David Dobrik Quotes

I was on Tumblr when I was 12 or 13. I was on YouTube, too. I had a channel and made music videos. It had 50,000 subscribers.

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - it's more personal, and your friends generate it.

Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.

I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.

I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter writing all day long because I feel it's my job to entertain people.

I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.

I'm from the Internet.

I have people on Twitter that they know better my own platform than myself.

People do Vine so many different ways. If you're original, then you'll get followers. There are people who do selfie Vines, people who do special effects, people who do artistic Vines. You have to find your niche and people will find it. Of course, it helps if you're 16 and if you're a handsome guy who is taking your shirt off.

I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.

I had heard about Vine through Twitter, and my first video was of me freaking out on my couch. Back then I had 5 followers.

On Imgur, introverts can be extroverts. They don't have to worry about curating their own brand and are able to express themselves more authentically. They can go on Imgur and be themselves.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I might never have left WWE. Then again, if it wasn't for the Internet, I probably wouldn't have been brought back.

My actual biggest claim to fame is that - basically, this sounds awful and really pretentious - but my Twitter is verified. And if you're already verified on Twitter, then your Vine is automatically verified.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.