Influencer David Key: I drove a borrowed Ferrari and pretended it was mine

David Key (real name Radovan Kúdelka) is a singer and influencer who can also be called controversial. One of the reasons is the fact that it has a paid collaboration with Temu, an online store known for extremely cheap and often low-quality products.

He argues that he wants to show things on social networks that he actually wears and uses, and he also praises the technology bought in Temu.

During the conversation, he politely corrects me, his name is not Radovan, but David. Everyone tells him that already: his husband, his mother and close friends. He will probably always be Radko only for his father. He plans to change his name and officially soon, he wants the world to know him only as David.

He has been going through difficult times in recent months. Close friends of his have died, and he perceives the growing hatred towards gays in Slovakia. He also started getting messages in which they wish him death, he also gets hate for the way he openly talks about aesthetic procedures.

She genuinely enjoys them, seeing it as creating her final look, which is inspired by Korean pop stars.

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Let’s start quickly, I noticed that you advertise for Tema on Instagram. This e-shop is controversial, whether it is about the impact of production on the environment or the pressure on excessive consumption, the working conditions for people in factories are also questionable. How do you perceive this company?

I was approached from their European base that they had chosen me. It is my most professional collaboration so far. They are transparent, accurate in payouts and teach me a lot through various tables and analyses.

I see it as a huge company. Of course, sometimes crap happens, but I recommend electronics, they’re great. I have a projector from them for 60 euros and I have a cinema at home. The clothes disappointed me, I don’t recommend it, it often itches, but the technical things for the car or the apartment are top notch.

Wouldn’t you rather promote local businesses?

I would very much like to support Slovakia, our designers are amazing. I sang at the Bratislava Fashion Days, I showed for local designers. But I feel that designers are avoiding me, preferring to take an actor, maybe they are bothered by my controversy.

However, s has problems with this by ripping off the designs of small designerswhile you, as a person with influence, can perhaps afford to promote Slovak proposals even without the right to a reward. I ask this because it can seem like influencers will promote anything for money, so I’m wondering where your line is.

For me, it’s never just about the money. Of course, collaborations are also business, but I’m very careful about what I put out, because that’s my brand and my name. I’m not going to take everything just because there’s a budget behind it, it has to make sense to me as a person.

That is why I also try to support Slovak designers, even if I don’t always have an immediate financial benefit from it. I see it as an investment in a scene that has potential but often doesn’t have that space. And honestly, if someone has influence and can help, they should.

My boundary is very simple, if I wouldn’t wear it or use it even without cooperation, then I don’t go for it. People can sense very quickly when something is not authentic. And I don’t want to be the type of influencer who promotes anything. Rather, I choose fewer collaborations, but ones that I can stand behind one hundred percent.

But I feel that the designers are avoiding me, maybe they are bothered by my controversy. (source: Marko Erd)

You recently said in the media that you underwent augmentation, i.e. enlargement, of the penis. Why did you go for the procedure?

Many men date because they think they have a small penis. I didn’t have it like that, but my partner has it twice as big, and that caused a certain frustration, I started comparing myself with him. So I treated myself to the procedure for my birthday.

How did your husband react?

I hid it from him at first. When I once mentioned that such a procedure existed, he told me straight away that I shouldn’t even think about it, let it not even occur to me.

So I signed up without him knowing and I hid it from him for the first week. After the procedure, you can’t have sex right away anyway, but he was suspicious after a few days. I covered it even in the shower. (laughter)

I guess he figured it out after all. What was the reaction?

He started to laugh terribly, but finally praised himself.

What’s worse is that I’m not satisfied now. There has been a slight inflammation and I will have to go for repairs. By hiding at home, I may have neglected to take care.

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It’s not your first cosmetic treatment on your body. How does it work, do you pay the clinics for the procedures?

I usually don’t pay myself, I barter everything. In this case, we had an agreement that I would receive a 50 percent discount, since such an intimate procedure is also difficult to graduate from.

When the tabloids wrote about it, I received a shower of extreme comments.

So why are you opening these topics?

I always wonder why people hide a lot of things. I can’t understand it, I just like to brag, I also like the feedback. Many men also wrote to me, wanting to know more information, and I feel fulfilled when I can inspire or help someone.

Of course, it is everyone’s business what they can do and whether they will talk about it, but I don’t want to hide such things.

It is not common in our country to watch a man regularly go for aesthetic procedures. Is there a final shape that you want to work towards with these interventions?

Well, the final form is extreme, I admit. Well, it’s my dream. I really like Asian types of people, ever since I had a Vietnamese boyfriend, I am very impressed by those features. I would like to look like the guys from k-pop groups, that’s my ideal.

What big hits are we talking about? Do you mean just styling, hair or manicure, or plastic surgery too?

