David Dobrik \u201cashamed\u201d after facing criticism for insensitive videos YouTube: David Dobrik[jwplayer mgzBNoPb]David Dobrik has apologized for his past actions following recent allegations of racism after a video of him mocking the Japanese accent with Liza Koshy resurfaced. David Dobrik is a major personality on social media, with nearly 18 million YouTube subscribers, 13 million Instagram followers, and 19 million TikTok followers. The YouTuber has faced criticism for videos he made with Liza Koshy in the past where they appeared to mock the Japanese accent, prompting many to criticize both of them for their part in the video. In his podcast \u201cVIEWS\u201d with Jason Nash on Tuesday, he acknowledged his status as a role model for many people, noting that while he used to think he was only the internet \u201cgoofball\u201d, he has come to understand the influence he has. He said: \u201cI know it sounds so cheesy and I hate saying it, but every video I make, every Instagram I post, everything I do, I just want to cheer somebody up. I want to make people laugh, make people smile, I want them to share it with a friend, I want them to have a positive experience when they\u2019re interacting with anything I produce. \u201cThat being said, I feel like on a handful of occasions I\u2019ve just missed the mark on that, and it really really bums me out. And that kinda sucks that it took me so long to understand. I think when we went to our first Black Lives Matter protest and I was looking through my DMs afterward. It\u2019s one thing to get DMs from somebody going hey your videos are funny, but it\u2019s a completely different thing to get DMs about how much your alliance with a cause means for that person and their family, or how much it means that you\u2019re using your voice to amplify theirs. \u201cBut that\u2019s when I realized Holy s*** there are people who are seriously looking up to me for more than just something goofy. I think for a while I was just like I\u2019m the goofball that\u2019s all I am, but I think there are parts of this where I need to be more serious. I want to be a good role model for the people watching. I\u2019m ashamed and I\u2019m embarrassed for the things I did in some of the videos or vines or whatever I was doing and I genuinely feel awful about it. \u201cI\u2019m going to do better actively and I\u2019m going to do that consistently. You have my word for that, I promise that. If I\u2019m anything, I\u2019m a man of my word. I just want to say that if there\u2019s a kid who saw something from me and it didn\u2019t make them feel welcomed or it just made them feel uncomfortable I\u2019m sorry, I did not ever mean to make anybody feel out of place. I genuinely just want to make you have a good time and I\u2019m going to do that from here on out and I\u2019m going to do a better job at it.\u201d This comes after a video resurfaced of Liza Koshy and David Dobrik in 2016 trying Japanese snacks and appearing to imitate the Japanese accent. TikTokker @callmesukiwi posted the clip with the caption \u201cWhy is no one talking about this? It\u2019s a clear example of the normalized racism against Asians\u201d. The TikTok currently has 73,000 likes. Liza Koshy has already apologized for her part in the clip, posting to Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube on Monday explaining her lack of education and intentions to do better. She wrote: \u201cAs a woman of color and a self-defined \u2018little brown girl,\u2019 I have experienced the harm of prejudices in my own life. However, this really does not exempt me from the responsibility of acknowledging the times I\u2019ve unknowingly perpetuated racist ideas\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Dobrik \u201cashamed\u201d after facing criticism for insensitive videos YouTube: David Dobrik[jwplayer mgzBNoPb]David Dobrik has apologized for his past actions following recent allegations of racism after a video of him mocking the Japanese accent with Liza Koshy resurfaced. David Dobrik is a major personality on social media, with nearly 18 million YouTube subscribers, 13 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}