Insider investigation: A woman featured on YouTube star David Dobrik's channel says she was raped by a Vlog Squad member in 2018 the night they filmed a video about group sex

• David Dobrik's Vlog Squad is one of the most beloved friend groups on YouTube.
• Now, an extra in a 2018 vlog says she was too intoxicated to consent to sex with Dominykas Zeglaitis, aka Durte Dom, during the night they were filming for the vlog.
• The same woman says she was raped and that she believes the video's portrayal of the sex as consensual is inaccurate.

A group of seven college students were on their way to meet David Dobrik, but Hannah didn't know who he was.

The friends piled into one of their cars to go shoot a video with Dobrik's YouTube-famous posse the Vlog Squad. Hannah knew her friends watched videos made by the group, yet had no idea how famous they really were.

At the time, November 2018, Dobrik was about to surpass 10 million YouTube subscribers and was well on his way to being one of the platform's biggest stars. David and the Vlog Squad are known for their fast-paced comedy videos that have been described as "half-scripted." The content feels like a mix of reality TV, improv, and situational comedy.

By March 2020, he'd be named "Gen Z's Jimmy Fallon" by The Wall Street Journal, living in a $9.5 million mansion with a $200,000 Aston Martin, thanks to lucrative sponsorships with brands such as SeatGeek and Chipotle, which once sold a burrito named after him.

Earlier that day, some of the students had begun chatting over Instagram with a Vlog Squad member who went by the name Durte Dom. Dom, whose real name is Dominykas Zeglaitis, said he wanted to "hook up" with them - according to direct-message transcripts reviewed by Insider - and some of Hannah's friends were interested. That night, Hannah would become ensnared in the no-holds-barred, clicks-and-cash-fueled lifestyle that the Vlog Squad members celebrated in their videos.

The students who had watched Dobrik's videos knew Zeglaitis played a character in the vlogs who was a sex addict. They didn't know where the character started and ended, and weren't sure whether they were actually supposed to be having sex with him that night.

"The sexy stuff won't be in the vlog, right?" they asked over direct messages on Instagram.

"Might need to take a pic just to show dave so he believes me haha," Zeglaitis, age 23 at the time, replied, presumably referring to Dobrik.

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Hannah, a 20-year-old sophomore at a private liberal-arts school in Los Angeles at the time, didn't know what to expect, but she was up for an adventure.

She said she couldn't have predicted what would happen that evening, she said, and that the events have left her with trauma.

In phone interviews with Insider, Hannah accused Zeglaitis of rape by engaging in sexual activity with her that night while she was so incapacitated by alcohol that she could not consent. She says members of the Vlog Squad supplied alcohol to her and her friends, who were too young to buy it themselves.

Dobrik filmed Hannah at the apartment, and as she entered Zeglaitis' bedroom with him. He edited and uploaded the footage as a "threesome" plot a few days later, in a vlog called "SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE PLAYED WITH FIRE!!" Before it was deleted at Hannah's request, it was viewed 5 million times.

Hannah spoke with Insider on the condition of anonymity out of concern that sharing her full name could affect employment opportunities. (In this story, her name and those of her friends who went with her to Zeglaitis' apartment are not their real names, but pseudonyms chosen by Insider, which is aware of their real identities.)

In late February, when Insider first reached out to Zeglaitis about Hannah's story, he said he didn't want to talk about the Vlog Squad but would speak to his "own achievements." Reached again in early March about the allegations, he declined to comment.

Insider also reached out to Dobrik's management and each member of the Vlog Squad who appeared in the scenes featuring Hannah - Jason Nash, Jeff Wittek, Todd Smith, Nick Antonyan, and Brandon Calvillo. Only Wittek responded.

Dobrik's attorney, Bryan Freedman, released a statement to Insider that said "David will be addressing his community directly." The statement went on to say "Anyone who knows him knows he does not condone misconduct in any form. Vlog participants provide consent before anything is posted. Whenever consent is retracted, posts are removed. Any insinuation of wrongdoing is inaccurate and defamatory."