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9Born July 23 1996, David Julian Dobrik is a Slovak Platform/YouTube personality. Before becoming a famous [=YouTuber=], he found early success on the video sharing platform Website/{{Vine}}. Dobrik is known for being TheLeader of the popular Platform/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 Platform/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 Creator/JimmyFallon" [[https://www.wsj.com/articles/david-dobrik-interview-youtube-liza-fallon-vlog-11584028115 by The Wall Street Journal]].
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11He is known for being the leader of the Vlog Squad, which was described by The Verge as ''Series/{{Friends}}'', but for vloggers. Some of the people in the vlogs were Creator/JoshPeck and Creator/JasonNash who he would later start a podcast with.
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13He was born in Kosice, UsefulNotes/{{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 Creator/LizaKoshy 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).
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15!Roles in media
16* ''Film/AirplaneMode'': [[AsHimself Himself]]
17* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'': Axel
18* ''America's Most Musical Family'': Judge
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20!Tropes that apply to David Dobrik.
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22* FourTwentyBlazeIt: 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 Music/SnoopDogg himself while smoking a joint and blowing the smoke at David's camera.
23* AscendedMeme: [[https://twitter.com/DavidDobrik/status/1323008052094668801?s=19 Caillou's dad]]
24* TheChessmaster: He often secretly involves friends, family members, professionals or even dozens of people in order to pull a prank on his friends.
25* ChickMagnet: Many girls have expressed their attraction towards him, including Creator/TanaMongeau, Madison Beer, Kelsey Calemine, Cindy Kimberly, Corinna Kopf and Riley Reid. He has apparently rejected all of them.
26* EmbarrassingMiddleName: PlayedForLaughs in one of his deleted vlogs where Creator/HowieMandel finds David's driver's license in the car and points out his middle name.
27* HiddenDepths: He's a comedian, but did tennis in school. He's also very capable of throwing darts.
28* OneHeadTaller: Than his ex, Liza Koshy. She's 5'0 and he's 5'6.
29* ThePrankster: He loves to pull pranks on his friends and share their reactions in his vlogs.
30* SensualSlavs: He's Slovak

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