David Dobrik (YouTuber)

Some Lesser Known Facts About David Dobrik

• David Dorbik was born to a Slovak father and a Hungarian mother. He was raised in a middle-class household.

  

• David Dobrik and his family immigrated to Vernon Hills, Illinois in Chicago when David was just 6 years old.

• As David was just a child when he entered the United States, he was protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program allowed undocumented minors to live and work in the county.

• After a few years of being protected under DACA, David was finally granted permanent residency within the United States.

• David Dobrik was a tennis player during his days at Vernon Hills High School.

• He qualified for the 2014 Boys Tennis State Tournament where he won third place in the doubles tournaments which was held in Vernon Hills, Illinois.

• After graduating from high school, David Dobrik moved to Los Angeles to pursue his Vine career.

• Before starting a YouTube channel, David Dobrik used to upload videos on the American short-form video hosting service app named ‘Vine’ where he was received well by the audience and became a successful internet personality.

• His first video on the app ‘Vine’ was uploaded in 2013. He used to collaborate with many famous internet personalities on ‘Vine’ such as Liza Koshy, Gabbie Hanna, Jason Nash, and Zane & Heath.

• Before starting his YouTube channel. David Dobrik was part of the YouTube group named ‘Second Class.’

• In 2014, David Dobrik started his YouTube channel named after his own name and started uploading his vlogs on the same. His YouTube channel holds more than 17 million subscribers, as of 2025.

• In 2016, David created another YouTube channel named ‘David Dobrik Too’ where he started uploading blooper reels, challenge videos, and his direct sponsorship deals.

• In 2017, David along with the American comedian Jason Nash started a podcast titled ‘Views with David Dobrik & Jason Nash’ and it debuted 2nd on the iTunes chart in the podcast section.

• In 2018, David Dobrik was given a Diamond Play Button by YouTube in recognition of his YouTube channel earning 10 million subscribers.

• In the same year, David was named one of the ’10 Social Media Personalities Making the Most Noise’ for 2018 by Paper magazine.

• In 2018, David Dobrik created his third YouTube channel named ‘Views Podcast’ where he started posting the video version of his podcast.

• In 2019, David among other internet personalities was featured by the American fashion magazine named ‘W’ for being part of a trend of creating a separate Instagram account dedicated to their photos that were taken with the use of films or disposable cameras.

• In the same year, David Dobrik was featured in the American trade magazine Variety Magazine’s annual ‘Power of Young Hollywood’ list.

• In 2019, he along with American actress Lucy Hale hosted the 2019 Teen Choice Awards.

  

• In the same year, David took part in the first-ever Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Championship.

• In 2019, David Dobrik was ranked the most popular media personality among teenagers based on a survey by Piper Jaffray & Co.

• In the same year, People magazine named David Dobrik ‘Sexiest Heartthrob of 2019’ in which he surpassed the International singers Harry Styles and Shawn Mendes.

• He was one of the presenters at the American Music Awards of 2019.

  

• David was a guest judge in the first episode of the ninth season of the American reality-based cooking television game show titled ‘Chopped Junior’ in 2019.

  

• In the YouTube Rewind 2019, David Dobrik was named the fifth-most-viewed creator of YouTube with 2.4 billion views.

• In December 2019, a video of David’s on TikTok featuring a large-scale elephant’s toothpaste experiment was named the Number 1 Top Viral Video on YouTube that year with 17.5 million likes and 180 million views.

• In the same year, David along with Daniel Liss and Natalie Mariduena co-founded  an American photo-sharing and social networking app named ‘David’s Disposable’ which was later named ‘Dispo.’

• The app ‘Dispo’ was ranked at the top of the list of most popular free apps on Apple’s App Store and it was ranked ahead of Disney+ and Instagram in 2020. It also scored a winning spot on Apple’s curated ‘Apps We Love Right Now’ list in 2020.

• In 2019, David Dobrik along with the American singers Ciara and Debbie Gibson, became the judge of the American reality music competition television program titled ‘America’s Most Musical Family’ which was telecast on the Nickelodeon TV channel.

