The Most Embarrassing Wannabe Gangster (DKane)

There's plenty of people who'd argue that being a gangster in 2025 is already not a good look. However, others have compassion and realize that these people are often products of their environment and are indoctrinated into a cycle that they can't always escape when everything around them is pushing them to act up and act out. But one byproduct of that culture no one feels any sympathy for is the wannabe gangster.

If you've been lucky enough to escape that kind of lifestyle and still choose to emulate it, then you deserve to be clowned to the fullest extent. And when you couple that with some really suspect behavior in their past like this guy has, it's basically impossible to feel the slightest hint of sympathy for the predicament he's now found himself in. Now, it looks like he might have taken his gangster fantasy too far online to the point where real consequences and real prison time are just around the corner.

It's your boy Louisa and this is the fall of Tik Tok's most embarrassing wannabe gangster. In case you don't know, Josiah Kane Deafuente is a young man from San Antonio, Texas. Now into his 20s, he is still only 5'1 and 120 lb.

So, he doesn't exactly got the build you'd be looking for as a gangbanger. At that weight, he struggled from the recoil of a Nerf gun. So, how is he meant to spin the block?

The reason anyone even knows who this individual is comes from the same source as many irritating and basically untalented individuals, Tik Tok. His content journey began in 2023 when he emerged onto the platform rocking the Edgar look, a common method for Hispanic kids to engage in thirst trapping online. Here's basically what he did.

And if you've seen any of his videos, you've seen them all. However, long before he became associated with pretending to be a member of a violent street gang, he was already having aspects of his image called into question. As it came to prominence, he was initially accused of copying another Tik Tocker by the name of Ricky, whose style he seemed to have stolen entirely.

And then you got the same exact What is it? The letters right here. What do you What do you have right there on your cheek?

This is Korean. Oh, and his is Chinese. Yours is different.

Okay. Okay. You act like people don't get tattoos on the side on the sideburns right here.

Okay. Okay. My father created that.

That's cute. What? Let me What does it say in Knuckles?

What does it say? West. Ricky has Isn't it crazy how Ricky has the same exact West side?

Like West right there, chat. This is why he thinks I'm not being honest. Cuz his head is so inflated.

He thinks that he's so up here that when I be honest, you think I'm lying because you're so up here with it. As they encountered one another on live, he even challenged him to a boxing match. Why?

Why don't you teach me who's they? I don't care about they come on. Come on.

I I'll put five bands on it. Just do a boxing. I don't care about the money.

You don't care about the money. I don't I don't care about money. Money.

I'll fly you out to me. He's on house arrest cuz I'm your daddy. I'm on house arrest.

You got to come to me. I'm going to have to beat you up in your own crib. Despite his belief that he clearly looked good enough for it to merit sharing online, Dane found himself getting widely mocked for his aesthetic.

He low-key looks like a Tik Tok snap filter. His eyebrows and mustache look like Sharpies. Still, even with the slander that was coming his way, his follower count kept shooting up.

And whether or not people were there to laugh at him or admire him, those views, as well as the donations he received on his live streams, all hit the same. Another aspect of his early online persona, which raised eyebrows, no pun intended, was his tendency to tap into a zesty lane. Oh, he's finally coming out.

Bro got lashes on. Hell no. Rock his world like that.

And what? Has a whole drawer of caterpillars. He's like, let me throw these on today.

Alongside describing himself as sparkly, DK was also accused of using makeup on his mustache. An allegation which he eventually leaned into for laughs. Kane makeup finally coming off.

Bro, what? Look, he has to make sure real quick. Yeah, let me make show my makeup good.

Let him make sure his makeup not melting off real quick. At this stage in the game, Dane was essentially a harmless source of hilarity. It was hard to dislike him for pursuing fame like everyone else.

In fact, if anything, people felt sorry for him as he was always the butt of the joke. However, things took a darker turn when he began to add a new aspect to his persona. And suddenly, all that goodwill evaporated in favor of distaste for everything he was trying to portray.

