David Dobrik is a Slovak-born Internet personality mostly known for his YouTube channel, and his videos that went viral.
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- His full name is Dávid Julián Dobrík.
- He was born on July 23rd 1996.
- His zodiac sign is Leo.
- He was born in Košice, Slovakia.
- His family moved to Vernon Hills, Illinois, when he was six years old.
- He attended Vernon Hills High School, where he played tennis.
- He qualified for the 2014 Boys Tennis State Tournament, where he won third place in the doubles tournaments.
- After graduating high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his Vine career.
- He is a Slovak-born Internet personality.
- He found early success on the video-sharing platform Vine.
- He then started vlogging on YouTube in 2015.
- IIn 2019 he co-founded the photography app Dispo.
- Dobrik is known for being the leader of the popular YouTube ensemble The Vlog Squad, which features prominently in his vlogs and comprises rotating selections of his friend group.
- As of January 2022, Dobrik’s vlog channel had 18.3 million subscribers and nearly 7 billion views.
- The channel was the fifth-most viewed creator channel on YouTube in 2019.
- The channel managed to have 2.4 billion views that year.
- Beyond internet entertainment, Dobrik voice-acted in The Angry Birds Movie 2.
- He was one of the judges on the Nickelodeon TV show America’s Most Musical Family
- He hosted a SpongeBob SquarePants special.
- He appeared during the first season of Discovery Channel’s reality competition TV show Dodgeball Thunderdome
- In 2013, Dobrik uploaded his first video onto Vine.
- He collaborated on Vines with other popular Viners such as Liza Koshy, Gabbie Hanna, Jason Nash, and Zane & Heath.
- Before starting his own YouTube channel, Dobrik was part of the YouTube group, Second Class.
- Dobrik launched his self-titled YouTube channel in 2015. Since its inception, videos on this channel have been comedy vlogs based on real-life situations and semi-scripted bits, featuring many of his former Vine collaborators.
- In August 2016, Dobrik created his second channel, David Dobrik Too, where he posts blooper reels, challenge videos, and his more direct sponsorship deals.
- Views with David Dobrik & Jason Nash is podcast hosted by Slovak-American YouTuber David Dobrik and co-host Jason Nash.
- Its first episode was released on May 15, 2017, and it debuted 2nd on iTunes chart in podcast section.
- As of June 2021, there have been 199 episodes.
- In September 2018, Dobrik created his third YouTube channel, Views Podcast, where he posts the video version of his podcast
- Dobrik was credited by The Verge for successfully integrating the podcast genre onto YouTube, which is an otherwise video-focused platform.
- In May 2019, David uploaded a vlog that claimed he married the mom of fellow YouTuber (and David’s BFF) Jason Nash. After Jason joked to David, “It’s crazy to think that you’ll never have an ex-wife because no one will f*cking marry you ever,” David flew to Boston to marry Lorraine Nash — which then made David, who was 22 at the time, the step-dad of Jason, who was 45 at the time.
- David and Lorraine got married in Las Vegas, but David announced their divorce a month later.
- In April 2018, David sat down with BFF and fellow YouTuber Josh Peck to openly discuss how he lost his virginity, part of Josh’s “Losing Your V Card” series on his channel. He said that he lost his virginity when he was 17.
- He also had his first kiss at 17.
- His assistant is his childhood friend.
- Natalie Mariduena has known David Dobrik since before he was famous, taking him to his first high school dance, only to ditch him to dance with the high school football team.
- According to her LinkedIn page, her official job title is “Executive Assistant at David Dobrik LLC.”
- He dated fellow YouTuber Liza Koshy. They began dating in 2015 and called it quits in a very emotional, very public break up video on YouTube in 2018 that has gotten over 54 million views. They cite both their booming careers and busy schedules as part of the reason for the split, but they remain friends.
- He once convinced his friend’s brother he was invisible.
- During his Wired Autocomplete interview, David shared how he went to community college for half a semester.
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