How YouTube culture fueled the Dispo inferno

What happens when you mix edgelord behavior with venture capital

Mar 23, 2021

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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