Although he hails from Texas, DK is very cy about his actual origins, particularly when it comes to his ethnicity. At every turn, he struggles to give a straight answer. Where you from, bro?

Uh, I'm from Salvador, but I I grew up in San Antonio. So, Texas basically. You Oh, okay.

Okay. Cuz they were talking about like in the comments, they were like, "He's Mexican. You ain't Mexican like at all?

" No. Yeah. So, like you like kind of mix?

Yeah. Oh, okay. But he's Salvadorian though.

That's what you identify. And when he opened up about things like this, people didn't believe a word that came out of his mouth. This dude has middle school liar vibes.

Bro, his IQ is tattooed on his forehead. But his inability to answer questions isn't a lack of confidence. Because when discussing Texas, he acts like he is the ruler of the state when it comes to social media personalities.

Would you say that you're the king of San Antonio? Uh when it comes to like you know what I'm saying, influencer stuff and like you know Oh, influencer stuff like the clout. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You definitely the king of the clout stuff.

San Antonio like influence like social media. Yeah. Yeah.

What about Texas? I would say that. I mean uh Texas.

I feel like Texas social media. As for his financial situation, Dane claims he's making bank via his lives, but was once very reluctant to give details. I guess I should just ask you like what's the most you've ever made like on in a in a in a single day off a Tik Tok live.

See, I'm the type I'm the type of uh I'm the I'm the type of person I don't really like people in my business. You don't you don't want you don't want the pocket watching Yeah. But I'll just say like I'm doing very good for myself.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I never used to have chains like this like real VBS.

I never used to have a car. Now I'm driving in a Scat Pack. So, I'm doing good.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I mean, it speaks for itself.

Yeah. Yeah. Yet, while all of this makes him look sketchy and ensures it's hard to take anything he says at face value, the real problems began when he started to portray himself as a gangster.

Namely, getting 13 tatted on his forehead and another huge one on the back of his neck. For someone who is El Salvadorian, as he claims to be, that only truly means one thing, and that is a tie to a vicious street gang by the name of MS13. And in case you don't know, induction into the crew requires literally killing someone.

Much of the gang ranks is currently held in SECOT, which is El Salvador's current confinement center, and it's truly the last place you'd want to wind up. But in 2022, the government declared that the prison's mission was as simple as possible. Spearheaded by President Naib Bukle, the mega prison has made El Salvador the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world at 2%.

Because of the consequences that come with pretending to be in their ranks, fellow Tik Tok streamer and former friend Lelo Gon Brazy felt he should undergo the laser procedure to get it removed. Deacon, I promise you, Deacon, I'm not saying this in a bad way. You are not a member, bro.

Honestly, all of that, they do not know who you are. So the moment you come impersonating something that you ain't, it's over for you, bro. I'm trying to put you on the right path, but I'm not hating on you.

But like, bro, I'm telling you this for real, bro. Like, bro, you know that tattoos are always going to raise a lot of Bro, that's the first thing that's going to raise questions about you. I'm going to suggest one good thing to you.

Not in a bad way, but we already seen how you got pressed, right? You're not from the set. Even though you're from El Salvador, doesn't mean you're from the lands from out there.

But initially, Dane, who can't even speak Spanish, refused to back down. Even the threat of getting sent to the gang unit wasn't enough to scare him. And that's not even mentioning the fact that if he ever stepped foot in El Salvador, his supposed ties to the gang would land him straight in that infamous maximum security prison.

Despite these claims, he seems to be bewildered by exactly what he's supposed to be repping and was clowned for it during another stream with Lo for San Antonio. Okay. What's right here on the side?

Like what's going down right here, Chris? I don't know, bro. I can't read it, but you got to tell me, bro.

Like, I don't do sign language, bro. It's Korean. It says blessed in Korean.

Swear Korean barbecue. What you got right here? Uh, money sign.

How you going to get something you don't make? Oh, hell no. What about the what in the middle?

Uh, you already know what that one's for, LeBron. What is that? What's it even say?

You know how to count? It says 13, but what is that for? Uh, you know what it is, LeBron?

I'm from Salvador. You know what it is, Libert? I mean, I don't know.

