what up guys it's David and Jack and Jack here and we're just Jack I'm gonna
be doing a crazy a super crazy ass challenge before David Oberg would
become one of the biggest youtubers on the planet purchasing a multi-million
dollar house in the Hollywood Hills with a shiny red Ferrari park outside and
having a net worth of an estimated 16 million dollars at the time of this
recording what's up guys i'm david dobrik and today i'm here with jennifer
lopez or JLo I still haven't asked her what I could call it what kind of call
you Jennifer Jennifer it's on her earring before Dave would go on to win a
Kids Choice Award presented to him by his childhood idol Josh Peck he'd
wouldn't blogger of the year at the 2017 Shorty Awards breakout crater at the
2017 Streamy Awards and then again for best first person to 2018 no Liza Liza
won it last year so it's really cool to Filan Liza's footsteps I'm probably
gonna get my own youtube original show now maybe I'll be on Hulu you guys just
gotta look out for me I'm coming up like Liza's before David would collab with
some a-list celebrities including John Stamos kendall Jenner Josh Peck Marana
Cosgrove riley reid little pump Howie Mandel Kylie Jenner and more before
David's Oberg would clock in over 14 million YouTube subscribers and receive
over 300 million views per month and even get a Chipotle burrito named after
him today we're finally talking about David motherfucking don't brag ladies
and gentlemen now I'm not entirely sure why it took me so long and piecing this
video together but David is a creator who needs little introduction so for
this video we actually have a bit of an exclusive we reached out to David but he
was too busy so instead we have someone who's known him since he was well about
that high and that well they helped us out by answering a bunch of our
questions what's going on guys it's poo michael crichton's documenting the life
and career david dobrik prior to babe here for you of course before they're
famous no they've actually done a few other members of the vlog squad in the
past of talking jason nash Trisha Paytas although I probably
shouldn't be mentioning her name she got kicked out as always be sure to let us
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retweet it the video will go viral in fact if I see retweeting it over on
Twitter I'll give you a shadow' tomorrow alright let's get into this video
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David Julian dobrik was born on June 23rd 1996 and cosig Slovakia and there's
no way I'm actually pronouncing that correctly so here you go cause should
say no David doesn't recall a whole lot from his childhood but he remembers
growing up in an apartment in Slovakia and being close with grandparents now
the town it has a population of a quarter million and well we only found a
few black-and-white photos that was grandpa he was a designer and even
designed a fountain out there it was born to parents Pavo Tobruk who earned
his living as a photographer so I'm pretty sure that's where he got his
creative eye from now his mother or her details are yet to be known by the
internet so dobrik I guess he's just surprising her with animals at home and
not getting into too much detail he also got three siblings
there's Esther Sarah and Toby we like spending time with each other basically
how much do you guys love David tell me when to stop okay have you told your
siblings that they're soon gonna be an aunt or uncle oh yeah really girls with
two pet bunnies when he was a little kid but well they had an unfortunate fate
and then when I moved my hand uncle ain't done this is serious they're gone
now why did they eat them that's just how they work in Slovakia you don't
really keep bunnies as pets but I did know when Damon was in the fourth grade
while him and his family they up and left to solve a Kia in search of the
American Dream they found themselves permanently residing in Chicago Illinois
with a little stint in Toledo Ohio my god if he stayed in Ohio well he might
have become the third Paul brother it's everyday bro I'm gonna be your Sean you
might be the biggest ball athlete in the hood he attended Vernon Hills
High School and he excelled at many subjects but the one that stands out
amongst the rest was his athleticism and tennis playing ability now a former
teacher she describes him as a class clown who always loved to be the center
of attention and even when far is enough to say that he was a bit of an attention
or to be honest like I'm really happy that you're successful kind of shock new
hero before they're famous we're bringing you an exclusive
now our researchers managed to get in touch with his high school science
teacher and tennis coach miss etting our hope I'm saying that correctly though
she was kind enough to actually take the time and answer a few of our questions
now we asked her how was David in school to which she replied my first time
meeting David was during his freshman year in high school as his tennis coach
what I do remember is that as Justin Bieber hair game was strong many of us
called him Bieber to which I'm sure he hated
he was the stellar tennis player playing varsity won doubles as a freshman and
