Amid the ongoing allegations against David Dobrik, many other YouTubers have spoken out
about their unpleasant and negative experiences with him in the past, so were these warning
signs there all along?
Let’s break it all down.
Every week it seems, more and more damaging accusations against YouTuber David Dobrik
continue to surface, which has caused his entire image and digital empire to collapse.
Although issues among his style of content creation have been present for years, they
just began to go public about a month ago when former Vlog Squad member Seth Francois
spoke out about his negative experiences filming with David, alleging that he tricked Seth
into kissing Vlog Squad member Jason Nash without consent.
More allegations were then brought to light, including those of sexual misconduct and even
rape among members of the Vlog Squad, which David has been dropped from many of his biggest
sponsors, including HelloFresh, Dollar Shave Club, EA Sports, DoorDash, General Mills,
HBO Max, Facebook, and Audible, just to name a few.
David even stepped down from the photo sharing app Dispo in which he co-founded, after the
app’s rating dropped below two stars due to fans berating the review section.
Things only got worse when he attempted to apologize twice via YouTube videos, but was
criticized after titling his first video “Let’s Talk,” but disabling the comments.
David and his Vlog Squad are more commonly known for acting out extreme stunts in their
videos, annnnd some of which were clearly taken too far… exhibit A: Vlog Squad member
Jeff Wittek’s devastating facial injuries.
In a series of new videos posted to YouTube for his new series “Don’t Try This At
Home”, Jeff detailed the harrowing incident involving an excavator which David was steering
while he swung on a rope above a shallow lake.
After being swung way too fast, Jeff ended up suffering multiple skull fractures and
lacerations to his face and body.
Aside from the physical damage, Jeff also detailed the emotional and mental complications,
especially after opening social media after the accident to see David being praised for
something he did that week.
Jeff said QUOTE, “It made me resent him, it made me resent seeing his face, it made
me not want to go online.
It made me not want to open up YouTube.
It just put me in a bad place.”
Jeff also explained that after David visited him in the hospital once, he felt abandoned
by David as he hadn’t checked up on him since.
Although David has yet to speak out about Jeff’s claims, it seems Jeff isn’t the
only one who thinks David takes things too far as many recalled a similar comment made
by Corinna in the same video when being swung too fast.
“You take things too far, always!”
“She’s like, ‘You take things too far, David!’”
Since then, Twitter account DefNoodles posted a resurfaced clip of Vlog Squad member Jonah
Antonyan last year admitting that he, too, “almost died” doing a stunt involving
driving a moped off a halfpipe into a pool.
Although Jonah didn’t place the blame on David for making him do the stunt, many fans
were furious when tuning into David’s apology, where he claims that he would QUOTE “never
put his friends in situations that I wouldn’t do myself.”
Fans might recall that this was one of the many incidents Trisha Paytas tried for years
to warn about David and the Vlog Squad.
Trisha has tearfully claimed that she had tea to spill on David after she, and then-boyfriend,
Jason Nash, broke up.
While telling fans what led to the split, she claimed that David “forced” Jason
to break up with her, saying QUOTE, “David is on a whole other level of being an actual
horrible person.”
Trisha’s biggest beef she has with David is over a clip he included in one of his vlogs
where he jokes that Jason should get Tana Mongeau to hook up with him and Trisha, which
was an uncomfortable situation given Tana’s age gap of 25 years with Jason and 10 years
with Trisha.
Trisha has dedicated a number of videos to David and the Vlog Squad telling fans stories
about why they ruined her life, why David is a horrible person, and has even accused
him of “using” other content creators for vlogging before kicking them to the curb.
Even one of the Vlog Squad’s original members, Gabbie Hanna, admitted to leaving the group
back in 2017 after just growing apart from the squad.
She said QUOTE, “I think it’s important for everyone to understand that in life people
just grow apart and that doesn’t mean that something awful is going on.
I need to be focusing my energy in the studio on writing, working on my fitness, working
on my mental health.”
More recently, a video compilation of David body shaming Gabbie resurfaced, where he gives
her diet pills, and continues to joke about her appearance.
“Wait, it’s something I’ve needed?”
“You’ve definitely needed it.
We all kinda talked about it.”
“Are these diet pills?”
Back in March, Twitter was convinced that Gabbie was referring to David when she wrote
this tweet, “I’m about to get into some legal trouble and I’m gonna f--kin like
it.”
Gabbie likely didn’t sue David especially after she admitted to Entertainment Tonight
that there was no beef between them.
Regardless, many had rushed to Gabbie’s support after also noticing how the Vlog Squad
treated her, tweeting comments like, “No one is perfect but NOBODY, NOT A SINGLE SOUL,
deserves this type of treatment,” and, “This is how people get insecure about themselves,
constant ‘jokes’ about their appearance, weight, etc.”
These allegations, as well as the many others circulating, are a result of much bigger issues
stemming from the fact that David has gotten away with his actions for years with little
to no consequences, and can treat people with such disrespect.
That said, last month, Bretman Rock took to his Instagram stories to spill some serious
tea about the time he met David during the 2019 People’s Choice Awards and was made
to feel “so irrelevant.”
After winning Beauty Influencer of the year, Bretman recalled David allegedly coming up
to him and basically interrogating him about who he was and what he won.
“I wasn't even talking to him, and he just goes up to me and he’s like, ‘Who are
you?
What do you do?
What did you win?’”
Obviously Bretman wasn’t pleased with David’s questioning and couldn’t believe what he
was hearing, especially considering his father sadly passed away the day before.
Bretman revealed that he hadn’t shared this story until now knowing that David has been
cancelled, annnnnd clearly wasn’t too surprised about that fact.
David has not yet spoken out since issuing his second apology back in March, but should
he further address the allegations any time soon, we’ll do our best to keep you in the
loop.
And to see where Jeff’s friendship with David now stands since his surgery, click
right over here for a full Clevver rundown.
Then be sure to let me know all your thoughts on the growing accusations against David right
down here in the comments.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, bye guys.