  

• In the same year, David Dobrik got legally married to Lorraine Nash who was the mother of the American comedian Jason Nash. The wedding was done as a comedic bit for one of his vlogs.

• In 2019, David and Lorraine announced that they both had decided to end their marriage after one month. David made an Instagram post stating that he had officially signed the divorce papers.

• In 2019, David lent his voice to the character of Axel in the animated comedy film titled ‘The Angry Birds Movie 2.’

• In the same year, David played the fictionalized version of himself in the American surreal action comedy film titled ‘Airplane Mode.’

  

• In 2019, he was cast in the music video of ‘Graduation’ which was a song by American music producer and DJ Benny Blanco and American rapper Juice Wrld.

• In 2020, David Dobrik was ranked as the ‘Most Popular Media Personality’ among teenagers which was based on a survey by Piper Jaffray & Co. He was ranked at this position for the second time.

• In the same year, he became one of the first 19 recipients of TikTok’s $1 billion Creator Fund. The former general manager of TikTok US Vanessa Pappas stated in an interview that
  

  David was selected for the creator fund because of his ability to show what it means to be your authentic self, bring joy and inspiration to people and creatively connect with an audience.”

• In 2020, David along with Erin Lim and the American former footballer Andrew Hawkins, became the host of the reality competition television show titled ‘Dodgeball Thunderdome’ which was telecast on the Discovery Channel.

• In the same year, David Dobrik launched his fragrance brand ‘David’s Perfume’ in collaboration with ‘Flower Shop Perfumes Co.’

  

• In 2020, David in partnership with the American nonprofit organization named ‘HeadCount’ decided to give five fans a chance to win one of five Tesla 3 models to encourage voter registration via the nonprofit HeadCount’s website.

  

• The social cause with ‘HeadCount’ surpassed its goal of 200,000 voters registered for the 2020 election by hitting a grand total of 300,000.

• In 2020, People magazine named David Dobrik the ‘Sexiest YouTube Star of 2020.’

• In 2020, David appeared as a guest on the American late-night talk show titled ‘The Tonight Show’ hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

  

• In the same year, David became one of the presenters at the American Music Awards of 2020 which were held at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.

• In 2020, Forbes named David as one of the highest-paid YouTube stars of 2020.

• In the same year, he became the host of the American animated television series titled ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ which was telecast on the Nickelodeon TV channel.

• In 2020, David Dobrik became part of the American fame show titled ‘Nickelodeon’s Unfiltered’ and David was featured in the episode named ‘Avocado Toasted Piñatas!.’

• In 2021, David Dobrik signed with streaming platform ‘Discovery+’ for a travel series titled ‘Discovering David Dobrik’ which was telecast in the month of November 2021.

• In 2021, YouTube temporarily demonetized David Dobrik’s channel over the incident of a woman getting raped during the filming of a 2018 vlog about group sex on David’s Vlog Squad channel due to violations of the creator responsibility policy.

  

• After three months of break, David Dobrik began posting again on his YouTube channel in July 2021 and by December 2021, his channel grew to the 20th largest channel in the world as measured by views per episode.

• In 2022, David opened a pizza restaurant named ‘Doughbrik’s Pizza’ in Los Angeles. He also expressed his plans to create a reality TV show based around the employees’ day-to-day lives working at Doughbrik’s Pizza.

• Initially, David Dobrik’s siblings were not allowed to watch David’s vlogs and videos because their parents thought that there was too much swearing involved.

• David Dobrik consumes alcohol occasionally.

  

• David Dobrik loves to spend time with animals and often shares photos with his pet rabbit on social media.

  

• David Dobrik has been part of many music videos for the songs of the YouTube Scotty Sire. Some of the songs are ‘My Life Sucks’ (2017), ‘Take Me Away’ (2018), ‘David’s Haunted House’ (2018), ’25 Christmas Trees’ (2020), and ‘Mood Swings’ (2021).