You ain't no member. And you and you is. No, I ain't crazy to me.

What's the other one on this side? Stars. What you going to be seeing when I pack you?

Understandably, this only led to further clowning. Dude, that kid is trying so hard to be hard, dog. Bro got a 13 in between his eyebrows with stars and the recipe for Korean barbecue.

He got the number 13 for MS-13, but yet got a fivepoint star, which I believe stands for Latin Kings. These combative live streams are an extended online narrative between the two where they traded insults and threats online. And in almost all of the exchanges, it's Lo who came up on top.

If I seen Lo face to face, I'm going to go like this, right? What you say? Like what?

Hey, bro. Thought he was the flash. And then what am I going to do?

Tasty ass little hit. Yeah. And I'll squish you like a can, pick you up, put you in my pocket, and walk outside.

Huh? Yeah. That's Roger.

Look, that's what you're hanging with. Considering he existed in the Tik Tok sphere, DK probably felt a lack of concern over making the claims about his gang ties. But that went south when a true affiliate made his way into his online world to check him.

During a live stream, DK was quickly exposed when he was actively pressed by a legitimate gangster in the form of Lefty Gunplay from Baldwin Park. After he asked him to formally claim a set once and for all, Dane relented and admitted he wasn't really about that life. Where you from?

Why you asking where I'm from? Hey, where you from? What gang?

Where at? What city? I'm from Salvador.

You're from El Salvador? Yeah. Don't do that.

Don't do that. What gang are you from? We're not doing this on Tik Tok.

Dog. Bang. Your [ __ ] We're not doing this on TikTok.

B. I'm from King Bowen Park. Where are you from?

I'm a good boy. You're gay. He said you ain't banging your [ __ ] So he kind of feels like him.

You ain't he said you ain't banging your [ __ ] So it's like I'm trying to get to know you, dog. The first thing I'm going to do is like, "Where you from? " Edgar with the face tattoos softer than a marshmallow.

Nah, for real. Since then, he's proven recurrently that he's not truly a gangster. In one infamous viral video, he had his chain stolen and was incapable of doing anything about it.

You going to give me my call? Go ahead. I don't need I don't need I don't need to call anything.

You going to give me a reason to call security. Go ahead call me right now, [ __ ] Call security. Call security right [ __ ] now, [ __ ] Why do you keep talking, bro?

Do something already, man. [ __ ] stop. Give me a reason.

[ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm on anchor [ __ ] lock out before. Give me my chain, bro. [ __ ] hurry up.

Give me my chain, [ __ ] Unless you want to do it with my people, we ain't giving a [ __ ] if you want an [ __ ] away from me, bro. But in typical fashion, he spun the story as though he'd emerged on top. I know you're not asking me about what happened at the mall.

What What was that about? I literally just explained the whole story. Were they all like versus you or you had some homies with you?

Nah, it was five of us and two of them. Fool, why didn't your homies do nothing? We We literally did.

We literally chased him out the mall and made him get my chain back. Yeah, I seen that. I'm like, bro, no way.

I thought it was everyone versus you, fool. Like, why is this boy riding solo? No, never that.

Aside from that, he seems to be in a constant state of turmoil, which generally just prompts a whole lot of mocking. Baby mama left me. I was at the car dealership yesterday and I didn't get I didn't get approved for the car.

He was laughing. It's because it's because you're a little kid. How are you How are you expecting to get approved for AMG when you're a little kid?

You got to be a grown ass man like me. That's definitely not why. Anyways, if he's going to let me explain the situation, like I was saying, I've been going through so many things lately.

My baby mama left me. I was at the car dealership trying to get a car and I didn't get approved because I am the one. And for DK, crossing that ex-girlfriend was the worst thing he could have ever done.

Because not only does he now have to carry around the stigma of being an online gangbanger with no real street ties, but also a pressure. As DK's follower count expanded into the millions, some of the information about his mysterious life that he'd rather have suppressed began to come to light. most notably his apparent love of miners through a series of interviews by a content creator named Poncho.