every year after he was an all-state his junior and senior year the goofy kid you
see in the vlogs and listened to on the podcast is the same kid I remember
walking through the halls of the HHS now we all know how generous David is with
his money today and after watching him dish out top-of-the-range cars too
literally all of his best friends well I wanted to know how lavish he was back in
the day David is a great human that's for sure
as his former teacher coach I have not been the beneficiary of anything along
the lines of a car or cash but when I was in LA and filmed the vlog I'm in
with him he did however buy me my first ever in and out experience which I
thoroughly enjoyed the kids got a good heart I mean I'd be over the moon to get
a free free you know burger although I'm on a never-ending diet and to wrap up
this little conversation with his Vernon Hills High School teacher well we asked
if you could rewind time and give him one piece of advice what would it be she
closed off by saying I was one of the main forces trying to get him to go to
college which clearly was the wrong advice for him knowing what I know now I
would advise him to make sure he has solid people around him and plan for his
future when the blog squad calls it quits he's so funny and creative he
would be a huge asset to any managed advertising fun out on the west coast
who is that some juicy information is the vlog squad nearing an end now
another one of his teachers has actually said that he wasn't a good student or
even good with the ladies it was to the point where oh no I mean you didn't have
the attention span to pay attention to any individual I remember specific times
were you like make a girl laugh and like she would smile at you and then you'd be
on the next thing like you're you were like doing a thousand things at once you
wouldn't like my god he also recently posted this picture from one of his high
school dances and he said that this date she left him to go to the dance with the
entire high school football team ouch no David it did take Spanish classes but
doesn't know how to do much more than ask if he can go to the bathroom or to
go to the library don't it he's also admitted to cheating on his tests in
high school but even with his lackluster performance will his teachers seem to
Lava the David Ober charm it never fails no David has said that he misses high
school sometimes because of how often he got to see his high school friends and
because he likes having the structure of class schedules but with that said oh he
didn't really like school ever fun David he occasionally he used to light
fireworks often surrounding neighborhoods
well technically he was just the one to convince other people to set off the
fireworks while he watched just like in my vlogs I'm always the guy that like
manipulates people and tells them to do stupid yeah yeah and apparently in terms
of talent Willie learned how to do this at some point and never let the talent
slip
my free let you catch that are you kidding my last trick I'm gonna need a
volunteer shoe right shoe please could you step back a little maybe then you
stand up are you ready oh yeah let's see
and one it'll be worth it once we get it right in 2013 after the app vine started
gaming and following online well David he uploaded his first ever
vine and would begin what would become an incredible journey to super startup
and at the time well he started out by making six second videos now some of his
earlier vines while they look like this
things on vine they were a slow build as he started off only posting once a month
and was getting miniature bread deals for about 50 bucks now alongside posting
videos he had to balance working a part-time job at a retirement home to
save some money in order to chase his dreams of moving West Los Angeles after
working in the retirement home for just over a year well David had managed to
save all of his money into a separate bank account which he would never touch
the entire time when it came time to make move to LA he had $1,600 saved what
he told his parents that he was moving to lala land
well they jokingly remarked what are you gonna do move to Hollywood to which he
replied yes exactly Hollywood Boulevard and that's exactly
what he did now David and two of his hometown buddies they rode tripped over
2,000 miles in his old silver 2004 Toyota Corolla which had a busted-up
side door that would actually barely close
was fucking socks dude his trip to LA sparked something inside David with him
decided to make the move to California shortly afterwards to pursue online
video making full-time right now I'm heading the big mix to make a youtube
video I don't really want to but his mom's paying me to be friends with him
so I gotta do it I guess finally making its a Hollywood him and his three
friends they met up with another friend who flew in from Minnesota and they
found a small two-bedroom apartment to rent on their limited budget boys moved
in another first supermarket experience purchasing peanut butter and bread well
that was on a ration and it definitely a realization moment that things in LA
well they were super expensive and if that they wanted to make it well they
