Daniel Paul Lyons (also known by his company name DLE and his fursona mascot Danny Cat) (born August 18, 2000) is an American writer, director, producer, voice actor, animator, and showrunner. He is best known as the creator of his long-running hit animated series The Rodfellows (later known as SDH Triplicity), as well as his remakes of the 1999 Weston Woods animated adaptation of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and also the creator of his virtual cartoon band known as Band Davion. His partners include Alexander Mortensen from 2018 to 2022, and Darren A. Nichols and Marshall Bourne since 2020.
On February 16, 2021, After the Life of Danny Cat script was finished, the polygamy in the script of the short film was shown, in which it featured Dan with multiple wives, and it also featured him sexualizing a 17-year-old character despite Dan being 20 years old. This led to him facing a ton of negative criticism and backlash due to the pedophilic and polygamist nature of the project, due to the concept of him having multiple wives and technically sexualizing a minor. Several users including Issac Wykes, Lyric West, Roszina Head, Nick Fischer, and Keebie Palmer begin to cut ties with Dan P. Lyons for polygamy which is illegal and wanted the film to be cancelled. Christian Payne, on the other hand, was very infuriated by this and also posted about Lyons' actions on Twitter. As the result, the film was cancelled by Darren A. Nichols on March 8, 2021 and the public service announcement about polygamy was released on both LMNB and Peppermint City Entertainment YouTube channels on March 22, 2021.
In May 2021, Lyons was accused other pedophilia accusations such as grooming underage users (although some of the grooming would be proven false as the evidence was edited by some internet trolls who made decoy accounts).
