Darren A. Nichols

Darren A. Nichols, better known online as Darren Pipster and Pip Pip, and known by his mascot fursona Pipster Cat, (born September 25, 2000) is an American writer, director, producer, voice actor, animator, and showrunner, as well as the founder and CEO of Pip Pip Enterprises, Inc., as well as the chief creative officer of DLE Corporation. He is well-known as the creator of his hit series Ronald Gets Grounded, Tina's World, The Orville & Hooch Series, and the director/writer of his fan film, Banjo the Woodpile Cat. He is also set to direct the upcoming film, The Katnapping. Since 2020, his partners include Dan P. Lyons, Alexander Mortensen, Marshall Bourne.

He has been part of the voice cast of Comix Minis since the show's ninth season, voicing characters such as Akihiro, Camden, Tatertot, Cameo, among others.

On March 7, 2021, his YouTube channel rebranded to Peppermint City Entertainment, but due to the shut-down of his company, his YouTube channel has now changed to Darren Pipster.

Internet incidents
On January 8, 2021, Darren went after Katie Melany for spoiling Zack: The Movie: The Vengeance of Derek twice. MJ the Spirit and GoMultiverseLegacy394 attempted to stop the fight, but Darren dwelled on it and pulled a suicide card, which resulted in him getting placed in timeout in the live chat twice. He was also demoted from the GGU Creative Department shortly thereafter.

On January 16, 2021, Darren released a video on his channel showing Bill Jensen and a few others at the car wash which originally came from one of Jensen's stories on Instagram. The part that made it controversial was when Darren placed laughing emojis in the title and description. In result, several LMNB employees called him out for it. Nick Fischer (also known as Brony T. Pony) posted about Darren’s actions on his YouTube community page (those posts have since been removed). The following day, LMNB released a statement on their Twitter page apologizing for Darren's behavior and informed that he's talking with an online counselor to help fix his behavior. Three days later after the incident, all Bill Jensen talk was permanently banned from LMNB and all of its other affiliated servers.

On April 23, 2021, Darren released a video on his channel showing how “Devon Lawler” became the reason why the TRF community became toxic. However, one day later, Nick Fischer (Brony T. Pony) called him and Danny out for accusing Devon, but instead claiming them responsible for the toxicity of the TRF/TDC community. As a result, Darren announced that he will be shutting down Peppermint City Entertainment and work independently on April 25.