- A video from 2016 of David Dobrik detailing how he injured a friend is being reexamined online.
- The "Frenemies" podcast hosts spoke about the 2016 video on the most recent episode of their show.
- The video resurfaced after Jeff Wittek said he was injured while filming for Dobrik's vlogs.
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After YouTuber Jeff Wittek revealed that he was injured after bashing his face into the arm of an excavator controlled by David Dobrik, a video in which Dobrik details how he injured a childhood friend has resurfaced online.
In the 2016 video titled "HOW I RUINED MY BEST FRIEND'S LIFE," Dobrik, a YouTube vlogger who has amassed billions of views, said he threw a pinecone at his friend Alex Neumann's eye during a "pinecone fight" they had in the seventh grade. Neumann later developed flu-like symptoms after he got a staph infection in his eye, Dobrik said.
Neumann said he was hospitalized for a week and a half, had to use crutches to walk for four years, and that the injury cost him and his family $10,000.
The 2016 video resurfaced amid allegations that friends of the 24-year-old YouTube star were put in harm's way when filming vlogs for his channel.
YouTubers Trisha Paytas and Ethan Klein aired the video during Tuesday's episode of their "Frenemies" podcast. During the episode, the YouTubers watched the recently released footage of Wittek's accident that led to his eye injury in June 2020. Wittek shared in an April 21 YouTube video that he was injured when he ended up swinging from an excavator Dobrik was driving last summer.
Wittek previously said that he began to "resent" Dobrik, whose friends are known as members of his Vlog Squad, after the accident.
Dobrik's hundreds of vlogs are being reexamined as people featured in the videos have made allegations of misconduct against other Vlog Squad members.
Seth Francois accused Jason Nash, another Vlog Squad member, of sexual assault after the two were filmed in a kissing "prank" video for one of Dobrik's vlogs in 2017. Insider recently reported sexual assault allegations against Dominykas Zeglaitis, known as Durte Dom online, a former member of the Vlog Squad.
Dobrik and Neumann did not immediately respond to requests for comment.