“There’s a time and a place for everything bro.”
A former David Dobrik fan released a video of him confronting David about the events
that led to the sexual assault accusation against Vlog Squad member Durte Dom.
Let’s get into it.
As fans know, David Dobrik has been involved in quite a few extremely upsetting scandals
this year, one of which involved multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against various
members of his Vlog Squad.
But before we continue any further, we just wanted to issue a trigger warning, as we’ll
be discussing serious topics in this article like sexual assault, so please only continue
watching if you feel comfortable and safe doing so.
Back in March, David released an apology after an anonymous woman spoke to Insider and claimed
she was allegedly raped by one of the group’s former members, Durte Dom, after being given
alcohol and filming a Vlog Squad skit in 2018.
We covered those allegations in another Clevver video that I’ll link above for you in case
you want to catch up on all of this.
David released multiple apologies after this article came out and has since made his return
to YouTube after a three month hiatus.
“I’ve been really disappointed by some of my friends and for that reason I've separated
from a lot of them.”
Despite being dropped by countless brands and losing followers, David still has over
18.3 million YouTube subscribers and has been garnering millions of views on his recent
videos.
So when one former fan named Javier Aliaga ran into David and his former assistant Natalie,
he decided to confront him about the sexual assault allegations and David’s involvement
in the situation.
Javier posted a video of himself confronting David about what happened with Durte Dom.
“Who gave the alcohol to the young girls?
You’re asking a crazy question that literally we don’t know.
Somebody does and your return was so…
This isn’t the time and place to do this.”
After David said Javier was “asking a crazy
question,” Natalie chimed in saying that this fan “doesn’t know the details of
anything” and called what he was saying “a really weird conspiracy theory.”
As fans know, what Javier was asking about was covered widely in the news and doesn’t
seem to be a conspiracy theory.
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And when Javier called David out for taking advantage of people for his vlogs, David responded
saying that that hurts him because those people are his friends.
“Honestly dude.
It’s the whole culture you have of taking advantage of drunk people.
That hurts me more than anything that you think that those are my friends you’re talking
about my friends.”
Javier went on and revealed that he used to be a huge fan of David’s but he no longer
looks up to him.
“I appreciate that bro but you don’t know the details of things, nah I don’t look
to you any more dude.
And look at her smiling.
Everything about Trish ended up being true.
There’s a time and a place for everything bro.”
David walked away shaking his head, but Javier
also took to Instagram to share his thoughts after the interaction.
He wrote quote, “I used to be such a huge fan of David Dobrik.
He’s the reason why i started a YouTube channel and made funny vlogs just like him.
I began to lose it and cry towards the end of the confrontation as i couldn’t believe
the fact David was telling such lies straight to my face and how i had to confront my number
one (ex) idol because he returned to the internet with such questions still being unanswered.”
Javier also said in his post that it seemed like David "didn't care whatsoever."
Many fans replied to Javier’s post with some saying they respected him for trying
to confront David and get answers.
And others wondered how people like David “still have a platform when they've been
called out for stuff like this.”
Some others came to David’s defense though saying that it wasn’t the right time to
confront him in public.
But this person just said that overall, the confrontation was “hard to watch.”
As of now, David and Natalie haven’t responded to this video publicly, but we will keep you
posted if we hear from them.
For now, if you want more on David Dobrik and some of the other backlash he’s faced
this year, click right over here for another Clevver News video.
Then hop to the comments and let me know all your thoughts on David and Natalie’s responses
to this fan confronting them.
As always, I’m your host Renee Ariel, you can follow me on socials @ReneeAriel and I’ll
see ya next time!