YouTube suspends ads from David Dobrik’s channels over sexual-assault claims


Dobrik has 18.5 million subscribers on his primary channel, 8.7 million on his second channel (Dobrik Too) and 1.5 million for Views (the video channel of the Views podcast). YouTube’s demonetisation of Dobrik’s channels and the Durte Dom channel was first reported by Insider. — Getty Images/TNS

LOS ANGELES: YouTube said it will temporarily suspend advertising from David Dobrik’s channels, after a woman said she was raped by a member of his entourage in 2018.

Dobrik, 24, rose to fame with comedy and prank videos produced with a group of his L.A. friends called the “Vlog Squad”. A report by Insider last week documented sexual-assault allegations by a woman against a former member of the Vlog Squad, Dom Zeglaitis, who said she was too drunk to consent to sex. Dobrik had shot and posted a video of the woman entering a bedroom (which he has since removed); this week, he admitted he “should have never posted it”.

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