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How YouTube culture fueled the Dispo inferno

What happens when you mix edgelord behavior with venture capital

Casey Newton
Mar 23, 2021
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David Dobrik speaks onstage during Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards March 13 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/KCA2021/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
David Dobrik speaks onstage during Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards on March 13 in Santa Monica. Rich Fury / Getty Images

Today let’s talk about the rapid unraveling of one of the year’s breakout social apps, and how the YouTuber culture that produced it made it it a questionable investment from the start.

The app now unraveling is Dispo, which finds its…

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