Ex-Vlog Squad member claims David Dobrik tricked him into \u201ctraumatizing\u201d content Instagram: daviddobrik\/sethfrancoisDavid Dobrik has been accused of producing racially insensitive and nonconsensual content by former Vlog Squad member Seth Francois. Former collaborator Francois left the vlog squad in November 2019 to pursue creating his own content, and, during the BLM protests, called out content creators for producing racially insensitive content. Speaking on the podcast H3 After Dark, Francois explained how David pressured him into taking part in racially insensitive jokes, and performing a nonconsensual kiss. This isn\u2019t the only complaint of inappropriate behavior made by a former Vlog Squad member. The week before, Nik \u2018BigNik\u2019 Keswani explained how he felt like a \u201cpunching bag\u201d when making videos with Dobrik, which made him feel \u201cworthless\u201d. Francois recalled one incident where he performed a racially-charged watermelon joke about black people, despite feeling uncomfortable. \u201cThere was an unwritten rule where people saying \u2018I\u2019m uncomfortable with this, this isn\u2019t really cool\u2019 all of a sudden just disappear [from the channel],\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like the whole entire experience of being with this group is a nightmare every single day, but some days it does get a little bit darker.\u201d Topic starts at 39:30 Interview starts at 39:22 for mobile users. Francois then discussed a controversial \u2018makeout video\u2019 that came in his early days with the group. He explained how the video was supposed to involve a makeout scene with Corinna Kopf, who was then, unknown to Francois, swapped out for Jason Nash. \u201cI was touched by someone I did not consent to,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen I was in LA after dealing with the make-out video with Jason, millions of people were misconstruing my own sexuality and how I felt about participating in something he didn\u2019t have my consent for. \u201cI ended up moving to a different state to get away from it so people aren\u2019t coming up to me left and right bringing up a situation that is legitimately traumatizing. Read More: What is KomodoHype? – \u201cWhen he pulled the mask off it was a split decision. I could either give in to my natural instincts and be the angry black guy in the room, or I can just go along with it, and I made that decision.\u201d David Dobrik is yet to respond publicly to these comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-Vlog Squad member claims David Dobrik tricked him into \u201ctraumatizing\u201d content Instagram: daviddobrik\/sethfrancoisDavid Dobrik has been accused of producing racially insensitive and nonconsensual content by former Vlog Squad member Seth Francois. Former collaborator Francois left the vlog squad in November 2019 to pursue creating his own content, and, during the BLM protests, called out content […]<\/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-86890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890","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=86890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}