Born July 23 1996, David Julian Dobrik is a Slovak YouTube personality. Before becoming a famous YouTuber, he found early success on the video sharing platform Vine. 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 September 2020, Dobrik's vlog channel had accumulated 18 million subscribers and 7.7 billion views. The channel was the fifth-most viewed creator channel on YouTube in 2019, with 2.4 billion views that year. In 2017 Dobrik won Breakout Creator at the Streamy Awards. In March 2020, He was named "Gen Z's Jimmy Fallon" by The Wall Street Journal.
He is known for being the leader of the Vlog Squad, which was described by The Verge as Friends, but for vloggers. Some of the people in the vlogs were Josh Peck and Jason Nash who he would later start a podcast with.
He was born in Kosice, Slovakia, but currently resides in Vernon Hills, Illinois. A tennis prodigy as a youth, he eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue his media career. He used to date Liza Koshy but now dates Lorraine Nash. Yes, that Nash. However later it was revealed that he legally married her as a comedic bit for one of his videos and divorced her a month later. He also has 3 siblings (Ester, Sarah and Toby).
Roles in media
- The Angry Birds Movie : Axel
- America's Most Musical Family: Judge
Tropes that apply to David Dobrik.
- 420, Blaze It: Most of his vlogs are 4 minutes and 20 seconds long. Smoking weed often happens or is joked about in his vlogs. He's also scheduled the upload of his 420th vlog on the 4/20 date, and it is introduced in the cold open by Snoop Dogg himself while smoking a joint and blowing the smoke at David's camera.
- Ascended Meme: Caillou's dad
- The Chessmaster: He often secretly involves friends, family members, professionals or even dozens of people in order to pull a prank on his friends.
- Chick Magnet: Many girls have expressed their attraction towards him, including Tana Mongeau, Madison Beer, Kelsey Calemine, Cindy Kimberly, Corinna Kopf and Riley Reid. He has apparently rejected all of them.
- Embarrassing Middle Name: Played for Laughs in one of his deleted vlogs where Howie Mandel finds David's driver's license in the car and points out his middle name.
- Hidden Depths: He's a comedian, but did tennis in school. He's also very capable of throwing darts.
- One Head Taller: Than his ex, Liza Koshy. She's 5'0 and he's 5'6.
- The Prankster: He loves to pull pranks on his friends and share their reactions in his vlogs.
- Sensual Slavs: He's Slovak
- Your Mom: Married Jason Nash's mom as a joke. He divorced her a month later.
