Entertainment
David Dobrik Gives Back To Struggling Fan
By: Kate Alvarado
David Dobrik loves to give out extravagant gifts like cars and money to his friends and family for his vlogs. What happens when he gives a fan a life changing donation of $25,000 while she is going through one of the hardest times of her life?
David Dobrik a social media influencer decided to meet with a fan (Kevin), after talking with Kevin he found out about Melissa, Kevin's friend and dream girl, turns out Melissa is dealing with some hard times having to work three jobs to pay for college. Kevin, David, and Melissa are all DACA recipients which made David really feel for Melissa's situation more. DACA is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals which is a policy that allows people who were brought to the United States as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S as long as they don’t leave the country. The plan started off with Kevin wanting to show up and scare her with David at her apartment, on the way to the apartment David, being the jokester he is, made a joke about Kevin being a stalker since he knows where Melissa lives. Once they arrived at Melissa's apartment they meet up with Kevin’s two other friends who are coincidentally also part of DACA. After talking with them, David learns that Melissa is not only a huge fan of David’s videos but also a 21 year old single mother who cares for her sick parents.
In the car with Melissa, David says “I wanted to scare you but then I realized your four year old was sleeping in there”, he started feeling really bad about Melissa's situation and looked around for something to give her. Little did everyone know David was gonna pull out a check for $25,000 to give to her. Everyone in the car went silent when David gave it to her, Melissa kept repeating “no, no” and eventually started breaking down crying. Kevin then starts crying and says “all I wanted was to see her smile and to make sure that she’s gonna be okay”. Melissa then admits to watching David’s videos every single day while eating with her child, nothing could make Melissa laugh like David did. Ending off the vlog, David jokes about taking the money back to get Taco Bell but of course, he didn’t. David has always been a big influencer online hanging out with celebrities like Charlie Puth, Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, and more, but he never seemed to forget where he really came from. It is a super humbling thing to watch him give back to people who aren’t as fortunate.
Disney’s First Openly LGBTQ Character
By: Kathy Huynh
On February 21, 2020, Disney’s new movie “Onward” was premiered at the 70th
Berlin International Film Festival. This movie is about two elf brothers who live in a universe where past mythical wonders have been replaced by modern technology. Onward has caught the attention of many people not only because of its concepts, but also because of its characters. Onward, is Disney’s first movie that includes a openly self-identified lesbian character and is scheduled for release on March 6, 2020.
Berlin International Film Festival. This movie is about two elf brothers who live in a universe where past mythical wonders have been replaced by modern technology. Onward has caught the attention of many people not only because of its concepts, but also because of its characters. Onward, is Disney’s first movie that includes a openly self-identified lesbian character and is scheduled for release on March 6, 2020.
Despite the exciting news of Disney’s first LGBTQ character, there are still many
fixed feelings and jokes made among it. Many people have questioned and commented on Officer Spencer stating, “I can’t believe this is our Disney representation,” “how many first openly gay characters has Disney made?”, and “the cop is a disposable character as an attempt to get woke points. They’ll appear once and reference their girlfriend once, which can easily be edited out for foreign markets.” There were also many past speculations of Disney having LGBTQ characters, which confused many people.
fixed feelings and jokes made among it. Many people have questioned and commented on Officer Spencer stating, “I can’t believe this is our Disney representation,” “how many first openly gay characters has Disney made?”, and “the cop is a disposable character as an attempt to get woke points. They’ll appear once and reference their girlfriend once, which can easily be edited out for foreign markets.” There were also many past speculations of Disney having LGBTQ characters, which confused many people.
The Corona-virus vs. Apple
By: Nathaniel Johnson
There’s no doubt about it, not only has the corona-virus affected many people and countries, but also many different companies and Apple has become one the first large companies to be impacted substantially. On February 17 it was revealed that they would not be able to reach their revenue goal for this quarter, which had been projected to be profitable.
Since many of Apple’s devices come from Chinese factories and they make a lot of money from stores in China, most of their sales have gone down and they haven’t been able to produce enough products. This is due to the fact that China has closed all 42 stores in China and most have yet to reopen. This is also due to many Chinese factories having closed down and just beginning to reopen. According to Apple even the stores and factories that did open are “ramping up slowly” and are running for less hours.
Even Apple’s stock market price began to plummet. Because of the less amount of factories the shipments of products come in less. This means that their normal supply chain won’t be optimized until late April or early May. The less products they sell the less money they gain which isn’t something people want to invest in, this has been a big cause in the recent drop in Apple’s shares. The drop however is bigger than Apple expected it to be, about 6% of shares were lost over the past month.
This is a photo of Apple stocks during and before the corona-virus hit