The uncomfortable truth about his love life as well as other aspects of his real existence away from social media app began to surface. First off, he was exposed by his ex as being a fraud with a false heritage. He isn't Salvadorian, by the way.

That's a lie. He's What is he? He's from He's not Salvadorian.

That is fake. He's Hispanic. He's Mexican.

Damn. People got them, too. His own grandpa snitched him out to me.

I was like, "Yeah, he's Salvadorian. " Like where he come like that's where he comes from. He looks at me, he goes, "No, he's not.

" Yeah. Yeah. Damn.

Okay. Okay. So then, what do you feel about like the new girlfriend?

Any words you want to give the new girlfriend on this call? I just want to ask her, "How does my purse feel? " Like, "Girl, you're wearing my purse.

" You know how she hinted at him being interested in younger girls? Well, that doesn't stop there. As not only was she 16 when they got together, but he was also messaging high schoolers and asking for certain images.

So, basically, he cheated on you with other ginsas. Yeah. Other young girls younger than you basically allegedly like a year or two.

Mhm. There's actually screenshots that I have when I was with him. I was laying next to him and girls were arguing with me and a freshman girl that's a freshman.

Yeah. That literally just became a question and his 23-year-old ass was asking a girl for feet pictures. Yeah.

According to her, this was a pattern of behavior from Dane. One which he seemed completely aware of throughout the course of their relationship. No less.

So let let me say this because some girls sometimes like to lie. So was Mr Composal confos about your age or that was never People keep saying that. No, literally I literally was like I literally asked him how old he was and he was like go look at my famous birthday.

So I did and then it said 20. I was like you're 20? Oh, I said I was like, "Oh, I'm 16.

" He's like, "Okay, that doesn't matter. " As long long as we don't tell anybody, you're going to be an adult anyway. So, that's what he said.

So, in other words, he pre-ordered you. As the news began to spread, his former allies turned against him. Soon, he was confronted by Lo, who chose to distance himself from him.

I thought she was a real member on the go. You don't even be banging for the set, bro. Like, like you into these young girls, bro.

Hey DK, word already went around town, bro. You're done with after today. Everybody's going to start unfollowing you.

You're with 16 year olds. You're you're a DD. His Yeah.

And his ex was 16 as well. And DK is 23. Notably, he didn't actually contest in any meaningful way with his limited intellect making it impossible for him to formulate an excuse.

What's worse is he didn't even seem to notice that he was being set up for live streams that were basically just interrogations. Poncho brought up receipts where he even masqueraded as a kid to try and gain their trust because she ended up telling me, you know what I'm saying? Basically, she lied about um what her real, you know, was her her age.

No, no, let's let's clear that up. Uh you asked a girl for some pics and she was 61 backwards. She sent me the video where she clicked on your Instagram.

It matched up to you, Lra. So, that's one girl. Aside from that, another girl sent me a message that you guys had text messaging, right?

And you told her you were 71 backwards. He clicked on your number. I do have your number, let's not say.

And uh it matches to your number. From there, he carried on with his expose, essentially pulling off his own to catch a predator stint on DK. So this is where DK reaches out to the girl.

The white toe is doing it for me. Vids need the vids right now. And then the girl said, "Just to prove his baby mama wasn't lying.

He was desperate for those damn pata pics. She lish. And then right here, she sent the screen recording so you guys know it's legit.

Clicks on the profile. There you go. And then I asked if there was more.

She said, "I don't. " This guy just reacted to my story out of nowhere. I don't even know who he was at the time.

I'm 61 backwards by the way. He likes So here's another messages of DK line about his age. The girl told him that she's a kineta.

And then he said, "Oh, all right. I'm a 71 backwards. " And then she says, "Oh, I thought you were like 19 or something, but what you doing today?

" Okay, so the girl who sent me those screenshots was allegedly his ex, but I can agree. DK is a br because I'm a freshman. DK told me he was 71 backwards and was fine to be with me, but we never became public about our relationship online because he didn't want to.