would have to go all-in with money so tight David would have to put his
YouTube channel on hold after posting just four videos he would then turn his
focus on to making some quick cash now David he would upload and resell sports
finds from unbranded themed pages on vine now he would make about 60 bucks a
day doing this that's how he kept himself afloat for the first few months
earning between 1,500 and 2,000 dollars per month and at that time well the kid
tought he was loaded I don't know how much I was maybe fifteen hundred two
thousand a month and I was you're good I was like I was like I cannot believe
this I would go to Jimmy John's every day which I couldn't do back home and
sometimes they get to number five videos cuz I literally what I was just like I
don't give a fuck fast forward a few months and he
befriended zane and heath who had roughly around three million followers
on vine at the time but unfortunately the platform it was dying a slow death
and a lot of these influences they were jumping ship over to youtube and they
were projecting a lot of money into production value for their comedy skits
to which david said there was absolutely no chance in hell he was gonna do that
he then bumped into what would soon be his future girlfriend liza and she was
filming her blog now we thought that the concept was way cooler than these big
productions and it was more ron you know just a little camera
documenting your everyday life so we picked up his camera and began posting
himself and his friends getting up to no good at shopping malls and creating
short comedy skits he kept doing it just for complete fun sake and not even
thinking about the money those YouTube videos were slow to get started racking
up just five to eight thousand collective views in the first three to
five months not great considering the substantial vine following he had
amassed by March of 2016 his channel had gained over 200 thousand subscribers by
August of 2016 well David's channel had over 1 million subscribers now the
production quality of his videos increased and the ideas for the videos
got even crazier in augs the 2016 he also created a second channel called
David Ober - and all of a sudden videos they started to blow up today his videos
boast anywhere from between 3 to 15 million views now it's important to note
that there was never really a viral video moment for David it was just
general growth overall that is until he posted his breakup video with Liza which
was seeing the world over Liza cheated on me and I found him in her bedroom
no David he has some pretty famous friends from all his YouTube and vine
buddies that he creates videos with on a weekly basis Ilya I have Liza I have
Alex I have the other Alex I don't like to make one of them the best best friend
because then the others gonna mad at me the other actually a few buds from his
blog squad that I've interviewed in the past and I need to make videos on ASAP
I'm talking Tati and Scottie so boys if you're watching this video I
promise I'll get that done there's not enough time today we're only doing David
now he's also managed to get himself hooked up with a pretty well-known
American family now Kendall Jenner she DM David and then wound up in one of his
videos and more recently while her sister Kylie she teamed up for another
video than Kardashians they need everyone's clout
no David cuts down about two hours of footage from each of his vlogs into four
minute and 20 second videos now the original he wanted to do only 420 vlogs
total before retiring the game why 420 because for
time my 420th blog was supposed to be my last Wow and and that never ended up
coming true because we didn't end up selling the show we were trying to sell
so and now I'm stuck with vlogging so you guys have me for a couple more
months he also has a podcast called views and his co-host is jason nash now
he had a big deal with netflix in the works for a potential show called
david's frat house where he would buy a frat house with his friends without even
going to college and they would try to compete with real-life rats but
unfortunately well the show and it ended up falling through it's very difficult
to go into Netflix and be like hey I'm David and I I promise I can I can make a
good show and then they look at you like you're a youtuber you can't fuckin do
that as for the future really is a fear of getting older so he doesn't like to
focus too much on what's next he's happy doing what he's doing and so thankful to
have his dream job with a loyal audience that keeps watching him in the millions
now we got a feeling that there are some pretty big things in the works for David
maybe it'll become the next Shia LaBeouf and uh well then he'll land in like some
kind of Transformers film they're gonna remake that soon anyway I just he looks
like Shia LaBeouf to me am I the only one who thinks that I swear to God
really Emmett answer the rest of the story I think we're gonna wrap this one
up here because this is before they're famous my name is Michael cretin this
video has been a long time coming so thank you so much for sit and put
waiting and being so patient one more thing that's it for today's video thanks
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