy others.
• Epic Fail: In his video featuring him playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Nogla has a major one when he tries to defuse a bomb without help from his expert. The results are predictable.
• The Gadfly: Whether he's this or an outright Troll depends on his target and how aggressive or rude they are. A good chunk of his videos involve him doing this sort of stuff.
• Gretzky Has the Ball: In one GTA video, to explain why his character was holding a baseball bat, Nogla claimed to be a "Swinger for the LA Lakers".
• In-Series Nickname: Called "Darth" by SeaNanners and his friends, and often referred to as "Nogla" by Vanoss and the others, probably due to pronunciation.
• The Load: During games like Prop Hunt and Hide And Seek, most definitely. His habit of backseat gaming combined with his atrocious hinting skills often leads to his teammates getting killed because he gave their positions away.
• Malaproper: Nogla has a habit of stumbling on words and letting out random phrases resembling normal speech. Combined with his habits of screaming in extremely random ways, his heavy Irish accent, and his wonky microphone, it's often hilarious just to listen to him talk.
• Moral Myopia: It shows whenever he's playing competitive games, especially Mario Kart 8. When Nogla hits the others with items at inopportune times it's okay, when Nogla gets hit with items at inopportune times it isn't.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: A good chunk of people that he does annoy really do have it coming, such as the racist/xenophobic gamers that he encounters on a worryingly frequent basis.
• Potty Failure: (Skip to 16:47 for the story) Once when he was 7, after having a dream about being on the toilet he had to go to it in real life badly and as he was getting ready to do his business...He craps himself. On his pants that were on the floor. As Wildcat said, "You didn't shit your pants, you shit on your pants." Then his brother came in and saw this...
• Rage Quit: On a number of occasions when he keeps losing or being trolled. Usually preceded by loud, incoherent Angrish.
• Running Gag:
  • Him constantly being mistaken for an American by strangers.
  • Nogla's internet has a habit of lagging on him at the worst time, though it's gotten better as he's made more videos.
  • His accent making what he says near unintelligible to others.
  • In GTA Online, people calling him, or more accurately his character, ugly and stupid, including himself. This can best be seen during the heists, where there are several instances of the group pointing out that his heist outfits make him look like the janitor of the apartments that they are starting the mission from.
  • Nogla has a dog called Joe that regularly messes him up when he's playing. Nogla's screams of "No Joe!" eventually became a gag.
• The Scream: Upon being killed in a game of Depth .
  • There's also the first incident recorded in this video.
  • Terroriser soundboarded a glorious one Nogla made in this video.
• Vitriolic Best Buds
  • With Vanoss and the rest of the crew, particularly Lui Calibre who he has jokingly proclaimed to be his arch-enemy.
  • With fellow Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye.
  • With his other fellow Irish YouTuber Call Me Kevin
  • With his brother Andrew (Aindrias), which is especially noticeable in videos such as this Overcooked video.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Nogla has quite the unusual Irish accent.

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