I also have messages to prove that we were together in the past. With allegations of this nature being regularly leveled at him, it'd be no surprise if his follower count had completely eroded. But if anything, it's been growing at a steady rate with people valuing the ability to laugh at him more than the fact that they're gassing up a potential child.

And what's even worse is that this isn't the only reason people want nothing to do with him. Once you look into his legal troubles, you see that he's not just a fake wannabe gangster, but he's a coward who picks on people who can't even defend themselves. For a long time now, Dane has been sporting an ankle monitor.

And despite the fact that some people think he probably bought it off Tik Tok shop, it's seemingly real. Dealing with several aggravated assault cases, Dane has claimed he faces decades behind bars. Three of them got dropped.

I'm just on I'm just down to one right now. Oh, so now you facing 20. Yeah.

And you said they were all the same charges. One to 20. Oh, one to 20.

That's what I meant. You know what I'm saying? Cuz all my four charges are the same.

I don't know if I can say it on him. Yeah. Yeah.

Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Yeah. Four of those.

So one to 20 years. The max is 20, right? 20 40 60 80.

But um Oh, okay. So you talking about just the max and you add them and them hold up. All the while he acts like a shot caller who has a henchman to do his bidding for him.

I don't need to do the fighting. If I get into a situation, I ain't going to do the fighting. I ain't going to do I ain't going to be the one.

You know what I'm saying? I ain't going to get locked up. I'm the bread winner.

I got too much to lose. You provide for your family. Yeah.

Like for everybody. And you stay not everybody cuz I don't I don't talk to them. I'm saying with the people that you live with though, like the people that you stay with cuz was they were saying that you stay with your Do you stay by yourself or you stay with your grandma or No, no, no.

That's cat. That was all cat. Yeah, that's okay.

Okay. However, what he doesn't tell you about his aggravated assault charges is that two of them apparently stem from elder abuse. Whenever he has shared paperwork alluding to his crimes, Dane has chosen to redact the details.

But his ex said he was arrested before for actually sting his own grandparents. He's a [ __ ] That's psycho. He beat not only on females, he beats on his grandparents.

Actually, two his grandma. Yeah, those those charges he says, "Oh, look at my charges. " Two of those charges are from his grandma and his grandpa for big man.

Okay, that's right. Just when you think this little guy can't be more disgusting, he does. As well as assaulting the people that he apparently lives with, he also has an alleged history of attacking his ex-girlfriend while holding the previous incidents where they fought as leverage.

He was abusive to you allegedly on this account. Yes, it got bad. It got bad, but it wasn't like, oh, I was letting him be.

I was also, you know, being defensive. Okay. cuz I'm not going to let no man beat me.

But yes, it got to the point where he we got in this one big argument and he got mad. He actually broke my pink phone. The pink phone that his whole audio thingy, he broke that.

Two, he um cuz he got caught cheating. And then two, uh we got in a big argument. I literally pushed him not too hard.

Like, bro, you're you're a ninja. You can go flying. But I didn't push him that hard.

Yeah. Turn around. I'm standing up by the couch and he turns around.

He looks at me and then he literally me so hard he starts laughing and damn like we're talking about like we're talking about Yes. Like one of those competitive okay okay and he laughed. He was like you're funny like I could do it again.

I can do it again. I wish I did it even harder. So from there he was like don't make you like anytime we got into altercation he'll be like don't make me how I did last time.

Still, with everything he's done, people remain on his side and give him the time of day. And after making his name in Texas, DK reportedly plans to move out west. And while his infamous 13 tattoo might put him in jeopardy upon arrival in Cali, he typically insisted he's not worried.

I'll just fly to LA and we could all like the people I know, you know what I'm saying? We could all just, we've already talked about it before, like me, uh, Allan, Edwin, like Edwin RG, all of us, we already talked about like going half on rent on a crib in LA. So, yeah.

So, I have a lot of opportunities. I'm probably not going to stay in San Antonio. But for right now, I'm staying in San Antonio cuz u I'm just still figuring things out cuz they just recently, you know what I'm saying, let me off first and all that.

