- Hey guys, it's David Dobrik,
and today I'm going
undercover on the internet.
It's actually me.
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Instagram.
Are you engaged?
It's a picture of me and Natalie,
who's my friend/assistant.
No, we're not engaged.
We're not dating.
We're just friends.
Right, Natalie?
[laughs]
Natalie has cue cards.
Just friends, not engaged.
Can we get a short tutorial
on how to do the David smile?
It's so crazy 'cause I didn't realize
that I do the same smile in every picture
til I started reading comments.
Like all my smiles,
they're like this, here.
I was just in an interview
and someone asked me
to take a picture, and I was like okay,
and I smiled and they're like,
"No, no, no, do the David smile."
And I was like, "What
are you talking about?"
This is how I smile.
I stick my tongue out I think
a little bit when I smile.
I think it's cause I used to
be insecure about my teeth,
before I had braces.
So I would literally stick my tongue out
thinking it was blocking my teeth.
I don't know.
And now it's kind of stuck,
now this is my smile.
Posted.
Where's the podcast?
The podcast?
It's probably late.
I'm really behind on like
all social media postings.
I'm like a day or two late for everything.
It's probably on Spotify or iTunes.
You're a millionaire and wear Levis?
Yeah.
What else are you suppose to wear?
You're a person commenting and you're not
using the right form of you're.
What are you supposed to wear
when you're a millionaire?
I feel like Levis are expensive.
I don't think I even wear Levis.
I think I wear like Target brand jeans.
I'm like, I'm really really the worst
when it comes to clothing.
I don't spend over
10-20 dollars on clothes
because if it's black I'll wear it.
How are you giving out cars?
I don't know.
I don't know how it got to here.
But over the last year
I've gotten to give out
a little over 15 cars now, which is cool.
And one of the cars was a
Lamborghini for my friend Heath.
I don't know how I get to do that,
but I'm so so so lucky and
so happy I get to do that.
Anybody in my position would
give out cars if they could,
but I just got lucky I guess.
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Wikipedia.
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Dobrik was born on July 23rd
1996 in Košice, Slovakia.
His family moved to
Vernon Hills, Illinois,
a suburb of Chicago.
It's almost close.
We moved to Ohio and
my parents moved first,
and then I surprised my mom when my dad
picked me up at the airport.
She thought I was coming at
a completely different time,
and I flew over by myself
and I cried the entire trip.
And then her reaction was
crazy when she opened the door.
And by crazy I mean it was pretty tame.
I think she was happy that
I was gone for a little bit.
Dobrik is protected under DACA.
I am, I am protected under DACA.
That's why I'm still here and
I haven't been kicked out.
On May 15th 2019 Dobrik
legally married Lorraine Nash,
Jason Nash's mother, as
part of one of his vlogs.
That's true.
My buddy Jason told me
I'd never find love,
so I flew to Boston to
surprise his mother.
I proposed to her, we flew
to Vegas, got married,
and then we flew to Hawaii to honeymoon.
And then we flew back and
I surprised him with papers
saying I'm his legal stepfather.
This was really cool.
And it was also really
cool 'cause Jason's 45,
so he's older than me, but I'm his dad.
Boom.
Reddit.
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Do any of the vlog squad
members have normal jobs?
Yeah, Suzy is a Lyft driver,
and Vardon goes to school.
Vardon's 12 years old
but he actually makes
the most amount of money
in his entire family,
'cause he does personalized shoutouts
where people pay him
to say happy birthday,
and he's like the hottest
person on the app,
so he's making the most.
He's making a killing.
I don't think he'll
ever work a normal job,
which is kinda sad.
Favorite video of David in
another YouTuber's videos?
I don't really like
watching videos of myself
unless I edited them,
'cause then I get nervous,
I don't know what I said.
I used to make a lot of videos with Liza
and those are all really, really funny.
Those I'll still watch.
Anyone know what kind of
bracelet David is always wearing?
The black and metal one.
The one I don't have on.
It was a bracelet John
gave to me, John Stamos,
I hate saying his full name 'cause it just
sounds like I'm name dropping.
But John gave it to me,
it's from his brand,
and I always had it, and then
I got like a rash right here,
so I took it off.
It wasn't the bracelet's fault,
but I just took it off and then I lost it.
But I always wear this one.
I've had this one on since my
freshman year of high school,
so I've had it on for like eight
years, eight or nine years.
It doesn't mean anything.
I was just in health class
and I asked my friend John,
I was like, "Do you wanna see how long
"I can wear this green bracelet?"
And he goes, "Sure."
And I go, "Okay."
So I've had it on ever since.
Has no meaning to it whatsoever.
Next.
Twitter.
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Does anyone know why exactly David Dobrik
can't leave the country?
Like I know he'll get deported but why?
I can't leave because
I'm protected by DACA,
and basically I can
leave, I can go right now,
but I can't come back, I
can't reenter the country
for like another 10 years
if I leave the country.
So I'm not like a citizen
and I don't have a visa.
