under the influence follows the meteoric rise and fall of fellow youtuber david dobrik.ence? what happens when there are no speed bumps, no filters between this young twentysomething man who has this tremendous audience of tens of millions of subscribers, and billions, with a b, billions of views, with a degree of influence that was, i don't know it has been seen before. the things that led to his success were very much the same things that led to his undoing. in the film, david's skyrocket to fame stalls when a member of his so—called "vlog squad", durte dom, is accused of sexual assault. in light of a news article, his sponsors drop him and youtube demonetises his uploads. just weeks later, though, he bounces back. the fact that in the shadow of all those revelations, that accountability did not yield the sort of consequence that, certainly, the journalists and the survivor herself had anticipated, to me, that is such a sort of a bleak outcome. it is — you know, what does it say about our society that there is such little accountability for wrongdoing in the world of i

under the influence follows the meteoric rise and fall of fellow youtuber david dobrik.ugh, he is back. the fact that in the shadow of all those revelations, that accountability did not yield the sort of consequence that certainly the journalists and the survivor herself had anticipated, to me that is such a sort of a bleak outcome. it is, you know, what does it say about our society that there is such little accountability for wrongdoing in the world of influence and social media? i want to apologise to herand herfriends... david has says he believes the allegations and has offered an apology. durte dom has also apologised, but says it was consensual. as well as the film world, casey is also in the tech industry, founding video app app beme back in 2014, which he sold to cnn for an estimated $25 million. we are officially live in the app store. we have seen such tremendous outcomes because of the opportunities created with technology. but there's a downside to that. there are real negative outcomes, there are real dangerous outcomes, and that theme exactly is what my mo