I would definitely like to have similar eyes and cheekbones to them, and a smaller nose.

What do your loved ones say about this plan?

I discussed it with my mother and father. They told me that if this is my dream, I only live once and they want me to be satisfied.

Are you not happy with yourself now?

I have two views of myself. On the one hand, I am very satisfied, for how old I am.

You’re only thirty.

I feel younger.

What about the other view?

I struggle with the fact that I didn’t have to deal with my figure so much once upon a time. I’ve always had a chiseled stomach, and now it’s not like that. When I go to vacationit is enough for me not to eat for two days and it is cut again, but when I eat, it is no longer there.

I feel funny then, I call it grandpa belly. It’s actually not that bad, but it feels that way to me.

Sounds to me like you can’t see reality in the mirror. I’m not sure that sounds healthy.

I was already wondering if it was a malfunction. My doctor also told me that I look great for my age and that maybe others will like me.

We don’t have to forcefully look younger, even aging is a privilege.

You know, I have it in my head that I still want to live the life of a twenty-two-year-old. The wild life I had was my best time.

Desires Asian features. (source: Marko Erd)

Your attitude towards aesthetic procedures reminds me a little of the current trend looksmaxxing. Men do everything to maximize their aesthetic potential, sometimes through drastic surgeries. Where is your limit in the pursuit of beauty?

As long as it’s safe and not comical, I’ll go for it. I’ll go for those Asian features.

But health is paramount. For example, I stopped going to the solarium. I used to go almost every day, but I stopped because I’m afraid of cancer. Now I prefer to use SPF and I want to be pale, which fits my Asian type. I don’t want to risk my health.

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You say that you still want to live like you did when you were 22. Tell me a little about your life at that time.

I was beautifully slim, men sought me out, for example from politics, they took me on boats, to parties, drove me in limousines. Don’t think I slept with them, I didn’t have to and it only happened once when we both wanted to…

I felt good there, better than among my peers. They went to the park after school to hang out, and I could discuss politics with the diplomats. It fascinated me, I told myself that one day I would be like that too.

It still applies, would you like to go into diplomacy or politics?

Yes, especially now that I don’t meet those men, I miss it. Maybe it’s because of my age, and maybe it’s because I’ve already built a name and have something to offer. I would like to go to parliament, or to municipal elections.

Why don’t you meet them?

I am now more visible, so those who continue to work in Slovakia do not want to meet me. Some are abroad.

Were these powerful men you speak of dating you also because they are gay themselves? I’m assuming they’re not outed, so I don’t even want to do that in the interview.

Yes, people in Slovakia do not know about many to this day. But I got to know some of them because they were the partners of my friends. Sometimes it was about men who at first glance looked like they would rather beat me up for it, but they treated me terribly.

Today it’s different, sometimes I’m afraid to walk down the street in Bratislava. It has gotten worse in recent years, people are becoming radicalized. When I see those looks or hear those words, it freezes me. Not so much because of me, but because of the young guys who don’t have it sorted out in their heads yet and this can break them. I’m angry about what’s going on here.

Do you feel the changes in yourself?

Definitely. The atmosphere in the company thickened. I also get messages like “die” or “I’ll kill you”.

Is this the reason that motivates you to consider politics? Fighting hate speech?

I would like to show that we gays are normal people too. We have our dreams, our mistakes, our lives. I would like everyone to feel safe here. We are in the European Union, we are a democratic country, so let’s act like it.

According to him, hatred is getting worse in Slovakia, sometimes he is afraid to walk down the street. (source: Marko Erd)

Do you feel some kind of pressure that as a well-known gay man you represent the whole community?

I think that everyone should be seen individually. I don’t want to be a representative of everyone, because I make mistakes like everyone else. I don’t like it when someone from the community writes me that I’m embarrassing. I’m just me.

However, you are talking about a possible entry into politics, where your image matters, and it is important whether people identify with you to some extent.

I thought about it, but I don’t want to change. I want to stay authentic. As an influencer, I don’t just show tinsel, for example, I also communicated problems and difficult moments on Instagram. I feel like people don’t like it either when it’s stylized or when it’s authentic.

But if I happen to go into politics, it will be like David Key. Maybe I won’t wear sweatpants. (laughs) But it will be me.

How serious is this plan already? Do you have a party to run for?

Not yet. I would prefer to be unclassified.

You say you care about authenticity. Is the world of influencers fake?

For many, yes, and very much so. He was with me too. I drove a Ferrari or a Lamborghini and they were rental cars. It looked cool, but it was a bummer.

We Slovaks have such a mentality that we like to show something that is not ours. And on the other hand, we are afraid to admit the procedure, because “what will the neighbor say”. In America or the West, the neighbors brag about it, here it’s different.