David Dobrik releases second apology video: \u201cI\u2019ve let a lot of people down\u201d YouTube: David DobrikYouTube star David Dobrik has released a second apology video, addressing the ongoing sexual abuse allegations against Vlog Squad member Durte Dom, and apologizing for his \u201ccowardly\u201d original response released late last week. Following his March 16 apology, David Dobrik has released a seven-minute video responding to the controversies surrounding him and the Vlog Squad. The most majority of these include sexual assault allegations leveled against former Vlog Squad star Dominykas Zeglaitis, better known as \u2018Durte Dom,\u2019 dating back to a video in late 2018. \u201cI fully believe the woman that came out against Dom and said she was sexually assaulted by him,\u201d he said. \u201cI got consent to post the video, but even though I got consent, I should have never posted it. What I understand now\u2026 is she sent that text because she felt like she had to, and that\u2019s f**ked up. \u201cIt was cowardly of me to say in my last apology I \u2018missed the mark\u2019,\u201d he added in the video, titled 03\/22\/21, \u201cbecause it\u2019s fucking gross, and I\u2019m sorry.\u201d The YouTube star revealed he would be \u201ctaking a short break\u201d from social media. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel right to go back to posting how I had been, and it doesn\u2019t feel right to go dark because I love what I do. But I feel like it\u2019s important to show that change is possible and I\u2019m learning. Maybe even forgiveness is possible,\u201d he said. The YouTuber also apologized for how he initially reacted to Dom\u2019s allegations. \u201cI\u2019m sorry that I took Dom\u2019s word for what happened in those certain situations and I didn\u2019t believe you,\u201d he said. \u201cNot only did I not believe you, but I made a joke about what kind of a person Dom was because I couldn\u2019t wrap my head around a childhood friend of mine actually doing this to people. Not only didn\u2019t I discredit you Ali, but I platformed Dom, and I platformed sexual assault in a negative way where I made jokes about it and I reinforced that kind of behavior. \u201cI really let you down, and a lot of people down. \u201cI didn\u2019t go back to any of these women and apologize. I kind of moved on and I learned from it, but I didn\u2019t address the situation. \u201cI didn\u2019t reach out to any of these people, and it breaks my heart knowing that I was doing all this stuff while there were people still really hurt by what I made.\u201d After the allegations against Durte Dom surfaced in March, Dobrik was accused of fostering a toxic workplace on his channel. He has been accused by former YouTube co-workers of creating an atmosphere that left them feeling \u201cworthless\u201d and \u201ctraumatized.\u201d The backlash has seen Dobrik lose sponsorships with Electronic Arts, HBO, and more. There have been efforts to \u2018review bomb\u2019 his Dispo app as well, and he began losing followers in massive numbers. An apology video the star has since described as \u201ccowardly\u201d was also met with massive vitriol. On March 22, he also left Dispo to \u201cnot distract\u201d from the app\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Dobrik releases second apology video: \u201cI\u2019ve let a lot of people down\u201d YouTube: David DobrikYouTube star David Dobrik has released a second apology video, addressing the ongoing sexual abuse allegations against Vlog Squad member Durte Dom, and apologizing for his \u201ccowardly\u201d original response released late last week. Following his March 16 apology, David Dobrik […]<\/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-46647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647","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=46647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}