David Dobrik is facing criticism once again after fellow Vlog Squad member Jeff Wittek
accused him of putting his life on the line during a series of dangerous pranks, including
one that went too far. Let’s get into it.
Vlog Squad fans are definitely familiar with Jeff.
He’s been making videos with David Dobrik and his crew for a couple years and has his
own massive YouTube channel with almost 3 million subscribers.
Jeff is known for his show “Jeff’s Barbershop” where he’s had on guests like Addison
Rae, Dixie D’Amelio, the Dolan Twins, and more. Fans know that Jeff started working
as a barber when he was only 16, so this show is perfect for him.
But last week, Jeff revealed he would be sharing a new docuseries called “Don’t Try This
At Home” on his channel with the truth about his accident.
If you’ve been keeping up with Jeff over this past year, you’ve seen that his face
was bruised and bandaged up last summer, but he never revealed the truth about what happened.
“What happened to you? I fell off a building. “I was in a skydiving accident the chute
didn’t open.”
Now Jeff is finally getting real about his accident with fans in his new docuseries and
he is not holding back.
The reason why I’m keeping all this secret is not because I’m suing anybody. Legally
I can’t get into what happened. My lawyers told me not to speak on it. It’s not because
I was covering for anybody or signed an NDA.”
Instead, Jeff said that he just joked about it, up until this point because that’s how
he coped with the pain.
In the first episode of the series, Jeff talked about his upbringing in Staten Island and
spoke about meeting David Dobrik for the first time.
He explained that he didn’t intend to start vlogging with David, but one thing led to
another and his career took off.
Episode one of the docu-series didn’t get into the accident, but episode two called
“How I Broke My Face” laid out the entire story.
At the beginning of the episode, Jeff revealed that David wanted to do some sort of stunt
video as their first video back after the COVID lockdowns, because as fans know, David
still hasn’t posted a formal vlog in a year.
The first vlog was going to be a series of stunts including skydiving because Jeff revealed
that David got inspo from fellow YouTuber Devin Super Tramp, who is known for his extreme
sports and stunt videos.
And so David sent Jeff, along with Todd and Natalie to jump out of an airplane 25 times
to get certified.
Yep you heard that right, they had to skydive 25 times, and notably, David didn’t join
them.
“When the f**k did we go from agreeing to one jump to 25?”
And they actually did it. Natalie, Todd, and Jeff spent every day during quarantine jumping
out of planes.
There were some scary incidents involving wind, but they continued on and eventually
headed to Utah to meet up with David and the rest of the Vlog Squad crew for more stunts.
Jeff explained that they all showed up at a lake and they had a tractor there to do
a stunt where the tractor would swing them around and around.
David was controlling the tractor as they all took turns wakeboarding.
But eventually they decided that the Vlog Squad was there to make funny videos, so they
took the stunt to the next level with a rope.
Corinna Kopf was the first to hop on the rope and David swung her around with the tractor.
He said the shot looked beautiful and kept going, but eventually it went a little too
far for Corinna’s liking.
“The thing comes off and it starts falling down and Corinna’s like what the f**k put
me down put me down, you take things too far. She’s like you take things too far David.”
Jeff hopped on the rope next and at first, he wasn’t super worried because he had just
jumped out of a plane 25 times.
But when David started swinging him around, it went too fast and things took a very serious
turn for the worse.
“I forgot that the biggest f**king idiot I know was driving it. Oh s**t.”
Fellow Vlog Squad members looked back on the experience as they all ran into the water
to try to help Jeff and get him to a hospital.
“The whole side of his face is just open and nobody could do anything to stop it.”
Jeff ended up having serious facial and skull fractures.
Back in June, Jeff shared this post about the accident writing “Sorry I haven’t
posted any new pics of the mullet this week. I got in an accident and broke my face and
skull in a few places. But I’m OK. I’m more alive than ever. I’ll heal up good
as new.”
But in his docuseries, Jeff shows the more difficult toll this serious accident took
on his mental and physical health.
And shortly after this second episode dropped, David Dobrik started trending on Twitter again.
Fans know that David has been making headlines recently after a woman alleged she was raped
during production on one of his 2018 vlogs that was later posted to David’s YouTube
channel.
David has since apologized for this incident and we covered that in another Clevver video
that I’ll link above for you.
And now, fans are calling out David for almost killing Jeff for the sake of a vlog.
One person wrote quote, “so when twitter gonna talk abt how david dobrik permanently
disabled his friend (jeff wittek) all in the name of content for the vlog cause i can start
that.”
This fan chimed in writing “I’ve never felt so angry at a dumb a** influencer before.
David Dobrik needs to be stopped. He’s always been irresponsible at his friends expense
for YOUTUBE videos. He COULD have been charged with manslaughter had Jeff been inches closer
to the excavator. IM LIVIDDDDD.”
And this person added “well it's the fact that david dobrik never participates in the
stunts and lets his 'friends' do it should be enough to tell you what kind of person
he is regardless of whether he's aware of it or not but anyway jeff wittek i'm grateful
you're alive.” We also agree that we’re so glad Jeff is
alive and obviously, this stunt vlog hasn’t seen the light of day on David’s channel.
David hasn’t spoken out on the matter since Jeff’s docu-series went live, but he does
appear in the videos and interview segments of the show.
We will keep you guys posted if we hear anything else about this or if David speaks out.
But for now, if you want more David Dobrik and the brands that have dropped him amid
all of this years’ serious allegations, click right over here for another Clevver
News video.
Also, let us know down in the comments below what you think of all of this--
do you think David owes Jeff a public apology for the accident?
And do you think the Vlog Squad’s vlogs went too far? I’m your host Carly Henderson,
bye guys!