David Dobrik explains why he gave up on video game YouTuber dream PAPER, YouTubeYouTube star David Dobrik is best known for his viral vlogs, which chronicle his ridiculous shenanigans with his friend group \u2014 but he didn\u2019t ever expect to become a vlogger, in the first place. Dobrik is a massively popular face across social media, boasting over 16 million subscribers on his primary YouTube channel, where he uploads short-form videos of his crazy stunts with the \u201cvlog squad.\u201d His antics have earned him fame throughout the net and has even won him multiple awards in the online entertainment space \u2014 but becoming a full-time vlogger hadn\u2019t always been his primary aspiration. During a February 27 video interview with PAPER, Dobrik opened up about his initial hopes for his YouTube career, admitting that he\u2019d first wanted to become a gaming YouTuber. However, the equipment he\u2019d purchased to record his gameplay never ended up working, leading to an entirely different turn in his content creation journey. \u201cI used to watch like, video game YouTubers, and that\u2019s what I wanted to do,\u201d he explained. \u201cI bought the PVR to record my video games, and it never worked, so I never did the whole \u2018video game YouTuber\u2019 thing.\u201d That\u2019s not all; according to the vlogger, he\u2019s actually thankful his equipment never worked, expressing gratitude that he eventually transitioned into his current role in the YouTube space instead of grinding the video game life. \u201cThank goodness it didn\u2019t work,\u201d he continued. \u201cI like this a lot better. This is a lot more fun.\u201d In fact, it seems that \u201cfun\u201d is a central tenant for Dobrik\u2019s content, which he described as \u201cjust a group of friends trying to find out how to have fun in new ways.\u201d (Topic begins at 2:00 for mobile readers) Dobrik\u2019s own prominence on YouTube rivals many of the top gamers on the site, such as Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, Mark \u2018Markiplier\u2019 Fishbach, and Se\u00e1n \u2018Jacksepticeye\u2019 McLoughlin, all of whom boast millions of subscribers and massive, long-time fanbases. Despite this turn of interest, YouTube\u2019s king of vloggers has seen huge success, anyhow, rising to the top of the website to rival iconic names like Mr Beast and Casey Neistat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Dobrik explains why he gave up on video game YouTuber dream PAPER, YouTubeYouTube star David Dobrik is best known for his viral vlogs, which chronicle his ridiculous shenanigans with his friend group \u2014 but he didn\u2019t ever expect to become a vlogger, in the first place. Dobrik is a massively popular face across social […]<\/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-46605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46605","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=46605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}