EXCLUSIVE: Pizza Pandemonium on Sunset as YouTube Star's Parlor Debuts

If you were wondering why you’re seeing thousands of fans lining up on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood this week, it’s because one of YouTube’s most popular creators, David Dobrik, has opened his first restaurant along the Sunset Strip, bringing his Doughbrik’s Pizza to—in a perfectly apropos bit of Gen-X-to-Millenial-transfer-of-power—the former location of a Starbucks.Nov. 12 was opening day at the Slovak Internet personality’s pizza parlor and it saw 3,000 fans waiting in line to grab a slice and steal a glimpse of the influencer who has now amassed an audience of more than 62 million across online platforms. Dobrik found early success on the now-defunct Vine platform and shot to YouTube superstardom in 2015, posting pranks, jokes, adorable animals, and the like with his rotating cast of friends and celebrity guests. “I was hoping like 100-200 people would show up. We multiplied that by 10, 15, 20. I’m blown away by the amount of people that came up,” Dobrik tells LAMag in his first interview since the restaurant’s grand opening. “I couldn’t believe it and not only came out to see it but waited in line, and waited all day, for those pizzas. Some people camped out three or four
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