Dethroned 24 - year - old influencer David Dobrik , who started out in the sottish mankind cave of YouTube and migrate to a more home - well-disposed locality of D’Amelios , has now exited the photo - sharing app Dispo , which launched just three week ago .
Dobrik , a 24 - class - onetime Teen Choice Award winner , is bed for stunts and mischievousness with a rotating cast of reality TV - dash bros , which hasreportedlyearned him a $ 9.5 million mansion with a Hawaiian punch spring and , once , a namesakeChipotle burrito .
In addition to cutting affiliation with his own company after less than a month , Dobrik ’s corporate partners , include EA Sports , DoorDash , and HelloFresh , alsogave him the bootover the weekend .
Screenshot: David Dobrik, YouTube
Other influencers have pointed out a history of bullying , misogyny , and racism in earlier Vlog Squad picture . One cleaning lady , speaking toBusiness Insider , aver intimate violation by former Vlog Squad fellow member Dominykas Zeglaitis for the purposes of a 2018 video recording . The woman , who says she was a sophomore at the time , claims that Zeglaitis supplied her inebriant .
In the TV , which has since been set up to private on YouTube , the line between world and pasquinade is vanishingly thin . “ My buddy ’s lady friend ’s over to have a fivesome , so hopefully we ’ll have a quintet tonight , ” Zeglaitis tells the television camera . As a tumid group of girls enters , one say , “ I have to allow you cat know , I do n’t really have a go at it any of you . ” One can be pick up led into a bedroom , while the group gathers outside the doorway to listen . At the end of the video , Dobriktells the camera : “ Dom just had a trinity , and I recall we ’re all … [laughs] … get going to jailhouse . ” According to Business Insider , Dobrik removed the video at the asking of the so-called dupe but not before it had been viewed over 5 million times .
Last summer , former Vlog Squad member and influencer Seth Francoiscompiled a seriesof clips in which Dobrik ’s work party treat racialism as a laugh — for example , using blackface and watermelon as punchlines . Dobrik persist mum after the picture ’s release . Francoislater toldthe influencer - concentre YouTube podcast , H3 , that he ’d been forced to perform non - consensual contact with an sometime comedian in a now - deleted 2017 TV titled “ HE THOUGHT HE WAS KISSING HER ! ! ( SUPER CRINGEY ) . ”
A selection of video’s on Dobrik’s YouTube channel. Who could have possibly seen this coming?Screenshot: Gizmodo/YouTube
Also on theH3 podcast , former Vlog Squad member Nik Keswani also said that he felt that Dobrik exploited his rare form of dwarfism for drollery . He suppose Dobrik agreed when require to stop , but Keswani added , “ I knew that by saying that , I was n’t going to be in the content anymore . ”
marauder has a long rundown of Dobrik’sstring of say offenses , which date stamp back to at least 2017 .
After months of sweep off or ignoring calls for accountability , Dobrik issue a video last hebdomad titled “ rent ’s Talk , ” less excuse than an entreaty for followers not to abandon him . “ Consent is something that ’s super super important to me , ” he says , in front of a Nickelodeon Kids ’ Choice Award , adding that he always check that he has “ approval ” from people in his videos and that there are time “ when a person can shift their mind . ” Referring to the “ Seth situation , ” a serial of antiblack remark and japery , Dobrik enjoin , “ I missed the gull with that one . ” He adds that he ’s grown . “ I do n’t fit with some of the videos I ’ve posted , ” he state .
“ David has choose to step down from the board and leave the society to not distract from the party ’s growth , ” Dispo told Gizmodo via electronic mail . “ Dispo ’s team , merchandise , and most importantly- our community- rack for building a various , inclusive , and empowering world . ” Earlier this month , CNBCdescribed“buzzy ” Dispo as “ the invite - only moving picture share app everyone ’s spill about . ” The idea is to replicate the disposable camera by take out editing single-valued function and delay “ developing ” time so that drug user ca n’t see photos until the follow good morning . Last twelvemonth , the app received $ 4 million from Reddit co - founder Alexis Ohanian , whopraisedDobrik as a “ motivated seer . ”
Venture capital firm Six Seven Six , which go the come round of investment funds for Dispo , saidin a statement published on Twitter , “ The late allegation against David Dobrik are exceedingly worrisome and are right away at odds with Seven Seven Six ’s magnetic core value . ” The business firm said it is “ in full support ” of Dispo ’s “ decision to part way with David . ”
Soon after Business Insider write ravishment allegement against Zeglaitis , the venture capital firmSpark Capitalannounced that it was cutting off Dispo . HelloFresh , Dollar Shave Club , and EA Sportsfollowed . Dobrik step down from the display panel before crouch out entirely .
Dobrik was not immediately available for comment .
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