“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. Each week we’ll send you the very best from The Goods, plus a special internet culture edition by Rebecca Jennings on Tuesdays.
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