The only thing I can do where I can
leave the country and come
back is if I get married,
but Natalie and I are not engaged,
so that's not happening any time soon.
But who knows, fingers crossed.
Who is David Dobrik?
Like what does he do?
David Dobrik makes videos on the internet,
reveals a lot about his personal life,
just films a lot of his day.
A lot of my last two, three
years has been on camera,
which is cool 'cause it's
kinda like a video diary.
YouTube.
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And how does one become David's assistant?
Asking for a friend.
Natalie became my
assistant because she was
just my friend from my hometown,
and I didn't trust anybody else.
I don't know how the process works.
I let Natalie do all that.
I'm not good at hiring people.
I feel like I just get like connected to
whoever I talk to for the first time,
so I'd be like, "Okay you're hired,"
even though I don't like
go through the proper means
of figuring out if
they're qualified or not.
Why does David's bathroom look like
a public bathroom with stalls?
My bathroom has a divide in the middle
where one's a shower and
one's an actual toilet.
But it looks like
there's multiple toilets.
I've had people go into
my bathroom and they go,
"Whoa, you have multiple toilets?"
No, it just looks like that.
Quora.
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Does David Dobrik pay his
friends for being in his videos?
No, I don't.
My parents would ask me
this question every time,
every time, when I started making videos,
my parents would be like,
"Do you pay your friends?"
I was like, "I don't,
it's like a mutual thing,
"we like making videos."
And they were like, "Well
you should start paying them,
"because they're not gonna
wanna be in them any time soon."
And I was like, "No, trust
me, we all enjoy doing them."
So no, I've never paid a
friend to be in a video.
Is David Dobrik dating anyone?
No, David Dobrik is not dating anyone.
[laughing]
I'm gonna start crying.
How much time would it take to edit
a David Dobrik style vlog?
I guess it depends like how much effort
you wanna put into it.
For me it takes, so every video is
four minutes and 20 seconds long,
but each video I have about
five hours of footage.
So it's kind of just making like a trailer
of the best part of my day.
It takes me about like 12,
13, 14 hours to get it done.
Right now we've been working on one
and it's been like two days.
We can't get it right.
If you don't really care for it you can
get it done in an hour.
How much of David Dobrik's
vlogs are scripted?
Not that much. The only
thing that's scripted is
if someone says something
funny off camera,
and then we go, "Hey can you repeat that?
"'Cause it'll be funny
if you say it again."
People think it's all scripted, it's not.
How did Josh Peck and David
Dobrik become friends?
I don't know this one.
This one's beyond me.
My friend had his phone number,
and he called him and he was like,
"Hey, you wanna come shoot
some videos with us?"
And surprisingly he was down.
And then after we were
done shooting with him,
he was like, "Hey, let's make
this like a regular thing,
"like let me come back
and shoot more videos."
And I remember him leaving and I was like,
we all, all my roommates
just started high fiving,
'cause it was like the best moment,
like Josh Peck is officially
down to be in all the videos,
which was really cool.
I was the biggest fan of Drake and Josh.
The biggest fan of Drake and Josh.
That was the show I watched growing up,
so it's even like, I'll
call my parents now
when I'm sitting in the living room
and I'll be like, "Look who it is,
"it's Josh Peck from Drake..."
It's crazy.
It's so weird because
you forget after a while
that like that's the guy
that you were watching.
I don't know.
That's nuts.
In David Dobrik's vlogs,
when he's in the car,
is his Tesla driving by
itself or is he driving it?
Most of the time I'm driving it.
I think they're referring to like
when I film people in the back seat.
So I'll have my hand like this and I'll be
looking at the rear view
mirror to see if I'm
lining up the shot
correctly on the person.
I rarely let it drive itself.
I had the Tesla, there's
a new function on it
where it can be parked
at like a grocery store
and you can be leaving the grocery store
and you hit it and it
comes and picks you up
at the front of the grocery store.
I tried that the other day and it hit,
really slowly, like five miles per hour,
it hit a guy's shopping cart as he was
walking out of the store.
So we had to explain to him that it was
a new update on my car,
and that was a mess.
So I don't let it drive itself.
What's the reason why David Dobrik's
every vlog is 4:20 minutes?
I would say because I came from Vine,
and every Vine was six seconds long.
So I kind of adopted
that and I wanted like
something short that
people can watch quickly
and not have to spend 10
or 12 minutes watching.
What will become of David
Dobrik in the next 10 years?
This is such a scary question,
'cause I'm always scared of answering it,
because I just imagine me like being
completely burnt out in some ditch,
and an edit plays of me
answering this question
and then it cuts to me like
just completely exhausted
and not like working or
not doing anything anymore.
I don't know.
I'm taking it day by day.
I don't wanna know what's
gonna happen to me in 10 years.
But I'm having fun in the meantime.
Submit.
Thank you internet for all the questions.
I'm surprised I didn't
get my feelings hurt
and I didn't cry once.
So this was a good run.
See you guys next time.
