TikToker claims David Dobrik stole his designs for Dispo app DispoA popular TikToker is claiming that he came up with the design rebrand for YouTube Star David Dobrik\u2019s \u2018Dispo\u2019 photo app, and even met with the influencer before seeing his ideas used in the final product. Dobrik\u2019s \u2018Disposable\u2019 app came out in December 2019, and was recently rebranded as \u2018Dispo,\u2019 a photo-sharing social media app with a retro spin on your regular Instagram clone. Instead of being able to see and edit your pictures instantly, you have to wait until 9 AM the next day for them to \u201cdevelop,\u201d and can\u2019t touch them up beforehand \u2013 much like a disposable film camera, hence the name. Despite the creative idea, Dobrik is coming under fire from those who think he stole some of the designs for his Dispo rebrand from TikToker \u2018karimxismail,\u2019 based on a series of TikToks posted before the app came out. Back on Sept. 18, Ismail posted what was basically a five-part video application attempting to get the attention of Dobrik to work on Dispo, a name he suggests during the above clip. The YouTuber even commented on one of Ismail\u2019s TikToks a day later on Sept. 19 calling his ideas \u201cdope,\u201d adding further credibility to his side of the story where he got completely cut out of the deal. Neither mentioned the project again until news broke that Dispo had received a $4 million investment from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian\u2019s venture fund. Shortly after that announcement, Karim posted two TikToks detailing his experience with Dobrik ahead of the brand\u2019s reveal, claiming he met with the YouTuber and Natalie Mariduena, Dobrik\u2019s assistant and business partner. According to him, both saw his ideas\/designs and \u201cloved them.\u201d But after a \u201cbrief correspondence,\u201d Karim said that the team told him they were \u201cgoing in a different direction.\u201d He noted that Dobrik and his team did trademark the Dispo name six days after his initial video, but he doesn\u2019t seem to be upset with David for potentially using his idea at all. \u201cThey said they came up with it first,\u201d Karim said about the Dispo name. \u201cWhatever the names end up being, I know David would never take the features or designs I created. Now let me make it abundantly clear, I was a David Dobrik fan and I still am.\u201d As one would expect, some debate has broken out on social media between those who think the YouTuber shamelessly swiped the name and those who are adamant in defending Dobrik\u2019s credibility. However, Dobrik himself hasn\u2019t commented on the issue at the time of writing, and as this scandal doesn\u2019t seem likely to derail Dispo, we wouldn\u2019t count on him saying anything at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker claims David Dobrik stole his designs for Dispo app DispoA popular TikToker is claiming that he came up with the design rebrand for YouTube Star David Dobrik\u2019s \u2018Dispo\u2019 photo app, and even met with the influencer before seeing his ideas used in the final product. Dobrik\u2019s \u2018Disposable\u2019 app came out in December 2019, and […]<\/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-60978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60978","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=60978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}