David Dobrik has had a massive impact on Youtube. He created a group of people called the “Vlog Squad” that consists of both men and women. David himself is no pinnacle of the masculine gender. He is in no way conformed to gender roles, and neither is his content. His content consists mostly of pranks and fun activities in general. Although the channel follows somewhat of the masculine trend of pranks on his channel, it is mostly all in good humor as he does it on his friends rather than random people. I did notice that the main characters of the channel are David and Natalie. David is the owner, but the fans love Natalie. One thing David does a lot is call Natalie his assistant, which she is, but when he refers to her he says, ‘my assistant Natalie’ every time. This puts the female at the a lower status than the male, similar to how companies would have female assistants in the 50’s. This channel is a good example, besides a few minor things, of a channel that has an even audience of males and females and content containing both genders. Sometimes on the channel, the thumbnail will contain a picture of a woman somewhat sexualized to gain clicks; as well as some content containing women being seductive, but not as much as other channels ran by men.

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