So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But others aren't as convinced. Lil Bro going to learn the hard way. I'd be more worried about him walking into traffic.

However, DK's plans to head out there and link up with like-minded individuals like Adam22 are probably on hold following some new legal problems that might have him residing in Texas for the foreseeable future. Dane's latest arrest comes from a dispute at a restaurant in January of this year. For some reason, he was found to be carrying a switch at a Rainforest Cafe alongside fellow Tik Tocker Ash Trevino.

And when they weren't allowed in, he brandished it at the staff. Because he's a felon, being caught with a firearm like that carries a potential heavy sentence. And he was initially denied a reduction of his $860,000 bond before being released in March.

And straight away, he was right back on social media, regaining the persona that he probably dropped the minute he was in the jail itself. 23 hours in a cell, only 1 hour out a day. No more free DK.

I'm back and on everyone's noodle top. First day out or what? You really let yourself go, bro.

You looking crazy, dog. You look like emo, bro. Yeah, come on.

Take a seat, bro. So, what we getting today, again, they got you on the corner or what? But maybe he had some kind of wakeup call from his legal drama, as at the moment, he is backpedaling about the meaning behind his apparent gang tattoos.

What's the 13 on your forehead mean on the back of your neck? It don't have the same meaning as it used to. To me, it really don't mean nothing.

I could put it like this. It had a meaning when I first had got it. And then I guess you could say the meaning changed cuz I'm really on some spread positivity and [ __ ] like that.

Uh I ain't no gang member, no none of that [ __ ] The letter M is the 13th letter in the al alphabet. Gotcha. And I'm from Marbach and [ __ ] Maybe now that he's really facing prison time, he's realizing that ending up in the gang unit isn't as exciting as he used to think.

Even after everything he's done, DK still splits people. Some want to see him finally get what he deserves. While others are still out here rooting for a fake gangster with some serious accusations.

I cannot stand him. I think I dislike him the most out of anyone. Cringey as dude.

He's beyond disgusting and needs to be humbled. For real. The fact that you are talking about DK without anybody asking is funny.

That just shows how you are either jealous of him or just obsessed. Now 3 years into his viral fame, he still refuses to grow up. And if anything, he's regressing.

At whatever age he is, DK is getting into physical altercations with girls in clubs and losing. Oh, that was a [ __ ] that was like bro. And as one revenue stream in his Tik Tok lives probably begins to rise up, he is threatening to diversify into hip-hop.

And in all honesty, some people would argue that with how the industry is right now, it'd be an ideal marketplace for someone whose primary talent is masquerading as a gangster. Even DK himself seems to infer that talent wasn't part of the equation. Just the ability to be engaging.

Yeah, I would rap. It just depends like it depends a rapper. I don't know though.

Seems like a D baby and he was like, "Let's let's hop in the boot. " Yeah. But I feel like I got to um It got to be the right engineer this and that.

You know what I'm saying? So I can really know like my potential and know how my voice would sound on a track this and that. But yeah, I would be down for it though for sure.

Like um yeah, I've had I have I have a few I have a few opportunities with that too already. Oh yeah, you already got some some stuff in. I don't have no songs, but I have like stuff in the worst like just talks like people, you know what I'm saying?

I could go in the stew if I wanted to or not. You think you'll make it as a rapper? Like if you did it, you start I could for sure show cuz it really, you know what I'm saying?

All it comes down to is if you got a lot of stories to tell, if you've been through a lot of [ __ ] you got a lot of stories to tell. You can put that in your rack. You know what I'm saying?

People going to rock with it because they see like, oh, he's a real, you know what I'm saying? He's a real uh, you know what I'm saying? So, they going to rock with it.

To put it bluntly, Dane is everything wrong with social media right now. Here is a guy with limited brain power and a lack of moral fiber who has somehow managed to get an audience. All the while pretending to be affiliated with a violent world that would eat him alive if it got half the chance and making light of the pain they've caused others by taking on their symbols.

Now people just need to stay strong and ignore him so we can finally put an end to this alleged predator and elder abuser for good. Because honestly, the joke stopped being funny a long time ago.