I’m reminded of the recent conversation I had with former Vlog Squad member Trisha Paytas, where she told me about how she’d been in a relationship with fellow member Jason Nash on and off for about two years, but the terms of the relationship were never defined.
“All of a sudden they disappear and they’re not in videos anymore.” The reason it sounds familiar is because it’s applicable to nearly every toxic workplace in any industry: The risk of potential exclusion is made out to be worth the price of staying silent.īut there’s something unique to YouTube culture, where the idea of consent is inherently blurry. “It was an unwritten thing where you see a pattern of people saying, ‘Yo, I’m uncomfortable with this,’” he said. Francois, the Black former member, said in a podcast that he was always fearful of being seen as a curmudgeon if he wasn’t willing to be game for a video. It’s not the first time the Vlog Squad has been described this way. They were verbally, like, ‘Why aren’t you guys being fun? Do something sort of sexy.’” “It felt like from the moment we came there was an expectation that they were doing us a favor and we had to give them content. “It was very much an environment where it felt like saying ‘no’ was not OK,” she told Insider. Hannah describes feeling like she had to play a part for the sake of the Vlog Squad’s content. The resulting video - entitled “SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE PLAYED WITH FIRE!!!” and portrayed as a threesome plot - was deleted after Hannah objected to it, but not before it reached 5 million views. She and a friend went into a room with Zeglaitis, where he allegedly had sex with her while other members of the Vlog Squad listened outside. In 2018, college student “Hannah” (a pseudonym) went with a group of friends to an apartment to film a video with the crew, and what unfolded was an all-too-familiar scene: Hannah, who was 20 at the time, says that she became so incapacitated with alcohol supplied by Vlog Squad members that she could not consent to sex. The most damning allegation yet came last week, when Insider published a story of a woman who says she was raped by Vlog Squad member Dom Zeglaitis, a.k.a. Also in February, former Vlog Squad member Nick Keswani revealed on a podcast how he was continually mocked for his dwarfism and treated like “a punching bag” during his time with the group.
Then in February, he discussed the time that he was “pranked” into making out with a man he didn’t consent to he says he now considers it sexual assault. Last June, YouTuber Seth Francois spoke about the racist situations he was forced into as the only Black member of the Vlog Squad, from being the butt of jokes about watermelon to blackface. And over the past year or so, he’s faced far more serious allegations than general YouTube-style tastelessness. After a while, his “Vlog Squad” could look less like an organic group of friends and more like a cast of characters suffering from severe Stockholm Syndrome the “pranks” Dobrik and his crew pull start seeming more like exercises in stretching the limits of consent. That is, until you start rewatching some of Dobrik’s videos.
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